The Lights WILL Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers- Page 5
The Lights WILL Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
lightguy06222
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/06
#100The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 7:23pmsomeone needs to dim the lights on this conversation
delongpre
Featured Actor Joined: 12/12/12
#101The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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.
#102The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#103The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#104The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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.
#105The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:14pmI 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.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#106The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:19pmHope'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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#107The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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.
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.
#108The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:28pmBette's Princess Anne jokes will always be some of my favorite jokes ever.
#109The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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??
#110The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:33pm
Maybe it is personal??
That's exactly what I'm wondering as well....
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#111The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:42pmThis 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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NYC4Life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
#112The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:51pm
"This is the most repetitive thread ever."
but you can't help but come back?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#113The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 8:52pmLet 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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pair-o-dice
Stand-by Joined: 1/18/05
#114The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#116The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:03pmQueens be losing their ish in Times Square if those lights don't m-effin dim.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#117The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:10pmI 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.”
~ Muhammad Ali
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#118The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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.
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#119The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#120The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:32pmThere's not one Joan Rivers thread on these boards that isn't for the fans.
#121The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:33pmYou should start an anti thread!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#122The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:34pm
It became a fan thread.
Just so you know, I signed the petition.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#124The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:35pmNah. There are enough Joan Rivers threads as it is. This one will do.
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