Word: marrs
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Joan Rivers possesses that certitude and has gone full throat in pursuit of it. In addition to starring in her own Broadway play, Sally Marr and Her Escorts, playing host on a syndicated home-shopping 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...
...unpalatability, the story manages to carry a message about the capacity for survival, a theme that obsessed Rivers even before her husband's suicide and a theme that lies at the heart of Sally Marr and Her Escorts...
Written by Rivers with collaborators Erin Sanders and Lonny Price, the play is based on the life of comedian Lenny Bruce's mother, whom Rivers met in a Las Vegas coffee shop eight years ago. Deserted by her husband on their wedding night, Marr, already pregnant, became a so-so stand-up comic while she raised her son in a gay boardinghouse. When Lenny died of a drug overdose in 1966, she was left destitute and in charge of his only daughter...
...Orange Juice, as Edwyn Collins called his band during its declining years--generally compare these fey Glaswegians to the Smiths. (Glaswegians, by the way, were and are unpredictable people from Glasgow, Scotland. The Smiths, similarly, were distraught people from Manchester, England.) These stolid naysayers aren't entirely wrong: Johnny Marr may have picked up the soulful, chiming guitar sound of the first Smiths records in part from the soulful, chiming sound perfected by James Kirk, the Orange Juice guitarist whose (real) name may or may not have inspired the Wedding Present and the Bodines to write songs called, respectively, "Shatner...
...face behind abstract or monochromatic album covers and performed entire concerts without ever addressing the audience. The cult grew. After the release of 1989's Technique, the band dispersed into various spin-off acts, most notably Electronic, which was fronted by singer Bernard Sumner and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr...