Joan Rivers Confidential: The Unseen Scrapbooks, Joke Cards, Personal Files, and Photos of a Very Funny Woman Who Kept Everything - Hardcover

Rivers, Melissa; Currie, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1419726730 ISBN 13: 9781419726736

Publisher: Abrams, 2017

Synopsis

Joan Rivers is an enduring icon of the 20th century, and her wildly popular humour has appealed to generations of fans. With a career that began in the late 1950s, Joan kept mementos over the course of her entire working life, and The Joan Rivers Scrapbook is a compilation of never-before-seen personal archives. Assembled by her daughter Melissa with Scott Currie, the book contains scripts and monologues, letters from famous friends, exchanges with fans, rare photographs, as well as classic and never-before-heard jokes many simply scribbled on everything from hotel stationery to airplane boarding passes. Touching on subjects from her 50 years in show business (The Tonight Show, Las Vegas, Elisabeth Taylor, Heidi Abromowitz, the red carpet and Fashion Police), this is a revelatory and humour-filled insider look at the remarkably popular, multitalented comedian.

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Review:

"The truth is that [Melissa] Rivers has been doing all she can to keep her mother's voice as loud and brash as ever. To that end, she is publishing Joan Rivers Confidential, a coffee table-style scrapbook in which she has assembled many of the funniest monologues, letters and never-before-heard jokes (some scribbled on aeroplane boarding passes) that her mother amassed over the years. I want it to commemorate a woman who stayed so relevant, and skewered every one of the sacred cows, not in order to make a point but simply because she wanted to be funny. --The Daily Telegraph

'It's easy to forget, in this era of Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, how revolutionary it was for a meticulously coiffed, nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn born in 1933! to get up onstage and crack jokes about hookers, the Holocaust, and her vagina. What fun it is to be reminded.' --W magazine

"Melissa Rivers, 49, admits she did not know about her late mother's own neuroses - saving every news clipping and magazine article beginning in 1959 that mentioned her. Good or bad feature or review, Joan kept them all and glued them into scrapbooks and stored everything away in boxes, containing five decades of unseen scripts, monologues, and letters from famous friends. After her untimely death at age 81 in 2014, Melissa and Joan's close friend Scott Currie decided to look through just what was in storage. It is presented in a masterful and engrossing book, Joan Rivers Confidential: The Unseen Scrapbooks, Joke Cards, Personal Files, and Photos of a Very Funny Woman Who Kept Everything assembled by Melissa and Scott and published by Abrams" Daily Mail

"The book's letters and jokes provide an enthralling look under the lid of the late Joan's entertaining and controversial life." --Heat Magazine

From the Author:

Melissa Rivers is an Ivy League school graduate, co-creator of the Red Carpet franchise, and the executive producer for the E! Entertainment series FashionPolice. She is also the author of Red Carpet Ready: Secrets for Making the Most of Any Moment You're in the Spotlight and is the first celebrity to partner with renowned online footwear brand Zappos.com. She lives with her two dogs and son, Cooper, in Los Angeles.
              

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1419726730
• ISBN 13: 9781419726736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336