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Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to Rosie: Rosie O’Donnell’s Biography by James Robert Parish.Rosie presents in detail the captivating story of how a young woman from Commack, Long Island became a first-class jokester. Following Rosie’s path on the highly competitive comedy club and television circuit, this dimensional biography also looks at O’Donnell’s Hollywood films (e.g., League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, The Flintstones). From the death of her mother when Rosie was age ten to her troubled relationship with her Irish-born father, here is the story of well-earned professional triumphs and the price of fame. This book provides a behind-the-scenes account of the talented and driven comic who won the hearts of so many just by making them laugh. It also focuses on how this outspoken celebrity became a dynamic national figure as the hostess of her highly-rated TV talk show. This is an illuminating and informed account of iconic funster Rosie O’Donnell who observed once of her journey to show business fame, “I never had something to fall back on because I was never going to allow myself to fall back…. You have to know in your heart of heart, 100% sure, that you’re going to succeed in order to do it.”
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JAMES ROBERT PARISH, a former entertainment reporter, publicist, and book series editor, is the author of many published major biographies and reference books on the entertainment industry including Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You; The Hollywood Book of Extravagance; It’s Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks; The Hollywood Book of Breakups; Fiascos: Hollywood’s Iconic Flops; The Hollywood Book of Scandals; The Hollywood Book of Love; Hollywood Divas; Jet Li; Hollywood Bad Boys; The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood; The Hollywood Book of Death; Whoopi Goldberg; The Unofficial “Murder, She Wrote” Casebook; Today’s Black Hollywood; Let’s Talk! America’s Favorite TV Talk Show Hosts; Prison Pictures from Hollywood; The Great Cop Pictures; Ghosts and Angels in Hollywood Films; Pirates and Seafaring Swashbucklers on the Hollywood Screen; Prostitution in Mainstream Cinema; The Jeanette MacDonald Story; Hollywood’s Great Love Teams; and The Fox Girls. Mr. Parish is a frequent oncamera interviewee on cable and network TV for documentaries on the performing arts. The author resides in Studio City, California.
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