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The afternoon talk show The Rosie O'Donnell Show established O'Donnell as "The Queen of Nice" after its 1996 debut. O'Donnell was a former stand-up comedian whose career took off when she landed a role alongside Madonna and Tom Hanks in the 1992 baseball movie A League of Their Own. She played the wisecracking second fiddle in other films like Sleepless in Seattle (1993, with Meg Ryan), until she moved into daytime television in 1996 as a cheerful, upbeat host. The Rosie O'Donnell Show focused on pleasantries and entertainment rather than conflict and issues, separating it from the shows of Oprah Winfrey and other daytime hosts of the era. O'Donnell won the Daytime Emmy Award as outstanding talk show host in 1997, 1998 and 1999. She left the show in mid-2002 and was replaced by actress Caroline Rhea.
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"Rosie O'Donnell is Disgusting, both inside and out. You take a look at her, she's a slob. She talks like a truck driver. She doesn't have her facts. She'll say anything that comes to her mind.Her show failed, when it was a talk show. she failed on that, the ratings went very very low and very bad and she got essentially thrown off of television.
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Rosie O'Donnell says she will not be getting her own cable talk show on MSNBC. On her blog, Rosie writes, "we were close to a deal/almost done/i let it slip in miami/causing panic on the studio end." O'Donnell ... wrote, "my career as a pundit is over/b4 it began."
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A former talk-show host, Rosie O'Donnell is a mixed-media painter in various abstract styles focused on themes that relate to her responses to current events and introspective feelings. Her work has been described as a "visual journal of sorts", combining abstract expression with realism, and sometimes punctuated by harsh realism. One of her techniques is to tear out articles about current events that she finds troubling and then convert her reactions into visual expression.
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Rosie O'Donnell will return for her sixth headlining gig at the 15th annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards April 20. O'Donnell will likely continue her hosting stint on the popular kudocast -- airing live this year from Santa Monica's Barker Hangar -- even after she leaves her talk show this May. A Nick spokesman said the cable channel should "continue to have an ongoing relationship with Rosie" after this season, since she is a "longtime friend of Nick."
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Rosie hosted The Rosie O'Donnell Show from 1996-2002. She won an Emmy in 1998 for Outstanding Talk Show. She was known as the "Queen of Nice." Rosie O'Donnell joined The View in September 2006.
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