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Joan Rivers probably works harder in 2010 than every standup comic who ever called her groundbreaking. In the new documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work , the legend repeatedly caws that she is no artifact. She’s riding creaky elevators down New York cellars and wisecracking to crowds. She’s on TV. She’s selling a stage show overseas. And she’s never satisfied with her 50 years of performing — there’s too much money to be made, too many opportunities to pounce upon, and too many disappointments to overcome. She is work. But as the film proves, she is also a scratchy sage who can articulate the thrills and pitfalls of ambition better than any of her colleagues in the mic-brandishing game. Movieline phoned the 77-year-old comic great yesterday to discuss the A Piece of Work , the flattery of Johnny Carson’s resentment, her favorite comedians, and the failures (including the suicide of her husband Edgar) she refuses to forget.

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Joan Rivers: ‘You Never Dwell on the Success’