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Rosie O'Donnell; - her new show failed after only ONE ep.
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Topic Started: Mar 26 2007, 08:33 PM (664 Views)
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Mar 26 2007, 08:33 PM
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Rosie is claiming that the Iranian hostage situation is a hoax so we can go to war. I think it's a hoax to call her human. On the lighter side, someone suggested we trade Jimmy Carter for the hostages! Those over 35 will get it, or anyone who knows about Iran's long history of kidnapping people. The LA Times talks of former POWs of gracious Iran, and how they were blindfolded and heard their captors cocking guns, then laughing. They thought they were about to be killed. The LA Times calls if possible mental abuse. How about TORTURE? We handle a Koran with ungloved hands to give to a slimy prisoner, and it's torture. Iran violates the Geneva Convention (blindfolding is illegal) and it's not torture. Hmmm. Iram is only trying to start a war, and is getting revenge because the US picked up 5 Iranian no-gooders in Iraq, possibly bringing weapons to Al Qaeda. Achmidinejad or whatever needs a bullet in his head.
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Mar 26 2007, 09:11 PM
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Those over 35 will get it, or anyone who knows about Iran's long history of kidnapping people.
Yeah, the Iranian hostage incident. 
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Rosie is claiming that the Iranian hostage situation is a hoax so we can go to war. I think it's a hoax to call her human.
From what I heard, she specifically named Bush.
Good lord, don't these people ever get tired of blaming him for crap?
If it's not Blame Bush it's "Karl Rove is behind it." They're paranoid out the wazoo.
We don't need a hoax or fakey pretext to go to war with Iran. Those lunatics are developing nuclear weapons and have publicly threated to strike other nations.
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The LA Times talks of former POWs of gracious Iran, and how they were blindfolded and heard their captors cocking guns, then laughing. They thought they were about to be killed. The LA Times calls if possible mental abuse. How about TORTURE? We handle a Koran with ungloved hands to give to a slimy prisoner, and it's torture. Iran violates the Geneva Convention (blindfolding is illegal) and it's not torture. Hmmm.
That's the left: champion at holding double standards and re-defining the meanings of words.
Sometimes the Muslim terrorists - when torturing victims - uses power drills on the person's body. Sadaam (and/or those under his command) shoved live people down paper shredders.
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Iram is only trying to start a war, and is getting revenge because the US picked up 5 Iranian no-gooders in Iraq, possibly bringing weapons to Al Qaeda. Achmidinejad or whatever needs a bullet in his head.
Ahm-a-dinner-jacket is definitely a trouble maker. He calls for 'Israel to be wiped off the face of the map,' but leftists call George W. Bush Hiter. 
I did a post not too long ago about Iranian made weapons being found among Islamic terrorists in Iraq.
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Mar 29 2007, 10:22 PM
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This is about Rosie O'Donnell: (1)- 9/11 Denial on Mainstream TV (2)- Readers Respond to Above Story
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Mar 29 2007, 10:42 PM
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Does that fat cow not realize the amount of conspirators that would have been involved in something that massive? And not one of them would speak? in WASHINGTON??? Did she miss Bin Laden's confession on that tape that got out of Iraq? Has she not heard about the cell phone calls and the situation on the aircraft black boxes that picked up the whole thing? Plenty of people received cell phone calls from those victims on the planes, and have told us what those people were telling them as it was happening. Some say there was no plane at the Pentagon, but they weren't anywhere near it. I knew someone who died there that day, and another who saw the da** thing, almost underground it hit so hard and so perfect into that building. This is sheer hatred at its worst. Oh, did Rosie forget some Muslims tried to blow up the WTC in 1993? The USS Cole bombing? Khobar Towers bombing? Military members killed and dragged through Somalia? There were over 20 attacks, attempted attacks on the US and it's interests in the 90s. All by Muslims. Has Rosie not read anything but Ms Magazine? Oh, and those attacks were under Clinton's watch. Well why don't they blame him, as they do Bush for an attack? Rosie is a moron, plain and simple, and I hope I don't offend anyone, but whoever watches that show is a real loser. I picture them as welfare moms, or bored housewives watching it while scarfing down ice cream and chocolates, complaining nonstop about their husbands, and yakking on phones constantly to mom and sis, before putting on their ankle pants and flip-flops to go out to Wal Mart. Oh, since Iran is parading their hostages all over TV, does Moron think it is STILL a hoax on our part?
