Random Musing: Joan Rivers Has Died

"It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers. She passed peacefully at 1:17 p.m. surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff of Mount Sinai Hospital for the amazing care they provided for my mother. [My] son, Cooper and I have found ourselves humbled by the outpouring of love, support and prayers we have received from around the world. They have been heard and appreciated. My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon."--Melissa Rivers.

I loved Joan Rivers. I love snark and sarcasm and I love shocking people into fits of laughter like she used to do to me every single time I watched her. I'm going to miss the laughter, most all, but from now on, every time i do, I'll think of her.

Thanks Joan, for making me laugh, at the world, at you, at myself, for all these years. You will be missed.

RIP Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall; classy dame, quite a broad; never one to mince words, she always told it like she meant it. Starting with her appearance alongside future husband Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not, when she uttered one of my favorite film lines …

“You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”

Bacall married Bogart in 1945 and they stayed married until he died of throat cancer in 1957. And though she had affairs with the likes of Frank Sinatra, and married again, to Jason Robards for eight years, she had made it very clear back in 1957 that Humphrey Bogart was the one true love of her life.

On the day of his funeral she slipped a whistle into his coffin.

RIP Lauren … Bogie’s whistling.

RIP Robin Williams

The late Robin Williams, from Inside the Actor’s Studio, on what he hoped 'God' might say to him when he reached the Gates of heaven:

“It’d be nice to know that there is laughter. That’d be a good thing.”

i'm not a firm believer in Heaven, but if there is such a place I'd imagine there'd be a lot more laughter now.

RIP

Elaine Stritch 

February 2, 1925 to July 17, 2014

One of the great ballsy, funny, sassy, outspoken, showtune singing broads.

She will be missed.

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