TELEVISION: A LEAGUE OF HER OWN

WITH HER PEPPY, ISSUE-FREE SHOW, ROSIE O'DONNELL BRINGS NICENESS BACK TO DAYTIME TALK TV

As they file into studio 8g at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, audience members are treated to the sort of freebie they would not be given had they ordered tickets to the Richard Bey Show. Resting on each of the 175 seats are a pint of milk (low fat) and a snack-size package of Drake's cakes. This is the Rosie O'Donnell Show, and the gimmick is apt. The actress and comic, part brassy New Yorker, part perky den mother, has come to TV to serve up the daytime talk show as comfort food.

There is nothing on the Rosie O'Donnell Show to upset...

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