[mountaineer]

Rosie O'Donnell is a toilet-tongued, temper-tantrum-tossing tyrant whose ego led to the destruction of her Rosie magazine, a lawyer for her former publisher said yesterday. In opening statements for a multimillion dollar breach-of-contract case between magazine bigs Gruner + Jahr USA and O'Donnell, G + J lawyer Martin Hyman said the former talk-show host turned her back on the magazine when the publishers refused her directions to make it "edgy."

"She's addicted to getting her own way," Hyman said, but some of her suggestions were too bizarre to take.

"She wanted to put Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist, on the cover of this women's magazine," Hyman complained. rest of story.

[lodwick]

How awful it must be, to be rosie.

Why does she bother to get out of bed each morning?

[BigWaveBetty]

That was about the time she declared she would be "an uber-bitch" like rivals Martha Stewart and Oprah Winfrey, Hyman quoted her as saying.

The way I hear it Rosie had demonstrated her uber-bitch qualities to her talk show flunkies daily.