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- Another night, another round of boos and cheers and oohs and ahhs from the crowd in three cities where "America's Got Talent" stopped on the way to the Las Vegas callbacks. In another two-hour episode, judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and David Hasselhoff watched all manner of talent, human and non-human, take to the stage in hopes of winning the $1 million grand prize and a chance to perform on the Vegas strip. Hold the line: Professional line dancer Corky Duke kicked off the night with Piers calling him a waste of time. More bad auditions followed, including tap-dancing banjo player and a hula hoop juggler whose only real flaw was her inability to catch the hula hoops she tossed in the air. Good golly, Miss Holly: Holly Hardin, a 19-year-old country singer, tried to play the Kellie Pickler card as she claimed she didn't know how far her hometown was from Dallas. She sang "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" which didn't impress Sharon and the Hoff, although Piers said he liked it well enough. They gave Holly a bit of a second chance, allowing her to sing a couple of lines of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5," and that won her a ticket to Vegas. Rolling in the mud: "Talent" took a pretty sad turn with a potbelly pig named Smithfield attempting to paint. The act, which hardly worked and resulted in the pig refusing to leave the stage, prompted Piers to suggest that the pig would be more useful in his bacon sandwich. Paul West and his dog, Tucker, rocked the house, though, with their Frisbee catching act that drew big cheers from the audience. Ol' Blue Eyes lives? Paul Salos, 71, after 40 years of doing his own version of Frank Sinatra, go a chance to perform "Fly Me to the Moon" in front of the Dallas crowd and had them on their feet. The retired Air Force veteran said he felt like Sinatra on stage, and it showed. He nailed Sinatra's style, sound and manner, smiling all the while before Piers said, Frank Sinatra's going back to Las Vegas. Yellow, goodbye! Zane and Stephanie, a husband-and-wife singing team that appeared to be too in love for their own good, turned the crowd against them with some brutal attempts at harmonizing on The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody." They ended the song with a sloppy kiss that had Sharon telling them that despite their decent individual voices, the performance was overly nice and dated. Got gag reflex? George the Giant, a 7-foot-3 self-proclaimed sideshow freak, promised to show something the judges had never seen. The question was whether they ever wanted to see what he did. Performing his take on the crazy straw, George would a flexible tube around a volunteer from the audience and used it as a straw to suck milk through it. Oh, I failed to mention that he'd also stuffed one end the straw up his nose and pulled it out through his throat before taking in his calcium for the day. Sharon couldn't watch, saying she was going to throw up. She voted no and seemed downright upset by the whole thing. George later set off a string of firecrackers that were taped to his chest, and that appeared to seal the deal for Piers and The Hoff, who sent him on to Vegas. 'I Can't Make You Love Me' Jessica Price, a 24-year-old factory worker and part-time musician, said her father was her idol when she was growing up, but that he one day up and left the family. She said something has been missing since he left and that she still felt a desire to make him proud. She won over the crowd with her version of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me." Backstage, host Jerry backstage milked the sob story a little longer and asked Jessica what her father would have thought. She said she hoped he would be proud. No shirt, no shoes ...: In The Hoff's hometown of Atlanta, Allister McQueen, who called himself Smokin' McQueen, reminded viewers why most of the population is better of clothed, for everyone's sake. The super-skinny McQueen did a burlesque style dance that left Piers especially unimpressed, saying that if you're going to bring an act like that you've got to have the goods to deliver on it, and McQueen didn't. A montage of male and female stripping and pole dancing routines followed, to the tune of Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off." Someone's got a crush! Busty Hart, a significantly large-breasted woman who promised a unique performance, proceeded to crush aluminum cans with her more than ample bosoms. The Hoff X'd her right away, and said, "If you were on 'Baywatch,' we would've lasted another 11 years." Ring my Belles: The Southern Belles, a four-piece dance group of women from 15 to 31 years old, set the crowd on fire with a crisply choreographed routine that combined Michael Flatley's Riverdance style with some southern tap-dancing and country flair. Piers said it was the best audition of the day. They were moved on to Vegas. A double-edged X: Dan Meyer, a 50-year-old sword swallower, provided the most dangerous audition of the night, swallowing several swords, including a group of at least five of them at once. There was a mildly scary moment, though, when The Hoff had enough and hit his buzzer while Meyer still had a sword in his throat. Meyer visibly reacted and coughed the sword back up quicker than he expected to. He later told Springer that he nearly punctured his stomach when the buzzer went off because he wasn't expecting the interruption. The Hoff couldn't handle it and voted no, but Piers and Sharon gave Meyers a ticket to the next round. A voice worth waiting for? Nine-year-old David Militello didn't speak until around the age of 3 after he'd been diagnosed as autistic. But one day, he began singing and that, it appears, would become his destiny. He sang little Michael Jackson's "Ben" and earned a standing ovation from the crowd. The Hoff told him he's won over the hearts of America with his song. He moved on to Vegas, but what's next? Stay tuned.
