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Celebrity Ghost Stories: 1 Preview
Original at link.biography.com
• Thu, Sep 24
A preview of "Celebrity Ghost Stories: Episode 1," including ghost stories from Joan Rivers, Scott Baio, Teri Polo, and David Carradine. link.biography.com
Reality Bytes: Bret Michaels gets clocked
Original at Colorado Daily
• Sun, Jun 14
CO Celebrity Apprentice" winner Joan Rivers has a new gig. The sharp-tongued comedienne will host "How'd You Get So Rich?" on the TV Land network. The new show features Rivers scouting the country for "richies." The comedienne will find out how they make ...
Guess the top 10 celebrities who are rocking the grandchild cradle
Original at Examiner.com
• Sun, Jun 14
Joan Rivers – Emmy-award winning Comedienne, TV talk show host, movie script writer and director, Broadway performer, cable shopping host, and mother of sassy and brassy Melissa, (we saw both of them recently on Trump's Celebrity Apprentice), ...
Poker ace Annie Duke keeps emotions at bay - Las Vegas Review
Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Sat, Jun 13
Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV But it was her acrimonious verbal battles with comedienne Joan Rivers, the show's eventual winner, that had audiences watching and drove the show's ratings skyward. At times during the episodes, Rivers said Duke was worse than "Hitler" and compared ...
Joan Rivers calls Kate Gosselin a dumb b*tch
Original at Examiner.com
• Wed, Jun 10
Joan Rivers appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and called Kate Gosselin a "dumb bitch." As part of a panel on June 8th with fill-in host Joy Bahar, Rivers expressed her opinion on reality TV stars including Jon and Kate Gosselin. ...
People in the News
Original at Annapolis Capital
• Mon, Jun 8
MD Thank you for your encouragement and your prayers. Long live Rock and Roll!" Diddley's family plans to unveil his tombstone in Bronson, also southwest of Gainesville. Comedian Jerry Stiller is 82. Comedian-talk show host Joan Rivers is 76. ...
Leno, Rivers celebrate career milestones in ACOriginal at Cherry Hill Courier Post
• Fri, May 29
By DAVID J. SPATZ • For the Courier-Post • May 29, 2009 When the dice began rolling on the Atlantic City Boardwalk 31 years ago, Jay Leno and Joan Rivers were opening acts on the fast track to becoming headliners. Both return to Atlantic City ...
Joan Rivers chews up her co-stars and spits them out
Original at This is London
• Thu, May 28
Maybe not for anyone who has seen Joan Rivers before, but for Rivers virgins this was a chance to see the irreverently brash New York comedienne who ... Photos: Joan Rivers Milks Udderbelly for LaughsWhatsOnStage.com all 4 news articles »
Joan Rivers chews up her co-stars and spits them out
Original at This is London
• Thu, May 28
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NORM: Fans to pay tribute at Gans memorial - Las Vegas Review
Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Thu, May 21
Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV Joan Rivers, above, beat out poker champ Annie Duke for the "Celebrity Apprentice" title earlier this month. Now, Duke has recruited 20 Joan Rivers impersonators to go head-to-head with poker players in a charity event next week at the Hard Rock Hotel. ...
Spike Lee trails Kobe; History celebrates Bruce Lee
Original at SouthCoastToday.com
• Fri, May 15
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Joan Rivers to host TV Land series
Original at Entertainment Weekly
• Mon, May 11
Fresh off her Celebrity Apprentice win, Joan Rivers will be participating in another TV program: TV Land's How'd You Get So Rich? The 30-minute, six-episode series, which premieres Aug. 12, follows Rivers as she explores the homes belonging to ...
Elizabeth Edwards, Joan Rivers: The Resilience & Reality of Two ...
Original at Huffington Post
• Thu, May 7
NY For years Joan has propped up Melissa, her only child, in co-hosting assignments, and in constant references and endorsements. And this time Joan couldn't control things. I have a personal vision of Joan Rivers, many cosmetic surgeries ago, ...
Celebrity Apprentice Annie Duke on Ellen
Original at CBS News
• Tue, May 5
• 4 related articles
CA After Melissa and Joan Rivers appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show, Annie Duke called the show to ask to tell her side of the story. Annie says she hasn't played the Apprentice personally......Joan says Annie plays one way when she's around people or ...
