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For about a decade and a half, between the end of her stand-up days and the beginning of her role as “Red Carpet Cruella”, Joan Rivers owed her public image to Frank Marino. It was Marino who put his impersonation of Rivers in front of audiences on a nightly basis during his long running Las Vegas show “An Evening at La Cage” at the Riviera. As long as Marino was “doing” Joan, she was still viable. It’s kind of like what Frank Caliendo is doing for John Madden today. Keeping the image alive.
And “image”, as a famous Vegas personality and former meth-head once said, “is everything.”