A Subdued Rosie O'Donnell Returns to Matrix Awards

Rosie O’Donnell was back at this year’s Matrix Awards, but she wasn’t the f-bomb-dropping emcee of 2007, when she took shots at Rupert Murdoch and ranted about Donald Trump before telling the real estate mogul to “eat me!”

O’Donnell apparently got a memo to tone it down at this year’s awards ceremony, at which highly accomplished women in communications were honored over lunch at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria. The event, put on by New York Women in Communications, also recognizes its young scholarship recipients.

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