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
Girlfriend Is Better ... is colorfully articulated by guitar and percussion figures that burble along in a fatback echo, sounding like a sink backing up." Girlfriend Is Better "Girlfriend Is Better" is a 1984 song by new wave band Talking Heads, from their fifth studio album "Speaking in Tongues". The song's single version was a live version from the soundtrack of their 1984 concert film "Stop Making Sense". The film's title comes from a lyric in the song. "Rolling Stone"s David Fricke described the song: "On the surface, 'Girlfriend Is Better' is a brassy, straightforward bump number sparked by Byrne's animated bragging ...