Joan Rivers television critic Jack Gould called Rivers "quite possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive". In 2017, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked her sixth on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, and in October the same year, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born on June 8, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman) and Meyer C. Molinsky. She had an elder sister named Barbara Waxler. Rivers spent her early life in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, where she attended the progressive
How Cruel in Australia. "Rosie" was included on Armatrading's first compilation album, 1983's "Track Record", as well as her 2004 live album "". All four tracks from this EP were placed at the start of the second CD of Armatrading's 2003 compilation album "Love and Affection: Joan Armatrading Classics (1975–1983)". All tracks composed by Joan Armatrading. How Cruel How Cruel is a 12-inch one-sided EP by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, released in November 1979 on A&M. The title track had previously appeared on Armatrading's live album "Steppin' Out", which was not released in the US. The EP was released in the US