http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/03/face-to-face-with-joan-rivers/ Celebrating Women of Style and Substance Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:41:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/03/face-to-face-with-joan-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-3496 Heather Chapple Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:22:17 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7070#comment-3496 You don't always have to agree but you have to admire! Can't wait to see the film. You don’t always have to agree but you have to admire! Can’t wait to see the film.

]]> http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/03/face-to-face-with-joan-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-3495 Toby Wollin Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:15:42 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7070#comment-3495 Do you remember the scene in "Scent of a Woman" where the boy discovers that Al Pacino's character is going to try to kill himself? He's blind; he's pissed off at life and himself. He feels useless - as I recall he uses the phrase, "I can't chew the leather any more". Joan Rivers is not a stupid or silly person - obsessed, perhaps. But not stupid - she's a graduate of Barnard College. At this point in her life, she knows what her choices ARE: work, even if you turn yourself into a cartoon of yourself, or become an elderly person, with all of that entails -- to 'stop being able to chew the leather' - to lose your place at the fireside. To be disposable. As long as she chews the scenery and people pay her to do it, then she gets a place at the fireside - it's as simple as that. She's going to wrestle life to the ground every day until she can't any more. There are a lot of people who despise her, are uncomfortable with her, can't even look at her. But they can't take away from her the fact that she is determined to keep her place at the fireside of life. Do you remember the scene in “Scent of a Woman” where the boy discovers that Al Pacino’s character is going to try to kill himself? He’s blind; he’s pissed off at life and himself. He feels useless – as I recall he uses the phrase, “I can’t chew the leather any more”. Joan Rivers is not a stupid or silly person – obsessed, perhaps. But not stupid – she’s a graduate of Barnard College. At this point in her life, she knows what her choices ARE: work, even if you turn yourself into a cartoon of yourself, or become an elderly person, with all of that entails — to ‘stop being able to chew the leather’ – to lose your place at the fireside. To be disposable.
As long as she chews the scenery and people pay her to do it, then she gets a place at the fireside – it’s as simple as that. She’s going to wrestle life to the ground every day until she can’t any more. There are a lot of people who despise her, are uncomfortable with her, can’t even look at her. But they can’t take away from her the fact that she is determined to keep her place at the fireside of life.

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