The word on the lesbian cable news street is that left-leaning Rosie O’Donnell is in discussions to join MSNBC for a nightly news show.

Nothing is final, but I’ll wager that if execs are talking to the New York Times, it’s all but decided. And in retrospect, it makes a lot of sense that Rosie would find another forum for her liberal lectures following her yearlong stint on The View, during which she regularly dissed President Bush, dished on 9/11 conspiracy theories and lengthily discussed gay marriage.

UPDATE: [Nov. 8] The MSNBC deal appears to be off. The New York Times has the story here and here.

Magazines have doctored cover images since the first model showed up for her first photo shoot hung over after her first coke-and-booze-fueled night out on the first town. It happens to some degree on every cover of every issue of every magazine. So, not surprisingly, it has happened again.

But I’m not talking about Katharine McPhee in Stuff, Kate Winslet in GQ or even Andy Roddick in Men’s Fitness. This time, the retouching culprit isn’t a usual-suspect men’s magazine at all — it’s women’s mag staple Redbook. The blog Jezebel sponsored a $10,000 contest to find the most egregious example of airbrushing, then it blew up the spot on the mom mag for Photoshopping the crap out of Faith Hill on the cover of its July issue.

Here's the real Faith:

And here's the Photoshopped Faith:

The 34th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards airs tonight at 9 P.M. on CBS. Since I’m not a soap watcher, I’m not sure I can sit through two whole hours of categories such as Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing for a Drama Series.

Luckily, there are a couple of categories that are of broader interest, namely Outstanding Talk Show and Outstanding Talk Show Host. Nominated in the former class are Dr. Phil, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Rachael Ray, The Tyra Banks Show and The View; the latter nominees are Dr. Phil, Ellen DeGeneres, Rachael Ray, Tyra Banks, Lisa Rinna and Ty Treadway (Soap Talk), and all of the ladies from The View — including the prematurely departed and greatly missed Rosie O’Donnell. (Seriously. I tried to watch she show this week and can confirm that it has reverted to its earlier, unwatchably boring, possibly homophobic, pre-O’Donnell self.)

Rosie has long said she’s not going to attend the Emmys because of a scheduling conflict with one of her kids’ school functions, but it’s just as well, since it would’ve been a conflict of another kind if she and Elisabeth Hasselbeck ever found themselves in a room together again (even one as big as the Kodak Theatre).

It’s a big year for not only our favorite lesbian conspiracy theorist and the other gabby ladies of The View (10 nods), but also for female-hosted and -produced shows generally.

Ah, 1994. I remember it well. Sandra Bullock was America's sweetheart after she drove a bus and flirted with Keanu Reeves in Speed; who could've predicted that the pair would reunite to absolutely zero acclaim 12 years later in The Lake House?

On TV, Friends began its long run on NBC, while on ABC, These Friends of Mine, later re-titled Ellen, featured Ellen DeGeneres as a bookstore owner who had a comically tough time dating men. I think we all know how that ended.

And little me kept repeating, "I’m getting verklemmt!" "You're terrible, Muriel!" and “La Croix, sweetie, La Croix,” to anyone within earshot.

Elsewhere in Hollywood ’94, writer-producer Diane English, who was riding high with Murphy Brown (remember?), was shopping a script for a remake of the 1939 camp classic The Women. Well, 13 years, a couple of directors, multiple casting changes and several false starts later, the movie is finally set to go into production this summer, with a cast that includes Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing and Candice Bergen — quite a star-studded assemblage.

The original bitchfest starred an array of its era’s best female actresses — including Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine and many more — as catty high-society ladies.

Oh, Rosie O’Donnell. What did bloggers blog about on their bloggy blogs before you rode in on your lez-tastic motorcycle from the outskirts of town and motherhood this year?

The latest word on Rosie’s post-View plans comes courtesy of those paragons of decorum and sincerity Rush and Molloy, of New York’s Daily News. In their gossip column this week, they reported that the erstwhile Queen of Nice might be wresting away the skinny mike from Bob Barker as the new host of The Price Is Right when the old dude retires in June. Barker apparently doesn’t want Rosie for the job (the other possibilities listed don’t really seem like prizes to me either, there, Bob), but I’m more than a little skeptical that Ms. O’D is even considering it in the first place.

Actress and undeniable (but possibly unwitting) lesbian icon Edie Falco will grace Late Show With David Letterman tonight.

She'll no doubt be touting the final season of her long-praised HBO show The Sopranos, on which she plays endearingly put-upon mob wife Carmela Soprano, who tolerates her lovable thug of a husband and his immoral, illegal actions — not to mention his goomahs.

A year ago, CBS announced that Katie Couric would take a seat behind the Evening News desk, making her the first female network news anchor.

Couric's pioneering new gig set off a chain reaction of job movement for women in the broadcast industry. Her cozy spot next to Matt Lauer on the Today couch went to Meredith Vieira, and Vieira's perch at the head of the table on The View went to Rosie O'Donnell (after a nasty bout of she said–she said-she said between O'Donnell, Star Jones Reynolds and View den mother Barbara Walters).

So what has become of the female-centric TV shakeup of last summer?