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May 2012
By G. Michael Dobbs
news@thereminder.com
Joan Rivers is in a state of motion, which appears to be, looking at her schedule on her website, a typical status for her.
"We're going through a tunnel. But if we get cut off, I'll call you right back," she promised.
As I spoke to her on April 10, she told me she was in a car heading to New Jersey, where she appeared on QVC promoting her successful line of women's fashion accessories.
Then on April 11, she flew to California to prepare for the taping of her hit E! show "Fashion Police.," She taped the show on April 12 and later that day appeared with fellow comic legend Don Rickles at a casino. Then she was back on the East Coast for a succession of appearances in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont before heading back to the West Coast.
Whew.
One of her stops will be at Worcester's Hanover Theater for the Performing Arts on May 22 for her show "My Life in Show Business; 135 Years and Counting."
How does she do it? At age 79, why does she do it?
Rivers said that she must have Attention Deficit Disorder.
"I get very bored. I like conquering mountains," she told PRIME. When confronted with a new project her reaction is, "OK, of course we can do it."
"Conquering mountains" has been standard operating procedure for Rivers for all of her career.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College, Rivers did aspire to do something inconceivable for a woman in the early 1960s: become a comic. She worked for seven years before receiving her big break in 1968 when Johnny Carson...
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