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Celebrity Detox
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 f...more
CELEBRITY DETOX is Rosie's story of the years after she walked away from her top-rated TV show in 2002, and her reasons f...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
October 9th 2007
by Grand Central Publishing
(first published September 28th 2004)
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As a watcher of "The View", this was a guilty pleasure. Or at least I thought it would be a pleasure. It was not. Rosie O'Donnell is interested in making us see how her mind works. It is not pretty. Her logic, to me, is meandering and contradictory. She wants us to make sense of the senseless. She doesn't know what she thinks or wants herself, so her pages come off as jibberish written in a journal in order to sort out her thoughts. Most people don't have an audience when they do this. If not fo...more
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I enjoyed this book. I happen to like Rose O'Donnell. She's hilarious, caring, straightforward, a talented actress, and hostess. I see through uncensored speech to a warm person with strong emotions. There are varied impressions of what makes a good book and as a writer, I pay attention. Creative, intelligent writing can miss the mark if protagonist or contents don't resonate with you. Great characters, plots, and settings can be hindered by the writing. It doesn't take fast-paced chases or meta...more
I love Rosie. Her other book, "Find Me," is one of my favorites of all time. No one was more surprised than me to find out that a book by Rosie O'Donnell was a favorite of mine! She lays out her wounds in that book in a way that made me feel my own pains and verbalize them like I had never encountered before. This book was written afte Rosie's infamous stint at The View. She lays bare her castmates this time, which is definitely juicy to read. For instance, she says Barbara Walters has no abilit...more
I would not recommend this book to anyone. It is like watching a train wreck you just can't put it down because you just got to see what is going to come out of this woman's mouth next! Rosie is such a wannabe, but she just hasn't figured out who she wants to be. She can not speak were just regluar people can understand what she is trying to say, she talks in all this mumblejumble crap about colors and all such sh..
I will give her this that this book was a little more interesting than her 1st bo...more
I will give her this that this book was a little more interesting than her 1st bo...more
I so wanted to give Rosie the benefit of the doubt. I used to be a huge fan of hers. This book was simply not well written, or even really readable. There wasn't anything even all that interesting in it. I was expecting more details, more information about her time on The View or her decision to leave . . . more . . . well . . . something . . . .
I liked Rosie from The View. I wanted to really like the book. It made her seem really nutty. I think it reflects on her poorly- like she really needs a lot of therapy. But, it is a good insight as to what went on behind the scenes at The View. I watch the show every day, so I liked that aspect of the book.
When Rosie O'Donnell's mother, Rosanne, came down with cancer in 1972, ten-year-old Rosie came up with a way to cure her: She would become famous. With dogged determination, she tried to become a performer, in hope of earning money for Rosanne's treatment. It didn't work; her mother died, just days before Rosie's 11th birthday. What did survive was the need for fame. Rosie went from stand-up to Star Search to her own highly acclaimed television show. Then, like a recovering alcoholic, she quit h...more
From dust jacket:
"That's the thing about fame. If you live like a famous person, you will pay the price. And it's a high price, and a dangerous game, because fame, the drug, can sneak up on you in increments. You don't notice the increments, that they're increasing, until you're so far away from ever making eye contact with another human being and being 'real' that you don't even know you're not 'real' anymore.
When Rosie O'Donnell's mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1973, ten-year-old Rosie be...more
"That's the thing about fame. If you live like a famous person, you will pay the price. And it's a high price, and a dangerous game, because fame, the drug, can sneak up on you in increments. You don't notice the increments, that they're increasing, until you're so far away from ever making eye contact with another human being and being 'real' that you don't even know you're not 'real' anymore.
When Rosie O'Donnell's mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1973, ten-year-old Rosie be...more
This book touched on so many topics, most of them not very interesting. The best of them was Rosie's thoughts on fame and money and what it meant to her to attempt to walk away from the drug of fame, when she left her own show for a few years before getting caught up in the whole celebrity thing again, with "The View." Mostly this book is about (1) Rosie's year on "The View," (2) Rosie's complicated relationship with Barbara Walters, (3) Rosie's public fued with Donald Trump,and (4) Rosie's comp...more
Ialmost can’t believe I spent time reading this book. At least it was a fast read, maybe because it was quite inconsequential! I enjoyed watching The View last year when I was not working. It was a part of my routine, most days. Rosie O’Donnell is ok; I am not a fan, or an opponent. As with other celebrity books I have read, this book disappointed me. The writer is so self-absorbed; the writing is disjointed (wasn’t there an editor?), more suited to a journal or blog, rather than a book, in my m...more
Disjointed is the one word I would use to describe this book. While I admire Rosie for speaking her mind, as well as her viewpoints, I would never recommend this book to anyone. The book hints at being about Rosie's let go and re-entrance into the celebrity world. I found this book nothing more than thoughts that don't seem to flow in a mannerism I can follow. She describes scenarios and I can't help but wonder if her thoughts on these subjects are all made up. While she owns her faults and fail...more
This book was a quick read. It was pretty enjoyable, although it did make me feel sorry for Rosie as I find her to have quite a bit of cynicism in her life...although this book gives me insight as to why.
