#101
Posted: 9/8/14 at 7:23pm
someone needs to dim the lights on this conversation
The Lights WILL Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers — Page 5
#102
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.
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.
#103
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.
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#104
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.)
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.)
#105
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.
take time out of their day to argue AGAINST dimming the lights for this great woman. Unreal.
#106
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.
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#107
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.
#108
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.
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.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#109
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:28pm
Bette's Princess Anne jokes will always be some of my favorite jokes ever.
#110
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??
Maybe it is personal??
#111
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:33pm
Maybe it is personal??
That's exactly what I'm wondering as well....
That's exactly what I'm wondering as well....
#112
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:42pm
This is the most repetitive thread ever.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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#113
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:51pm
"This is the most repetitive thread ever."
but you can't help but come back?
but you can't help but come back?
#114
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.
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#115
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:54pm
#117
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:03pm
Queens be losing their ish in Times Square if those lights don't m-effin dim.
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#118
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.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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#119
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.
Yes I know, JOAN PLAYED CELEBRITY APPRENTICE GREAT AND DESERVED TO WINNNNNNNNNN.
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#120
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.
Pretty please, guys.
#121
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:32pm
There's not one Joan Rivers thread on these boards that isn't for the fans.
#122
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:33pm
You should start an anti thread!
#123
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:34pm
It became a fan thread.
Just so you know, I signed the petition.
Just so you know, I signed the petition.
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#125
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:35pm
Nah. There are enough Joan Rivers threads as it is. This one will do.
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