Monday, December 27, 2010

I Want To Be Joan Rivers

Sound weird, I know. But who has more tenacity? She's almost 80 and she works every day. She has her wits about her. She's completely honest about her insecurities (hence the plastic surgery).  She isn't that far from three digits and she curses like a sailor. She actually has a joke about anal sex and how she likes it because you're free to do other things - like answer emails on the blackberry.

She is varied in her pursuits: comedy, QVC, acting, Celebrity Apprentice, Fashion Police, the red carpet, commercials, NY theater, corporate bookings. If it's work she'll take it.  She's unabashed in her pursuit of money to enable her lifestyle.  And at the same time, she volunteers delivering meals to those in need. Ok, so it's in a limo, but she still does it and goes inside and talks to people who perhaps haven't been outside in months.

Her husband killed himself and she kept going. She made a movie about what it was like with her daughter. Which sounds crass. But she doesn't care because it helped them both. She's a feminist of the highest order and those who say she isn't because she makes fun of other women simply don't get it.  You've got to laugh amidst the sorrow or else what's the point.

She knows who she is and that's refreshing. "I am a performer, that is my life. That's what I am. That's it." Cheers to that, Joan.  I now have an idol. I've never had one before.

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