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Ellen Auctions -Simon Cowell, Joan Rivers, Heidi Klum and more
Original at CBS News
• Tue, May 5
CA Joan and Melissa Rivers stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show and brought with them jewelry and a handbag from the Joan Rivers Classics Collection. Joan and Melissa even signed the inside lining of the handbag. Heidi Klum Dress During Heidi's interview ...
Who should win the Celebrity Apprentice?
Original at TV Squad
• Tue, May 5
By Isabelle Carreau No matter if you like or hate Annie and/or Joan, you have to admit that out of the four contestants that were left at the beginning of the episode, those two will offer the most entertaining finale. Now that we know it's officially Joan Vs. Annie, who do you think should be hired?Continue readi...
Joan Rivers talks about new books, new shows, and plastic surgery
Original at Toledo Blade
• Sun, Apr 26
OH By PATRICIA SHERIDAN She is the ever-present, ever-green Joan Rivers. With a career that spans decades, the comedienne, television personality, and now author loves her life and her work. Two tomes — one fiction, one nonfiction — by Rivers are in ...
Celebrity Apprentice: Annie Vs. Joan
Original at TV Squad
• Wed, Apr 22
By Isabelle Carreau As for Joan, she has been a so-so project manager, acts like a diva, orders Melissa to support her even if Melissa didn't see her mother at work (they now are on different teams), cries in the boardroom, and threatens to quit every time Melissa is in danger of being fired. However, I must admit...
Celebrity Apprentice: Annie Vs. Joan
Original at TV Squad
• Wed, Apr 22
By Isabelle Carreau In the first episodes of the season, we didn't see much of the rivalry between the two ladies but the past two or three episodes have shown them as enemies. The two of them have done and said pretty harsh things about the other. The war between the two is still ongoing so before one of them is fired...
Everything about last night's Celebrity Apprentice was boring - VIDEO
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Apr 12
By Joel Keller It turns out that it was none of these things. In fact, when the scene came in this week's episode, it was so anticlimactic that you might have missed it if you had turned away to get some ice cream. In fact, this week's entire two-hour episode ambled along so slowly that I thought NBC expanded it...
Comedy Central to roast Joan Rivers - VIDEO
Original at TV Squad
• Wed, Apr 8
By Nick Zaino Times have changed in the comedy roasting business. It was only 20 years ago, in November of 1988, that women were allowed into the New York Friars Club before 4 PM, when the Club would host its roasts. Before then, Phyllis Diller once had to sneak onto the premises in drag to see a show.
George Lopez, you get a talk show! And you get a talk show! And you... - VIDEO
Original at TV Squad
• Wed, Mar 25
By Nick Zaino Lopez seems like a personable guy, and if his ABC sitcom was any indication, he should have a pretty good mainstream appeal. But this will be an experiment for Lopez and TBS. The network has only dabbled in late night programming, and many a comedian and comic actor (Joan Rivers, Chevy Chase,...
Andrew Dice Clay thinks he's all that, huh? - VIDEO
Original at TV Squad
• Mon, Mar 2
By Jackie Schnoop I have my reasons I must watch. Yes, I wondered if Joan Rivers' face can actually show any signs of movement after all of her plastic surgery (it doesn't). Her mouth smiles, but that's about it. Nonetheless, Joan can be so outrageous and spontaneous that she'll crack me up anyway (and my face ac...
Murder at the Oscars? Don't worry, it's only a book.
Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com
• Sun, Feb 22
CA I rarely advise putting down a book in favor of the TV, but in the case of "Murder at the Academy Awards™," watching Joan Rivers will be more fun than reading her. Photo: Joan and Melissa Rivers. Credit: Michael Caulfield / AP. Review: 'Murder at the Academy Awards' by Joan Rivers Newsday
Bruce Blitz on the Joan Rivers ShowOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 4
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Phil Spector Brandished Gun At Joan Rivers' Christmas Party, Jury Hears
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Nov 4
By The Huffington Post News Editors Rivers' manager, who dated Spector in the 1990s, also took the witness stand and told of being threatened by him with a gun. He's Phil Spector, music legend, and I'm Joan Rivers' manager. I really don't like publicity and there would have been publicity because of Joan Rivers' name," she sai...
'Heroes' Uses Powerful Milo-Current To Resuscitate Robert Forster's Career [Heroes]
Original at Defamer
• Tue, Oct 21
By Seth On last night's action-packed episode, Forster reprised his role as the previously-thought-dead Petrelli family patriarch. Our initial fears that evaporated Oscar chances and a recurring role on Huff had inflicted unspeakable damage upon his physical well-being were quickly put t...
