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A Stranded Joan Rivers Asks: 'Do Terrorists Wear Manolo Blahniks?'

The story of Sunday's security breach and flight delays at Newark airport continues to worsen, especially now that we've heard it from the other end, from an arriving flight. But wait, it turns out the confusion inconvenienced a celebrity! Stop the presses!

Good old Joan Rivers was all ready to board her flight from Costa Rica back to Newark—on Continental Airlines, no less—when she was not allowed to fly thanks to heightened security and the fact that the name on her ticket didn't match the one on her passport. Apparently, her passport reads "Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers," and we don't even see how her local passport-issuing agency let that fly. Still, the issues at Newark over the weekend combined with the TSA "Secure Flight" rules, which requires the name on your ticket to match the one on your ID, almost stranded her in Central America with only $100 in cash.

It just gets better! ...

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