Joan Rivers’ funeral on Sunday was Hollywood “all the way,” just as the comedian requested in her 2012 book “I Hate Everyone … Starting with Me.”
Lights and cameras greeted celebrity attendants including Barbara Walters, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Rosie O’Donnell, Donald Trump, Whoopi Goldberg and E! “Fashion Police” co-stars Kelly Osbourne and Giuliana Rancic, who walked the proverbial red carpet into Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El on 5th Avenue. Rivers’ daughter Melissa avoided the media by entering the Reform synagogue for the private funeral on Madison Ave.
NYPD took the place of publicists and kept a bevy of journalists, photographers and thousands of fans behind barricades.
The temple doors for the comedian’s funeral service closed promptly at 11 a.m. No one from Rivers’ camp addressed the large crowds outside the building.
While the comedian humorously requested that Bobby Vinton sing ‘Mr. Lonely” during services, the crooner reportedly couldn’t make it due to a bout of pneumonia.
