Rosie O'Donnell is a Suzanne Somers fan: "She moves me"

The one and only Suzanne Somers was Larry King's guest for the full hour last week and Rosie O'Donnell was watching, according to her blog. Rosie writes:

suzanne somers can make even larry king likeable... all young hollywood starlets should be required to know her, to check in once a week face to face

...she moves me

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Here's my take: Suzanne is a real lesson in survival. The child of an abusive alcoholic, she has never been the best actress or singer or author but that hasn't stopped her from being a major star for more than 30 years. Sure, "Three's Company" launched her but what I find most interesting is her journey after she was fired in a salary dispute at the end of the fifth season.

She didn't hang her blonde head. She became the Las Vegas entertainer of the year in the mid-80s, did TV movies like "Hollywood Wives" and eventually landed another successful series ("Step By Step") which lasted eight seasons. You add in all the commercial endorsements (thighmaster, Somersize etc), the self-help books and the memoirs ("Keeping Secrets" and "After the Fall") and you have a true Hollywood survivor who stayed afloat by putting the work at the center of her fame.