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Book Makes the Grade in Entertainment Weekly

Today I got my first A since high school, in Entertainment Weekly...

"What do you do when Brad Pitt begins a thrashing air-guitar solo during an interview? When talking with Destiny's Child, should you praise the Lord, mmm-hmm! right along with them? And when shopping with the Olsen twins, just how do you keep yourself from feeling like a "lumbering wildebeest, galumphing down the street"? Rolling Stone writer Dunn sprinkles these and other juicy anecdotes from the trenches of celebrity journalism into her breezy memoir about a Jersey girl done good. Blessed with self-deprecating wit, Dunn is an irresistible narrator whose eccentric family, dear friends, and disastrous ex-boyfriends are as entertaining as the megastars she has built a career on profiling. A"

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  • Jancee Dunn grew up in Chatham, New Jersey. She was a writer at Rolling Stone from 1989-2003, where she wrote twenty cover stories for the magazine. She has written for many different publications, among them the New York Times, Vogue,GQ (where she wrote a monthly sex advice column for five years) and O: The Oprah Magazine, where she writes a monthly ethics column entitled "Now What Do I Do?" From 2001-2002 she was an entertainment correspondent for Good Morning America. Prior to that she was a veejay for MTV2 from 1996 until 2001. Her memoir "But Enough About Me," about her life as chronically nervous celebrity interviewer, came out in 2006. Her novel "Don't You Forget About Me" is out in July 2008. She and her husband live in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Each month in O, the Oprah Magazine, I ask a panel of ethics experts to answer readers' ethical dilemmas both big and small.

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