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1. 
   Klytus

   January 26, 2010 at 1:24 pm | # | Reply

   I used to like Rosa. I really did. But she just crossed a line. That kind of hard-core manipulative mindset is 99 shades of Pure Wrong on a backdrop of Fail. Small wonder her daughter-in-law is planing to ruin her, and I have not a shred of sympathy for her “plight”.

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     Mister Flames

     January 27, 2010 at 2:02 am | # | Reply

     You assume that this is karmic retribution for past actions, but consider this: She had let her son pursue a career in art and all of that, before this whole thing began. Maybe this is a reaction on her part, because she wasn’t there to guide her son properly, he fell for a nasty piece of work. And Maddie’s not got a lot of love toward her mother, either, from earlier statements.

     Sure, Rosa’s a shark, but how much of that was learned because she *had* to, when Louis had his stroke and she needed to take over? We have no idea how those cousins first reacted when Louis became incapacitated, as a for instance.

     Admittedly, we’re getting her viewpoint, which will be biased. No one is truly the villain in their own life, after all. I still like Rosa, but she’s someone you’ve got to set boundaries with and keep her out of your business. Which is why she respects Ace, I think. She’s a pretty good woman… but she’s not necessarily *nice*.
2. 
   Gaara

   January 26, 2010 at 5:12 pm | # | Reply

   dude that’s cold. she’s been in the business world for probably a few decades, and if you do work like that for years you’re gonna start to see things a little differently. she just looks out for her family, in her own way.
3. 
   sakieh

   January 26, 2010 at 7:44 pm | # | Reply

   klytus…I really do not think Rosa really stepped over a line. She is, after all, a corporate CEO.
   I never once thought she was a nice person, but I still liked her because it is so rare that
   someone actually portrays a CEO like her..most of the time, it seems, they want Uncle Gary
   or (for a more classic reference) Mr. Dithers of Blondie fame.

   But, yeah…Rosa being “nice” and a CEO are kind of incompatible.
4. 
   AGuyLikeAce

   January 30, 2010 at 1:48 pm | # | Reply

   I not only find Rosa attractive, but, I believe her story. Plus, she wasn’t so cutthroat when her son was going through college. When her son was doing what he wanted Rosa was still learning about the business. She didn’t even have a mean bone in her body then. But when her son found the ‘bitch’, I believe that is when she became the Rosa we all know, respect, love, and fear.
5. 
   Tom

   April 13, 2011 at 10:00 am | # | Reply

   I like the “I let people imagine they can think for themselves” line.
   Lots of people think they’re smarter than most other people (and are right); lots they they’re smarter than anyone else (almost all are wrong); lots of people think they know what’s good for someone better than the someone does (most are usually likelier wrong than right).
   It seems to me that politicians and powerful people are the likeliest to labor under such an illusion.
   But so are very smart and/or highly educated people.
   They all might have an excuse, maybe only a bad one, but still.
   But all the celebrities, especially at the Oscars, also seem to have this delusion! And they have no such excuse.