'TABOO' DEBUT [Rosie O'Donuts Schadenfreude]

NY Post ^ | November 14, 2003 | ALISHA BERGER and BILL HOFFMANN

[Pharmboy]

November 14, 2003 -- It was do or die for "Taboo" last night, as Rosie O'Donnell's troubled musical starring Boy George debuted on Broadway. The glitzy show, about the androgynous London club scene of the early '80s, opened at the Plymouth Theatre following weeks of less-than-stellar previews.

[Pharmboy]

Other than gays, transvestites, people who live on West End Ave and Rosie's friends, are there any other people who would lay out cash to see this tripe?

[glock rocks]

Thu Nov 13,10:10 PM ET

Boy George takes a curtain call after the musical 'Taboo' opened, November 13, 2003 in New York. Rosie O'Donnell (news) is the producer and sole New York investor for the show. REUTERS/Stephen Chernin

[jimtorr]

I'm in favor of anything that waste's Rosie's money.

[glock rocks]

Thu Nov 13, 8:47 PM ET

Rosie O'Donnell (news), left, arrives with her domestic partner Kelli Carpenter to the opening of the musical O'Donnell produced 'Taboo,' starring 1980's pop star Boy George, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, in New York. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

[evad]

are there any other people who would lay out cash to see this tripe?

Well, if it were the first Toozday in November of 04, a certain party would lay out cash and cigarettes for em to come vote.

Other than that possibility, NO.

[putupon]

Meanwhile, Boy George has turned into something of pit-bull press agent, slamming anybody who criticizes the show

Pit Bull?

Bull $hi+ & bull dykes for sure, but I don't see alot in the way of a pit bull.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Rosie has started to resemble the Babe. Perhaps the Red Sox should hire her to remove the curse.

[billorites]

Curse of the Bambimbo?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Curse of the Bambimbo?

Or "The Curse of the Fatlesbo", perhaps.

[chiefqc]

Hey rosie get over it, have a couple dozen dounuts, go home, get you favorite strap on and get in bed with your domestic partner Kelli Carpenter for a night of fun and games.

[hellinahandcart]

I don't know what's making me so compassionate this morning, but looking at that picture of Rosie, and having seen her on TV all this past week, I see a woman who is *this close* to a nervous breakdown or a suicide attempt. She looks desperately unhappy. More to this than a lawsuit and a Broadway show about to flop, I'd guess.

I have a grudge against her dating back to her insane remarks about gun owners, and I will never forgive her for them, but for some reason I feel sorry for her today.

[leprechaun9]

Who is the larger whale - Rosie or the Chappaquick blob from Taxachusetts!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I know what you mean. I poke fun at her because she's such an easy target, but she does appear to be becoming increasingly unglued.

[ventana]

I agree, she needs help! V's wife.

[putupon]

I agree, she needs help!

She might find something that could lift her up here

[utahagen]

I, too, feel sorry for Rosie O'Donnell. I think she is a tragic figure: desperately unhappy, incapable of keeping any thought or experience private. I pity her for the heartache she'll experience when her adopted children realize they could have been adopted by semi-normal people. I know she brings most of the criticism on herself, yet I feel sorry for her because she is too dopey to just keep her mouth shut. I predict her "girlfriend" will leave her eventually, perhaps for a man. Rosie's future isn't rosy.

[Holly_P]

*this close* to a nervous breakdown or a suicide attempt

Well, we know she won't use a gun to do it.

[hellinahandcart]

Don't be so sure. Some people who are vehemently anti-gun are vehemently anti-gun because they want to use them on someone so badly, and they assume everyone has those dark feelings too, so they think nobody can be trusted with guns.

What they really mean is "*I* can't be trusted with a gun, I can barely restrain my violent urges as it is! And if I, advanced & enlightened creature that I am, can't be trusted with firearms, then no one can!"

Case in point, the Million-Mom-March lady who shot someone to death a couple years back. What the hell was SHE doing with a gun?

Rosie was downright looney-sounding when she was going off on guns and saying all gun-owners should be in jail. Yet she has armed security guards. IF she wanted to do harm to herself, she'd probably try to get one of their guns to do it, regardless of how she claims to abhor them.

Sometimes people are irresistibly drawn to the things they hate or fear most.

[Nakota]

Poor Rosie, things are going sooo downhill for her. I suppose she could always get a job as a manufacturer's rep. for Snap on Tools.

[hellinahandcart]

I've seen those eyes before. Once was on a co-worker who was two days into a migraine, the other was a friend who had just checked herself into a psychiatric facility for depression.

I don't wish that kind of pain onto even people I heartily dislike.