America’s Got Talent , which kicked off its fifth season last night, is usually associated with the Cirque du Freak school of showmanship, the kind of magic, mayhem and fire-hocking you might see in traveling carnival or an embarrassing Pink video. Maybe the addition of Howie Mandel to the judges’ panel has added a new layer of, ahem, cleanliness to ATG , because an actual talent launched off our screens like a feisty farmhand leaping off a hay loft. Thirty-year-old Michael Grimm is a guitar-clasping folkie with a Hurricane Katrina back-story and a tip can full of earnestness. But even better, he’s a superior singer to Lee DeWyze and he resembles a post- Knight’s Tale Heath Ledger. Read: Chilling perfection.
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Actual Talent Sneaks onto America’s Got Talent Premiere
