Saturday, October 20, 2007
Rosie O' D.
I read Celebrity Detox by Rosie O'Donnell and got just what I was looking for, a little peek into the life of a famous and wealthy mother and her take on the whole Barbara Walters/Donald Trump/View thing that I missed out on in real time since I never see daytime TV. I like Rosie. She can be brash and she sometimes speaks without thinking first, but that's what she's paid for. I think she talks about celebrity in a way that others at her level of fame will not. She struggles with keeping her life real and not letting the fame consume her, but how can you have both? She calls it an addiction, and it makes sense. She's a woman who lost her mother at a young age and has found love and acceptance in live studio audiences and in households all across the country. Who wouldn't be tempted by that drug? Who wouldn't want to be appreciated on that grand a scale? Well, okay, lots of people, but how many of us have had the opportunity? I am glad she wrote this frank little book and hope she finds a healthy middleground between fame and real life for herself and her family.
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Interesting take, Christine. I've heard about Ms. O'Donnel and the supposed "scandals" in passing, but not more than that because I'm not into entertainment stuff so much. From what I have seen, though, it seems like some of her celebrity peers are labeling her another "loud woman" who gets into verbal confrontations.
It'd be preaching to the proverbial choir to get into the feminist issue in all this, but really, people (in general, not this group, y'all are so much smarter than that). Why are women, after all this time, still expected either not to have conflicts at all, or else to water down their feelings and frame their opinions to downplay them? Anything beyond that and it's treated as "catty," amusing at best and (gasp!) unfeminine at worst.
Ch - thanks for the rundown. not sure i would've read this as i've never been a big fan of Rosie's but sounds like it might be frank and real enough to get a new- found respect for her???? not sure. would consider it at least at this point.
Being nothing like a loud, opinionated woman myself, I have nothing to say.
Hee.
(Though Christine, I really did enjoy the personal aspects of the conversation we had about this earlier...)
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