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Mar 30 2007, 01:02 PM
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I have never cared for this show, especially now. I wish they had someone there who could really challenge Rosie and the others on their leftist views. I think that Elizabeth Hasselbeck (sp?) is not strong enough.
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May 29 2007, 06:43 PM
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In her argument with Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Rosie O'Donnell implied that Americans / American military personnel are terrorists (she's in good company - so did J F Kerry and Dick Durbin).
Then when Hasselbeck called her on it, she tried to weasel her way out of it.
Now Rosie has resigned from the show early.
I never watch the show. I've only seen clips of it and read about it.
Rosie O'Donnell Vs. The Facts: O'Donnell Spews Misinformation
Rosie Gets the Facts Wrong¯Again
Damned Lies And Rosie's Statistics
Rosie O’Donnell Admits Her Staffer Drew a Moustache on Hasslebeck [photo]
Rosie O'Donnell: Bill O'Reilly a 'Stupid, Uninformed Hate Monger'
Rosie O’Donnell Leaves The View Early
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Tries to Mend Relationship With Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell Attack US Marine's Mom on Memorial Day - By Brenda Jones
May 28, 2007
Rosie O'Donnell is desperately trying to convince anyone that will listen that she does not believe that the soldiers for the US Military are terrorists. She may have reached a new bottom today on Memorial Day by attacking a US Marine's mother that wrote to her on her blog lecturing her with a "shame on you."
Has Rosie O'Donnell reached a new low? A mom identified as 'Deb' wrote to O'Donnell and screamed:
"How dare you call out troops terrorists. My son is a Marine…He is a great person. The mom finished with, "So all I have to say to you is shame on you!"
Rosie answered, not by thanking the mother for her sacrifice and her son's sacrifice, instead she attacked the mother writing, "Shame on you Deb for believing the lie that (our) government cares about (your) son." She then writes, "Walter Reed, 3600 dead, Save r Troops, I love them and will fight to keep them alive."
Rosie has been under serious fire as she referred to the US Troops as terrorists on 'The View' earlier. She tried to get around saying it directly but it was clear what she meant.
She said: "I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?" She was asked "Who are the terrorists, Wait, who are you calling terrorists now? Americans?"
O'Donnell added, "I'm saying if you were in Iraq, and the other country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us…We're invading a sovereign nation, occupying a country against the U.N…"
She concluded, "I believe in state sponsored terrorism. I believe there is government sponsored terrorism by every nation in the world, including ours."
Even liberals Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman thought she called them terrorists. Matthews asked, "Howard, I don't know about you, but we watched the tapes and it seemed she clearly said the American troops are the terrorists."
Fineman added tongue in cheek," She supports the troops, who are terrorists. Matthews asked, "Did she call American troops terrorists?" Fineman, "Yes, there's no question." Jill Zuckamn was also on the panel and chimed in, "It sounds like it to me." *** Now she attacks a US Marine mom on Memorial Day. How low will O'Donnell go?
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May 30 2007, 06:00 PM
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As low as she needs to to stay in the public eye. That was good, she calls troops terrorists but then says she cares about them and wants them home! If this were a Democrat war she would be all for it.
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Jun 5 2007, 08:35 PM
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She's trying to weasel out of her 'American troops and people are terrorists' comment:
Rosie O'Donnell: 'My Feud Was Fabricated'. - 5th June 2007
Rosie O'Donnell: 'my Feud Was Fabricated'.... U.S. TV host Rosie O'Donnell has branded the on-air feud that caused her to quit talk show The View a 'publicity stunt'.
The star's war of words with fellow presenter Elisabeth Hasselbeck over differing political views last month (May07) led to O'Donnell leaving the show - but she now insists the dramatic row was purposely incited, according to the New York Daily News.
Speaking at the launch for her new book Celebrity Detox, she told the audience her publicist "orchestrated that whole publicity thing just to get more attention for the book ... brazenly calling up the other hosts, telling them to incite me".
