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The documentary definitely looks interesting. And some of the praise that it's gotten makes it that much more compelling.

The fact that one of her joke categories is "Tony Danza" makes her awesome.

I've been a fan of Joan Rivers since being introduced to Muppets Take Manhattan as a young child. I like her stand-up. I appreciate her hustle. Much like how I'll only watch HSN for the Singer sewing demos (a machine always breaks and everyone freaks out), I only watch QVC for Joan Rivers inappropriately hawking her jewelry.

Has anyone seen her new infomercial for hair filling make-up? It's a hoot. It might be the most entertaining infomercial since the original Magic Bullet. It's a mix of Joan doing stand-up about going bald straight to camera and demonstrations of a product that can't possibly work for thirty minutes.

Rivers has become a hateful old hag (perhaps her true self all along) who spews more venom than one-liners nowadays. She has misinformed opinions and shoots off her mouth, she raised a bitch who couldn't aspire to be as nasty as she is and drove a long-suffering husband to suicide. She fucked over the most important man in show business, Johnny Carson, and still managed to fail miserably all by herself with her own late-night show. Even the Z-grade E! network couldn't tolerate her bullshit.

I hope she whines herself into an aneurysm.

A-schaef, I saw the stage show and the film. Lee took a highly experimental show with quite a few flaws and transformed it into something much more cohesive and revolutionary. The edge that drew me to the production more than once still existed, and the performances were the same, but Lee's hand knew where the focus needed to be in a very busy production. His vision complemented the musical perfectly. Anyone who wants to film a stage show for wide distribution should be required to study what he did with Passing Strange.

I'm going to see this, if only for the insight into the show biz world. I'd never want to be a part of it, but to see a glimpse into it is fascinating to me. I mean, who has joke drawers? Who has so many jokes they need their own room for storage? JR, that's who.

I watched a little bit of the Celebrity Apprentice cycle that had Joan Rivers as a competitor. She had to be a consierge in a hotel. She worked her ass off and was always talking about giving superior customer service and she recognized the egos flying around the room. I thought she had an incredible work ethic and a lot of humility.

And I second her and Phyllis Diller being brave and trail-blazing for standing toe to toe on stage with sexist men who didn't think women should be comedians. Good on her.

I love Joan Rivers. My parents hate her. They think she’s too shocking. My parents have no sense of humor. They watch America’s Funniest Home videos FOR FUN. FOR FUN!!!!

Yes, Joan can be as acid mouthed as they come and yes, the surgery has gone wayyyyyyyyyyy over the top but this is a little lady who has "chutzpah" - she is feisty, hard as nails, and is a survivor. I can relate to her on a certain level; she's been through a lot yet she keeps on keeping on - professional and acid tounged and stylish, always. In that sense, she is inspiring to women to put their best feet forward, no matter how crappy things become. That would be her motto. She is who she is - outrageous, nasty yet soft as mush inside. I like her crazy, no holds barred sense of humour; she reminds me of nasty Don Rickles on the one hand and the adorable, tart/chic little Jewish babba every girl would love to have on the other hand. I could see myself confiding in her and sobbing of all of my love travails and secrets while she has tears forming, the heavy mascara dripping down her so tight face as she says "now, now...okay, okay" and pats my arm nonchalantly.
Her jewellery line is probably the best quality line of fashion pieces I've seen; I have several pieces, earrings, bracelet, cocktail ring, more earrings - each and every item is beautifully presented, elegant, and very well made with top quality finishing. Several people at events asked if the pieces were real. I'd easily offer her pieces as gifts, and they are pretty enough to be sold in top-tier department stores as high-end fashion jewellery pieces. As such, I can speak of her name being equated to quality, which is far nore than can be said of some celebrity jewellery lines. (Are you reading this Melania? I would not buy your pieces, but I've heard about the cheap aesthetic and finishing.)
I do not like Joan's daughter - to me she is riding upon her mother's success and proved herself to be nasty, spoiled and unprofessional Jewish Princess on The Apprentice; her mother's role was naturally played up for the cameras, we knew Joan would win all along. But Melissa was disappointing; there was a great lack of class there for a woman I believe to be intelligent. I also suggest she looked far better pre surgery; she was once "cute" but that has disappeared into fat lip/cat eyed/long taut faced oblivion.
My late Aunt loved Joan, she would joke about "that Jewess" but she I knew she was always eager to see Joan on tv and to enjoy the acidic, sarcastic humour and to laugh.
Long Live Joan - stylish, elegant but with the mouth of a construction worker - we'd have her no other way, and I wish I could adopt her as a little Jewish babba all my own!