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| Celebrity Detox: (The Fame Game) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rosie O'donnell
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 37819
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0446582247
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
EAN: 9780446582247
ASIN: 0446582247
Publication Date: October 9, 2007
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 Oh Rosie......I expected so much more! October 10, 2007
14 out of 37 found this review helpful
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!
 Pure Courage, Pure Rosie October 12, 2007
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
We tend to think that being rich makes life easy, or that celebrities always had it easy. Rosie tells it like it is (in her unique style, where grammar and spelling matter less than honesty). She shows us how celebrity or not, the problems are the same. We all have issues with friends, family, and colleagues. Most people are spared from the entire world watching their own personal issues unfold. Celebrities usually have to hide their feelings, while being publicly photographed while doing everything-the simple things we take for granted. We imagine their lives trouble free, work-free, and easy. It is reassuring to know that some celebrities have been where we are, and have not forgotten. The book is subtitled, 'the fame game, ' not 'dirty laundry,' and most people upset with the book seem to have expected dirty laundry; that is precisely what the fame game teaches people to crave, and what Rosie has seen through. The book delivers what she promised: a look into the addictive nature of fame, and the difficult path back to reality.
This book, like her free-form, expressive art, is another way she is giving back to the people who helped her become a "celebrity." The honesty and "detoxing" throughout the book are especially timely, with celebrities in the headlines daily. Pure courage, pure Rosie.
Nothing new October 17, 2007
14 out of 23 found this review helpful
I did actually finish reading the book so it wasn't a complete disaster, but everything that I thought I'd learn wasn't covered in this book. She wrote a lot about her mother's death and how it affected her. She wrote a lot about her obsessions with Barbra Streisand and Barbara Walters. But nothing on Star Jones' departure from the View, barely a couple of paragraphs on her relationship with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a couple of comments about Bill Geddie, the producer of The View. These are the things I wanted to know about and I didn't know any more about these issues after reading this book than I did prior to purchasing it.
its easy to complain after taking the money October 11, 2007
13 out of 35 found this review helpful
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
Worth the wait? YES! October 12, 2007
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
Let me first start off by saying that I am a huge fan of Rosie's and have been for quite some time. Remember a little show named, "Gimme a Break", where she played Maggie the dental hygienist neighbor in the last season? I sure do, because she was hysterical. Why does this matter? I wanted for the record to freely admit how much I have enjoyed her over the years, and will continue to for many years to come. I was prepared to give this book a favorable review long before reading it. I knew ahead of time it would receive at least 3 or 4 stars from me just out of respect to Rosie and all that she has to say.
After reading this book, I have no choice but to give it 5 out of 5 stars because it is fantastically written, and unabashedly honest. I love that.
Rosie is a very artful story teller with a keen sense for telling it like it is. I do not believe you have to be a fan of hers, and certainly I do not believe that you have to agree with what she has to say to appreciate this book. She tells a story as she sees it, from her point of view. Period.
Some reviewers feel that she doesn't delve deep enough into things leaving the reader guessing and wanting more. Not this reader. I do not need graphic details or soul baring dissertations on what awful things obviously happened to her as a child. It is simply not necessary. What is important is that she survived, is here, and is present.
Is Rosie a loud mouth? Sometimes. Does she find it necessary to get the last word in? It would seem so. Is this part of why I adore her? Absolutely. More people need to speak up, and out about the things that they simply can not wrap their heads around.
The woman is intelligent, well spoken, ridiculously funny, and extremely profound in her own way. She gives all of her heart and soul to what she believes in, and sets an example for the rest of us.
Rock on Ro, the world needs you and others like you.
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