We are totally, utterly train wreck fascinated about the idea of a variety show hosted by Rosie "No Fucking Way I'm Contributing to the No on 8 Campaign" O'Donnell. We're freaked out on many, many levels, but if we weren't so poor and trapped in Los Angeles, we would totally bid a bazillion dollars to be in the audience for tomorrow's taping of Rosie Live! We're not sure if the exclamation is an official part of the title or not, but we think it ought to be.

You can make your own bid for a set of tickets here–proceeds go to Rosie's various kid-centric foundations.

Do it, do it, do it. Spend your millions on these tickets and write us a first person account of the show. We will publish it. We'll interview you. We will make you a fucking star.

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Rosie O'Donnell pranced over to The Today Show to discuss with Meredith Viera her upcoming (and ill-advised) variety show that is scheduled to torment your television sets this week. Naturally, the two former View moderators discussed Rosie's latest feud with Barbara Walters, which is likely not going to end anytime soon seeing as how Ro just can't keep her mouth shut.

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There are two sides to all celebrities: The squeaky-clean images forced upon the public by PR reps and their actual personalities. To provide you with a glimpse into the real Hollywood characters are Mollygood’s very own readers, telling tales of celebrity encounters big and small.

Up this week: Sarah's retail experience with Rosie O'Donnell.

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Perpetually outraged activist Michael Petrelis and some of his chums are absolutely fuming over
Rosie O'Donnell's apparent silence on Proposition 8. Writes Greg Hernandez from Out In Hollywood:

Just finished checking Rosie O'Donnell's Rosie.com blog and find it kind of mind-boggling that she is writing about "Real Housewives of Atlanta" and old Reese Witherspoon movies and not a word about Proposition 8. I am curious about why Rosie, always so outspoken, has been so out of the picture …

Now what about the fight for equal rights in California Rosie? Any thoughts? Maybe we'll hear from her after the election because, as she writes, "i am trying to stay away from the news as we near the finish line … the noise distracts me i believe."

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Rosie O'Donnell's steadily making her way back to television dominance!

First there's that NBC variety show, which will be piped in coast-to-coast on Thanksgiving eve, and now comes word that the lesbian entertainer will soon headline a new Lifetime made-for-the-boob-tube movie:

Rosie O'Donnell has signed on to star in and exec produce America, a telepic for Lifetime about a 16-year-old boy's struggles within the foster-care system.

America reunites O'Donnell with producer Larry Sanitsky and scribe Joyce Eliason, with whom she worked on CBS' 2005 telepic Riding on the Bus With My Sister.
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Set to premiere in February, the made-for is based on E.R. Frank's book of the same name. O'Donnell will play the therapist who guides the pic's title character, America, beyond his troubled past.

For those of you who never saw Riding on the Bus With My Sister - and, really, who can blame you? - O'Donnell played a mentally disabled girl. It was, in a word, absurd. Don't believe us? Check out a clip down below. (PS: Toilet seat!)

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She's baaack! Maybe.

Over a year after leaving The View in a huff, Rosie O'Donnell has struck a deal with NBC to host a special one-hour variety show on November 26, the day before Thanksgiving. And, if all goes well, the show could spin-off into a regular gig for the lesbian comedienne.

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Clay Aiken's coming out really doesn't come as much of a surprise. We've all known for many years that the crooner goes for the guys. Nor is Aiken's lavender revelation the most revolutionary. Scores of celebs have come out before him - Ellen DeGeneres, George Michael, Lance Bass and Martina Navratilova, a tennis player who came out far before it was fashionable - or advisable.

None of these outings were that surprising, but they have all slowly changed gay acceptance of Hollywood and, in fact, the world. Aiken's outing differs, however, in two notable, intrinsically entwined ways. And the aftershocks could help change the State of gay play.

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Meanwhile, in other scary news, Rosie O'Donnell and Fran Drescher announced plans to produce and star in a new half-hour sitcom.

The two pals hope to star in The New Thirty.

Drescher… says, "We play old high school friends who live in the same building in Manhattan, but we're living very different lives."

The actress tells Life & Style magazine, "It's kind of Sex and the City but we ain't getting any! It'll probably be more like The Odd Couple."

Sounds perfect for a mid-season crisis!