“I’ve had a great life”, insisted Joan Rivers. “If I dropped dead right now, nobody’s going to say ‘So young’. I’ve had such a great ride.”
As news of Joan Rivers’ passing ricocheted around the world Thursday, we took a moment to comb our archives for some of Rivers’ recent high points and low points:
Celebrities turn to Twitter to tribute Joan Rivers.
Joan Rivers, the pioneering comedian known for her acerbic wit, classic put-downs and for asking \”Can we talk?,\” died on Thursday at the age of 81 in a New York hospital a week after her heart stopped during an outpatient medical procedure.
As a little boy growing up in Mill Valley, Calif., playing baseball meant the world to Tyler Barbee.
At first, the idea of going on a Birthright trip seemed silly, at best. I’d already been to Israel, twice – once on a family trip when I was 15 and first exposed to lax drinking laws and Jewish college boys, and again before my senior year of high school, on a Write on Fellowship trip.
Historically, women have been under-represented in clinical trials.
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