I'm going to miss that voice just as I've missed John Facenda's narrative of so many NFL game highlights.

haha, sorry prize..

Richard Attenborough has passed away at the age of 90. He is best known for being in The Great Escape, and Jurassic Park. Directing A Bridge Too Far, Chaplin, and Gandhi. RIP to a great talent.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28923074

RIP Richard..

Chapman Pincher was an English journalist, historian, and novelist died aged 100 on the 4th Aug. Only i had picked him..

RIP..

Liked him in the original flight of the Phoenix staring James Stuart

The serial killer, Robert Hansen, died recently.

John Cusack portrayed him in a decent movie a year ago.

Former cricket player Norman Gordon died aged 103. I Picked him..

RIP Joan Rivers

RIP Joan! She was one funny lady!

I was never a fan. But what a terrible thing to go in for minor surgery and never wake up. The cynic in me has to wonder if it was some kind of elective procedure?

Because she was never shy about the plastic surgery. But either way, RIP. And I feel bad for her daughter. It seems to me that she'll be lost without her Mom.

Good riddance. The world won't miss a repulsive freak who makes derogatory statements about innocent children getting massacred in Gaza.

I wonder what would happen if a (non Jewish) comedian made similarly disgusting comments about Jewish children at Auschwitz?

She apparently went in for throat surgery, for some chronic problem: "Yorkville Endoscopy, where the 81-year-old comedian went for a minor procedure on Aug. 28, has attracted the attention of state health officials, who are looking into what went wrong."

She's lived on the Upper East Side all her life. She'll go to Frank E. Campbell's. Guaranteed. The only other possibility would be Riverside on the West Side. But I doubt it.

The funeral itself might end up at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue. I don't believe she was very devout in her faith. But that's a money Temple. Michael Bloomberg, Barbara Walters, et al. Big money, high profile congregation.

I liked Joan Rivers way more in the beginning of her career as opposed to later years. I remember many times seeing her on Ed Sullivan.

Decades ago, Rivers ALWAYS teased/joked about Liz Taylor's weight. She was so blunt!! I remember her saying that every time Liz was in McDonalds, you'd see the "millions served number" (for those who remember)rise at a very fast pace,


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I hope she isn't waiting for Johnny Carson to save her a seat in the cafeteria up there.

I would have thought SC would have picked her.RIP

I've had that procedure done a few times - it's an endoscopy - they send a little camera down your throat and look around for things like growths, tumors, ulcers, etc. I never thought of it as being risky but I guess it's still "surgery" and ANY surgery has a degree of risk.

I don't think anyone had her. She was older but always appeared to be in good health. I wouldn't have thought of adding her to my list.






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Joking aside, I never saw this coming. She wasn't THAT old and I thought she was in relatively good health.

She was in more danger of having her skin snap from all the facelifts than she was of dying from a supposedly "simple" medical procedure.

Correct, as usual - Temple Emanu-El on Sunday. RIP.

Ha ha ha!! And I'd bet she'd even like that joke!!


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Ugh, this year has just been tough. A lot of great talent gone this year and some of the funniest people on earth. Sid Caesar, Harold Ramis, Robin, and now Joan. RIP to a talented, funny, controversial lady.

Thanks, Mikey. But correct, as usual? Not hardly .

I spent 25 years in funeral service in this City, mostly in Manhattan and Brooklyn. And this one was a no-brainer. She's famous, Jewish, moneyed, and she's lived on the Upper East Side almost all her life.

The only other possibility would have been the Park East Synagogue on East 67th Street. But that place is for a slightly more devout clientele (and I'm not making any assumptions about her dedication to her faith, but I've read that she considered herself "culturally Jewish," but not very devout ).

A lot of celebrities say that they are culturally Jewish. I don't really get that. What is culturally Jewish? Conforming to a stereotype?

I mean you would never really hear someone say they're culturally Muslim, culturally Catholic or culturally Protestant.

Culturally Italian, culturally Irish, culturally Puerto Rican kinda makes sense.

Guess they are a nomadic people which kind of muddies the proverbial water.

If she was more "devout" the funeral would be held tomorrow (and not three days later as it is being held).

Of course. That goes without saying.

If she was a poor and devout Russian Jewish woman living in a fifth floor walk-up on King's Highway, the ritual washing would already be done, she'd be wrapped and casketed, there'd be a shomer with her all night, and she'd be ready to go out to Washington Cemetery on Bay Parkway and MacDonald Avenue first thing tomorrow morning .

How am I doing for an Italian American Catholic?

Pretty good except remember that Jews and Italians are the same - except Italians have better food.

"Jews with better food" ---- Tony Soprano

I saw her a few times at the Upstairs at the Down stairs in the 70s. She was actually pretty funny then.

But we used to freeze our asses off. She wanted a cold room for some reason when she performed.