rubbernecker

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Likewise, even if ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" suffers a bit of erosion this month without the presence of rubbernecker magnet Cloris Leachman, it almost certainly will continue to attract millions more viewers than most comedies or dramas currently on TV.

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  • Likewise, even if ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" suffers a bit of erosion this month without the presence of rubbernecker magnet Cloris Leachman, it almost certainly will continue to attract millions more viewers than most comedies or dramas currently on TV. —  TVBizwire
  • -- Posted by rubbernecker on Sat, Apr 18, 2009, at 7: 31 AM —  Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines
  • With the unabashed fascination of the rubbernecker, I have watched in horror, combing online foreign press reports and a few favorite blogs (Brussels Journal, Gates of Vienna, Atlas Shrugs), as local authorities yielded their charge of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly - indeed, yielded civic space and civic peace - to a lawless band of violent leftists, who, in their weekend stint of mob rule, successfully prevented a political rally against the Islamization of Europe from taking place. —  Gates of Vienna
  • I still doubt, in terms of rubbernecker appeal (or love-to-hate-her appeal), that Whoopi + Sherri = Rosie, but absent another must-watch personality like O'Donnell, this is probably the best chemistry Premiere has a list of 20 of their favorite movie plot twists (hat tip to —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • I guess I'm a rubbernecker. —  Homeland Stupidity
 

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