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...show and designing a lucrative jewelry line for the QVC shopping network, Rivers has embarked on what is certainly the most bizarre media treatment of personal hardship to date. Next Sunday the comedian, 60, and her daughter Melissa, 26, will star as themselves in the NBC movie Tears and Laughter, the story of how they coped with the 1987 suicide of Joan's husband Edgar Rosenberg...
...play relies more heavily on the shtick of Marr's actual routines than on the substance of her life and, like Tears and Laughter, may be dismissed merely as Joan Rivers in overdrive. But Rivers, who has endured more than her allotment of show-business rejection, likes to quote a line from Sally Marr: "I ain't afraid of death," she says. "I'm in show business. I died a million times...
...mysterious, full of arresting incident, grippingly played. The bad news is that there is so little audience for serious work that its survival is, in the producer's words, "week to week." Only two new plays have had much of a run on Broadway this season, Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor and the second half of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, and their attendance has been declining...
While the quotes were obviously the products of a jealous columnist's imagination, I get the distinct feeling that most of the free world was rolling over with laughter at the caustic comments about my home state...
Full of goofy laughter, angst and tears, Alek Keshishian's film about four Harvard students and the spunkiest bum you ever did see is nothing less than a "Love Story" for out time. A simple coming of age story that takes into account today's troubled economic climate, the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, and an impersonal health-care system run amok...