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Are Bestselling Authors 'Stars'? 'Dancing With Stars' Yet To Include Author On Its Roster

First Posted: 09/02/10 03:45 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:30 PM ET

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Anyway, it has come to my attention that DWTS keeps neglecting one important genre of stars--authors!

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Anyway, it has come to my attention that DWTS keeps neglecting one important genre of stars--authors! ...
Anyway, it has come to my attention that DWTS keeps neglecting one important genre of stars--authors! ...
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c-tom
Badges we don't need no stinking badges
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12:05 PM on 09/03/2010
Bristol Palin is not a bestselling author or a star she's just a single mom trying to make a buck.
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MyNameIsLegion
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11:25 AM on 09/03/2010
What are you talking about?.... On I just pre-ordered " A Brief History of Time – Part II" by the Situation…… It’s already #1 on Amazon.
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08:21 AM on 09/03/2010
Because they have a life and they are smart?
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trjones87
food. wine. books.
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11:58 AM on 09/03/2010
Exactly!
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ptrgamb
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11:06 PM on 09/02/2010
I'm sure they'd take J.K. Rowling if she wanted to do it.
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Tom Sutpen
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07:04 PM on 09/02/2010
I'd say get Philip Roth to be a contestant . . . or Thomas Pynchon.
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FTracy3
My micro-bio is as empty as the rest of my life.
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05:00 PM on 09/02/2010
I love books but I think this is a rhetorical question.
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BlackJAC
It's better to be a black king than a white knight
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03:40 PM on 09/02/2010
None of the contestants on DANCING WITH THE STARS are "stars" themselves. At most they're D-listers doing it because it's either this or the one-way bus ticket back to their Palookaville hometowns in shame.
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