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6 Mar, 2007 11:33 pm
Listening to conservative commentator Ann Coulter's performance at this month's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC ) reminded me of a poor man's Joan Rivers-a wannabe comedienne who makes a sensible audience shake their heads rather than laugh. But the audience
at CPAC, intoxicated with racial and political bile, was anything but sensible. The mainstream media has reported ad nauseam on Coulter's reference to ...
18 Jun, 2008 6:46 pm
Comedienne and actress Joan Rivers was tossed off the ITV live program "Loose Women" after she used
two of George Carlin's 7 words in referring to actor Russell Crowe. They're as banned in Britain as they are in the U.S....
28 Jul 3:46 pm
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this blog is about you, don't you? That's because Americans spent $10.3 billion on 12.1 million cosmetic procedures last year. And Congress thinks
it's time to cash in. The Senate is currently considering imposing a 10% excise tax on cosmetic procedures which are not medically necessary. These would include nose jobs, face lifts,
teeth whitening, Botox, hair transplants and boob jobs - basically items which are disallowed as deductible medical expenses under ...
7 Dec, 2008 3:30 am
... Authority Financing's proposal to establish tolls along the East and Harlem Rivers. The Comptroller will further call for an equitable
plan, including one that which would increase ... today were: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, State Assembly Members Joan L.
Millman and Jose R. Peralta, Senators Eric Adams, Kevin S. ... Council's Transportation Committee, stated: "The proposal to toll the East and Harlem River bridges is highly
divisive and will only tear the City apart, setting borough ...
27 Apr 3:19 pm
Tom, As a follow up to yesterday's posting, it looks like Joan King is about to retire and her last day at work will be on April 30th. While
Mrs. King is sipping cocktails in Palm Beach, her latest batch of lemmings ... you walked in and they had a whole new management, with no explanation. 'Hudson' is appropriately named
because it is like the sewer water in the Hudson River. They will tell you about how you are 'lucky to have any job' and tell you about appropriate attire and to re-do your
resume. ...
9 Jun 7:36 am
On Friday, the mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts allegedly ran a stop sign and crashed his 2003 Lexus into another car while touring the city with the state's top transportation
official. Mayor Robert Correai was driving Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation James A. Aloisi Jr., as well as Senator Joan Menard and
Rep. Michael Rodrigues, when the auto accident occurred. They were on their way to meet a news reporter. The driver of the ...
28 Aug 3:40 pm
... Airport in New Jersey and his supervisor have been placed on administrative leave because the controller was involved in 'apparently inappropriate conversations' at the time of the
[midair] crash between a small plane and a tour helicopter that killed nine people" (Joan Lowy, FindLaw News 8/14). Although officials have
said that the phone call probably had no impact on the tragic crash, it exposed several flaws in the air traffic control room including that the supervisor was not in the room as ...
23 Nov 7:06 am
... is not related to the most meaty part of the bill. Why? Because it renders it virtually impossible for the average taxpayer to follow along. Do I think that's purposeful? I'm not
saying that it is. But is it transparent? Absolutely not.Similar Posts: Joan Rivers, Cher In Trouble:
Congress to Tax Plastic Surgery Congress Puts Brakes on Health Care Reform Fix the Tax Code Friday: Health Care Reform Health Care ...
10 May 5:54 pm
... HBO's The Number One Ladies Detective Agency. There's the three hour finale of Celebrity Apprentice where Joan Rivers goes to bat against her arch-rival, poker champ Annie Duke. (Joan has the better team but Annie should win
since she's the better player. It should ... deserves to win. 45 minutes to go though. Update: My final prediction, with 20 minutes to go: Joan
wins. There's also a new Desperate Housewives and the season finale of Brothers and Sisters. ...
6 Nov, 2008 10:19 pm
... asked Melvin about one of the incidents, in which Spector allegedly waved a gun at a man in a stairwell at a Joan Rivers Christmas party. "I just thought he was crazy," she said. "Did you ... threatened?" Do asked. "No," Melvin said. "I'm not easily intimidated." Melvin,
who was Rivers' manager at the time, said she invited Spector back to the next year's holiday party with Rivers' agreement, "if he didn't bring a gun." "He had a keyboard and played, and everyone enjoyed it tremendously," she said.
