The TV Zone

Ro was just on "Rachael Ray" - still is, if you got a set nearby and have nothing better to do - and I have to say, she's kind of "on." She had an amusing story about Martha Stewart - that in a minute - and of course had the usual, pre-set answers about the inevitable "View" questions, which are now so tired, so boring, so incredibly lazy that they rank right up there with "what's wrong with Paula?" Who cares? You know Ro's gonna say only nice things, bland things. The best Ro interview would be one where there is absolutely NO question whatsoever about "The View."

Anyway, OK, what did she say? That she had a great time there, really liked all the ladies, really loves and admires Babs...I'm falling asleep just writing this. Of Babs, she admitted - nothing new - that "we did a little dance, we did a little dance. We did a mother/daughter transference " (Interesting, in Bab's new memoir, she writes about the famed dressing room battle, "Perhaps [Ro] thought of me as the mother who had once more abandoned her...")

Ro also told this story about Martha: "When she went to prison, I called and left a message on her [machine]...never heard back...but while she was there, I got an email that said, would you like to visit..I wrote back and said yes, then went to visit her....Never been to an adult women's prison before...I walk in looking all sloppy and she comes out looking she's just come from a...photo shoot...Here I am in prison for six hours, talking to her, so I said to her, what do you miss the most? She looks right at me: 'The flavor of lemons.' I said, holy crap. She misses the flavor of lemons. Not her dog. Not her family. She misses the flavor of lemons."

(Above, Ro and Martha, from last year's Halloween "MS Show.")