Rosie Greenbaum

I just saw that Carole Ita White, who played Laverne's archenemy Rosie Greenbaum, came out as bisexual. Notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat.
Maybe the heat between Laverne and Rosie was sexual.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Carole Ita White is a QueerSpawn

Carole Ita White is probably best known for her role as “Big Rosie Greenbaum” on Laverne & Shirley. She was born in New City to actors, father Jesse White and mother, Celia “Simmy” Cohn.

White has made many guest star appearances on such popular shows as Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Love Boat, Beverly Hills 90210 and the Profiler. She continues to appear in small roles in films over years, including The Witches of Eastwick, Grand Canyon and Falling Down.

In an interview with Sirius Out Q today, Jan. 19, 2010, not only did Carole come out as bisexual but also revealed that her mom disclosed that she was a lesbian and Carole also stated that so always thought that her dad might have had a relationship with men, but she will always just have to guess.

She was eccentric. I think they meant her to be an exaggerated version of a lower middle class girl that married rich.

Last name calling are a sign of aggression for women and more of friendship for men. It showed their distaste for each other.

I think there was some wish to include her, hence the softening, but as has become apparent, these were all young performers who probably didn't think about being typecast as DeFazio or Squigman, so they were hoping for greener pastures, so to speak, and not being such regulars.

I've become aware of how a lot of this in Hollywood plays out mainly by Darren McGavin in The Natural. I think he is uncredited (it's been a while since I've seen that movie) but it seems he wasn't thinking in a sense of it being a career maker for him. A lot of pay, credit (before or after the title?) was being figured into it. I gather from a show he did with Burt Reynolds in the fifties, he had a bit of an ego (which is odd, he seemed game to the silliness of Airport '77 and it's all-star cast, and likewise to Murphy Brown appearances).

I don't think Carol Ita White had an ego, per se, but I think her agent and negotiations and what-have-you, did she want to do a regular show (someone else got me to thinking, she'd have been a lot more welcome than Phil Foster or Betty Garrett), but also, this was Happy Days-Laverne and Shirley. They really didn't know how to keep an antagonist around on such a regular basis without making them one of the family (Greenbaum and the others went to high school together, they had that history).

It may have come across like trying to make Officer Kirk a regular on Happy Days.

She could have easily stepped in and like Lucille Lockworth or Lockridge, just whisked Carmine out of the picture. She would have been more than welcomed.

I'm watching the shows on Me and I really didn't catch on to Shirley and Carmine's 'break-up' over thirty years ago, so this is all kind of new to me.

But Carmine seems to be swept out of many episodes anyway, then only to sing or something. It was mostly Laverne, Shirley, Squiggy, Lenny.

I think there were some episodes where L&S entered some swank parties and had Rosie been there, she would have toned down the uneasiness of the girls not belonging, or sent it in another direction.

Good God, imagine if Rosie had been there when Laverne got hit with that punch bowl!