Being a celebrity gossip hound, I enjoyed reading about her and Barbara Walters past feuds as well as the famous feud with the Trump...and hearing about it from Rosie's perspective.
Her take on why being a celebrity is annoying (loss of freedom) and can even lead to fatality (Anna Nicole Smith'...more
Being a celebrity gossip hound, I enjoyed reading about her and Barbara Walters past feuds as well as the famous feud with the Trump...and hearing about it from Rosie's perspective.
Her take on why being a celebrity is annoying (loss of freedom) and can even lead to fatality (Anna Nicole Smith'...more
I took my time with this book. I only read it on my commute, and then finished the last bit at home. I feel that the author, Rosie O'Donnell, was able to express herself through her poetry and side of what happened on The View.
Don't be fooled: This book isn't about Rosie's entire life, it's not her autobiography. It's about a specific change in her life, that happens to throw back to a few, specific things in her childhood. But it doesn't linger. She brings you right back to the heart of the bo...more
Don't be fooled: This book isn't about Rosie's entire life, it's not her autobiography. It's about a specific change in her life, that happens to throw back to a few, specific things in her childhood. But it doesn't linger. She brings you right back to the heart of the bo...more
Ugh. I care one way or another about Rosie before I read this book. Now I just plain ol' don't like her.
I do admit: I went into this book with incredibly low expectations. I figured at best it would be a funny little gossip column with a lot of name dropping, at worst a sob-session about being famous. I had no idea that it'd be a book that was half sob-session half whiney name calling that has already been visited.
Even worse than this were the places she got side tracked and tried so hard to be...more
I do admit: I went into this book with incredibly low expectations. I figured at best it would be a funny little gossip column with a lot of name dropping, at worst a sob-session about being famous. I had no idea that it'd be a book that was half sob-session half whiney name calling that has already been visited.
Even worse than this were the places she got side tracked and tried so hard to be...more
I didn't read any reviews until I finished it, and everyone else hit the nail on the head. What a mess of a book. I couldn't follow many of her thoughts, the timelines skipped around frequently without warning, and it felt like she wrote this in the middle of the night and published it without an editor. I wondered why someone didn't truthfully, gently tell her it shouldn't get published like this. While 10 pages of haikus are fine for a blog, not so for a publicized tell-all. Another reviewer s...more
Rosie yang complicated menulis dengan gaya yang susah dibaca. Pada dasarnya dia menceritakan empat perempuan: dia, ibunya, Barbra (Streisand) dan Barbara (Walters). Ibunya membuat dia marah dan kecewa karena meninggalkannya ketika dia masih kecil. Barbra memenuhi mimpinya. Barbara membuatnya marah dan kecewa. Lalu entah kenapa Rosie gampang sekali membenci laki-laki? Tidak jelas. Sampai di ujung buku pun aku dibuat bertanya-tanya, "ini sebenarnya tentang apa?"
Yah, paling tidak buku ini menegaska...more
Yah, paling tidak buku ini menegaska...more
2.5 ★
A bit odd. I didnt know what she was talking about through a lot of the book, and from what she said I dont want to find out more - all seems a bit irrelevant and tedious. I quite liked the way she spoke about her family, and some of her thoughts were interesting and some i agreed with. Other parts were annoying (poetry) and weird and barely comprehensible ("yellow", fixation about Barbara Streisand) She came across as very American so I gave her an extra half-star as it might just be cultu...more
A bit odd. I didnt know what she was talking about through a lot of the book, and from what she said I dont want to find out more - all seems a bit irrelevant and tedious. I quite liked the way she spoke about her family, and some of her thoughts were interesting and some i agreed with. Other parts were annoying (poetry) and weird and barely comprehensible ("yellow", fixation about Barbara Streisand) She came across as very American so I gave her an extra half-star as it might just be cultu...more
Rosie O'Donnell's story about life after she walked away from her top rated talk show and the conflicts and challenges she faced while co-hosting The View. The book spends a lot of time on her infamous feud with Donald Trump, and on one level her writing is full of candor, and honesty but on the other hand I felt like she continues to fuel the same fire, she says she desperately wants no part of. A few chapters were pretty interesting, but most of the time this book consisted of pages of random...more
A quick read, but not much new information here if you read Rosie's blog or just follow her adventures via the gossip industry. The book's main focus is on Rosie's year-long stint as co-host of "The View", including blow-by-blow details of her feud with Donald Trump (and by proxy, Barbara Walters). The book is very readable, with the exception of the "stream of consciousness" blog entries which are reproduced on a few pages. I just hate the lack of punctuation, capitalization, and the text messa...more
I really didn't like Celebrity Detox at all. First, there's the matter about how Rosie O'Donnell (or her ghost writer? I'm not sure) kept going on and on about how she's all about being honest and about the truth. That's absolutely fine, and I agree that honesty is best. That said, there's a way for that to be your point of view without seeming so holier than thou and as though you look down on and judge those who aren't always 100% honest. It would have been easier to swallow if she could admit...more
Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne and talk show host, writes of her second foray into tv in her second book. This memoir deals with her decision to join, and her experiences on The View. Throughout, she sporatically jumps back to childhood and young adult life, and also discusses her life while on her own show. The book is honest and open, displaying O'Donnell's fears and insecurities as well as her "yellow."
