Dear Rosie (Star of “The Flintstones”) O’Donnell,
As one career highlight dims upon the start of your 50th year, I was compelled to write a little something in reaction to recent events and offer a more positive early birthday message. Wanna hear it? Here goes.
Your newest television venture, “The Rosie Show,” was simply a show that I wish could have had more life or at least a healthier fighting chance in the fickle world of network programming. In adopting the intimacy of one-on-one interview format, your talk show cultivated an honesty that I found refreshing and rejuvenating and predominantly nonexistent in the inked landscape of today’s TV guide. It has come and gone prematurely, and I’m simultaneously disappointed and proud to lack the opinions of the majority share.
With each episode, I anticipated learning about each person as a whole entity based on your humanizing approach to the conversation, which is a value the OWN network has celebrated so wonderfully. For subjects I would ordinarily not have chosen to watch elsewhere, you invited me to gain perspectives I may not have otherwise conceived. As always, I appreciated your features on the legends of the industry who are rarely seen on other programs, much less profiled so devotedly and with your signature reverence.
Regardless of those who do not share similar viewpoints or endorse certain personalities, I hope “The Rosie Show” and your professional talents can be appreciated for their apparent quality. To naysayers, to the
18-to-49-year-olds who weren’t there when you needed them, I can only hope that they come to recognize the spirit and heart that you are sure to generate in future endeavors.
There’s so much I have yet to say in gratitude, in humor, and in admiration, and I hope that one day I may have the opportunity right here on WaldenPonders, because it would not exist without your example.
After all, Oprah couldn’t have become Oprah without making a few (see: innumerable) right decisions along her journey. In my opinion,
“The Rosie Show” was most certainly one of them.
As I conclude, I’m reminded of an autograph I received as a kid which you inscribed, “You rock.” And so I say the same to you, Rosie.
Rock on, sistafriend, rock on.
As one career highlight dims upon the start of your 50th year, I was compelled to write a little something in reaction to recent events and offer a more positive early birthday message. Wanna hear it? Here goes.
Your newest television venture, “The Rosie Show,” was simply a show that I wish could have had more life or at least a healthier fighting chance in the fickle world of network programming. In adopting the intimacy of one-on-one interview format, your talk show cultivated an honesty that I found refreshing and rejuvenating and predominantly nonexistent in the inked landscape of today’s TV guide. It has come and gone prematurely, and I’m simultaneously disappointed and proud to lack the opinions of the majority share.
With each episode, I anticipated learning about each person as a whole entity based on your humanizing approach to the conversation, which is a value the OWN network has celebrated so wonderfully. For subjects I would ordinarily not have chosen to watch elsewhere, you invited me to gain perspectives I may not have otherwise conceived. As always, I appreciated your features on the legends of the industry who are rarely seen on other programs, much less profiled so devotedly and with your signature reverence.
Regardless of those who do not share similar viewpoints or endorse certain personalities, I hope “The Rosie Show” and your professional talents can be appreciated for their apparent quality. To naysayers, to the
18-to-49-year-olds who weren’t there when you needed them, I can only hope that they come to recognize the spirit and heart that you are sure to generate in future endeavors.
There’s so much I have yet to say in gratitude, in humor, and in admiration, and I hope that one day I may have the opportunity right here on WaldenPonders, because it would not exist without your example.
After all, Oprah couldn’t have become Oprah without making a few (see: innumerable) right decisions along her journey. In my opinion,
“The Rosie Show” was most certainly one of them.
As I conclude, I’m reminded of an autograph I received as a kid which you inscribed, “You rock.” And so I say the same to you, Rosie.
Rock on, sistafriend, rock on.
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