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Rosie O'Donnell has made her mark on "The View." Now that she's leaving, who should step in to take her place?
  • Two suggestions.

    First, put Heather Havrilesky up there. She's had "video experience" (her puppet show with rabbits and subtitles, showing she can at least use Ulead VideoStudio) and she claims to know everything about TV. Her time on The View should be at least as interesting as the time Harry Knowles spent on Roger Ebert's show, and just as defining of her true character.

    The other is a radio personality in Orlando known publicly as The Sexy Savannah. A former Marine air traffic controller, like many vets she had a hard time after leaving the service. She wound up a topless dancer. On a whim she went on a radio show and tapdanced topless to "Rocky Top" on the studio's conference table. For the last several years she's been a supporting member of the group called the Monsters of the Morning, not only talking and taking viewer calls but singing with the Monsters Band. Her air personality is that of a bleached-blonde "redneck skank," which in the presence of the other women would be the hand grenade the staid and boring The View would greatly deserve.