Rosie O'Donnell Leaves Big Shoes and Wide Seat to Fill
Breaking News
Who'll replace Rosie?
The coming void on "The View" needs a special kind of personality. And not
necessarily a woman.
By Michael D. Schaffer
Inquirer Staff Writer
Raging Rosie O'Donnell, she of the machine-gun opinions, will leave a void
very difficult to fill when she departs The View in mid-June.
Where should ABC and producer Barbara Walters look for a replacement for the
tart-tongued Rosie on the late-morning gabathon? It will take a special kind
of person to mesh with the other three cohosts - Walters, Elisabeth
Hasselbeck and Joy Behar - and with the millions of women who make up the
program's audience.
Why be cautious? It might just be time for The View to shake things up with
a bold choice. And why limit the search to women? The right guy could be a
valuable addition to the women's show.
Here are a few modest suggestions for the next View diva:
Jaime Pressly. Joy, the trailer-park princess of My Name Is Earl, might be
just the thing The View needs to overcome its - let's face it - urban
Northeastern feel. Whooee, it's Daisy Duke with brains.
Wanda Sykes. A little off-kilter and a little off-color, Sykes would grab
the attention of the ladies in the audience. The guys, too. If she can get
along with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, surely she can make nice
with Joy Behar.
Ivanka Trump. She's smart, beautiful, and the daughter of Rosie's implacable
foe, The Donald. Think of the healing words Ivanka could utter on a
changing-of-the-guard segment with Rosie. Or the scornful words. Either way,
it'd be a lot of fun.
Aida Turturro. Her Janice Soprano character - abrasive and assertive - would
make her a strong choice if ABC wants to replicate Rosie. Of course, Rosie
never put a bullet in anyone.
Britney Spears. She needs a steady job, and her adventures in child-rearing
would provide endless fodder for chat. And ridicule.
Ann Coulter. This would be a daring and vastly amusing pick, substituting a
right-wing scold for a left-wing scold.
And don't forget the boys. . . .
Mario Cantone. There seems to be a certain congruence in a gay cohost
succeeding a lesbian cohost. Cantone, a former regular on Sex and the City,
is already a frequent View visitor. And he does fabulous impressions of Liza
Minnelli and Katharine Hepburn, so the audience would think it's getting a
couple of new cohosts.
Paul Wolfowitz. The head of the World Bank has shown in recent weeks that he
really knows how to treat a lady, so the View audience just might take to
him in a big way. And any day now, he may be in the market for a job.
Agent Smith
news:133ajt1...@news.supernews.com:
> Posted on Sat, Apr. 28, 2007
> Who'll replace Rosie?
>
> The coming void on "The View" needs a special kind of personality. And
> not necessarily a woman.
>
> By Michael D. Schaffer
> Inquirer Staff Writer
>
> Where should ABC and producer Barbara Walters look for a replacement
> for the tart-tongued Rosie on the late-morning gabathon? It will take
> a special kind of person to mesh with the other three cohosts -
> Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar - and with the millions of
> women who make up the program's audience.
>
> Here are a few modest suggestions for the next View diva:
>
> Jaime Pressly. Joy, the trailer-park princess of My Name Is Earl,
> might be just the thing The View needs to overcome its - let's face it
> - urban Northeastern feel. Whooee, it's Daisy Duke with brains.
>
> Wanda Sykes. A little off-kilter and a little off-color, Sykes would
> grab the attention of the ladies in the audience. The guys, too. If
> she can get along with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, surely she
> can make nice with Joy Behar.
>
> Ivanka Trump. She's smart, beautiful, and the daughter of Rosie's
> implacable foe, The Donald. Think of the healing words Ivanka could
> utter on a changing-of-the-guard segment with Rosie. Or the scornful
> words. Either way, it'd be a lot of fun.
These three people all have steady jobs, although Wanda isn't in every
episode of Christine's Adventures. Personally, I would go with Sarah
Chalke, who will be unemployed but still hot as all hell, when Scrubs
ends. However, I don't know if she has the skills for this.
Red
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Now, if we could get rid of that other fat face Joy Behar. She is
disgusting. I'd never hit a woman but I would her. To me she's not a
woman.
Red
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> > disgusting. I'd never hit a woman but I would her. To me she's not a
> > woman.
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> Fat Rod, although Elizabeth is starting to come into her own bitchyness.
> She's not a shrinking violet any more. The problem is that the
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My idea would be to cancel the show. No one cares about these old
pharts and fat slobs any longer. Make the show have just beautiful
women. Young and thin. NO more fat slobs. I can't stand the sight
of Joy and Rosie. Can you imagine having dinner with these two
elephants. I wonder who would eat more rolls!
