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| Author: Rosie O'donnell
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0446582247
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
EAN: 9780446582247
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Publication Date: October 9, 2007
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 Celebrity Detox:Rosie ODonnell June 2, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
What was she thinking when she wrote this. Sounds like the rantings of someone who did not mget her way.Total ranting and blame placing everywhere but where it belongs. No wonder this book was never promoted anywhere.
 Rosie gives us a peek inside her life (Screw you, Donald Trump) May 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rosie puts herself out there for all of us, and I found that I could relate to many of her feelings. Reading about her sad childhood made me want to give her a hug, and I feel that the media has given her a raw deal all the way around. I was a big fan of her talk show; there she always had to put on a happy face for the audience. In this book, the mask comes off and she shows her vulnerable side, her life with Kelly and their kids, and the struggle she went through on "The View". Rosie, I still think you rock! This book is a very candid look inside her life.
Remember the 90s when Rosie was just a lovable big-kid who said, "Kids are Punny?" Well, she's a bitter, lesbian militant, now!! April 19, 2008
6 out of 18 found this review helpful
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.
Weak effort... April 12, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
As someone who reads far too many celeb memoirs, I am a pretty easy sell. I've been known to read memoirs -- in one seating -- by actresses whose work I'm only vaguely familiar with. I'm a bit of a pop culture junkie and a memoir fiend, so it doesn't take much to get my interest.
That said, "Celebrity Detox" is one of the weakest efforts I've ever seen in the genre. It reads like something thrown together late on a Sunday night with a Monday morning deadline looming. Rosie takes on a topic -- toxic fame -- and proceeds to say nothing most people don't already know. "Most of show biz is built on an illusion." Seriously? I think people who can't locate New York City on a map know that. There are also "chapters" that are just reprints of Rosie's blogs. (I could do without the lack of caps. Who does she think she is, e e cummings?) And then there is the bizarre chapter in which Rosie talks about riding her skateboard to Wells Fargo for a financial session because her account has been overdrawn too many times. What does that have to do with her thesis? That celebs are relatable? That fame isn't always about wealth? It is typical of the digressive, pointless rambling of this book.
If you insist on reading this, I recommend skimming to that last third, where things heat up a bit. Rosie takes on Barbara Walters and Rosie's tenure at "The View," and her insights are somewhat interesting. That said, she doesn't talk much about Elisabeth Hasselbeck, her famous sparring partner. If that was too raw for her to take on, she might have waited a while to write this book. "Celeb Detox 2"... don't even think about it!
 I didn't enjoy this as much as her first book.... February 16, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you read her blog and watched the View then there is really no reason to read this. I found it boring and predictable.
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