Morning Links: David Archuleta to try acting
Original at The Buffalo News
• Mon, Oct 6
By David Valenzuela American Idol runner-up David Archuleta is going to take a try at acting. Little David has signed on to do an episode of the Nickelodeon series "iCarly," to be filmed today and to air in the Spring. He will play a contestant on an American Idol-like program, who begins to become popular as a res...
Joan Rivers on Tom Hanks, Ricky Gervais, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'Nazis'
Original at Gawker
• Thu, Sep 25
• 4 related articles
By Kyle Buchanan Bounced from E!, the TV Guide Channel, and even Stylelist.com, times have been tough for red carpet commentators Joan and Melissa Rivers. For this week's Emmy ceremony, the two were reduced to vlogging for MyHollywood.com, though the deal came with one potential upside: their patter was s...
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Joan Rivers Ejected From British Talk Show After Calling Russell Crowe A 'F***ing S**t': With Video!
Original at Defamer.com
• Tue, Jun 17
By Seth It's getting so that there are fewer and fewer places where Joan Rivers can peddle her celebrity-terrorizing wares lately, having been banished from virtually every red carpet in town—but the 75-year-old post-Vaudeville warhorse shows few signs of slowing down. Case in point, she sto...
Joan Rivers celebrates her 75 years with 75 shows
Original at IndieLondon
• Fri, May 23
By Anne AS PART of her 75th birthday (June 8) celebrations, comedy icon Joan Rivers will make her London acting debut in Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress By a Life in Progress Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress By a Life in Progress was originally produced as a workshop at the Magic Theatre, San Francisc...
Melissa, Joan Rivers Head to Oscars Via AOL - MEDIAWEEK
Original at MEDIAWEEK
• Sun, Feb 24
Melissa, Joan Rivers Head to Oscars Via AOL - banter, Joan and Melissa Rivers have landed on the Web for their traditional pre-Oscars coverage. AOL will feature commentary from the fashion-loving mother ...
About that Urban Myth
Original at BlogHer
• Sun, Sep 23
By Elana Centor A television ad in which a woman is being beaten to death with a bat in a subway, with a man ripping off her fur coat, and the inscription: "What if you were killed for your coat?" The ad was pulled by PETA as "too violent in the wake of September 11," but it remained on PETA's web site.
Will Joan Rivers Terrorize Red Carpets For VH-1?
Original at Defamer
• Thu, Sep 20
By Seth Many awards show viewers still long for the heyday of the late '90s, when unsuspecting stars would recoil in terror upon being accosted by Grand Frock Inquisitioner Joan Rivers, followed closely behind by loyal henchspawn Melissa, one finger held to her ear as she received instruction...
Will Joan Rivers Terrorize Red Carpets For VH-1?
Original at Gawker
• Thu, Sep 20
By Seth What's key about current circumstances is that Joan and Melissa did their internet gig with VH1. That sure makes you wonder: is the music channel planning to get into the red carpet biz? If so, why weren't Joan and Melissa at the Emmys repping VH1? [...] When I recently asked Joan's PR rep if the R...
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don’t Have To
Original at Rolling Stone
• Tue, Jul 10
By Daniel Kreps After a long July 4th hiatus, Phil Spector came back to court under the worst possible circumstances: The prosecution had a new witness. Former NYPD detective and current Joan Rivers bodyguard Vincent Tannazzo took the stand to testify concerning two separate encounters he says he had w...
Judge Deems Phil Spector Comment About Wanting To Shoot Every Woman In The Head Relevant
Original at Gawker
• Mon, Jul 9
By Seth The ruling came after Vincent Tannazzo, a retired New York City police detective, testified without the jury present about providing security for two Christmas parties given by comedian Joan Rivers in Manhattan. In both instances, a year apart, he said he wound up ejecting Spector from...
Plastic surgery addict Joan Rivers unmasked
Original at This is London
• Mon, May 21
She's the plastic surgery addict who was having lipo the day her husband killed himself. Now, in a funny, poignant interview, Joan Rivers reveals the deep insecurity behind her ever-changing face
Podcast: Hot Air Meltdown Theater!
