Rosie O'Donnell

SHOW OF HANDS----Elsewhere at the event, Rosie O'Donnell links up with fiancée Michelle Rounds on the black carpet for Tuesday's gala. 

 "I don't know how queens do this. And by that, I mean gay men too."

– Rosie O'Donnell, on being unable to walk in her elaborate Queen Elizabeth costume, to Martha Stewart

 CAUSE CELEB----Witherspoon joined forces with fellow celebrities (from left) Susan Sarandon, Courtney Love and Rosie O'Donnell for May 2000's Million Mom March in Washington, D.C., which called for stricter gun-control laws. "This was a great thing for me to do on my first Mother's Day," Witherspoon told Teen People.

 UP: ROSIE O'DONNELL----"I've stopped being so angry," O'Donnell has said about her new outlook on life. Well, she has a lot to be happy about, starting with her own talk show, The Rosie Show on the OWN network, a new relationship with girlfriend Michelle Rounds, and their subsequent engagement. "It's like you're a withering rose and the petals are falling off and all of sudden you bloom again," O'Donnell has said of her comeback.