Rosie O Donnell Show to DVD — Page 2

I miss the show too!!!!!!!!!! I used to love seeing the Broadway stuff on her show.

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I watched Rosie sometimes before I was a Broadway fan (I was also like 8 years old or so), and I remember her playing a game with members of the audience and one guy that got to play was a big character that ended up singing for some reason and she gave him all the prizes...a few weeks later, he came on the show as a guest because he was starring in the Full Monty...I assumed he has been discovered on Rosie? Anyone else remember that? Please correct anything I've said wrong..

I have her entire final three shows, Producers with Brad Oscar and (the other guy), and a couple other episodes.

I REALLY would love to have the first Linda Eder performance. Rosie had been raving about seeing a concert she performed at, and she said she would be on the show later in the week. I had been looking forward to it, so I taped it.

WOW! She WOWed me! She sang "Vienna" and stole my heart. I went out to buy her CD the next week. That performance was just incredible, one of the better and most meaningful moments on the show, for me.

The Rosie O Donnell Show was something very unique. Nothing has ever come to par, not Caroline Rhea nor Ellen (though they are nice, just not what Rosie had). What Rosie was interested in, you were. What she did for Superkids, Breast Cancer Awareness, Broadway, home businesses, Makeovers, New York, and artists was truely exceptional.

In her final episode, she GAVE AWAY two of her Emmy Awards to two of her staff. In her six years, she has given soo much to many charities.

I wish she would come back. Maybe with the failure of her magazine and TABOO, she will make a comeback? She is missed...

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Thank you, Capn Hook, for your wonderful archival info, and paean to Rosie's show. I loved it, too. There's been so much Rosie bashing,here and elsewhere, during the TABOO era. Yet her show was a bright spot for so many years. She was a tireless supporter of Broadway, an impassioned gun-control advocate, and in the weeks after 9-11, for many NYers like me, sort of a daily divining rod for pain, grief, rage and many feelings we couldn't sort out or articulate. I remember when she flew to Miami only a couple of weeks later, when many people were not flying. She took her kids, and photographed them on the plane. It seems silly, now, but it had a heroic, very patriotic weight. "Patriotic" isn't a word many would use with Rosie, but her stance and demeanor and support in that crisis period made her a true patriot. Remember the first show after 9/11? She had Mario Cantone come on and do Hepburn and Liza, to make us laugh. And it worked. There are many shows that struck chords, but Broadway never forget the way she saved TITANIC. I still have her SIDE SHOW number performance episode, and her last show. People bitched when she made the show a venue for her opinions. But again, her passion is what makes her a true, iconoclasitic American. She put 30 some kids through college, with Kellog's backing. (Remember the girl who came from abject poverty who wanted to be Barbara Walters? Rosie had Walters appear and meet her.) Okay, so she was at least as difficult as Donald Trump. We think he's cool for being an a---hole who taunts yuppie wannabes for sport and profit. I'll take Rosie's approach, and still hold those years she was on in my heart.

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Updated On: 4/25/04 at 07:29 PM

Rentaholic, I know what you're talking about. The guy's name was Jimmy Smagoola, and he sang "People" in the game. Besides the Full Monty, he was also in Man of La Mancha last year, and he now plays Piangi on the national tour of the Phantom of the Opera.

What other talk show has given more publicity to Broadway.???

One has to look back to The Mike Douglas Show to see anything comparable.

..and yet for every good deed Rosie did where Broadway was concerned there was some Broadway "movers and shakers" (as if there is such a thing) who felt the need to crap on every thing Rosie did ! Anyone remember the Rosie Tony Awards nonsense....

Idiots!

As Joni Mitchell sang "..you don't know what you got till it's gone!"

Just an FYI about releasing those musical performances on tape.

Just because a tv show is allowed to broadcast a live performance from a musical doesn't mean they have the same rights to exploit that material in videogram format. Those are separate rights that must be negotiated at the time of the deal.

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Anyone have some performances on video?

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Oh man.... didn't she have the OBC of RENT on the show? I'd buy these just to see that! Wicked_Elphie, what do you say we combine funds and become hermits watching these? (Because God knows neither of us can afford it!)

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Luvtheemcee-yah she had the OBC...including ADAM!! And wasn't he all nervous and shy and stuff when she asked him to sing glory...aww he's soo cute! But yah I am totally up for combining funds...oh isn't it great to be an insanly poor college student?

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Yah I know we should "get back on track" but I really just can't bring myself to care as much as I did...maybe it'll happen when we go see Aida again but I can't promise anything! Ooops sorry Adam!

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Oh were you watching the thing on WB, with the OBC of Rent yah we were just watching it here and it was exciting...but certainly not lying on the floor in euphoria exciting lol!! ohhh Luv's a loser! I still love ya though!

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Rosie.com has launched!!

(Also, this is a bump for recent discussion on Rosie)

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