- Joan Rivers discussing her fear of possibly eating dog while on a charity trip in China. You know, the easiest way to avoid eating questionable meat is simply by not eating meat at all. Come on Joan, we think it’s time for you to go VEG! Oh yeah, and also…that coat? Seriously? 

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You gotta love it when celebrities are on game shows! OK, well even if you don’t, you gotta love the fact that when celebrities are on game shows all the money goes toward charity, right? 

In a recent episode of Celebrity Family Feud, a few famous families battled it out for some serious cash, and all for the sake of charity. In the first half, Joan and Melissa Rivers — who were playing for a guide-dog charity – were pitted against hip-hop and television star, Ice T, who played for Unity Two, a gang intervention organization. And in the second half, Disney star and former Cosby kid, Raven Symone was up against the family of Las Vegas legend, Wayne Newton.

Long story short — by the end of the game Team Rivers had won the $50,000 (which I was kind of rooting for anyway since they’re regular Ecorazzi readers) and the Ravon-Symone team were runners-up, earning a $10,000 donation for their charity.

To catch more of Celebrity Family Feud watch NBC on Tuesdays at 8/7c. 

 
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This week Joan Rivers put down her Boston Terrier Lulu after cancer invaded her body. Lulu previously had her rear leg amputated and even underwent chemotherapy to try and stop the cancer spreading to its lungs, but nothing seemed to work. Joan was so desperate to save her pup that she claims to have tried to heal the dog herself. “When I was alone in my apartment I spent 10 minutes laying on hands the way healers do. I would touch Lulu all over and say ‘heal’ and ‘feel the heat’. I must have looked like a total loony tune.”

As Melissa Rivers told us herself, “We’ve always been animal people — my whole family”. So it’s not surprising that Joan did everything she could — including play doggy healer — to try and help her companion of 12 years.

Across the country Tatum O’Neal has blamed her recent drug bust on the death of HER dog. She recently told the New York Post, “There’s no excuse for what I did. (But) I lost my Scottish terrier, Lena. That seemed to set me off. She got old. She got cancer. She was the fabric of our family. We had to let her go to heaven. My daughter and I had to put her down. It was too horrible for words. I couldn’t get out of it. I was going to my psychiatrist. I was doing everything I could do.” Let’s hope the judge has a soft spot for pets.

So from everyone here at Ecorazzi a mournful tear and a big old Rest In Peace to Lulu Rivers and Lena O’Neal. You will be missed!

Oh, but it gets better…much, much better. Instead of the same old red carpet (boring) entrance with Joan and Melissa Rivers screaming their face off (literally, Joan River’s face is falling off), Movies Rock is taking it to the next level-the green level. Conde Nast Media Group- a powerhouse in publishing and a Movies Rock sponsor- will be making a $25,000 donation to various environmental causes and will provide a 100 percent recycled green carpet (literally, the color green) for all of those fine famous feet to trample upon.

So in the spirit of Movies Rock I’ll close with that famous line: “I drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee ran dry.” Well if Chevy keeps this up and helps to reduce on global warming, maybe next time that levee won’t be so damn dry. Keep it mean. Keep it clean. Keep it green! The television special will air later next week on CBS.