Sideshow | Rosie exits early, with a jaundiced view

Boo-hoo.

Rosie O'Donnell

has quit in a huff as co-blatherer on

The View

a month before her expected June 22 exit.

ABC yesterday said Rosie asked to be let out of her contract following yet another on-air scuffle on Wednesday between the liberal comic and the more conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The pair, who regularly preen and puff over issues neither really seems to grasp, fought over Iraq. Rosie was angry at E.H. for not standing up to pundits who said Rosie called U.S. troops terrorists.

So it ends with the requisite niceties: Show producer Barbara Walters on Rosie: "Our close and affectionate relationship will not change."

Rosie: "It's been an amazing year and I love all three women."

TV handyhunk

Ty Pennington

yesterday pleaded guilty to one count of drunken driving stemming from an arrest in Venice, Calif., May 5, when Ty's blood-alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit.

The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition star was contrite: "Drinking and driving is never acceptable. I . . . will abide by the court's ruling."

Ty was sentenced to three years of probation, $390 in fines, three months of AA meetings, and participation in a victims' impact seminar by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

The alpha male-est bad boys of the alpha-male-rich

Ocean's Thirteen

cast,

Brad Pitt

and

George Clooney

, this week hosted a rollicking party at Cannes that raised $100 mil to aid refugees affected by the bloody conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. The boys plan to throw benefit parties also in L.A., Las Vegas and Chicago.

The L.A. County District Attorney's office said yesterday it would not charge

Ryan O'Neal

with gun offenses (assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm) for lack of evidence. O'Neal was arrested Feb. 3 at his Malibu home and later freed on a $50,000 bond for firing a gun during a fight with his 42-year-old son,

Griffin O'Neal

. (Ryan's already 66, man!)

Ryan says he fired a warning shot to stop Griffin, who was coming at him with a fireplace poker. The night ended miserably: The poker missed Ryan and hit Griffin's eight-months-pregnant gf, Joanna Berry, in the face, seriously injuring her eye.

The reunion to end all reunions begins tomorrow. Spearheaded by Elizabethan lute playe (and self-confessed tantric sex expert)

Sting

,

the Police

will launch their tour in Vancouver before heading to Citizens Bank Park on July 19.

"There is such a feeling of warmth for us out there," Sting tells London's Daily Mail. Asked what broke up the act in '84, Sting, 55, says the band suffered from "a three-way power struggle" among three equally creative musicians.

That changed when Sting asserted himself as the primary songwriter, leaving band founder Stewart Copeland, 54, and guitarist Andy Summers, 64, out in the cold. They were sad, that duo - especially since Sting's solo career skyrocketed.

Sting is hopeful about the reunion. It's "a kind of healing" for the three old friends, he said.