Eh. Too jumpy and all over the place. I seem to recall liking her first book somewhat, and I w...more
Eh. Too jumpy and all over the place. I seem to recall liking her first book somewhat, and I w...more
Did I really think this would be a great read? No. But I have been basically doing everything I can to avoid reading the book I am actually reading Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron. I just can't get into that book. Several people I know LOVE that book and HIGHLY recommend it so I will persevere in reading it albeit with a few short fluff reads in between.
I decided to read this book after catching the Oprah episode where she was interviewing Barbara Walters. Egads. Can Barbara Walters have...more
I decided to read this book after catching the Oprah episode where she was interviewing Barbara Walters. Egads. Can Barbara Walters have...more
I have had this book for sometime now. I decided to read it since Barbara Walters has a new book out this week. I wanted to read this before I looked for Barbara's book. I sometimes left sorry for Rosie, losing her mother at an early age. Some people would probably learn to live with the loss, but not Rosie, all her life she has been looking for a mother figure. In this small book, she thought she found that figure in Barbara Walters, not! After reading this book I realize that Rosie is not the...more
I got this book out of the library seeking pure escapism. That it was not, but it was diverting from thinking about the Nazi occupation of France (Suite Francaise).
This book is about Rosie O'Donnell's decision to join the TV show The View and her fights with Barbara Walters and Donald Trump. Her writing struck me as authentic (though not very elegant -- but she's not a writer, so I'm not complaining). Before I read it, I didn't know or care much about these things. I still don't care too much, b...more
This book is about Rosie O'Donnell's decision to join the TV show The View and her fights with Barbara Walters and Donald Trump. Her writing struck me as authentic (though not very elegant -- but she's not a writer, so I'm not complaining). Before I read it, I didn't know or care much about these things. I still don't care too much, b...more
I saw this book at the library while I was waiting for my kids to find something. I started reading it and decided to check it out. Interesting. I don't necessarily care for Rosie's writing style. She seems to be above criticism, which is dangerous when you are an artist as she describes herself to be. Actually, everyone needs to learn to accept criticism. But, what kept me reading was looking at one person's personal view of a time that was so impersonal. Rosie took a break for her kids. I can...more
I've always had a weird interest in Rosie O'Donnell, which is why I picked this book to read during my "Spring Break" as a part of a trashy de-academic process I like to go through between semesters.
Really, whatever interest you have, don't waste your time. O'Donnell hints towards having a ghostwriter, but if she did, that's embarrassing for the ghost, as the book is terribly written. I won't get into her freeform poetry that reads like an instant messenger conversation with a 13-year-old. I wil...more
Really, whatever interest you have, don't waste your time. O'Donnell hints towards having a ghostwriter, but if she did, that's embarrassing for the ghost, as the book is terribly written. I won't get into her freeform poetry that reads like an instant messenger conversation with a 13-year-old. I wil...more
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, speaking candidly about the conflicts...more
O'Donnell is a surprisingly good writer. I occasionally look at her blog, written in a haiku-like manner, and was curious about the quality of her prose style. I was and am a huge fan of her show and I respect her desire to educate people on such issues as mental illness and autism, as well as her continued support for the arts with her All Kids and Rosie's Broadway Kids charisties. I enjoyed her on The View, but realized, as she did, that show's format does not fit her (or she does not fit in w...more
I'll start out by saying that I like Rosie O'Donnell. I have for years - back since her stand-up days on VH1. I like her as a comic, an actress and as a person.
This book is odd. Extremely revealing, yet reticent at the same time. She addresses the year she was on "The View" candidly, the brouhaha with Trump, etc. She admits her mistakes and recognizes her weaknesses. But then she hints at possible abuse in her childhood, but doesn't follow through. We're left to wonder *if*she was abused - appa...more
This book is odd. Extremely revealing, yet reticent at the same time. She addresses the year she was on "The View" candidly, the brouhaha with Trump, etc. She admits her mistakes and recognizes her weaknesses. But then she hints at possible abuse in her childhood, but doesn't follow through. We're left to wonder *if*she was abused - appa...more
Okay, I'll admit it--I read this book! During the first half-year of my daughter's life, when I was trying to rid myself of the television habit, I made a point of watching the first 20 minutes of The View each day. Rosie O'Donnell makes good TV! In spite of her faults, like the fact that she often speaks without thinking first, I enjoy Rosie O'Donnell's liberalism and honesty.
Any-hoo, this book is definitely not as good as her last one, Find Me, which contained a mystery interspersed with touc...more
Any-hoo, this book is definitely not as good as her last one, Find Me, which contained a mystery interspersed with touc...more
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Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning American comedian, television talk show host, author, and film, television, and stage actress. She has also been magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT civil rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family Vacations.
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“Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable[...]They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good[...]So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me.”
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“Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound.”
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