Turgid 'Tard TV From Deposed Blowhard



Not that I'm looking for ways to make the cable and satellite operators even richer, but at this point, if you're stuck with network television, you're truly fucked.

from Nellie Andreeva of Reuters :

In her first major screen commitment since the end of her daytime talk show, Rosie O'Donnell will play a retarded woman in "Riding the Bus With My Sister," an original movie for CBS.

O'Donnell will also executive produce the project, which is based on a book by Rachel Simon, a writer and college professor. O'Donnell ran excerpts from it in her Rosie magazine and optioned it after it was published in 2002.

It chronicles Simon's relationship with her mentally retarded sister, an endearing, feisty and independent Pennsylvania woman who fills her days riding city buses.

Following the death of their father, Rachel is forced to spend time with her sister, and soon discovers that she has found a sense of family and friendship in her world of bus drivers and passengers that Rachel hadn't found in her more successful urban life.

"This is an amazing book, a beautiful story of the ties that bind," O'Donnell wrote for the book's cover. "Two sisters, as different as they come, find the magic in each other's lives. This book touched my soul."

"It's kind of like a female 'Rain Man,"' said Larry Sanitsky, who will also executive produce.

Posted: Mon - May 10, 2004 at 05:25 AM      

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