Joan Rivers' funeral set; fans honor her with bicoastal tributes

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After Joan Rivers’ death, a memorial sprang up quickly at her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images)

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On the day of Joan Rivers’ death, a worker changes the marquee of the Improv Comedy Club in Hollywood to display a quote from the comedian. (Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images)

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A wreath from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce stands atop Joan Rivers’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She got her star in 1989. (Paul Buck / EPA)

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An Australian TV reporter does a segment about Joan Rivers’ death while standing by he comic’s star in Hollywood (Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images)

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A note from fans accompanies flowers at Joan Rivers’ star on Hollywood Boulevard. (Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images)

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Paula Reardon places flowers at a sidewalk memorial for Joan Rivers at the doorstep of her apartment building the day after the comic died at age 81. (Tina Fineberg / Associated Press)

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A newspaper, flowers and cards are part of a sidewalk memorial for comedian Joan Rivers at the doorstep of her apartment building in New York City. (Tina Fineberg / Associated Press)

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A cover from a New York City tabloid is part of the memorial that popped up outside Joan Rivers’ Manhattan home. (Tina Fineberg / Associated Press)

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Fans in New York thank Joan Rivers for decades of comedy. (Tina Fineberg / Associated Press)

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The Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood honors Joan Rivers on its marquee on Sept. 4. (Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images)

By Christie D’Zurilla

Sept. 5, 2014 2:18 PM PT

Memorials to Joan Rivers sprang up on both coasts following news of the comic’s death Thursday in New York City, with comedy clubs changing their marquees as flowers and notes from fans were left outside her Manhattan apartment and on her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“She had her style and she stuck with it. Yes, she had a brash style, but that was her persona,” Leron Gubler, president and chief executive of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, told KCAL 9 on Thursday.

The chamber posted a bright floral wreath at Rivers’ star with a note reading, “Joan, now you will have a new stage on which to perform. Rest in Peace!”

“It’s fair to say, there was only one Joan Rivers,” Gubler added. “There never will be another.”

A private funeral for Rivers will be held Sunday at Temple Emanu-El on Manhattan’s East Side, the temple confirmed Friday. No further details were provided.

Meanwhile, autopsy results were inconclusive, with additional tests required to determine the “cause and manner” of Rivers’ death at age 81, the New York City medical examiner told the Associated Press on Friday. A source told the New York Daily News that an autopsy was done not because Rivers was a celebrity but because of the circumstances surrounding her death.

The “Fashion Police” star was rushed to the hospital Aug. 28 after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest during an outpatient throat procedure. She was placed into a medically induced coma shortly after arriving, then was taken off life support late Thursday morning after family and friends had a chance to say their goodbyes.

The New York state health department said Thursday that it was “investigating the matter” of what happened at the endoscopy clinic last week, and a clinic employee told the Daily News on Friday that security inside was very high.

The sassy “Fashion Police” star had humorously described an over-the-top send-off -- quite unlikely to be re-created Sunday -- in her 2012 book “I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me.”

“When I die, I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action ... I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way,” Rivers wrote (via Mashable).

“I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents. I don’t want a eulogy; I want Bobby Vinton to pick up my head and sing ‘Mr. Lonely.’ I want to look gorgeous, better dead than I do alive. I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag. And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyonce’s.”

Rivers had also joked about her own death during an hourlong set at Manhattan’s Laurie Beechman Theatre the night before she was hospitalized.

“She did a joke onstage, she goes, ‘I’m 81 — I could go at any moment,’” Shade Rupe, who attended the show, told the Daily News. “‘I could fall over right here and you all could say, ‘I was there!’”

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