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May 6 2008, 04:43 PM
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Newsbusters Ken Shepherd May 5, 2008
Rosie O'Donnell appeared on the May 5 "Today" show in its fourth hour, claiming that many have confused her "passion for rage" much in the same way as they've misunderstood Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Indeed, claimed the former "The View" co-host, Obama's former pastor "made sense to me." O'Donnell also defended Wright's conspiracy theory view on AIDS, chalking that up to Wright's "genetic memory" of the Tuskegee Institute.
O'Donnell incorrectly asserted the U.S. government infected the patients in that syphilis study.
HERE IS THE OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
HODA KOTB, co-host: You know Rosie there has been a void on morning TV since we don't hear your opinions. Every times there's like, I was going through a story today "I wonder what Rosie thinks about that." What about- can I ask you about just the little Jeremiah Wright thing?
ROSIE O'DONNELL: Yeah.
KOTB: This is a big deal. What have you been thinking when you've been watching this stuff in the headlines?
O'DONNELL: Well, did you see Bill Moyers recently give his speech about what happened after Reverend Wright was on his show?
KOTB: Tell, tell me.
O'DONNELL: He got thousands of e-mails, over like 5,000 e-mails and some of them irate, some of them understanding. But what it came to, boil down to in his mind is the fact that, you know, this man is, is following a tradition of black preachers and that there is a righteous indignation about people who were only considering three-fourths a person until fairly recently in our history. And that his anger, which annoys some and forces some to look at issues that America is not really ready to face, is the actual issue. That racism does exist in this country and it's still thriving. And some of the things that Jeremiah Wright says he's held accountable for and Oprah- not Oprah- Obama is held accountable for. But there are things that white preachers said that are just as insane.
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD, co-host: All of them should be held accountable.
O'DONNELL: Pat Robertson saying that, you know, gays and feminists were responsible for the 9-11 catastrophe.
GIFFORD: So you agree that they should all be held accountable, but do you think that we should make-
O'DONNELL: No.
GIFFORD: A little bit of move.
O'DONNELL: Here's what I think. There is a place in the world, an inspirational, liberational kind of preaching that Reverend Wright does that when you read something that sort of- I was not as offended as the people in the polls that I read. I listen to him, and frankly, it made sense to me. I totally understood what he was saying.
GIFFORD: Which part makes sense to you?
O'DONNELL: It made sense that-
GIFFORD: That we introduced AIDS into the black community?
O'DONNELL: But Kathy you know what it's like for someone to pull one quote out of context for you. He was comparing it to when the government did give syphilis to black Americans for 40 years. What he was saying is in his history, in his genetic memory, he knows what it's like for the government to infect his own people. Because he lived through those Tuskagee experiments. And that's what he was talking about. You can't sort of pull the quote. He didn't just say, you know, "the government made AIDS." It's the same when I said, you know, you can support the men and not the man who sent it there. You can support every single Marine and Army man and Navy man in this war-
GIFFORD: And women and women.
O'DONNELL: -and women- and not support the war. And not support the mission.
HODA KOTB, co-host: Do you think the Jeremiah Wright thing is going to have a big impact on, on, well tomorrow basically, Indiana and North Carolina? Do you think that's going to have an impact?
O'DONNELL: I think it will because I think there are, you know, five companies that own all of the media in America and once they get a story they run it, and run it, and run it. CNN had a field day. For three weeks all I heard was Jeremiah Wright and, and, you know, the horrible Miley Cyrus photos.
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KOTB: Well, there's a quote, and I don't have the exact one, they kind of gave me a little sketchy one. It says Barbara [Walters] says, "Rosie tells me she loves me. She tells me I'm old and then she tells me she loves me. She's a great talent with emotional issues."
O'DONNELL: [laughing]
KOTB: And-
O'DONNELL: You know, just-
KOTB: You've done a lot for the show.
O'DONNELL: Well, just like Reverend Wright, some people confuse passion for rage. You know, if you have passion and you're from this family in Long Island without a mom, with five kids having to make their way through live, you know, I have a lot of passion about things I believe in. You know, passion on that show is not number one. And when somebody would say something that I found insane, I would say, "that's insane
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Her new show tanked
Her show was called "Rosie Live," and tons of reviewers panned it, and managed to work in the phrase "DOA" (Dead On Arrival) in their headlines.
