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Book Her: Heroic Rosie O'Donnell has had "an interesting year," she confided Sunday, and a lot of it will be in her new book, "Celebrity Detox," coming this fall. Speaking at a breakfast gathering at BookExpo America, the publishing industry's annual national convention, O'Donnell said her long-delayed memoir on fame will not be "vindictive" or "mean-spirited," but will offer a candid look at her very public life, including her brief, battling stint on "The View." Rosie has long believed that fame is an addiction and talked about how it damaged her relationship with her siblings at one point. "It is, in fact, a drug," she said of fame, and spoke of seeing peers so radically, and scarily, transformed by celebrity that they looked like victims of "crystal meth." (AP)

Screened Out: Want to know how were gays portrayed in classic Hollywood? Find out this month when Turner Classic Movies airs 44 films covering six decades of gay pride and prejudice in cinema. Starting with "Algie the Miner" from 1912, the series takes viewers through the film eras of Pre-Code, Classic Hollywood, Code-Busters and ends up in the year 1969 when things became more Out and Open with groundbreaking films like "The Boys In the Band." (QueerSighted)

Double-Crossed: So the U.S. government has no problem endangering national security and the lives of CIA agents when it suits them, but now Valerie Plame's writing a memoir would be too dangerous for them? (Reuters)

Friends of P: Get ready for the real return of the Rentals, coming to a city near you. (NME)

Dems a Good Response: During last night's second Democratic debate, Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked whether her husband’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy for gays in the military was a mistake. Her answer was dead-on, something many forget about the reality of the time. An executive order would not have stood up to that era's Congress: "No. It was an important first step," she said, calling it "a transition policy." Asked to raise their hands if they supported repealing the policy, all eight Democrats signaled that they did. (Bravo.) (NYT)

Hard Out There for a Jihadist: You might be ready to give up on life when your attempt to execute a massive terrorist plot against the United States leads law enforcement officials to label you "a sad sack" and "not a Grade A terrorist." (NYT)

Prisoner Cell Block H(omo): Gay inmates in California have now been given the right to have conjugal visits. I wonder if there will be a Manhunt Internet connection set up in the visitors' computer room next. (NYT)

Reality Check: I don't which is worse: the idea of a reality show to auction off a dying woman's healthy kidney to people in need, or having it turn out to be a hoax and misleading three people in need of a kidney. (Reuters)