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The TV special spares little of the high drama. Joan Rivers depicts herself thrashing through her husband's well-stocked medicine cabinet after learning that he has killed himself in a Philadelphia hotel room. Later, still bereaved but completely broke, she appears on Hollywood Squares and, less than two months...
For all its 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...
"I felt such a terrible connection to her," says Rivers. "We both suffered such a horrible loss. She was left with Kitty, I was left with Melissa. And for her, there was always that incredible struggle to get by." It was the same sort of hardscrabble existence that Rivers remembered...
The 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...