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Roseanne Barr

Teoksen Roseanne: My Life As a Woman tekijä

8+ teosta 320 jäsentä 11 arvostelua

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Sisältää nimet: Roseanne Arnold, Roseanne Barr (Author)

Sisältää myös: Roseanne (1)

Image credit: Roseanne Barr at the Hard Rock Cafe in Maui in 2010 by Leah Mark

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Associated Works

Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (2000) — Avustaja — 299 kappaletta
Home on the Range [2004 film] (2004) — Actor — 194 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Avustaja — 118 kappaletta
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers (1999) — Actor — 32 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Series (2013) — Actor — 24 kappaletta
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare [1991 film] (1991) — Actor — 24 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Second Season (2011) — Actor — 17 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Fourth Season (2012) — Actor — 17 kappaletta
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues [1993 film] (1993) — Actor — 17 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Third Season (2012) — Actor — 17 kappaletta
Blue in the Face [1995 film] (2003) — Actor — 13 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Sixth Season (2012) — Actor — 12 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Fifth Season (2012) — Actor — 12 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Eighth Season (2013) — Actor — 9 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Seventh Season (2013) — Actor — 5 kappaletta
Roseanne: The Complete Ninth Season (2013) — Actor — 5 kappaletta
Playboy Magazine ~ June 1993 (PMOY-Anna Nicole Smith) (1993) — Interview — 3 kappaletta

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Less screechy than imagined!
 
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uncleflannery | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | May 16, 2020 |
Well-written and surprisingly heavy on Jewish stuff. Felt like I was reading something by mom's fun, loud friend.
 
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Jetztzeit | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | May 15, 2020 |
"Roseannearchy is my attempt to weave my own revolutionary code into the mind of the reader."

Roseanne is my hero: a fat crazy Jewish mystic radical socialist feminist self-proclaimed fierce working-class domestic goddess. I was in the middle of reading this book when Roseanne came out in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, dressed New Left guerilla-chic, proposing that everyone in a higher income bracket face the guillotine or put in a reeducation camp. This is when I fell in love!

I finished this book and now I'm wading through the 9 seasons of her groundbreaking television show. I watched it as a child, but never got the full weight of how profoundly working class and feminist it was. Roseanne is a longtime radical, having cut her standup teeth while also working at a radical feminist collective bookstore called Woman to Woman.

It was the story of Woman to Woman, where Roseanne became deeply embedded in a bulwark of feminist struggle for justice that I thought was most intriguing about the book. At the peak of that particular wave of radical feminism in the 80s, Roseanne offers a glimpse of the Reagan counterrevolution that I hadn't previously understood. The manufactured scarcity of social program resources caused local services to become overwhelmed and then shut down. Fractious infighting blossomed as people fought for the scraps left over and the people who relied on social services could no longer support revolutionary projects with as much fervor.

Roseanne seems to have consistently landed on the side of justice, favoring an interracial and revolutionary socialist feminism. Others spun off into priveleged new age paganism, single-issue identity neocolonialism (e.g. queer bookstores with no books about feminism or revolution), and refusing to acknowlege racial injustice within the movement. But Roseanne kept it as real as she could in a failing collective as the waves of counterrevolution spread from top to bottom. Sometimes Roseanne is stupid: though she engages with the white supremacy inherited from the culture at large, and comes around to admitting it, she takes a couple of transphobic pot shot jokes with no such self-criticism. But she is definitely real, and in these pages, she seems like a comrade who is familiar with struggle.

The book is a little over 10 hours long. The section on Women to Women books, made up about 25 minutes, or about 5% of the book. In my opinion, it was so good that it carries the rest of the book, and makes up about 80% of my recollection. There is certainly a lot more in there, especially about Judaism ("All of the holidays were about who killed our people, when and where, and what kind of food goes with each of those massacres."), grandmotherly love, personal spirituality, and politics ("Democracy is based on female freedom. Silencing old loudmouth pushy women is the first thing a smart despot tries to do.").

Lucky for us, Roseanne is coming back into public life, writing, appearing on TV, even perhaps running for president (???). I'm so excited. At the height of her popularity, Roseanne used her pulpit of a primetime show to do amazing things, showing the only honest working class family on television, for one. And from this perspective, Roseanne is incredulous that others don't do similarly envelope-pushing things. She can't stand Oprah's milquetoast bookclub: "Hey Oprah, tell your fans to read Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Talk about a good, relevant read. Oprah has never done one show on economics or capitalism, and that pisses me off. Not one show on how television advertising (which made Oprah a billionaire) makes money by keeping people in front of their TV sets while the guys at the top rob 'em blind! Are we supposed to ignore the elephant in the room? That yes, we need more socialism and less banksterism here in America?"

2020 EDIT: LOL WTF happened to Roseanne? QAnon pushing boomer-ass xenophobe piece of shit. I'll just pretend she died in 2015.
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magonistarevolt | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 24, 2020 |
Second book by Roseanne Barr (Arnold). This one has an awful lot about the start of the Roseanne show and how she got started, from doing stand up and then scoring the TV show. She talks about meeting Tom Arnold while still on the stand up circuit and then their affair and then relationship after the start of the show. Her life with her first husband Bill who was never very supportive of here. She talks about her family and her sisters. There are a few chapters in regards to her parents and the horrible home life she had as a child. If you liked the Roseanne show this is a good book to read. She talks the same in the Roseanne show as she talks in person or in this book, with the book you see her as more intelligent then we saw in the show though.… (lisätietoja)
 
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ChrisWeir | 1 muu arvostelu | Jul 12, 2017 |

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