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Rosie: The Rosie O'Donnell Story

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Malacious gossip & rumor. Total waste of time. Instaed of donating it to rhe public library like I normally do, I threw it in the trash. Actually the trash deserves to be in better company than this book!

Also, the book itself is complete crud, being nothing more tangible than one would expect to find in the National Enquirer.

Why is it "stars" get really irritating after they announce they're lesbians? I mean, I was always brought up by such fine publications as Hustler to believe lesbians were really cool! I mean, thing-wearing housewives and 36 DD latina maids get lonely, right? Sounds perfectly rational to me.

But whenever someone comes out of the closet (looking suspiciously not at all like the skirt-wearing girl inmates starring in that video I have in my closet behind my socks), all they can talk about is how they are a lesbian! Geez! Maybe if you just treated it like it was normal, nobody would bug you about it! Look at Elton John! Nobody knows what he is, and nobody bugs him. Know why? Because NOBODY WANTS TO KNOW. he doesn't talk about it, organize les/bi/gay cruises--he just wears frilly clothes and capitalizes on dead British royalty.

So unless Rosie has a friend named Rosa stowed somewhere who has just finished the laundry and knows Mrs. Nikki is taking her bubble bath all alone, let the matter drop. America doesn't care, and this book is a waste.

"Her fans will buy and enjoy this book" - Publishers' Weekly In this unauthorized bio, seasoned Hollywood journalist and author James Robert Parish (The Liza Minelli Story etc.) has reserched O'Donnell's climb to fame drawing on print and TV interviews, critical reviews and press releases, as well as interviews with her colleagues. O'Donnell's comic career, feature films and Broadway show are well detailed here and her story is an inspiring one. Until O'Donnell writes her autobiography this bio may be the most thorough we'll get. Publishers' Weekly March 17, 1997