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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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Condition: Standard used condition.
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 Stars in Our Eyes: Celebrity Detox and the Fate of Media October 10, 2007
10 out of 21 found this review helpful
Reading the cover of "Celebrity Detox," Rosie is peering outside into the world with one eye while the other eye is hidden by a star which perhaps represents ego of celebrity. O'Donnell advertises first book "Find Me" along with a video of photo snapshots to be read along with Celebrity Detox. Advertising the two books together seems to suggest we must read the first book to really connect with the second book.
The first book "Find Me" is about a chance encounter with an individual who made contact and how it changed both their lives forever. This second book seems to be asking us to find Rosie O'Donnell ...And find ourselves at the same time. Like clues in a Fate game. While we can never be in complete control of our fate or fame, interacting with signs from everyday role models can help us challenge and shape the resulting menu of our media diet.
The title "Celebrity Detox" suggests that Rosie O'Donnell is detoxifying from celebrity addiction. Perhaps the intent is reach media consumers with an interactive view of how toxic celebrity addiction can both enlighten and entertain. The Fame Game is a challenge for us to reach out and disturb traditional notions of untouchable star. A mystifying puzzle of celebrity each individual reads as they wish to understand how media shapes our culture. Perhaps the intent of Celebrity Detox is to bring stars to earth (their audience) to interact with media as it shapes each and every moment of our lives.
Just because we expect writers to tell the truth, doesn't mean we should always receive the literal truth. Good literature isn't fed to us as entertainment, it also challenges us to think beyond the TV box. I suspect this book is partially fiction and partially truth as a deliberate interactive exercise to test our abilities as critical thinkers to better understand current state of the media and also to help heal toxicity both to celebrities and ever consuming audience.
 Real and Raw ! A year without alot of Yellow and lot of plastic faces October 14, 2007
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a must read for anyone who is a fan of the kind hearted Rosie.Who she is, who she would love to be, and why you would know it would be better off if she wasn't .For Rosie to turn into one of those plastic people would be, not be, the lady that she really has become to all her true friends .Plus, all the true friends still unkown friends that she will meet during her journey on this planet we have come to know as life .Many of us are scearching for ever and never really have the thrill of being able do for others as she has be blessed to do during her short time on this this earth .Can't wait for next book to come out. Life in a couple hours of reading that has taken so many years to make. Hurry Ro, as I am getting old, 69 around the corner and I would for you to be able crank out books much faster so I can read them all.
 Shallow and predictable October 14, 2007
10 out of 25 found this review helpful
The book is just as unraveled and meaningless as Rosie's life, however, it succeeds at exposing the relative value of most celebrities in the world. She was funny once but now her humor consists mainly of bashing other people in an attempt to hide her own sense of shame and failure at what really matters, having real friends, family and an honest productive life.
 Rosie I understand being frustrated, but this aint the forum to go about it. October 14, 2007
10 out of 19 found this review helpful
After reading the book in its entirety in three hours, I can only imagine what it is like for her to be frustrated about work and coworkers and the politics that are often related to work. But as frustrating as work can be, it is never a good policy to air out publicly her grieviences about former employers. Moreover, if one decides to work somewhere under someone, you are expected to follow the rules-and it was very clear that Rosie felt that she was above that.
In the book she straddles between the everywoman, the well to do with her two nannies and her wife in tow and the fan obsessed with Barbara Streisand. It is also very clear that she is longing for a mother figure in Walters that was inappropriately not supposed to be. Our bosses our not our mothers and it is unfortunate that Rosie was confused with that.
It is also evident that this book was an afterthought spin after leaving the view in such an abrupt manner.
PS. After all of this, I hope she has found her yellow. I imagine that future employers will be weary in working with her.
From the heart of her loss she see's the world differently. October 17, 2007
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
For most of us our childhoods escaped the traumatic loss of a parent. Our view of the world for the most part left unfractured by grief.
Rosie O'Donnell was not that lucky. The death of her mother was the birth of her broken heart and the pain of that loss lives on in constant adjustment throughout her life.
Courageously she shares the journey of that loss and the yearning for her Mom and the fear of abandonment and betrayal by women who trigger the memory of that relationship. Rosie has already lived through the worse loss of her life that gives her the back bone to tell it like it is. She has survived living through her truth but this view collides with those who live in the luxury of innocence.
I found the book to be true to who she is with no IFB to coach her to buffer her reality. If you don't like the honest truth you will not like this book. Pick it up again when life throws you against the wall and it may make sense to you then.
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