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    Melissa Rivers Slams 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Bosses for Not Acknowledging Mom Joan as Inspiration

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    The only child of late comedienne Joan Rivers feels ‘hurt’ and ‘violated’ as no one from the Amazon hit series acknowledged that the show was inspired by her mom.

    Apr 24, 2021

    AceShowbiz –
    Melissa Rivers wants her later mother, comedian Joan, recognised as one of the inspirations behind Amazon’s hit series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”.

    The star died in 2014 at the age of 81, and Melissa insists her mother’s life mirrors that of the lead character Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel, who swaps being a housewife for a stand-up comic in the 1950s.

    “Everybody’s saying, ‘Oh, it’s Joan, it’s Joan, it’s Joan, it’s Joan’ and yet I never hear from the people that make it or the actors,” Melissa said during an appearance on the “Behind the Velvet Rope” with David Yontef podcast.

    While she has never seen an episode of the show, Melissa insists the character, played by Rachel Brosnahan, is “clearly a compilation” of the female comedians of that era, including her mother, who shot to fame in 1965 as a guest on “The Tonight Show”.

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    “Not even saying like, it’s completely her, but to say she was one of our inspirations,” she continued. “And because of that, I felt so violated in a weird way… Not even saying like, it’s completely her, but to say she was one of our inspirations.”

    And although Melissa says she is not interested in taking any legal action, she would just like an acknowledgment from the show’s bosses.

    “I would have no legal grounds, not one, but on a human level it still hurts me,” she explained. “I want to be happy that they win and I can’t be. And I could be completely wrong.”

    “People could say, ‘You know, you’re crazy. You’re being stupid.’ But to me, like I said, all they ever had to do was reach out and acknowledge,” she continued. “All I ever wanted was a note, maybe a thank you in one of the acceptance speeches after all these years.”

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      Amazon Studios Accused of Plagiarism Over 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'

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      An author files a lawsuit against Amazon Studios, accusing them of ripping off her 2014 book for their hit web television series which is fronted by actress Rachel Brosnahan.
      Apr 8, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Bosses at Amazon Studios are being sued by a writer who claims the hit series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is torn straight from the pages of her six-year-old book.
      The popular Amazon Prime Video show is a period comedy-drama about a housewife, played by Rachel Brosnahan, in New York City in the late 1950s and early 1960s, who pursues a career in stand-up comedy after discovering she has a knack for it.
      According to Jodi Parmley, however, the series allegedly steals several different creative elements from her 2014 book, “F.I.F.I. Financial Infidelity F**k It: The Mistress of the New Millennium”.
      In papers obtained by TMZ, Jodi says she wrote the book, and then adapted a screenplay from it, which she shopped around to several studios and executives who were supposedly interested.
      While the writer doesn’t specifically say she met with Amazon as she touted her work, she implies word eventually got around to them and, once the show debuted in 2017, Jodie claims it was a carbon copy of her own work.
      She alleges Amazon ripped off the plight, stand-up routine, general plot points, and character traits from her narrative, and is seeking a cut of the profits Amazon made off the show, which has garnered critical praise and gone on to win several awards.
      The “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is loosely based on the life and career of esteemed comedian Joan Rivers, and debuted three years after the comedian 81-year-old died of brain damage due to a lack of oxygen when she stopped breathing during a routine procedure at Yorkville Endoscopy in New York.

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