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Roseanne: Parties Trying to Divide Women

Kevin Spak — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:02:05 CDT

Sort-of presidential candidate Roseanne Barr was sickened when she heard Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney. "Rosen lobbed the Romney campaign a fat political softball they could smack over the gender fence," she writes in the Daily Beast , at a time when "Romney was on the ropes with American women,...

Obama: 47 Romney: 42 Roseanne: 6

John Johnson — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:07:17 CST

She swears it's no joke, and Public Policy Polling is apparently taking Roseanne Barr's presidential run at face value. It included her in a new poll and found that she would draw 6% of the vote in a race against President Obama (47%) and Mitt Romney (42%). She did better...

Roseanne Files Papers to Run for President

John Johnson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:55:00 CST

Roseanne is in. The comedian has filed papers to seek the Green Party's nomination for president, reports TMZ , which says she'll be pushing hard to legalize marijuana. Barr says the run is no joke, and she's looking to capitalize on the Occupy Wall Street sentiment, notes AP . "The Democrats and...

Bankers? Off With Their Heads: Roseanne

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:09:32 CDT

Roseanne Barr really wants heads to roll on Wall Street, Real Clear Politics reports. Not only does the comedian, author, and Wall Street protester say guilty bankers should pay back earnings over $100 million, she wants a very sharp blade hanging over their heads: "If they are unable to live...

Roseanne: 'I'm Running for President'

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:48:05 CDT

Roseanne Barr is running for president, or so she told Jay Leno last night . Could this all be a publicity stunt for her upcoming reality show, Roseanne's Nuts ? She claims she's "totally serious," although it should be noted that she also said she's running for "prime minister of Israel....

11 Celebs Who Gave Babies Up for Adoption

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:00:00 CST

Sure, Angelina Jolie collects kids like baseball cards, but what about celebrities on the other side of the fence? In honor of National Adoption Month, Cafemom lists 11 who gave their kids up for adoption: David Crosby: Cros and a girlfriend gave up their baby boy in the early '60s;...

Best Soap Opera Cameos

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:19:31 CST

James Franco’s much-hyped General Hospital guest stint began Friday, but can he live up to the true classics of the celebrity cameo genre? Many other luminaries have guested on daytime TV, and “they almost always shake things up like a schizophrenic with a fake pregnancy interrupting a wedding in a...

Roseanne Poses as Hitler: Cue Controversy

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:55:46 CDT

Roseanne Barr, always good for a controversy, recently dressed up as a “Nazi domestic goddess” for Jewish magazine Heeb , causing quite a flap. “Yes, the story of this infamous satirist/Jewish grandmother pulling a tray of burnt ‘Jew cookies’ out of an oven has been making its way around the Internet,...

Best and Worst Celeb Moms

Ambreen Ali — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:50:01 CDT

In a poll of 10,000 readers ahead of Mother's Day, more would trust their kids to Jennifer Aniston than Brangelina, ParentDish.com reveals. More from the survey Most trustworthy babysitter: Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia De Rossi. Best mom: Jennifer Garner, followed by a tie between Reese Witherspoon...