What is Joan Rivers?
[[File:Joan Rivers 2010 - David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Rivers in March 2010]] '''Joan Alexandra Molinsky''' (June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), known professionally as '''Joan Rivers''', was a [[comedian]], [[talk show]] [[Presenter|host]], [[business]]woman, and [[celebrity]]. She was known for her tough manner and loud [[voice]] with a heavy [[New York City|New York]] [[accent]]. She was the National [[Chairperson|Chairwoman]] of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and was a board member of God's Love We Deliver.<ref>''Bouncing Back'', p. 110</ref> She won an [[Emmy Award]] in 1990. == Personal life == Rivers was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]]. She was raised in [[Larchmore]], New York. Rivers studied at [[Connecticut College]] and at [[Barnard College]]. Similar to how [[Phyllis Diller]] [[career]] began, Rivers' [[comedy]] act was mainly about bad things about herself. A friend of [[Nancy Reagan|Nancy]] and President [[Ronald Reagan]], Rivers attended a [[state dinner]] in 1983, and later, at the invitation of Nancy, spoke at luncheon at the [[1984 Republican National Convention]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Lavender |first=Paige |date=4 September 2014 |title=Joan Rivers Said Nancy Reagan Helped Her After Her Husband's Suicide |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/04/joan-rivers-nancy-reagan_n_5768458.html |newspaper=Huffington Post |accessdate=18 October 2014 }}<br/>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |agency=Washington Post |title=Nancy Reagan didn't mine Joan Rivers' off-color jokes |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QKxQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=heEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5090%2C6067634 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |date=24 August 1984 |accessdate=18 October 2014 }}<br/>{{cite web |url=http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/09/05/shhhh-joan-rivers-was-ronald-reagan-supporter |title=Shhhh! Joan Rivers Was a Ronald Reagan Supporter |last1=Gladnick |first1=P.J. |date=5 September 2014 |website=Newsbusters |publisher=Media Research Center |accessdate=18 October 2014}}<br/>{{cite