You can put me in the list of those who don't think Joni has had surgery.
Having been in her company, I am positive that her aura and radiance give the
illusion of a younger person as opposed to something artificial. I feel that
Joni values her years, and admires people like Georgia O'Keefe that have the
signs of truth & beauty about them.
I wanna share her comments..this was very much synchronicity as I was just
burning this CD for Gary Zack this morning. It was from KSCA Radio, the day
that TI came out in 1994. As an intro to Facelift, she had the following
conversation:
Joni: "I'll play you a brand new song. This is a song called "Facelift"
(tuning guitar)...actually the full title of it is, um, "Happiness Is the
BEST Facelift"...I played, just for the fun of it, at Milton Berle's 86th
birthday not that long ago, and it was really great because it was a roundup
of all the old comics, Steve Allen, I mean ALL of the old comics, old &
young, ya know, and um, I looked out at that audience, in Hollywood here, ya
know, if you hit middle age it's pretty much time to go for the old 'nip &
tuck', but, these were like (laughing)...Robbie's stroking his beard because
it's kind of a private joke on that one, but I mean I saw faces there that
had been lifted one too many times, y'know what I mean, it's like,
(uncontrollable laughter)...but this doesn't really have much to do with
that, um...Have you ever seen it when, with the tattooed eyebrows, where the
eyebrows are like, long gone, they've gone up into the scalp
somewhere...(Joni now laughing hysterically), and the navel is appearing in
the chin...."(begins to play Facelift)
A transcription can't do this mini-monologue justice, Joni's routine had me
laughing out loud the first time I heard it.
Anyway, given her making fun of the Hollywood facelift types, unless I hear
it from Joni herself, I would say she has not had one.
Bob
NP: Joni, Facelift from KSCA 1994 Interview
