Roseanne and George Clooney

Five days ago, Roseanne used her blog to plug this essay she wrote about her long-time friend and former “Roseanne” costar, George Clooney.

Today, she posted another Clooney blog, yet this one was not quite so warm-n-fuzzy:

“how unfortunate and ungracious… …were George Clooney’s musings about our times together in response to my adoring words about him in time mags hot 100 issue. The fact that George makes a joke of our love is sad to me. I am considering litigation.”

The weird thing is… when I read the post on my blog feed earlier, it read something completely different (but similar in tone), referencing him using “one of my oldest and dirtiest jokes,” but acting like it was a come-on. (The words in quotes are a paraphrase; since she altered the post, I don’t have the original wording.)

The joke he used, was part of this story in “People” magazine:

Clooney: “Don’t you want Roseanne writing your obit? I worked on her first series, and when I met her she said, ‘You’re really good looking, why don’t you take me out behind the stage and make me stink.’ She was unbelievably kind to me at a time when no one was.”

It’s odd to me that she would immediately find fault with her friend George Clooney, without speculating that perhaps a rag like “People” might have edited his comments (for space, or spin), and left out parts of the complete chatfest. I mean, come on. After all, it’s their heading which reads: George Clooney Reveals Roseanne Barr’s Pickup Line. C’mon Roseanne, give gorgeous George the benefit of the doubt. How many trashy covers and stories did “People” subject you to back in the day? Of course, let’s be fair. Maybe G.C. really is a dog in heat. I bet those “Facts of Life” girls have some tales to tell….

Anyhow, the whole reason I am posting this is because, well, I used to know this one-legged hooker named Wall-eyed Wendy who actually used to use a very similar line (”Take me behind the 7-11 and make me stink, man!”) as a way to pick up tricks. It worked really well for her, at least until that one day when her fake leg shot down a wide sidewalk grate. Whoops! Let’s just say that little incident put Wendy right into retirement.