Stripping off an office power suit, the daughter of conservative politician Sarah Palin performed a short parody of her mother in launching her bid to win television's “Dancing with the Stars” Monday. Bristol Palin shimmied across thdance floor as the dancing contest launched its 11th cycle, accompanied by a version of Randy Newman's “Mama Told Me Not to Come.” The 19-year-old single mother explained she had not always taken the advice of her mother, a Republican political powerbroker who ran for vice president in 2008. “My life has been told and spread out in the tabloids. But I am just a regular girl and this is definitely the most frightening thing I have ever done in my life,” Palin said. Her sparkling grey office suit imitated the style worn by her mother, but it was soon stripped off to reveal a short, red dress with tassels. Sarah Palin did not attend the taping on a Los Angeles soundstage. The judges rated her performance as promising, but far less impressive than “Dirty Dancing” actress Jennifer Grey's Viennese waltz to Otis Redding's “These Arms of Mine.” The soul ballad appeared on the soundtrack to “Dirty Dancing,” the smash movie in which Grey starred opposite Patrick Swayze. Clips were shown of Grey breaking down crying in rehearsal as she recalled Swayze dying of cancer last year. The 50-year-old actress has physically changed since “Dirty Dancing” after a botched nose job left her less recognizable.
