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I always buy vintage twirling footage when I can find it, which is not often. So when I found "Disqualified and Overqualified," I figured a documentary about a champion twirler with a bonus instructional disc was worth fifty bucks. Ten minutes into the movie, I realized it was a bargain -- plenty of home movies of the most technically advanced twirling I'd ever seen, interspersed with the charismatic subject bedecked in a gold headdress and energetically dishing on competitive twirling, circus twirling, and her extraordinary life. Twenty minutes into the movie, I was startled into spilling my beer on my dog when it was revealed that Annetta Lucero practiced for the World Championships on t