One of the articles below (from Gawker) references Madonna.
Ratings: Rosie's Special? Is Not So Special
Rosie’s Variety Show Fails to Impress
Rosie O’Donnell Variety Show Lacks in Ratings
Rosie Live Canned
Side Dish: NBC won't be picking up Rosie O'Donell's show
Plug pulled on ’Rosie Live’
Ratings not so rosy for O'Donnell variety show - Nov 30, 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A mere 5 million viewers tuned in Friday for the 8 p.m. bow of Rosie O'Donnell's variety show, "Rosie Live," on NBC. The show has been dropped from the network's schedule.
Among those making appearances on the hourlong program -- conceived as a throwback to such series as "The Carol Burnett Show" -- were Alanis Morissette, Alec Baldwin, Clay Aiken, Ne-Yo and Liza Minnelli. It earned a 1.2 preliminary rating among adults 18-49.
During the weekend, O'Donnell, a former cohost of "The View," wrote on her blog that the low ratings and bad reviews meant that NBC would not pick up the series.
Reviews of the show:
Rosie's Dud- by Joanne Ostrow
on November 30, 2008
Rosie O’Donnell delivered a self-important and amateurish dud of a variety show pre-Thanksgiving. It tied for lowest rated show of the night. The results prompted Rosie to write on her blog that there would be no subsequent installments.
Bad jokes, over-the-hill performers, a few impressive dance/acrobatic/singing acts and too much Rosie.
Really, it made us remember what a stellar job Carol Burnett did all those years–and how easy she made it look.
The theory was, the American public is hungry for a dose of variety entertainment in these economically tough times. Evidently, Rosie’s version ruined the appetite.
Rosie Live: Words Fail Me - [snip wide-eyed, shocked emoticon]
I'm not very good with emoticons. Does that symbol above appear to convey, "Eyes wide open in stunned perplexity"? Because that's what I was going for. That's the image that would best convey my response to the disturbing, unfunny, bizarre-but-not-in-an-entertaining-way spectacle that was Rosie Live.
Much as with Knight Rider, another NBC attempt to faithfully re-create an outmoded format from the Big Three network era, Rosie Live made me wonder: Is NBC now being programmed by a team of drunk monkeys wearing a Ben Silverman costume?
More charitably: what is Silverman trying to do?
The straight-up '70s variety show, like the talking-car drama, is something you can slavishly reproduce, if you want to, if you run a network and they have to give you the money for it. But why?
Rosie Live failed first on simple execution. The patter with guests was forced and the improv moments even worse (at least, I hope that the zillion Rosie's cleavage jokes were not planned).
The staging was off, with lurid, deathly lighting that gave the show a creepier vibe than Alec Baldwin's using Rosie's boobs as a microphone had already.
And if you're going to haul Jane Krakowski onstage to sing a mortifying medley of product placements, you ought to at least be able to understand the lyrics. (At least the technical problems here might have been solved by taping the show instead of adding the challenge of putting on a live program.)
The guest turns ranged from dull to mind-boggling, like Alanis Morissette wearing what appeared to be Celine Dion's hair and wardrobe, singing a ballad while staring upward with unsettling intensity and standing in front of a karaoke video screen of flying geese.
The show combined old-fashioned corniness with a weird self-referentiality (we're doing a variety show, see, and therefore there must be a stage door and a pie-in-the-face joke!). And there were, God help us, dancing cupcakes, in a closing number with all the stage sophistication of Dora the Explorer Live.
Another problem was concept. Like Knight Rider, Rosie Live bought so wholly into the idea of reviving an old format that it actively resisted rethinking it.
So you had the careening guest appearance of an old-time stage star (in this case, Liza Minnelli). You had the smorgasbord of entertainment, ranging from R&B to Kathy Griffin (doing a head-scratching Nancy Grace impersonation) to tap dancing to an acrobatic performance that featured Segways and looked like it should star Gob Bluth.