10 Aug 1:43 am
A tipster pointed me to Survivor producer Mark Burnett's new reality show, How'd You Get So Rich, starring the irrepressible Joan
Rivers. You can watch the entire first episode here. The show features three rags-to-riches stories, where Joan visits their homes, looks at all their fancy stuff, and basically cracks a lot of jokes. What's pertinent here is the third segment featured none other
than ...
5 Aug, 2008 12:41 am
Joan Rivers, age 75, says everybody should have Botox, the wrinkle-free injection for maintaining a
youthful appearance. "Age has freed me to say whatever I want. Everyone should do Botox. Botulism is everywhere - in the air we breathe. I always say a little botulism never hurt
anyone." Ms. Rivers probably has not met the victims of Castleberry's Chili, but she is funny.
7 Nov, 2008 4:38 pm
... her boyfriend, "had displayed a gun and kept her purse." Melvin, former manager of comedian Joan Rivers, testified earlier that she had a romantic relationship with Spector which ended after the incident. She claimed that a drunken Spector hit her head
with a pistol, causing welts and drawing ... 's purse was retrieved and she declined to press charges because it would cause unwanted publicity for Rivers. The officer also said he saw no sign that Spector was drunk. Spector, 68, a ...
30 Nov, 2006 3:52 am
... Studios filed a federal court lawsuit Wednesday to stop comedy teacher Judy Brown from publishing his punch lines in her books, which are largely compilations of jokes uttered by
Leno and other comedians, including Ellen DeGeneres, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, Lucille Ball and
Tim Allen. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, said that Brown and her publishers have turned out nearly two dozen such joke books. "Brown ...
8 May, 2007 12:38 am
This Dave Hughes bit was the highlight of the Logies: (Hat tip: Goals and Girls Blog.) However, it was still not a patch on Joan
Rivers last year:
11 Jul, 2007 12:15 pm
... before he allegedly shot actress Lana Clarkson, Phil Spector angrily declared that women "all deserve a bullet in their heads," a former security guard testified Monday. Spector had
been escorted out of Christmas parties at Joan Rivers' New York home two years in a row in the 1990s
after ranting about shooting women. Another setback in Spector's defense is the uncertainity that forensic science expert witness Henry Lee will appear as an expert. As ...
21 Sep, 2007 5:25 am
... at the University of Montana and Syracuse University this month, praising "independent" judges. At this rate, we'll be seeing Justice Antonin Scalia doing David Letterman's Top Ten,
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg critiquing the red carpet with Joan Rivers and Justice Anthony Kennedy
appearing on "America's Got Talent." Our justices are loose upon popular culture -- and I'm not crazy about it.
5 Nov, 2007 9:19 am
... 1985 he asked for a three-month sabbatical and moved to Los Angeles. He never went back to the law firm. His early writing assignments included writing one-line jokes for the
short-lived "The Late Show with Joan Rivers" and the iconic "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny
Carson." Out of work during the last writer's strike in 1988, Mr. Verrone took the California bar exam and later became involved with the Los Angeles County Bar Association. ...
7 Nov, 2007 9:06 pm
... The second thing that amuses me about this case is that Dennis Crouch (indirectly) compared my blog to People Magazine! You know, you go into this blogging thing expecting to be the
next Linda Greenhouse and you end up being compared to Joan Rivers. Where's the respect? Oh well,
that's what I get for mocking contingency lawyers and serial non-practicing entities. I should watch it: I may be one of those one day myself....
4 Jan, 2008 3:00 am
... : Several posts on Big Brother, including You must watch Big Brother!, The latest Big Brother controversy, Australian Big Brother is news in the US, and (tragically) It's time to go
... Gretel. The best of the Logies - videos of Dave Hughes from 2007 and Joan Rivers from 2006.
Sunday morning television - celebrating ABC's Insiders. Jessica Rowe boned - the Channel Nine saga comes to an end. Reconsidering Al-Jazeera - ...
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