smeyer418 Posted January 6, 2010 #1 Share Posted January 6, 2010 http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/01/05/2010-01-05_agent_saves_flight_from_joan_rivers.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul929207 Posted January 6, 2010 #2 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Glad to see the rich and famous are having as much fun flying as the 'little people'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coolmama_1 Posted January 6, 2010 #3 Share Posted January 6, 2010 That is too funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelSmarty Posted January 6, 2010 #4 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Yah, it's really funny!... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flinstones Posted January 6, 2010 #5 Share Posted January 6, 2010 I like how she kept her sense of humour through the whole thing. Good for my morning chuckle. Have a good day everyone. I'm sailing on the 14th. Yippee!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pms4104 Posted January 6, 2010 #6 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Likely time for her to get her passport reissued in her legal name, either Rivers or Rosenberg, whichever is the case. Guessing the fee would not be beyond her financial circumstances. Surprised the State Dept ever issued a passport with two names, one of which was an AKA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parody Posted January 6, 2010 #7 Share Posted January 6, 2010 As David Letterman joked last night, it was because the photo on her passport was her old face! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FlyerTalker Posted January 6, 2010 #8 Share Posted January 6, 2010 I thought the part about only having $100 and no plastic was telling. Times must be tough. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globaliser Posted January 8, 2010 #9 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Likely time for her to get her passport reissued in her legal name, either Rivers or Rosenberg, whichever is the case.The story makes me suspect that Rosenberg is her legal name (otherwise why have it on her passport at all?) - and including Rivers on the passport is just an extreme case of DYKWIA. If that is true, no sympathy whatsoever. I have no time for DYKWIAs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pms4104 Posted January 8, 2010 #10 Share Posted January 8, 2010 The story makes me suspect that Rosenberg is her legal name (otherwise why have it on her passport at all?) - and including Rivers on the passport is just an extreme case of DYKWIA. If that is true, no sympathy whatsoever. I have no time for DYKWIAs. Took me a bit to figure out and translated: I'm Important and You're Not In any event, she built her reputation as Joan Rivers ... and her husband (Rosenberg) is long dead, so it's time for her to revisit reality and decide which really is her legal name and get the passport issued accordiingly. Can't imagine I would be permitted to have my legal name as well as an alias on my legal docs. Then again, I'm not a DYKWIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Tillie Posted January 8, 2010 #11 Share Posted January 8, 2010 This happened in Costa Rica. The agent was most likely a Tico who had NO idea who she was!:eek::D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brfan Posted January 8, 2010 #12 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Took me a bit to figure out and translated: I'm Important and You're Not In any event, she built her reputation as Joan Rivers ... and her husband (Rosenberg) is long dead, so it's time for her to revisit reality and decide which really is her legal name and get the passport issued accordiingly. Can't imagine I would be permitted to have my legal name as well as an alias on my legal docs. Then again, I'm not a DYKWIA. Is it possible she was having problems by going under only Rosenberg? Perhaps security thought she was trying to go under an alias using that name thinking her legal name was Joan Rivers. So that is why she had the aka? I can't imagine the passport control office would do anything for DYKWIA reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseryyc Posted January 8, 2010 #13 Share Posted January 8, 2010 I saw her on Larry King the other night and at the end of the conversation (or rant) she mentioned that the problem might have because her ticket and boarding pass had the name "Joseph" on it instead of "Joan" - bingo that was the problem, not the names on her passport. Perhaps she should pay more attention to what her ticket said before getting to the airport - or maybe pay her staff more money to pay attention to this type of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeyer418 Posted January 8, 2010 Author #14 Share Posted January 8, 2010 I saw her on Larry King the other night and at the end of the conversation (or rant) she mentioned that the problem might have because her ticket and boarding pass had the name "Joseph" on it instead of "Joan" - bingo that was the problem, not the names on her passport. Perhaps she should pay more attention to what her ticket said before getting to the airport - or maybe pay her staff more money to pay attention to this type of thing. LOL I always know you shouldn't trust the first reports. That makes more sense than just because both names appear on the passport. and we should remember it was a report in the NY Daily News...better than the Post by far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic The Parrot Posted January 8, 2010 #15 Share Posted January 8, 2010 And to think she'll never visit there again. Oh, the horror. (Good for Costa Rica ... ;) :D ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voyager70 Posted January 8, 2010 #16 Share Posted January 8, 2010 As David Letterman joked last night, it was because the photo on her passport was her old face! LMAO could very well be the case :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic The Parrot Posted January 9, 2010 #17 Share Posted January 9, 2010 As David Letterman joked last night, it was because the photo on her passport was her old face! But which old face ?? Aren't there at least 10 layers underneath? ;) :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich40245 Posted January 9, 2010 #18 Share Posted January 9, 2010 I saw her on Larry King the other night and at the end of the conversation (or rant) she mentioned that the problem might have because her ticket and boarding pass had the name "Joseph" on it instead of "Joan" - bingo that was the problem, not the names on her passport. Perhaps she should pay more attention to what her ticket said before getting to the airport - or maybe pay her staff more money to pay attention to this type of thing. The employee took issue because Joan's passport listed her as Joan Rosenberg, AKA Joan Rivers, and her boarding pass, which she admits she didn't look at, said "John [or] Joseph instead of Joan." http://omg.yahoo.com/news/joan-rivers-on-her-costa-rica-airport-incident-i-m-not-going-to-put-a-bomb-in-a-chanel-bag/33519 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSMcDuffy Posted January 9, 2010 #19 Share Posted January 9, 2010 The employee took issue because Joan's passport listed her as Joan Rosenberg, AKA Joan Rivers, and her boarding pass, which she admits she didn't look at, said "John [or] Joseph instead of Joan." I heard her say this on LKL and it made total sense why they wouldn't let her board. She also said she went thru a few other check points and they didn't catch the name on the boarding pass and they should have. So the airport screwed up but she should have caught it. I hope they all learned a very important lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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