Monday, February 4, 2008

Dom Delu-What?

I was just looking through my son's Scholastic Books flyer from school, making my selections when I came across a book by Dom Deluise. Yes, Dom Deluise, sidekick of Burt Reynolds and star of Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit II. The book was published in 1993 so this isn't exactly Thdom
breaking news. It is, however, news to me and follows the annoying celebrity-turned-children's-author trend. We've got Madonna, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jessica Seinfeld, John Travolta, Jay Leno, Billy Crystal and now Dom Deluise. All you need is some name recognition and a kid or two and, voila!, you're a best selling author. I'm not saying that these celebrities are incapable of writing a decent children's book, I'm just saying that a statute of limitations for bestseller-dom would be nice. I mean, really, who's next? K-Fed? Ben Affleck? Tom Cruise?



11 comments:

  1. I took a children's writing course for two years. I'm currently taking another one, I'm in critique groups, I have every book on writing there is and when I see this I get discouraged. I wonder if they just give someone the idea and let them write it or if they sit at the keyboard for hours on end editing and re-editing. I have a hunch they just give the idea. If they truly are the ones writing the books then I say good for them, but if they are taking a back door that most of us will never have access to then I say Shame Shame:)Maribeth

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  2. No. No. No.
    If Tom Cruise writes about jumping on chairs or something I will be truely sick.
    Can't even go there....

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  3. They have had their 5 minutes of fame - please leave some room in the literary world for those of us trying to break through! (did I say that out loud? :) ) PS/do you mind if I add you to my blogroll on my new site?

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  4. Speaking of kids, isn't Dom Deluise's son the driver of the Doodle Bugs bus? I gotta say this; Hey lady, you're a little late on on current reading list review here!! Maybe Dom's book actually started this trend??

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  5. does papadale mean the doodle bops? and if so, would this be the same one you saw throwin em back at the bar?

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  6. does papadale mean the doodle bops? and if so, would this be the same one you saw throwin em back at the bar?

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  7. does papadale mean the doodle bops? and if so, would this be the same one you saw throwin em back at the bar?

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  8. You forgot Julie Andrews, Steve Martin, and Dave Barry....it's not a trend, it's a movement!

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  9. For Chase, yep, I did mean the Doodle Bops, Bops, Bugs, they all sound the same when you get this old, and, yes, I did mean the group of drunks that the 'old gray hair',err,Another Gray Hair saw in the bar.

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  10. It is annoying and yes, I am bitter. We actually work at writing books and these celebs come up with an idea (if even that) and voila! Out comes a book and instant best seller status. I add to your picture book list, Cheryl Ladd.

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