You had the skits, like Rosie as a cop talking to a sarcastic little girl—a blatant nod to the Carol Burnett show, where the girl would have been played by Vicki Lawrence and the sketch would have been funny. (Indeed, the show did an amazing job of completely draining the humor from normally funny people like Baldwin, Griffin and Conan O'Brien.)
Watching this special, you could see why variety shows worked as well as they did, when they did, in the pre-cable era.
If there were, oh, two or three networks on TV, I could see the appeal of this show. If I watch for half an hour, there just might be something I'll like!
Today, it came off as a more amateurish America's Got Talent, and finished last in the ratings for its efforts.
The final problem—and I say this as a big fan of Rosie on her daytime show and at least a medium-sized fan of her on The View—is Rosie. Or really, Rosie's sensibility.
There is something about Rosie that does not mesh with the broad primetime TV audience—and no, I don't mean that thing, much as she tried to milk it in the segment bonding with Clay Aiken as a fellow "Gay...briel Byrne fan."
I also don't mean her politics, although she opened the show promising not to be political, then immediately gushed over Barack Obama, then threw in some swipes at Bill O'Reilly and Sarah Palin (with the occasional swipe at antagonist Donald Trump for good measure).
No, Rosie is just too Broadway for America. And Broadway people in the entertainment business—people like Rosie who literally appear on Broadway, or simply old-fashioned showbiz types who love a big gala stage show—often fail to understand that Broadway is no longer mainstream American entertainment.
Have Rosie or any of her producers checked the ratings for the Tony awards lately?
If so, they might have realized that the cumulative audience for Spamalot shout-outs, tap-dancing kids, Liza Minnelli, artsy-circus acts, Harry Connick Jr., Long Island jokes, pie-in-the-face gags and vaudeville bits is, shall we say, limited. Though I'm sure there were a couple octogenarians in Great Neck who loved it.
Does this mean the much vaunted revival of the TV variety show is dead? Maybe not, but it won't come back in this campy form. If Rosie Live wasn't a nail in the coffin of '70s-style variety TV, it was at least a big pie in its face.
Rosie Live, Dead on Arrival - TV Guide review - By MATT ROUSH
TV GUIDE
If the TV variety format weren't already dead, the ghastly ego trip of NBC's Thanksgiving-eve turkey Rosie Live would surely have killed it.
Like the pie Alec Baldwin predictably pushed into Conan O'Brien's face that fell to the floor without sticking, the entire hour landed with a sickening, sad, ill-conceived thud.
It felt like an off night at America's Got Talent, bookended by wobbly appearances from Liza Minnelli and Gloria Estefan, each forced to perform with the caterwauling host, Rosie O'Donnell.
The low point? There were so many. I ran to the kitchen to see how our sweet-potato casserole was progressing so I could escape Jane Krakowski's career-low stripper-ish ode to product placement, warbling new lyrics to Gypsy's "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" that listed all the giveaways the live audience would get, everything from a Vudu player to White Castle hamburgers and Crest Whitestrips (probably not a bad idea after gorging on those stomach bombs).
But even that was a treat compared to Clay Aiken, arriving in his Spamalot costume, engaging in who-loves-who-more banter with Rosie, coyly dancing around the gay issue. "We're both Gayyy-briel Byrne fans," Rosie sorta joked.
Kathy Griffin bombed in a Nancy Grace-less impersonation. Rosie's opening monologue, larded with fat and boob jokes, stank of mothballs.
Dancing boys wore food costumes and children were trotted out every so often in an attempt to make things appear wholesome.
Harry Connick Jr., pitching his new Christmas CD in a Santa hat, didn't even get to complete a full number without Rosie intruding.
And there were a handful of so-so novelty and musical acts, a la Ed Sullivan.
But this wasn't a really big show.
It was a really big bomb, an embarrassment and a pathetic eulogy for a form of TV that, like Rosie-the-eternal-fan, I grew up loving and still miss. (The comedy-variety spectacular reached its apex in The Carol Burnett Show, and somehow providence kept her well away from this botched revival.)
I miss the Rosie from the early days of her talk show, when she showcased the latest of Broadway and pop alongside show-biz legends with equal glee and reverence, before it became all about her.
