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Joan

Rivers

CONFIDENTIAL

Melissa Rivers

with Scott Currie

ABRAMS, NEW YORK

Joan

Rivers

CONFIDENTIAL

Editor: David Cashion

Designer: Carol Bobolts

Production Manager: Denise LaCongo

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960985

ISBN: 978-1-4197-2673-6

eISBN: 978-1-68335-132-0

Text copyright 2017 Sheboygan Productions, LLC.

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MELISSA RIVERS:

OK, Scott,

why

did you convince me to do this

book, besides the fact that after my

mother died, I found myself

swimming in boxes and boxes and

boxes and boxes of all her stuff?

Not to mention the storage bills

and storage bills and storage bills

and storage bills to store all those

boxes.

SCOTT CURRIE:

I saw that there

were some interesting things that

had been saved over the years,

when I was helping you pack up

her apartment. Not that I was

snoopinggod knows the woman

couldnt keep a secretbut I

thought, lets see what else we can

find. I had no idea how much your

mother kept.

RIVERS:

You are very kind not to

call it random crap. Seriously,

people dont know how much a

part of my family you are, and how

close you were to my mother. You

were the gay son she always

wanted and that I could never be.

CURRIE:

But you were clearly her

favorite! I was just the East Coast

child. I first got to know her after

being hired as an associate

producer on her daytime talk show.

I showed up on the first day of

work wearing white bucks.

RIVERS: She fell in love with you

right there.

CURRIE:

It was summer, but I

knew my footwear was a unique,

bold choice, and that was the

beginning.

RIVERS:

Well, you did me such a

service by even attempting to

organize all of my mothers work

and personal things after she

passed away. Who knew that a

book was going to come out of your

type-A organizational neuroses?

CURRIE:

Well, give a Virgo a task

and this is what you get. There

were fifty-five scrapbooks alone,

and that was just the tip of the

iceberg. I cant tell you how many

boxes were in storage. It was intim-

idating, and they had no air

conditioning there and it was a hot

house. We started this book in

AugustI went down a dress size

unpacking those boxes.

RIVERS:

My father was a fastidi-

ous record keeper, so thats why we

have everything from day one. I

dont think I ever realized that

other than her jokes, my mother

and father were such guardians of

her artifacts.

CURRIE:

She saved every news

clipping and magazine beginning

in 1959.

RIVERS:

And she was not discrim-

inating. She kept the bad articles as

well as the good and put them all

into scrapbooks.

CURRIE:

Would there be scrap-

book days in the Rivers household

where you all sat around gluing

articles in?

RIVERS:

Uhhhh, no. Honestly, Im

not sure when she did any of this,

but she was a night owl...

CURRIE:

I found a 1978 article

about

Rabbit Test

, the film Joan

directed, that listed it as a movie

which had made money that year.

On the clipping, in her handwriting,

is Wheres our (the) money? She

would actually talk back by writing

in the margins. On a couple of other

ones, she underlined sentences and

wrote Not true! But she glued

them in anyway. I felt like I was

finding mini time capsules as I

went along. For example,

The

Tonight Show

archives were in two

separate boxes: from the 1960s to

1979 and 1979 to 1986. They were

packed in bubble wrap with brown

paper around them with the lids

sealed. Everything was labeled and

dated. Its unbelievable how

methodically organized they were.

RIVERS:

All joking aside, what

made you want to do this project?

CURRIE:

Your mother meant so

much to me and touched so many

people in her lifetime, and I knew

that there were some who didnt

know how much she had accom-

plished from her early days through

to

Fashion Police

. I thought a book

incorporating the scrapbooks and

everything else she saved would be

a unique and interesting way of

showing who she was to multiple

generations.

RIVERS:

Did you find this project

cathartic?

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