Swimming great and occasional underage drunk driver Michael Phelps lent his fishy skills to an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot that recreated a scene from The Little Mermaid.  (Julianne Moore plays Ariel.)  It's part of a series that puts "celebrities inside their Disney fantasies."  Because celebrities have it real shitty and deserve the occasional taste of fantasy.

"Yes, Julianne has a big mermaid tail; it's interesting," Leibovitz recalled from the shoot. "Michael, too. His movements were so graceful and beautiful you just felt like you were watching a real merman… I didn't know if it was going to work, what to expect. I have to tell you, he was beautiful. Michael put on that tail and … he just became like a modern dancer. He just took to it and enjoyed himself and swam through this tank. I was blown away."

Aw, man.  What a lucky guy.  You know, I've always wanted to be where the people are.  I wanna see, wanna see them dancing.  Walking around on those — what do you call them?  Oh!  Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Whoa, sorry.  Don't know how I knew that.  Probably because I've been baby-sitting a lot.  Yeeeeahhhh… "baby-sitting."   Wandering free… wish I could be… part of your worrrrrrrrrrrld.

[Hugging Harold Reynolds]