We're been hearing about it since she left "The View" and today is the day Rolsie O'Donnell's memoir, "Celebrity Detox (The Fame Game) is finally out. Rosie did a book signing at the Barnes & Noble on Fifth Ave. in NYC this afternoon and the book is currently number 25 on the Amazon.com sales charts.
My issue of TV literally just got here [working from home today] and it has some juicy tidbits that I'm just gonna lift from starting with her thoughts on The View: "I had come to understand that the showwas not produced in the spirit of art, or even adventure. It lacked a heartbeat. A pulse. Humanity - truth. It lacked a mother's touch. Perhaps that was because it was run by a man."
About herself: "I am a fat, loud, say-it-like-it-is-far-left-liberal while Barbara is a petite, poised, cautious, polite hostess. Why did we think the combination could work? Simple. I wanted her to like me. Maybe even love me. Because no matter how famous I am, a part of me is always on the outside, too heavy, too hot, too damn much.
On Barbara Walters: "I'll bet behind the glam and glitter, it hurts to be Barbara, sometimes, because, while you can hide aging, you can't erase it...Maybe it's time for her to take a break. To go off the air, find the ground, sit down. Rest. She deserves that.
Joy Behar: "In the very beginning, yes, I felt as though Joy had her claws out; she was ready to pounce, and she did...She's funny as hell, I truly think that, so I have only admiration for her talent."
Donald Trump: "I kept Trump products in my office because they reminded me that my attacker was not a human being, but a wind-up toy with Tourette's."
Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "Antiabortion, pro Bush, pro war, believes in everything I don't, and I believe in everything she doesn't. ..Right from the start I could see in the slip of this girl...something fierce and I liked that. But we had no language in common."
About Kelly Ripa: "[She] had Clay Aiken on her show...Gay rumors swirled around him...He put his hand over he mouth as a joke. She said, 'I don't know where that hand has been.' I said on air that Kelly's comment was homophobic and she called in to say how dare I. I am just saying that the whole incident looked to me like a gay person who had just had the gay card played on them."

It will be interesting to see how well the book sells and, more importantly, how good a read it is. I probably won't get a chance to read it until the weekend so if anyone has read it, I'm very interested in your impressions...