Joan Rivers 1990 article, asserted: ""The Joan Rivers Show" is a better showcase for her funny edginess than her doomed 1988 Fox nighttime program was. The best thing about her daytime talker is that Rivers' stream-of-consciousness chattiness is allowed to guide the show — you never know where the conversation is going to go". In addition to winning the Emmy for "The Joan Rivers Show", Rivers starred in the made-for-television comedy "How to Murder a Millionaire", which premiered in May 1990 on CBS. In the film, co-starring Alex Rocco and Telma Hopkins, she took on the role of a Beverly Hills matron
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