Celebrity Detox:
by Admin on Nov.22, 2009, under Latest Celebrity Gossip
Product Description
Sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always brutally honest, this is Rosie O’Donnell’s surprising account of the pain, regret, and euphoria involved in withdrawing from celebrity life–and the terrifying dangers of relapsing into the spotlight. CELEBRITY DETOX is Rosie’s story of the years after she walked away from her top-rated TV show in 2002, and her reasons for going back on the air in 2006. In it, she takes you inside the world of talk show TV, speaki… More >>
November 22nd, 2009 on 5:04 pm
For those that claim that I am nothing but a Coulter apologist who never read Rosie’s book, you are displaying your ignorance. Indeed I did give a favorable review to Coulter’s book, but that has nothing to do with my opinion on Rosie. In fact, the two have much in common. Obnoxious and entertaining. Unfortunately, Rosie’s book is not that interesting and it merely rehashes old stories that have been heard before. Her struggle to deal with her mother’s death at a young age is sad, but otherwise this is merely a cry for more attention from a woman who is far from acheieving her goal of celebrity detox. She is self absorbed and looking for more headlines. Don’t give her what she needs. Tough love would mean ignore this insipid little book.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 22nd, 2009 on 5:25 pm
WELL WHAT CAN I SAY? I WAITED A WHOLE YEAR FOR THIS BOOK. GOT IT YESTERDAY WAS FINISHED WITH IT TODAY. EXACTLY 24 HRS LATER. IT IS A VERY EASY READ BUT THAT IS BECAUSE THERE IS BARELY ANYTHING NEW? EVERYTHING IN IT WE READ BEFORE SHE SAID B4 ON HER BLOG OR SAID ON HER VIDEOS OR JUST SAID ON HER SHOW OR ON THE VIEW. 3/4 OF THE BOOK WAS “BARBARA STRIESAND” WE GET IT FOR ALL THESE YRS SHE HAS TOLD 9 KAZILLION TIMES ALL SHE FEELS FOR BARBARA! I WANTED TO READ SOMETHING DIFFERENT SOMETHING WE DIDNT ALREADY KNOW? SHE GOES IN SLIGHTLY ABOUT HER AND BARB WALTERS BACKSTAGE BUT IT DIDNT EVEN TAKE UP A WHOLE PAGE? THE MAIN REASON I BOUGHT IS I WANTED TO KNOW HER FEELINGS (SINCE REFUSED TO SPEAK THEM ON HER BLOG) ABOUT THE BLOW UP WITH ELISABETH. SHE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT IT. SO IF UR BUYING THE BOOK TO FIND THAT OUT…DONT BUY IT. EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK WAS EVERYTHING THAT ET OR EXTRA TOLD TO US OVER THIS YEAR ABOUT ROSIE. HER ABUSE WAS NOT EVEN A PARAGRAPH SO U DONT GET HER FEELINGS FROM THAT EITHER? IM NOT EVEN SURE WHAT THE REASON FOR THIS BOOK WAS? I LOVED ROSIE TO DEATH…THIS WAS VERY DISAPPOINTING (GOOD PART WAS HER DR. (DR REICHMAN) WAS MY DAUGHTERS DR TOO SO THAT PART WAS NEET. THATS IT. THE ENDING WAS JUST BLAH THERE WAS ABSOLUETLY NO CLIMAX TO THE BOOK OR A GOOD ENDING??? IM LEFT AFTER JUST READING FEELING TOTALLY EMPTY? WAS LIKE I JUST READ A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ON HER OR WATCHED ET OR EXTRA? I REALLY DONT RECOMMEND THE BOOK AT ALL CUZ ITS EVERYTHING YOU ALREADY KNEW? YELLOW? SHE SPOKE OF MANY MANY TIMES–HER ESCAPE–HER ART ROOM? SHES TOLD US MANY MANY TIMES BARB STR SHE TOLD US MANY MANY TIMES–HER MOMS DEATH TOLD US ALL THE DETAILS MANY TIMES? AND THE MAIN THING OF HER AND ELISABETH AND BARB AND THE SPLIT SCREEN?? NADA TOLD NOTHING…..SO SAVE YOUR MONEY…..
Rating: 1 / 5
November 22nd, 2009 on 7:32 pm
My interest in picking up O’Donnell’s book–interest being a relative word–was merely to see if A) O’Donnell in her own words is really as vile as her rhetoric and feuds with seemingly everyone indicate and B) if so, to know what one of America’s domestic enemies thinks. After “reading” this book–one cannot read it per se because it’s written in primer language and has the vocabulary and grammar of an elementary school kid–I can honestly assert Trump was absolutely, 100% right!!!! O’Donnell’s a bully, self-destructive, paranoid, self-righteous, elitist, and prone to conspiracy theories 24/7. It’s fair to say I was going in to this book with prejudices, but the worst implication is that all of them were borne out by O’Donnell’s own, at times, scary trends of thought.
