Joan Rivers (r) with daughter Melissa
[From article]
“It means there’s no place to hide,” she said. They can know you anywhere. At the time, the Internet age was just beginning.
Her eye was original. Twenty years ago, when everyone was talking about how wonderful it was that Vegas had been cleaned up and the mob had been thrown out, Joan said no, no, no, they are ruining the mystique. First of all, she said, those mobsters knew how to care for a lady, those guys with bent noses were respectful and gentlemen, except when they were killing you. Second, she said, organized crime is better than disorganized crime, which will replace it. Third, the mobsters had a patina of class, they dressed well and saw that everyone else did, so Vegas wasn’t a slobocracy, which is what it is becoming with men in shorts playing the slots in the lobby of the hotel. The old Vegas had dignity. She hated the bluenoses who’d clean up what wasn’t mean to be clean. No one wanted Sin City cleaned up, she said, they wanted to go there and visit sin and then go home.
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Joan would have loved how much she is loved. I think she didn’t quite know and yet in a way she must have: You don’t have strangers light up at the sight of you without knowing you have done something.
But we should try to honor and celebrate the virtues and gifts of people while they’re alive, and can see it.
She was an entertainer. She wanted to delight you. She wanted to make you laugh. She succeeded so brilliantly.
http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2014/09/05/joan-rivers-the-entertainer/
4:38 pm ET Sep 5, 2014
Joan Rivers: The Entertainer
Peggy Noonan's Blog
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http://pagesix.com/2014/09/06/cindy-adams-remembers-her-friend-joan-rivers/?_ga=1.67593938.212440808.1402078759
Cindy Adams remembers her friend Joan Rivers
By Cindy Adams
New York Post
September 6, 2014 | 5:41pm
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