Joan Rivers denied boarding-agent didn't like her passport

[smeyer418]

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/01/05/2010-01-05_agent_saves_flight_from_joan_rivers.html

[paul929207]

Glad to see the rich and famous are having as much fun flying as the 'little people'.

[Coolmama_1]

That is too funny!

[TravelSmarty]

Yah, it's really funny!...

[Flinstones]

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!!!!

[pms4104]

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.

[parody]

As David Letterman joked last night, it was because the photo on her passport was her old face!

[FlyerTalker]

I thought the part about only having $100 and no plastic was telling. Times must be tough. :rolleyes:

[Globaliser]

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.

[pms4104]

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.

[Texas Tillie]

This happened in Costa Rica. The agent was most likely a Tico who had NO idea who she was!:eek::D

[brfan]

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.

[cruiseryyc]

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.

[smeyer418]

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

[Vic The Parrot]

And to think she'll never visit there again. Oh, the horror.

 

 

(Good for Costa Rica ... ;) :D )

[voyager70]

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

[Vic The Parrot]

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

[rich40245]

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

[MSMcDuffy]

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.