Rosie O' Donnell Planning a Sitcom

Flushed with the success at the Golden Globes, hollywood forages ahead with trying to stuff the homosexual agenda down America's throats in the form of a sitcom by Rosie O'Donnell. Forget the fact that so far the gay movies have made very little money and most likely won't. As long as hollywood has major awards to look at and fawn over, who needs reality. These hollywood people are soooo out of touch with mainstream America.

Rosie O’Donnell hit the Sundance Film Festival with a jolt of lightning yesterday, premiering her HBO documentary “All Aboard!” to a standing ovation in the huge Eccles Auditorium.
Afterward, Rosie told me she’s hard at work writing a sitcom pilot that sounds like gold to me. O’Donnell is partnering with famed novelist Alice Hoffman, a fellow Long Islander, to create a character for the former talk show host that will resemble the beloved late humorist Erma Bombeck. Hoffman is an interesting choice on Rosie’s part as a partner: she is highly regarded as a critical and commercial success. One of her books, "Practical Magic," was turned into a movie starring Nicole Kidman.
O’Donnell and Hoffman have got the gist of a good idea. “She’ll be a columnist for Newsday, and have a blended family at home,” Rosie says of her character. “Her ex-husband will have to move in with her, with his ten-year-old son from his most recent marriage.” But don’t think Rosie will shy away from gay pride. The main character will have lost her long-time lover to breast cancer, but speaks to her when she’s working on her column.
“I have a Sharon Gless-type in mind for the her,” Rosie said, “and Colin Quinn as the ex. But that’s just in the working stage.”
Considering the success of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Will & Grace," Rosie’s idea sounds like a winner. Les Moonves, are you listening? Rosie has incredible comic timing; if the show can duplicate the kind of charm she showed in “Sleepless in Seattle” as Meg Ryan’s buddy, the the rest should be easy. O’Donnell, of course, would shoot the show in New York, close to her home.
And the idea of “new families” is what brought Rosie to Sundance along with her partner/wife Kelli Carpenter, their kids (Parker, Chelsea, Blake and Vivian), various family members and a lot of friends. “All Aboard” chronicles the maiden voyage in July 2005 of Rosie and Kelli’s vacation cruise for gay/mixed families
“All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise” will air on HBO on April 6th, directed by Shari Cookson, who is not gay. And that, of course, is the point. Even a cold-hearted cynic like yours truly can see that this film is not about gay or straight, but about people trying to form families in a society that does not support family life. If anything, “All Aboard!” is more about Americans trying to hold on to conventional values than any film has in a long time.
Yes, we do see lesbian and gay couples, but they aren’t having sex; there’s nothing more than hand holding going on. What we do see is parents raising children. The kids get to talk as much as the parents, and if you ever had any questions about whether children adopted by gay parents turn out to be gay, etc--your questions will be answered once and for all.
Cookson does not sugarcoat the difficulties of putting together such a cruise (on a rather large ship). When the group got to Nassau, the Bahamas, they were met by very vocal protesters who feared their family resort would turn into Fire Island or Key West just by mere association.
By the way, after the screening I got to see Rosie and Kelli with their kids at dinner. They were normal and fun in the way that all families are with kids that age. And I will tell you that we’re going to have to keep an eye on eight-year-old Chelsea, whom Rosie and Kelli adopted together. She’s a very articulate “cutey-patootey,” as Rosie would say, and ready for her own talk show.

Success of "Brokeback Mountain"?? To date, it has grossed $41.7 million, and this only after the golden goose awards hyped it. Compare this to "The Chronicles of Narnia" (a film with moral and Christian overtones) which has grossed $271.9 million. Both films have the same release date of December 9th, 2005.
(Stats courtesy of Box Office Guru. -ed.)