[lsee]

I admit to liking Rosie in her early days. She could be very funny and always seemed so delighted to meet the people who visited her show. I don't watch daytime television much, but saw her show a time or two. She definitely hid her "biting, caustic, sarcastic" side from the general public in those days and never let on she was a lesbian.

My kids even know who she is from her appearances on Sesame Street and her toys at Toys R Us. Now when they say, "look, there's Rosie" on a magazine cover or on television, I have to explain to them that Rosie turned out not to be a very nice person after all.

I'm sorry for her depression, having suffered through that myself, but I can say from personal experience that sometimes depression is a signal that you're making wrong choices in life. I'd say she had great personal potential and selfishly squandered it.

[Wondervixen]

Rosie WAS genuinely delighted to meet fans early into her show, but when the novelty of taping shows wore off, so did that delight.

What Rosie apparently never knew was the philosophy Joe Dimaggio held sacred his whole baseball career:

"I always tried to play my hardest every game, because somewhere in that ballpark was a fan who was paying to see me play for the very first time."