Rosie O'Donnell

Being Rosie O'Donnell means you get to have Donald Trump say funny things about you very loudly, and you get to blog in lower-case verse ("a new musical on broadway/ my god i loved it/ i dont have the words/ to explain its brilliance"), and buy the scale model of your new Manhattan condo building.

Last summer, the ex-talk show host signed a $1.97 million contract for a two-bedroom pied-a-terre at the new steel-and-tinted glass condo called Platinum, on West 46th Street. But at a party she threw in the building's sales center last month--a fundraiser for her charity Rosie's Broadway Kids--Ms. O'Donnell was overheard saying that she had liked the condominium's model so much she wanted to buy it from the developer. And the developer, called SJP Residential Properties, agreed to sell it.  read more »

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Anna Wintour's got herself a new assistant and it's a Swanson! As in Swanson TV dinners. [Daily Intel]  read more »

Even the gossipy bit—Who's That Girl?!?—that all of the tabs were after all day yesterday (us too, in fact) is broken first by The Times: Spitzer's prostitute "Kristen" is in fact known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, though she was born 22 years ago as Ashley Youmans, in New Jersey. [The New York Times]  read more »

"I was scared to death of him," Miss USA Tara Conner says of Trump on his upcoming "E! True Hollywood Story." Imagine what Rosie would say. (Page Six)

Charlie Rose joins "60 Minutes," which continues its refusal to target audiences under 50. (NYT)

Clay Aiken debuts in "Spamalot" today. (Goings On)

Chris Martin attacks a photographer when bringing wife Gwyneth Paltrow home from the hospital. (Page Six)

Lily Allen suffers a miscarriage in her first pregnancy. (US)

Lindsay Lohan has to spend a couple days working at a morgue – drunk driving means dead people, you know? (NYT)

In that weird Tom Cruise Scientology video, he takes credit for saving Ground Zero workers. (Page Six)

There's nothing like your first time.

“I’m not going to go into mine,” actress Keri Russell told us last night, referring to the birth of her son, River Russell Deary. (What did you think we were talking about?) She paused, flashed a toothy grin and added: “But it was great.”

Bundled in an oversized jacket and looking much younger than her 31 years, the Felicity star (and Brooklyn resident!) was milling about at the after-party for a special screening of The Business of Being Born at the IFC Center in the Village.  read more »

Jacques Steinberg had a nice bit of news in an otherwise unrewarding piece on cable network MSNBC the other day: Rosie O'Donnell was close to a deal to host a show on the network.

 

Then, last night at 7:06 p.m., O'Donnell posted the following to her blog:

msnbc
one hour
live
following keith olbermann

we were close to a deal
almost done
i let it slip in miami
causing panic on the studio end

well
what can u do

2day there is no deal
poof
my career as a pundit is over
b4 it began  read more »

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That's what mediabistro proposes is the big news coming from the bizarre celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.

We're thinking he tipped his hand with this little illustration (right) which appeared on his Web site yesterday.

He's slotted to appear on the show today, and has promised big news at noon. We may or may not keep you posted.

• mediabistro.com
• perezhilton.com

And on it goes.

Rosie O'Donnell said on Monday morning's View that Donald Trump has gone straight for the fat jokes when he's attacked her the last few weeks:

"It's the way I look. He can't resist... It's always the first comment of someone who disagrees with you if you happen to be on the plus side."

Mr. Trump, however, sought to clarify his use of the adjective in a statement the Associated Press shortly after Ms. O'Donnell's freshest comments:

"I used the word `slob,' I used the word `degenerate' and I used the words `not very smart.' The word `fat' played a very small role, if any, in my description of her."

Well then.

- Tom Acitelli

With the sixth-season debut of The Apprentice a little more than 72 hours away, Donald Trump has ramped up his pre-Christmas feud with Rosie O'Donnell again.

On FOX News on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump lit into O'Donnell for her earlier criticism of his business acumen and moral probity. He was reacting to Barbara Walters' mild defense of her View co-host:

Rosie understands that I understand her. I've known Rosie for a long time, and I understand Rosie. Rosie is not a winner. She's a loser. Rosie is somebody that is -- in my opinion, she's got somewhat of a death wish. I think that Rosie understands that I understand her, and that bothered her very much.

- Tom Acitelli

Mike today added one to his oddly lengthy litany of reasons he won't be showing up in Harlem tonight:

"I think today what everybody's going to be focused on is the Yankees," he told reporters in Queens.

Or maybe that will be tomorrow. When the Yankees actually have a game.

Fortunately, Bloomberg backer Rosie O'Donnell (!) had another answer ready, Jason Horowitz reports:

"The mayor has two debates scheduled and I think two is enough. We seem to be a gluttonous culture where everyone thinks all you can eat is the best you can do. Frankly, I think two is enough."

(O'Donnell's appearance, countering a big group of gay elected officials -- including her brother Danny -- endorsing Ferrer today, has that same celebrity-obsessed edge as did the Famous Black People From Other States for Bloomberg announcement of last month.)  read more »

NOTE: Item slightly corrected, as Rosie's appearance wasn't exactly a formal endorsement.

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Rosie O'Donnell loves the little children of Nyack, N.Y. It's the adults she can live without.  read more »

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