Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

[I Love a Magician]

Trailer .

this is one of those well-made documentaries that doesn't do much for me. it's solid all the way around, but sort of bland in that way documentaries can be. nice pacing, nice editing, nice looking and all, but not a lot to gran you if you don't already have an interest in the subject, which i don't. of course, i'm not old enough to remember joan rivers as anything more than some woman doing red carpet interviews and THAT FACE, so it was sort of interesting to see her life before the late 90s, but her personality and whole way of being is so grating and overbearing that i couldn't get into it.

C+!

[I Love a Magician]

there are scenes of her working on this play which was pretty much her life story and kept going over the time when johnny carson told her she was going to be a star. hearing her tell that story three or four times made me sink in my chair. i just can't imagine talking about myself like that ALL THE TIME.

movie also shows a couple clips from a made-for-tv movie she made, starring herself and her daughter, about how they dealt with her husband's suicide. just the most insane idea i've ever seen.

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Hey buddy, let's wait to get a word in edge-wise from I Love a Magician before we say anything rash here.

[I Love a Magician]

oh dang it