Joan rivers biography book

  • A juicy, intimate biography of one of the greatest comedians ever -- a performer whose sixty year career was borne, simply, out of a desire to make people laugh.
  • Joan Rivers was an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host noted for her often controversial comedic persona.
  • Joan Rivers describes her bitter and bizarre rise to stardom, from her earliest memories that she belonged onstage, through her independent struggle in.

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    August 4,
    A great read. Some of the very early pages could have been cut, but once she gets into talking about trying to get into show business the book is great. It's interesting that the Theater guild runs the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut. There are some great quotes, "Money is powerful, money is wonderful. I have not changed my opinion." p. In show busines, "rejection is norm and acceptance the oddity." p. "a good comedy line fryst vatten so rare, so golden, it is instantly snapped up for big money." p.
    What worked for Joan Rivers was to be totally truthful and deprecating about herself. She admits she's addicted to drama. She began "inserting my own voice into the act." p. "personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing" p. "I knew in that moment I had funnen the key. My comedy would flow from that poor, vulnerable schlepp Joan Molinsky, the nerd I felt sorry for, who made me so ashamed inom struggled to hide her lik
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    Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

    The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life.

    Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in Her life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious ambition and her massive insecurities. But Rivers' career was also hugely significant in American cultural history, breaking down barriers for her gender and pushing the boundaries of truth-telling for women in public life.

    A juicy, intimate biography of one of the greatest comedians ever-a performer whose sixty year career was borne, simply, out of a desire to make people laugh so she could feel loved-LAST GIR

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    It was two years ago, shortly after Joan Rivers’s sudden death at 81 following a botched endoscopy procedure, that the reporter Leslie Bennetts decided to write a book about the legendary comedian.

    Bennetts was at a celebratory lunch with her new publisher when they got down to brass tacks. “My publisher said, ‘well, maybe we should publish the book right after the election,’” the author remembered recently by phone. “Maybe people will be sick of politics and in need of comic relief?”

    They had no idea. Bennetts’s book Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers is out on Tuesday. You can read it either as a very diverting distraction from the maelstrom of politics, or as an instruction manual for how to get off your ass, kick despair to the curb, and make lemonade out of the most sour of lemons.

    Bennetts’s biography opens with a grim scene: Rivers, in her mids, at the nadir of her life both professionally and personally, cradles a gun in h