Agent Smith
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> On Apr 30, 10:12�am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
> left.com> wrote:
>> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
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>> > On Apr 30, 2:55�am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
It would be on the road to cancellation, if network tv weren't dying a
slow death at the exact same pace. There is never anything on any more,
and all I ever watch is Craig Ferguson. So I get my entertainment from
the internet and rare DVD's, which are killing tv and I'm reading books
again. The death of broadcast tv is one of the greatest blessings to
come to America, because we are no longer rotting our brains in front of
the boob tube, for seven hours a day.
butterflygrrrl
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You used to watch t.v. for SEVEN HOURS a day??
I rarely watch that amount per week!
How did you get anything done?
Red
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> > left.com> wrote:
> >> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
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You and me have the same tastes. I love Film Noir DVD's. It's been a
while since any came out although I just spent $34.99 for Brute
Force. I love Jimmy Kimmel and his humor. Thank God I am working
when these stiffs come on.
Red
> On Apr 30, 2:33 pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
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> > Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote innews:1177960501....@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
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I could never watch TV for more than 3 hours a day. Most of that
would come after 7. The sad thing is when you finally get into a show
they cancel it.
Agent Smith
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> On Apr 30, 5:33�pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
> left.com> wrote:
>> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
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>> > On Apr 30, 10:12�am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-you
> r-
>> > left.com> wrote:
>> >> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
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>> >> > On Apr 30, 2:55�am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-y
Yeah, in spite of the fact that you're a Red stater and I'm a Blue
stater, we seem to have a lot in common, in general. Neither one of us
cares much for women's bad behavior, and in film noir, the women are
always the villains.
I just rented The Lady from Shanghai, and boy was it amazing. There's a
pathetic film school slug on the past-films ng gassing on about how
awful Orson Welles was, and I think he's got a screw loose. Welles was
a spectacular genius, so I gave him a piece of my mind.
There's not many pieces left. ;)
Cripple
> My idea would be to cancel the show. No one cares about these old
> pharts and fat slobs any longer. Make the show have just beautiful
> women. Young and thin. NO more fat slobs. I can't stand the sight
> of Joy and Rosie. Can you imagine having dinner with these two
> elephants. I wonder who would eat more rolls!
LOL.
Things are looking up around here. Phunnies poking up ever'where.
Agent Smith
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> left.com> wrote:
>> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
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The show has morphed from a talk show into train wreck tv. Comedians
routinely mock them with clips of them all talking loudly at once.
They're fools and shrews.
Zaven
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they talk over each other.
Red
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> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote innews:1177976995....@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
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> > left.com> wrote:
> >> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
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I own that one. It was quite different. That scene in the end at the
park with those mirrors was eerie. His role in a touch of evil was
genius. It took me many years to want to watch it and I finally did.
I have never watched the Third Man and soon I will buy this and watch
it too. Dark Passage and DOA are my two personal favorites.
Red
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> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote innews:1177960501....@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
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Elizabeth is pregnant. As Rosie announced it yesterday all I could
think was how Rosie wished it was her that impregnated Elizabeth. It
was spooky. And I saw this as a clip, I don't watch the bloated View.
Agent Smith
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> On Apr 30, 8:58�pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
> left.com> wrote:
>> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
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>> > left.com> wrote:
>> >> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
>> >> innews:1177960501.853914.22960@c35g2000
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>> >> > On Apr 30, 10:12�am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-
> you
>> > r-
>> >> > left.com> wrote:
>> >> >> Red <RedRedCoun...@aol.com> wrote
>> >> >> innews:1177928855.232159.38470@l77g2000
>> >> > hsb.googlegroups.com:
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>> >> >> > On Apr 30, 2:55�am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-o
With exception of a couple of old Bogies, I just discovered film noir.
I had always wondered what all the fuss about Welles was, and then I
rented Touch of Evil and Third Man, and I knew. One of these days I'll
watch all of Citizen Kane, instead of just snippets.
Dark Passage didn't do it for me, and I haven't seen DOA. Now I know
that was where Steranko stole his Chandler gimmick from, about only
having a few days to live. Likewise Lady from Shanghai was where The
Shadow movie stole it's hall of mirrors scene from.
That whole fun house thing was sooo well done that it was Daliesque in
it's surrealism. I wonder if there have even been any other good hero
films with that sort of hallucinatory imagery, but I guess that the
French must have done some. The Third Man had some too, in the chase
through the sewers, but not nearly so much. Amongst other reasons,
Welles is worshipped because he had a *very* strong sense of cool.
I have finally unravelled that riddle, that I was told in the bronze age
of comics. :D~