As I alluded to, the presentation of Celebrity Detox is aggravatingly simple-minded: the print is for four-year-olds, the writing and word choice is abnormally basic, and the “intellect” of O’Donnell as her written word represents it is really shameful. She probably didn’t go to college, and it egregiously shows.
Celebrity Detox, to O’Donnell, is the process in which a quasi-celebrity like her readjusts to “normal” life after the blinding glare and sensationalized existence of being in the spotlight for a certain time. The ordeal with O’Donnell’s take on detoxing from this celebrity is that it oftentimes strays into the utter, elitist, high-minded conceptualization which the normal, average American just can’t and shouldn’t relate to. For instance, O’Donnell has the unmitigated gall to grieve about missing being with her kids–she’s g*y, so most of her kids are adopted; her marriage was voided by California’s SC and is a sham–while having worked on her successful talk show! Many working Americans are familiar with this phenomenon: it’s called balancing work and family life, yet to elitists like O’Donnell, this comes apparently as an unreasonable shock.
Also discomforting is reading O’Donnell’s mortifying revelations about how stunted she is in her personal development as a result of being a quasi-celebrity. We all know celebrities are spoilt and can’t do much of anything for themselves, yet O’Donnell’s admission takes the cake. She actually has the audacious nerve to blame her career success as the culprit for why she apparently can’t park a car properly. That’s right; as shameful as this would be to admit were it a normal person, O’Donnell seems to sinisterly revel in admitting that she can’t even park an automobile properly!!!! This is just another, flagrant example of the inequity that exists between the visibility/influence of celebrities and their impotence and ineptitude.
O’Donnell also reveals that she’s estranged from average Americans by her elitist worship of fellow lib celebrities like Barbra Streisand. The seemingly unrelenting pages she devotes to Streisand worship is really a sickness; one would believe that Streisand were God the way O’Donnell keeps exaggeratedly vaunting her. Implicating O’Donnell as being out of touch with average Americans is the fact that she arrogantly goes on about how she created a documentary, by following Streisand from tour stop to tour stop, about Streisand’s alleged inspiration to many people. However, only trivial/elitist people would really believe that Streisand was an object worthy of adoration when there are so many better, female role models out there. Condoleeza Rice (1st woman Secretary of State), Laura Bush (AIDS work, librarian), and Lynne Cheney (children’s author, US historian) easily trump Babs.
In one passage in the book, O’Donnell really revolts people by confessing that she used to take a bat to her fingers and hands and break her bones!!!! If this isn’t further, corroborative proof of celebrities being poisonous and unbalanced in general, then nothing is proof enough.
The most egregious offense in O’Donnell’s alleged, tell-all book is her glaring and cowardly omission of confessing what an anti-American, treasonous enemy-emboldener she is!!!! From her wild accusations on the View, we all know O’Donnell is a 911 “Truther” (precipitously believing the US attacked itself), humanizes terrorists (infamously uttering that terrorists are moms and dads too!), and accuses the US military of killing Iraqi civilians!!!! However, she dastardly dodges addressing any of these provocative allegations which rightly got her terminated from the View.
O’Donnell also indulges in a martyr complex when she imagines herself having been victimized by Trump. The intellectually honest human realizes that Trump did a noble thing by showing Christian-type forgiveness to the young woman who was in his pageant, yet O’Donnell instigated character *ss*ssination on him. When Trump defensibly fought back, O’Donnell’s misdirected attitude was that SHE was the one attacked.
Additionally, O’Donnell also divulges how double-dealing her untrustworthy character is as she really derogates Barbara Walters excessively. This is particularly treasonous when she spends the beginning of the book singing Walters’ praises…only to tear her down throughout the book. Celebrity Detox is instructive only in that it enforces much of what the Silent Majority (real, normal Americans) rightly thinks of celebrities: they’re liberal and unstable and disgusting.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 22nd, 2009 on 9:45 pm
its eay to find fault in others and rosie seems to put her views and life on a pillar and continues not to accept the differences in others opinions and view point. when you have the life style she lives in and talks of how hard she has it, it is easy to just shake your head as many parent their children no matter how tired and not have a nanny take them out to look for a family member while they take a bath. give me a break! save your money as it is a self serving voice box for rosie
Rating: 1 / 5
November 23rd, 2009 on 12:03 am
Rosie – so boring and embarassing. Been a fan for so long and this one really disappoints. A public slander of Ms. Walters after you leave the show – be bigger than that. Being paid $2 million to tell the world that Barbara Walters isn’t really that nice – kind of tacky. I expected more. I wanted a real account of your personal battles with fame, not some National Enquirer piece regarding the “fights” in the makeup room of “The View”. As far as the Trump situation – you were completely right and his actions showed us all clearly just the kind of man “The Donald” is – just was a little disappointed this book did the same for you. Peace out!
Rating: 1 / 5