I was hoping Rosie Live would recapture some of that magic, but instead Rosie the egotist hogged the spotlight to everyone's discomfort and detriment.
Far from bringing the variety show back to life, Rosie stuck a fork in it, drove the last nail into its coffin, broke its back, you pick the metaphor.
TV Review: Rosie Live- By Barry Garron,
November 27, 2008
Bottom Line: There's nothing like a good holiday variety show and this was nothing like one
Some say the popularity of "American Idol" and "Dancing with the Stars" is proof that variety shows are ripe for a primetime comeback.
Of course, we'll never find out if the closest we get to the genre is "Rosie Live," which aired Wednesday night from the Little Shubert Theatre in New York.
NBC said "Rosie Live," starring Rosie O'Donnell, "will bring back the grand tradition of the variety show."
It turned out, however, that "Rosie Live" was as much like real variety as speed dating is like real dating.
The show was so packed with celebrity drive-bys that it could have been mistaken for the People's Choice awards.
The program started on an awkward note--O'Donnell's discussion of the shape provided by her undergarments--and never regained its equilibrium.
It's [sic - its] 8 p.m. start signaled a family show but O'Donnell's monologue and running gags about her sexual preference gave off an entirely different vibe.
A few performances, such as those by Alanis Morissette, Ne-Yo and a couple of novelty acts, fit the "variety" theme.
More often, though, the show consisted of O'Donnell's feigned surprise (and our pained reaction) as one guest after another entered through a prop door.
By the time Rachael Ray beat the closing credits by mere seconds, the show looked as if it was inspired by the circus act in which clowns keep emerging from a tiny car.
Some guests promoted a project (Harry Connick Jr.'s Christmas album) or an NBC series (Alec Baldwin, Conan O'Brien) only to leave after half a song, some embarrassing dialogue or a quick pie to the face.
Jane Krakowski, in the high point of the show, poked fun at all the goodies given to studio audiences with a strip number, "You Gotta Give Them Prizes," modeled after "You Gotta Have a Gimmick" in "Gypsy."
There were duets with Liza Minelli, Gloria Estefan and a troupe of little kids, all of which might have benefited from a couple more rehearsals.
Clay Aiken showed up in his Spamalot costume for a lame joke about how much he and O'Donnell had in common, ending with, "We're both Ga...briel Byrne fans." Honestly, where are Waldorf and Statler when you really need them?
In other O'Donnell news:
Rosie O'Donnell: Barbara Walters Feud Was No Big Deal
Rosie Vs Barbara [Walters], Round 2
We Call Bullsh*t On Rosie vs. Barbara - Gawker - Have you heard the wacky news? Rosie O'Donnell and Barbara Walters are "at it again"!
No, they're not having creepy lesbian eldersex, they're a'feudin' and a'fightin' all over again.
They haven't had a public dust up recently, not since Rosie was fresh off Walters' ladychat Hindenburg The View.
Lots of folks seem to be buying into the latest war of words (I'm looking at you, Fox News)—which arose when comedienne Rosie said something about how the camaraderie on the show is false and celebrity interviewer Babs snapped back—but we think it's, well, a hoax. And a pretty obvious one at that.
Hell, they have the same publicist, Cindy Berger from PMK/HBH. She probably got them on some sweaty, wheezy conference call and told them that since RoRo needed to promote her new Ed Sullivan-esque variety hour and Babs needed some View coverage since the election ended and lil' squeakers Elisabeth Hasselbeck no longer has Issues to spew her poison candy about, they should have a fake fight and get some attention.
This whole thing just reeks of PR stuntery. Like the whole supposedly nasty Madonna/Guy Ritchie divorce, which ended quickly now that she's got just three US dates left on her tour and his RockNRolla has already opened in theaters.
Or Andy Samberg and Mark Wahlberg, who had a staged animosity to get some sweet ass SNL ratings.
And it doesn't really hurt anyone at this point, because neither of them, especially Walters, really has any credibility left to debase. Which makes the whole thing just a bit sad.
Ah well.
