In Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s illuminating but not lacerating documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, the comic says, “No man has ever told me I look beautiful. They’ve said, ‘You look great, you look terrific.’ But never beautiful.” Implicit in that bald statement is a sense of longing, the kind of thing you don’t expect from a woman with the everyday vocabulary of a sailor on shore leave.
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REVIEW: No Rest For the Wicked in Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
