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| Joan Rivers, 1967: publicity still in public domain. |
My fave, below:
"I am not to be revived unless I can do an hour of stand-up."
As reported in The Daily Beast
My mother is 96 and we grew up together, in a sense, laughing at Joan Rivers sketches, as nutty, unruly females ourselves. Today, we held a pair of tissues as I read her the obit.
Want to make an old lady laugh like crazy? Read her an old Joan Rivers joke!
From the NYT obit:
"On Donatella Versace: 'That skin! She looks like something you’d hang off your door in Africa.'”
" On Nancy Reagan’s hairdo: 'Bulletproof. If they ever combed it, they’d find Jimmy Hoffa.'”
And for you actors and writers reading:
The biographies Rivers read were of Republican icons such as Abraham Lincoln, Colin Powell, and Richard Nixon—at times she said she was Republican; at others, Democrat—and there were art books on de Kooning, Seurat and Manet. She told me she had a therapist on speed dial. Did she get depressed, I asked? “Of course, that’s the business!” she replied. “There is incredible insecurity in this business. I have friends who won Oliviers and Baftas (prestigious British theater and TV film awards) who aren’t working and don’t know where their next meal is coming from. That’s good for you. It keeps you on your toes.”From an interview with Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast 9/4/14
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/04/joan-rivers-queen-of-comedy-dies.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Breaking%20News%20and%20Exclusives&utm_campaign=exclusive_breaking_news&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bexclusive_breaking_news
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