Joan Rivers continues to be making individuals snicker.
The late comedy icon was honored at her longtime publicist Scott Currie’s 60th birthday bash on the River Club in NYC, we hear.
The menu included one in every of Rivers’ humorous quotes as an homage to the birthday boy: “I’m so old, my Bible is autographed,” it learn.
Joan’s daughter, Melissa, 56, spoke on the bash and described Currie as “the son my mother never had.”
She additionally recalled her well-known mom’s propensity for snatching stuff from eating places and accommodations. “An unattended housekeeping cart was her holy grail,” she quipped.
In the identical spirit, Melissa and Currie even jokingly inspired the 90 visitors to “take anything that’s not nailed down!”
Melissa attended the social gathering together with her fiancé, Steve Mitchel.
Currie employed famed occasion designer Preston Bailey to remodel the personal membership into the legendary El Morocco.
Bailey replicated the famed twentieth century sizzling spot, full with the well-known blue and white zebra stripes on the carpet, chairs and banquettes. The place was additionally adorned with facsimiles of the membership’s large white palm bushes and cactuses.
Bailey even had reproductions of the membership’s ashtrays, and matchbooks, at each desk. The social gathering additionally had every part one would count on from a prime PR guru: A elaborate crowd and a little bit of gossip.
Martha Stewart, Dorinda Medley, Greg Calejo, Baruch Shemtov, Erik Bottcher, Elie Tahari, Candace Bushnell, Peggy Siegel, Anne Dexter-Jones, Stephen Baldwin, Thom Felicia, Dennis Basso, Nikki Haskell and Frank and Chris DiLella have been among the many visitors on the formal gathering.
Downtown cabaret icon Joey Arias carried out two songs by Billie Holiday in a Thierry Mugler robe with a coronary heart form reduce out exposing Arias’ derriere.
R.O.M.E. journal founder, George Wayne, apparently didn’t get the black tie memo. He pranced round in little white “pum pum shorts,” and yelled, “Butt cheeks!” whereas making an attempt to snap a shot of Arias leaving the stage.
Stewart, then again, was dripping in diamonds amidst the predominantly homosexual crowd.
“Van Cleef for the gays,” the Netflix star defined to a male visitor of her Van Cleef & Arpels earrings.
Stewart’s longtime publicist pal Susan Magrino reminisced with Haskell about “owning New York nightlife in the ’80s.”
Meanwhile, Haskell, who continues to be partying at 82, arrived recent from LA — the place she’d been dancing with strippers at a celebration for Candy Spelling at Josh Flagg’s home, she advised us.
Dexter-Jones — mom to “Succession” star Annabelle Dexer-Jones, in addition to Mark, Samantha, and Charlotte Ronson — gushed about her lesser-known son, Alexander, who’s in Paris recording music.
The tunes have his very cool mother’s stamp of approval: “It’s brilliant!” she stated.
She was additionally giddy about husband Mick Jones’ upcoming Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony subsequent month.
Jones is the guitarist for “I Want to Know What Love Is” rockers Foreigner.
Also on the bash, the Rockettes carried out, and there was a nautical-themed cake introduced out to the Village People’s “In the Navy,” plus indoor fireworks.
George Hamilton was overheard quipping, “I practically lived at the original El Morocco, but this is much more fun!”
Guests went residence from the social gathering that might’ve made Joan Rivers proud with the clubby ashtrays.
