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March 1, 1999
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Joan Rivers' Jabs Make Janeane Garofalo Cry
Tuesday, February 23, 1999 
Actress and frequent fashion casualty Janeane Garofalo says she was driven to tears by the mean-spirited jabs taken at her wardrobe by comedian Joan Rivers.
Rivers and her E! cohorts crossed the line into cruel humor while commenting on Garofalo's ensemble at the 1996 Emmy Awards, the Truth About Cats and Dogs star tells Fashions of the Times magazine. A few days after the ceremony, Garofalo was at home watching TV with her comedian friend David Cross (HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David) when they happened to catch the fashion-bashing on E! "They kept showing me walk from backstage to the podium, and Joan and her sidekicks were laughing and pointing," she says. "Then they would replay it in slow motion. At first I was laughing — if someone is clever, even if I disagree with them, I can find the humor. But this went on for 20 minutes or so, and then one of them called me a pig. I just burst into tears because this wasn't funny anymore. I was thinking, 'Is this what my work is about?' " Garofalo, who will next be seen playing the wife of 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie, says clothing designers don't pursue her the way they pursue other actresses. "I don't advance the cause for them, so to speak," she says. "I'm 5-foot-1 and, depending on the day, I can go anywhere between 120 and 150 pounds. It's crazy to be that short and that wide in Hollywood. It's basically begging for trouble." — Rich Brown |
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