O'Donnell: Walters Had Had Enough
Walters Tops O’Donnell
Ratings: Barbara Walters CRUSHES Rosie O’Donnell in the ratings
Rosie O'Donnell vs. Barbara Walters: Round 3 - Nov 21, 2008
Another day, another Rosie feud. Rosie O'Donnell visited Late Night With Conan O'Brien yesterday to promote her Rosie Live! variety special on NBC, but couldn't help stoking the publicity fire generated by her remarks about former boss Barbara Walters on The View.
After likening her memories of her time on The View to "flashbacks like Vietnam vets," O'Donnell appeared contrite, saying, "It was a good experience. It wasn't something I regret doing by any stretch of the imagination, but it didn't end well. ... Truthfully, in spite of the fact that [Barbara] now loathes me, I still do enjoy her."
Earlier in the week, Rosie ignited Barbara Walters' ire by telling reporters that there was little camaraderie among the hosts of the daytime chatfest, despite what The View creator Walters would like you to think.
Walters responded on Thursday morning's program with some pointed remarks directed at Rosie, although she didn't name her: "There are some people who have done this show and then for years feel they have to dump on it, maybe for their own publicity."
Later that day, Rosie filmed the following video on her blog: [snip video]
Bloom Already Off Rosie O'Donnell's View Apology
Rosie O’Donnell laughs off Walters’ comments
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Dec 2 2008, 02:27 PM
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Flea Dip: I posted this Link over at the Liz Smith Thread and it speaks for itself regarding how Rosie can do no wrong in certain people's eyes... :puke3:
LIZ SMITH KISSES ROSIES ARSE
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SouthwestRanger
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Dec 2 2008, 02:42 PM
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Well Apparently Liz's butt kissing isn't confined only to Vadge alone....
Witness her Brain Gone South take on Rosie O'Donnell's Critically Panned and Inept Variety Show....
LEARN POLITENESS from the impolite," goes the Egyptian proverb.
Well Liz I guess Madge would make a Great Teacher in that regards !
WENT to see Rosie O'Donnell put her new variety show on the air "Live" as they say, and I experienced something entirely different from what went through the head of the negative New York Times critic....
Excuse me Liz but SEVERAL other Critics panned her show and called it pathetic...Why are you singling out the NYT Critic ...Did He/She refuse to comp you Free Tickets for your deadbeat ass ?
Of course, I don't know how it looked on TV, but in the simply charming Little Shubert Theatre while they put "Rosie Live" on the air, the thing to do was to join in a love and laugh fest as one famous person after another joined Rosie onstage.
It sucked Liz and are you sure you went to the right Theatre ...Or did you have another Liquid Lunch ?
Rosie was in a benign mood as far as I remember, and she looked simply great.
Benign as in tumor judging from her past behaviour on THE VIEW and her Variety Show...I heard some of the Staff People who previously fought with Elisabeth Hasslebeck were kissing and hugging her after she had Rosie's ass for lunch right before they canned her from THE VIEW
She has beautiful eyes when she lets the makeup people get hold of her.
It would take a crack outfit of the US ARMY Combat Engineers to make her look beautiful :good:
Rosie is a total pro and she is adept at appearing with dynamos like Liza Minnelli or sex bombs like Jane Krakowski and affecting a clumsy, "Oh, my, I don't know what I'm doing" kind of attitude. But she knows, and this was a very funny, relaxed night.
Ed Sullivan never did this genre half so well! :puke3:
No Ed Sullivan would never allow a egocentric and belligerent person like Rosie to EMCEE His show....Sullivan was also a whip cracker with his staff people yet he never subjected them to the physical and verbal abuse Rosie did with her people...You are frigging senile to state Rosie is more talented than Sullivan
Too bad NBC won't give it a chance to develop.
Why should NBC waste its time, studios, and $$$$ on a show that was a disaster and got lousy ratings...And BTW what did you get in return for writing this piece of garbage ????
Did Rosie pay off your numerous bar tabs ??? Or Promise you a night with her young female assistant ??? And I know you and/or are reading the threads on this site and let me tell you that you are one of the most Lying Lowlife Sell Your Soul for Freebies people in the business
LIZ'S ROSIE BUTTKISS PIECE
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Dec 2 2008, 02:57 PM
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But Liz Smith thought Rosie was great and a pox on all those evil critics ! :puke3:
FULL ARTICLE
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