{"id":18203,"date":"2014-09-08T04:27:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=18203"},"modified":"2014-09-08T05:35:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T11:35:22","slug":"at-private-funeral-for-joan-rivers-celebrities-fans-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/at-private-funeral-for-joan-rivers-celebrities-fans-gather\/","title":{"rendered":"At private funeral for Joan Rivers, celebrities, fans gather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Howard Stern offered a eulogy and Hugh Jackman provided a musical interlude at the celebrity-studded funeral for comedian Joan Rivers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18204\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rivers_Joan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18204\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18204 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rivers_Joan-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Rivers, who was buried on Sunday in a private service.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rivers_Joan-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rivers_Joan.jpg 349w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/189;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18204\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rivers_Joan-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Rivers, who was buried on Sunday in a private service.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rivers_Joan-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rivers_Joan.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-18204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Rivers, who was buried on Sunday in a private service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of mourners attended the private service on Sunday at Temple Emanu-El in New York City. The temple&#8217;s rabbi, Joshua Davidson, offered the opening prayer at the funeral, which was closed to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Fans and paparazzi also gathered outside the synagogue to pay their respects.<\/p>\n<p>Television host Charlie Rose called the funeral \u201cmoving, funny, loving,\u201d and said Rivers \u201cwould have liked it,\u201d The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Rose was among the television personalities, journalists and entertainment stars who came to remember Rivers, 81, the trailblazing comic who died Thursday, a week after being rushed to Manhattan\u2019s Mount Sinai Hospital after her heart stopped during throat surgery at a clinic. Doctors at the hospital put her in an induced coma.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Melissa, with whom the late comic appeared on a reality television show, also spoke at the funeral. The New York City Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus performed show tunes and Broadway actress Audra McDonald sang &#8220;Smile,&#8221; according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on the Joan Rivers website, Melissa Rivers wrote last week, \u201cMy mother\u2019s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her 2012 book, &#8220;I Hate Everyone &#8230; Starting With Me,&#8221; Rivers described her funeral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I die (and, yes, Melissa, that day will come; and, yes, Melissa, everything&#8217;s in your name), I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action \u2026 I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way,&#8221; she wrote, adding, &#8220;I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents \u2026 I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyonce&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"At%20private%20funeral%20for%20Joan%20Rivers%2C%20celebrities%2C%20fans%20gather%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8851,8790,8795,2257,8788,494],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18210,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions\/18210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}