This from the woman who has won an Emmy, been nominated for a Tony, written 10 books, appeared in nine films and more than 60 television series, made countless celebrity appearances and sold $750 million worth of jewellery on the TV shopping channel, QVC. Rivers cut her teeth with New York’s theatrical elite. It was at a dinner party with Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg that Marilyn Monroe turned to Rivers – then 17 and in her first year at university – and said: “Men, they are all the same. They are just stupid and they like big boobs.” Rivers wrote the line down in her diary and it became the title of one of her books.