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Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 1567
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 09:47 am: | 
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SOURCE:http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=11411
Rosie O' Donnell will likely take her first steps toward returning to a solo talk show in the next four to six months.
The contract that the controversial co-host of ABC's "The View" has with the network stipulates that she must first negotiate with a division of the Walt Disney Co. in good faith if she wants to strike out on her own with a new show, according to people familiar with the contract. Disney owns ABC.
Those same sources said they are confident Ms. O'Donnell will trigger that clause by spring or summer.
Attendees at the National Association of Television Program Executives conference this week in Las Vegas speculated that Ms. O' Donnell already had a handshake deal with Warner Bros. for a new show. A spokesman for Warner Bros. said there have been no negotiations. A spokesman for Endeavor, which represents Ms. O'Donnell, could not be reached for comment by press time.
Still, if Ms. O' Donnell does leave "The View" for a show of her own, she has many connections to Warner Bros., suggesting she ultimately might land there. Hilary Estey McLoughlin, president of Warner's Telepictures Productions division, executive produced Ms. O'Donnell's popular 1990s syndicated talk show "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." Ms. O' Donnell likewise has longstanding ties with Jim Paratore, who was president of Telepictures when the division produced "Rosie," which Warners also distributed. Mr. Paratore now heads a Warner-based production company, ParaMedia, where he is producing upcoming news magazine "TMZ."
Disney likely would fight to keep Ms. O' Donnell should she leave "The View," according to ABC insiders. Since she joined the daytime roundtable, ratings for the 10-year old show have grown by double-digit percentages and hit all-time highs. In recent weeks, Ms. O'Donnell's feud with Donald Trump has generated a round of press coverage for the show. The ABC insiders also said the contract with Ms. O' Donnell protects the network from losing the comedienne easily. An ABC spokesman declined to comment.
Industry executives said a competitor to Disney or Warner could emerge in the pursuit of Ms. O' Donnell. CBS Television Distribution Group, which comprises the merged King World and CBS Paramount, could step in with an offer.
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 7939
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 10:13 am: |
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It'll be interesting to see whether Rosie's hellraising butch-dyke act will holds up well and long while she's all by her lonesome.
I'm betting it WON'T. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 6803
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 01:19 pm: |
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Rosie did host a successful daytime talk show on TV for years before she decided to retire. That's how she became "popular" in the first place and she was at one time known as the "queen of nice." |
Moonsigns
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Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 1742
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 01:29 pm: |
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Bye-bye! |
Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 1573
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 01:38 pm: |
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LOL |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1572
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 02:48 pm: |
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"It'll be interesting to see whether Rosie's hellraising butch-dyke act will holds up well and long while she's all by her lonesome."
Agreed! I've never seen someone who lives and thrives on being obnoxious, offensive and ignorant as she does. What does it say about her subconscious mind...???
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 7969
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 02:51 pm: |
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Ntfs,
Dude. If her mouth is reflecting what on her conscious mind, I shudder to think of what's going on behind THAT.
But, suffice it to say, it - like her face - would NOT be pretty. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 6813
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 04:18 pm: |
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Rosie is dysfunctional. She wants to be a paragon of parenthood and high morals while heading up an exemplary family, referring to herself as a "husband" all in an effort to rub her lesbian relationship in the public's face. She plays the sympathetic character by constantly referring to how she lost her mother at an early age and how this has affected her. She harbors a lot anger because she needs validation and doesn't get it unconditionally. Her insufferability rivals Donald's Trump's. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3414
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 10:56 am: |
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It might work. Look at Rush Limbaugh. |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1580
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 10:58 am: |
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"Rosie is dysfunctional. She wants to be a paragon of parenthood and high morals while heading up an exemplary family, referring to herself as a "husband" all in an effort.......... doesn't get it unconditionally. Her insufferability rivals Donald's Trump's."
Brilliant commentary. Thank you. Everything you wrote is true.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3423
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 11:39 am: |
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What do you know about her?
Do you know the woman? Personally? Or in the Biblican sense? |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 3082
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 12:01 pm: |
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Just because the ratings have gone up for The View doesn't mean that people will follow FatRosie over to her own show again. She's been there, done that and she flopped. People are tuning in to The View to witness the train wreck - it's human nature. But the train will pass and everything will once again be a massive bore. The View will be the yawnfest it always was and FatRosie won't have a following.
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Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1588
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 05:40 pm: |
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"What do you know about her?
Do you know the woman? Personally? Or in the Biblican sense?"
There is nothing to know. When you consistently present yourself as a loud mouth obnoxious provocateur, what is there to speculate? It's all about image and perception and Rosie arrogantly and happily presents herself as a self righteous bombastic ass. What do you not understand....??
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Moonsigns
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Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 1755
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 06:47 pm: |
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Ntfs_encryption:
"....Rosie arrogantly and happily presents herself as a self righteous bombastic ass...."
Moonsigns:
So true! |
Femrenoir
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Username: Femrenoir
Post Number: 104
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 10:57 pm: |
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I had them on Tivo for awhile. I got tired of it and the constant bickering between Rosie and the little blond super conservative. Rosie consistently takes the super liberal high road along with huge servings of aren't I lucky I have a 'wife' and you don't, and her 'obsessions' and 'southern mother-in-law' and barf! barf!
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Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1767
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 01:54 am: |
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I'm so glad I don't watch that crap. |
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