The Lights WILL Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers- Page 5

[lightguy06222]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 7:23pm

someone needs to dim the lights on this conversation

[delongpre]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 7:36pm

DIM ALL THE LIGHTS!!!
Joan's contributions to New York and theater were endless. For decades she was a staple in the Broadway audience supporting every cause, every actor and every play. To NOT dim the lights is a terrific SLAM to a women who truly left her mark on this business. SHAMEFUL to disregard her contributions. The excuses are contrived. Joan, Melissa and Cooper need to know that the Broadway community at large supports them, even if the lady with her hand on the switch does not.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:05pm

I would just like to point out that they dimmed the lights for Bob Hope whose last appearance on Broadway was in 1937. Their argument that she hasn't appeared on Broadway in 20 years doesn't hold wight when compared to their previous honorees.

Updated On: 9/8/14 at 08:05 PM

[dreaming]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:09pm

I think George Steinbrenner is even nuttier-he was a partial owner of the Nederlander Organization, sure, but he is best known as the owner of the NY Yankees.

Joan influenced Broadway performers and made her mark here. Surely, she deserves it as much as Steinbrenner. (Her unselfish promotion of the theater and of all causes related to it alone would warrant this, IMO.)

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:12pm

Leave it to this board to attract the kind of toxic personalities who would actually
take time out of their day to argue AGAINST dimming the lights for this great woman. Unreal.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:14pm

I really think comparing Joan Rivers to Bob Hope is a bit of a stretch. Hope (despite his politics) was considered by most, a National Treasure. Joan, not so much. Oh she was loved, emensly by some but she was also just an insult comic.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:19pm

Hope's comedy wasn't loved by all either. And he's also the type of celebrity I would most associate with movies and television and not Broadway which was another of their arguments.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:27pm

"So much of Rivers' career was about mocking others' looks, and I do believe that negativity factored in the decision to not have the lights dimmed for her."

In all fairness, she mocked her own looks as well. She had several jokes about how flat chested she was and when she started getting plastic surgery, she had a few jokes about that as well.

Everybody forgets some of the jokes that Bette Midler used to make about other people. For starters (one of my favorites): Princess Anne, she loves nature despite what it did to her.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:28pm

Bette's Princess Anne jokes will always be some of my favorite jokes ever.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:31pm

Based on St. Martin's own statement and criteria, the lights should not have been dimmed for Robin Williams. I would like to know which of her criteria Williams met, but Joan didn't.

Maybe it is personal??

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:33pm

Maybe it is personal??

That's exactly what I'm wondering as well....

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:42pm

This is the most repetitive thread ever.

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:51pm

"This is the most repetitive thread ever."

but you can't help but come back?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:52pm

Let this be a lesson. You can't talk crap about people for 30 years and be elevated to "great lady" status by everybody. You just might piss off the person who controls the dimmer switch.

[pair-o-dice]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:54pm

Sign the Petition!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/213/792/862/dim-the-lights-for-joan-rivers/?taf_id=12710515&cid=fb_na#
Dim lights for Joan Petition

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:59pm

lol

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:03pm

Queens be losing their ish in Times Square if those lights don't m-effin dim.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:10pm

I keep waiting for the deus ex machina to arrive. For the league to join BWW, hear our cries, then post a deliverance of Joan's soul by an announcement that the lights will indeed be dimmed. Only then will the price of this human rights travesty truly be paid in full.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:24pm

I like the part where the woman says lately Joan has been known for comedy and television. I wish she had specified, "Reeeeeahhhhhhhlity television" dripping with the kind of contempt Joan brought to "Pokah playuh" despite having earned a significant chunk of her own fortune in Casinos.

Yes I know, JOAN PLAYED CELEBRITY APPRENTICE GREAT AND DESERVED TO WINNNNNNNNNN.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:31pm

Ok ok ok. I love you guys more than my luggage but could we please just have this thread for fans to hope that she gets this from the League?

Pretty please, guys.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:32pm

There's not one Joan Rivers thread on these boards that isn't for the fans.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:33pm

You should start an anti thread!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:34pm

It became a fan thread.

Just so you know, I signed the petition.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:35pm

Thanks, Namo.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:35pm

Nah. There are enough Joan Rivers threads as it is. This one will do.