Original at Hot Air
• Sat, May 5
By see-dubya About two thirds of the way through the clip, Buckley reminds Vidal that Nazi sympathizers were isolated during the last war, and calls for the continuing ostracism of people “who egg on other people to shoot American Marines, and American soldiers”. And then Vidal calls Buckley “Pro-cr...
The Joan Rivers-Lisa Rinna smackdown transcript
Original at Entertainment Weekly
• Thu, Apr 19
By Michael Slezak You may have already heard that the TV Guide Channel booted trashy, unpredictable Joan and Melissa Rivers (pictured) as its red-carpet hosts and replaced them with the fabulously earnest Lisa Rinna. Which is kind of a pity, really. What you...
Defamer Casting: Hollywood's Next Top Jerry Bruckheimer
Original at Defamer
• Fri, Mar 9
By Mark We know what you're thinking right about now: "How can I compete to win a hundred grand and the chance to develop the kind of exciting basic cable programming that will run on top of a slowly scrolling schedule grid on the TV Guide Channel, and which contractually must include the talents of...
Defamer Casting: Hollywood's Next Top Jerry Bruckheimer
Original at Gawker
• Fri, Mar 9
By Mark AMERICA'S NEXT PRODUCER is a reality competition series seeking Hollywood's top producer who will create the next generation of hit TV shows. It will feature contestants from diverse backgrounds and varying levels of TV production experience who will compete each week to survive elim...
Bravo Executive Andy Cohen Scores Audition For Joan Rivers' Talk Show On Talent Alone [Joan Rivers]
Original at Defamer
• Mon, Aug 14
By Seth For weeks now, a search has been on to find the perfect three Gays to join Joan Rivers on her upcoming Bravo talk show, Can We Dish?. (For the pitch-arithmetic inclined, the show is basically The View - 3 loud women + 3 loud women with dicks.) The enormous field of sassy-mouthed opinion-havers...
Bravo Executive Andy Cohen Scores Audition For Joan Rivers' Talk Show On Talent Alone
Original at Defamer.com
• Mon, Aug 14
By Seth For weeks now, a search has been on to find the perfect three Gays to join Joan Rivers on her upcoming Bravo talk show, Can We Dish?. (For the pitch-arithmetic inclined, the show is basically The View - 3 loud women + 3 loud women with dicks.) The enormous field of sassy-mouthed opinion-havers...
Bravo Executive Andy Cohen Scores Audition For Joan Rivers' Talk Show On Talent Alone
Original at Gawker
• Mon, Aug 14
By Seth For weeks now, a search has been on to find the perfect three Gays to join Joan Rivers on her upcoming Bravo talk show, Can We Dish?. (For the pitch-arithmetic inclined, the show is basically The View - 3 loud women + 3 loud women with dicks.) The enormous field of sassy-mouthed opinion-havers...
Podcast: Episode 36 - How many posts could John Smedley post if John Smedley could post posts?
Original at swgpodcast.libsyn.com
• Fri, Apr 7
By swgpodcast@gmail.com Surely, this episode will be the foundation of the âStar Wars Galaxies with Yivvits and MrBubble Archives.â? Now, we just need to find a hoity-toity, pompous, domineering old lady to be our archive librarianâ Whatâs Joan Rivers doing these days?
Opinion: Joan Rivers Not Above Internet Hook-Ups
Original at Defamer
• Thu, Mar 9
• 2 related articles
By Seth Joan Rivers can strike terror in the hearts of even the heartiest and best-traveled of red carpet footsloggers. Beyond her vicious barbs, her grasp on industry facts is iffy at best (she once greeted Ron Howard and Brian Grazer with a cordial, Names! ), and then there s the small matter of he...
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Gawker Stalker: Joan Rivers Hits Jury Duty Red Carpet [Culture]
Original at gawker.com
• Mon, Jul 11
This made Jury Duty completely worth every boring minute of it. We were sitting watching the introductory video (Mon Jul 11), when who walks in (20+ minutes late) but Joan Rivers! She stood in the front of the room with her assistant so everyone could have a good look at her wicked tight face a...
Gawker Stalker: Joan Rivers Puts The Pee-Pee In The Basket [Culture]
Original at gawker.com
• Sun, Jun 12
Sightings are sent in by readers; send yours to tips@gawker.com. 6/9 Uma Thurman sitting in first row on an American flight JFK to LAX. My girlfriend and I noted she's even more stunning without Ethan's dirty little hoo-ha inside of her.