{"id":803,"date":"2010-01-28T09:44:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2010-01-29T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:52:14","slug":"joan-rivers-is-so-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/joan-rivers-is-so-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Rivers Is So Rich . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . and there is no punch line. The 76-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joanrivers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">queen of comedy<\/a> is the richest woman I know in all the ways that truly count. Let\u2019s count a few of them. She lives like Marie Antoinette, only better, because her opulent apartment is in Manhattan and yeah, she\u2019s still living. She is a completely devoted mother and doting grandmother.  She is the hardest-working woman in show business.  She\u2019s a jewelry designer and CEO. No one can keep up with her pace.  And this week this rich funny lady is the subject of a new documentary debuting at the <a href=\"http:\/\/festival.sundance.org\/2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sundance Film Festival<\/a>, fittingly titled <a href=\"http:\/\/sundance.bside.com\/2010\/films\/joanriversapieceofwork_sundance2010\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.<\/em><\/a> She is just that and so much more.  The early reviews have been stunningly positive so folks in the know agree with me that Joan Rivers is replete with riches.  She gave the filmmakers <a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/player\/bcpid28390723001?bctid=61950994001\" target=\"_blank\">Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg<\/a> carte blanche to chronicle her 75th year of life.  Imagine having cameras follow you everywhere for a year.  I can\u2019t, but for Joan, it was business as usual.  She told Ricki Stern, \u201cI\u2019ve been in front of the cameras all my life.\u201d  Indeed she has, and one thing that makes her life so richly rewarding is that the public can\u2019t get enough of her. We pulled for her on <em>The Apprentice,<\/em> we gawked with her as she took us on her TV journey of <em>How\u2019d You Get So Rich?,<\/em> we bought her jewelry on QVC, and  we belly-laughed with her at her stand-up gigs. Those of us who have gotten a glimpse of Joan Rivers the human being see a much more complex person than her stage persona. Joan, the comedienne and actress  is the consummate professional continually pushing herself toward artistic perfection, never satisfied, but continually questing for the next big thing. In private, she is the most caring, thoughtful, genuinely sweet person you\u2019ll ever know.  Sometimes I wonder if Joan even knows how truly rich she is.  What I do know is that I\u2019m richer for having her in my life as a friend.  And I can\u2019t wait to see <em>Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 213px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sundance.bside.com\/2010\/films\/joanriversapieceofwork_sundance2010\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-813\" title=\"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20078_288335173997_242460878997_4602849_3279440_n-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20078_288335173997_242460878997_4602849_3279440_n-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20078_288335173997_242460878997_4602849_3279440_n.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . and there is no punch line. The 76-year-old queen of comedy is the richest woman I know in all the ways that truly count. Let\u2019s count a few of them. She lives like Marie Antoinette, only better, because her opulent apartment is in Manhattan and yeah, she\u2019s still living. She is a completely devoted mother and doting grandmother. She is the hardest-working woman in show business. She\u2019s a jewelry designer and CEO. No one can keep up with her pace. And this week this rich funny lady is the subject of a new documentary debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, fittingly titled <em>Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.<\/em> She is just that and so much more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[326,324,329,328,325,327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}