God bless Tivo….I almost missed this one.
Rosie O’Donnell recently starred in the latest Hallmark weeper Riding the Bus With My Sister. Of course, it’s easy to be the star when you’re also the producer, but for now, we’re bypassing the fact that the anti-everything behemoth bought her role.
The travesty was the acting.
Rosie O'Donell as a mentally handicapped woman was about as believable as Rosie O’Donell as a pole-vaulter. Rosie was able to step out of her own bipolar, obsessive-compulsive, schizophrenic, manic-depression to grace us with a performance that was…well, quite honestly…retarded.
To prep for her return, Rosie purchased a book on how to mock the handicap and parlayed every stereotype imaginable into the character. Rosie makes the handicapped out to be loud people who grin all the time and refuse to wear anything that isn’t yellow. It was an insulting performance, even for an attention-whore like Rosie.
And it’s not like there aren’t handicapped actors out there. Marlee Matlin. That kid who played Corky on Life Goes On. Jessica Simpson. Plenty of people out there that can portray the handicapped without making them look goofy. But Rosie has always been a douche bag who demands that it’s her way or no way. And since it’s her money, then she gets to play the special kid on the bus.
The good news is that 10 million more people decided to watch Desperate Housewives instead of Rosie’s self-aggrandizing. And a Hallmark movie is like the Super Bowl. You only watch it for the commercials. So hopefully, Rosie’s damage was limited to several million ladies over 80. Still, if I bore any handicap other than marriage, red hair and a flat ass, then I’d want to run her over in a mini-bus.
