Months of physical therapy likely lie ahead, though she's already picked out her first dance: the Viennese Waltz.

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In some perversion of justice, USC was left out of this year's Big Dance and will waltz into a familiar and wonderful showdown with Michigan, which always has both a good team and a sorehead coach.

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In 1976, the group decided to bow out with an all-star concert, "The Last Waltz, " filmed by Martin Scorsese and considered one of the great music concert documentaries.

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Her dancing inspired her father to write "Kathy's Waltz, " which ended up on his double-platinum 1959 album, "Time Out, " which experimented with using odd time signatures in jazz.

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But don't count out Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"), Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained") or even Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master").

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