Rosie's Up & Downs

By Stephen M. Silverman

09/01/1997 at 12:00 AM EDT

Rosie O'Donnell, 39, is expected to return to her syndicated talk show on Monday after an absence of nearly two weeks, punctuated with an occasional appearance by her as others sat behind her desk. In other news of O'Donnell, New York's Daily News reported that she had to give up one of her four adopted children, Mia (born in 1997), after authorities took the emotionally impaired foster child for treatment at a mental health center last month. Rosie's other children are Parker, born in 1995; Chelsea, 1997; and Blake, 1999.