00:00Actress and talk show host, Rosie O'Donnell, began filling in as a guest host this week, temporarily for late night
00:09talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel.
00:11His show airs on weeknights on ABC television.
00:15Back in July, I had re-screened 1992 women's sports comedy, A League of Their Own.
00:24O'Donnell had a role in this as Doris.
00:27Others in the cast, Tom Hanks, Gina Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, and Ann Cusack.
00:35While thinking about this film in light of this latest development, I was amazed at how many connections you can
00:42draw to those who have hosted a major American TV talk show.
00:48I'll go through some of these.
00:50Rosie O'Donnell has a lot of experience hosting chat shows.
00:54In 1996, her first show premiered syndicated, where she interviewed numerous celebrities.
01:02This went for six seasons and over 1,100 episodes of Arsenio Hall.
01:09In 1994, she was in the comedy adaptation of 1960's Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Flintstones, with John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins,
01:22and Rick Moranis.
01:23Moranis played Lewis in 1984's Supernatural comedy, Ghostbusters.
01:30Arsenio Hall voiced Winston Zedmore, played by Ernie Hudson in the films, in the real Ghostbusters animated TV series, which
01:40ran between 86 and 91.
01:43Arsenio Hall's original show ran between 89 and 94.
01:48Gina Davis, she was in Tim Burton, horror comedy, Beetlejuice, in 1988, with Dick Cavett.
01:55He hosted a show broadcast nationally in the U.S. from the 1960s.
02:02Now on the fictional side, Davis played Wendy Killian, a production assistant in the NBC TV sitcom Buffalo Bill,
02:11about a talk show host, Dabney Coleman, at a small station in New York State.
02:17This ran between 83 and 84.
02:21Actress Renee Coleman, who played Alice in League, also acted with Dick Cavett.
02:28They were in the 1988 drama After School, starring Sam Bottoms and Robert Lansing.
02:35Actress Taylor Leone, who played Racine, was in an episode of Fox TV sci-fi series The X-Files,
02:44with Gary Shandling, who played a talk show host in HBO's The Larry Sanders Show.
02:52This was entitled Hollywood AD Season 7, Number 19.
02:56Directed by husband David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Minnie Driver, and David Alan Greer were also in this one.
03:05Bill Pullman, who played Dottie's husband Bob Henson, appeared in 1987 Mel Brooks' sci-fi parody Spaceballs with Joan Rivers.
03:18She was involved with hosting a number of TV talk shows from the 1960s.
03:24The Late Show starring Joan Rivers broadcast on Fox between 1986 and 1988.
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