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Sarah Palin: Pray for Joan Rivers
The Hill ^ | August 29 2014 | Judy Kurtz

Posted on 08/30/2014 8:12:59 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network

“As you may remember, I developed a soft spot in my heart for her when we were on Wife Swap together,” Palin writes. “Please pray for her healing and for her family during this awful time. :(“

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To: exit82

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcBFlL8zBBQ

1984—classic Joan Rivers doing stand-up on the Tonight Show.

This type of schtick made her famous.


41 posted on 08/30/2014 10:13:19 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: greene66

I totally agree. Yet again, I will blame the demise of the film studios and the strangle-hold the moguls had on their stars which kept them in line. They had no say in plastic surgery because there wasn’t much available (rumor has it that Marilyn had work done on her chin and nose) but they controlled the hair styles and clothes they wore.

In watching interviews on TMC, I still see stars like Jane Powell and Tippy Hedren looking like real ladies - not the mutants you describe. Katherine Hepburn looked like a normal person to her death!

Fie on bad plastic surgery and the surgeons who commit it!


42 posted on 08/30/2014 10:14:59 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: exit82
She was so fat she was her own buddy at camp.

The 1986 clip was the death knell of her friendship with Carson - and almost the death of her career. She is wearing what she first wore when she appeared on Carson - without telling him that she was leaving his show (as permanent guest host) to host her own - opposite his. Carson, rightfully, never forgave her. Carson absolutely adored comics and comedy writers and was very generous with them. But if you crossed him, you were dead.

Rivers’ show was a disaster which led to the suicide of her husband. She then gave a horrifying press conference that I still haven't forgotten. It speaks well of her, I suppose, that she had the tenacity to pull through all of this and come out more famous than ever. Carson refused to talk to her till the day he died.

43 posted on 08/30/2014 10:21:20 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: miss marmelstein

Thanks for that commentary,mm. Good stuff.

I did not know this was the last time they were together, for some reason I thought it to be later.

I remember the fallout from Joan’s show, and how Carson took it.

Joan’s a fighter, so she managed to carve a new role for herself regarding fashion commentary and stayed in the spotlight. Made a way for her daughter, also.


44 posted on 08/30/2014 10:24:56 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: SamAdams76
Which kind of makes it more realistic, come to think of it.

Now, that's funny, Sam.

45 posted on 08/30/2014 10:26:11 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: SamAdams76

It’s funny you should mention Jerry Falwell. I always used to think he was a jolly sort of fellow. I still remember in the ridiculous brouhaha over the Tellitubies (sic!) when he accused one of them of being gay, he was being castigated on the Today Show for such a point of view. He defended himself but in the middle of interview, he started to laugh helplessly, threw up his hands and admitted the whole thing was pretty silly.


46 posted on 08/30/2014 10:27:05 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You can swap wives?


47 posted on 08/30/2014 10:39:45 AM PDT by South Bay Seaside
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To: miss marmelstein

“I was going to ask if Wife Swap had anything to do with wife swapping. I think Joe Piscapo did it as well.”

With the way the American media culture has been corrupted in the age of Obama, I would not be surprised to see a reality TV show where married couples swapped sexual partners. But, I don’t think the Wife Swap show went quite that far as the show did feature stars like Joe Piscapo.


48 posted on 08/30/2014 10:46:07 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

I was listening to Joe’s radio show after it was aired. He was not too happy about it. I guess he needed the bucks.


49 posted on 08/30/2014 10:47:08 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: exit82

She stole that joke from Rodney Dangerfield.


50 posted on 08/30/2014 10:48:12 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Funny how we gravitate toward people who speak the truth


51 posted on 08/30/2014 11:49:45 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SamAdams76
Take my wife...please.

52 posted on 08/30/2014 12:58:43 PM PDT by Bobalu (Hashem Yerachem (May God Have Mercy)
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To: Yossarian

Bristol Palin was on Wife Swap, not Governor Palin.


53 posted on 08/30/2014 1:48:10 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Tax-chick

My wife is a few months younger than I am. We have been married close to 60 years. She has had no face or any kind of ‘lift’ surgery/changes. A few wrinkles that remind us we are growing older. She is still the Swedish beauty I married.


54 posted on 08/30/2014 2:01:11 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: noinfringers2

Congratulations to both of you!


55 posted on 08/30/2014 2:20:49 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

My wife told me I should have added I was a WWII overseas vet so that you wouldn’t get the idea we were spring chickens.


56 posted on 08/30/2014 2:38:58 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: noinfringers2

Tell your wife I said Hey!

One of my mother’s friends, recently deceased unfortunately, in her retirement community, was a World War II veteran who had married a woman from Sweden. She predeceased him, but just last year when I was visiting, he was talking at supper about how tall and graceful and blonde she was.


57 posted on 08/30/2014 2:49:57 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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58 posted on 08/30/2014 3:10:09 PM PDT by raygunfan
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To: Bratch

“The headline is misleading.”

And of course it was unintentional. </s>


59 posted on 08/30/2014 3:25:10 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I agree with Sarah.

Prayers up for Joan.


60 posted on 08/30/2014 6:11:38 PM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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