tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114981822024-03-13T23:48:15.641-04:00The Weekly Charlowlucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-68899328994562151172011-08-06T12:00:00.003-04:002011-08-07T14:41:46.281-04:00Happy 100th Birthday, My Dear Lucy<div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><table align="right"><tr><td width="5"> </td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/LucilleBall.jpg"></td></tr></table>Lucille Ball truly was an inspiration. Not only was she one of the most powerful women in Hollywood in her day, she helped create Desilu Productions with her husband Desi Arnaz, the first company to use a multi-camera film setup before a live studio audience. She was a true class act.<br /><br />Even though she was born 100 years ago this month and her mega-hit TV show premiered 60 years ago this October, there remains a single truth about Lucille Ball: We still love Lucy.<br /><br />I LOVE LUCY took place on the East Side, was in black and white, the fashions were outdated, but the show continues to air in 80 countries and has been dubbed in 21 languages. Her fans are multigenerational. The first show I remember seeing Lucy on was THE LUCY SHOW. It was the episode with Carol Burnett. They were airline flight attendants and they mess up - the usual way - but end up turning the mess into a big musical onboard flight. I never dreamt that years later, I would become such a fan and collector.<br /><br />One day, while I was walking thru the village, I stopped at a table someone had set up to sell photos and postcards. I rummaged thru and found a beautiful photo of Lucy in a white shroud. I bought it. Took it to be framed. Took it home. Hung it on the wall and that became the first item I ever collected. Every time I’d see a photo or postcard or anything on or with Lucy, I’d buy it. I even named my first pet- a cat - Lucy. I was hooked! <br /><br />WILDCAT - A musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, and music by Cy Coleman. It opened on Broadway in 1960 at the Alvin Theatre, starring a 48-year-old Lucille Ball. It was her only appearance in a Broadway production.<br /><br />I never got to meet Lucille Ball or Desi Arnaz (he died in 1986, 3 years before Lucy). In fact, she was the last of the “gang” to go. The one and only time I wrote a fan letter to Lucy, It was sent to her in the hospital. The day after I mailed the letter, she died. I got back a note from the family thanking me for remembering ‘mom’ and a thanks for writing. Lucy will always be in the hearts of her fans. Wherever you go there are kids and adults that say they have favorite episodes and never once tire of talking about how great her shows are. It is said that anywhere at any moment, anywhere in the world, you’ll find an episode of I Love Lucy on TV. Many say I Love Lucy has healing powers. I fully believe in this. If you’re ever “tired, rundown, listless...” If you’re ever “in a jam”, “up a tree”, “down a well”, “in a mess”, and you need a pick-up, watch an I Love Lucy episode. <b>Happy Birthday, Lucy!!</B><br /><br /></div>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-73538958350728604112011-08-04T12:00:00.009-04:002011-08-07T14:43:45.201-04:00Lucille Ball at 100 and I Love Lucy at 60<div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><table align="left" width="199"><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/lentomuseum.png"><br><font size="2">I own these two outfits on loan to the Hollywood Museum</font></td><td width="5"> </td></tr></table>A new exhibition at the Hollywood Museum celebrates two milestones in the life of America’s Queen of Comedy: Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday on Aug. 6 and the 60th anniversary of “I Love Lucy,” her classic TV collaboration with husband Desi Arnaz, which CBS first aired on Oct. 15, 1951.<br /><br />“Lucille Ball at 100 & ‘I Love Lucy’ at 60,” presented in partnership with CBS , will be on display from Aug. 3 to Nov. 30, showcasing memorabilia saluting the careers and romance of Hollywood’s most famous lovebirds.<br /><br />“The Hollywood Museum in the Historic Max Factor Building is the perfect venue for this exhibit because it's where Lucille Ball went for makeup and hair treatments from Mr. Factor,” says Museum President Donelle Dadigan. “It's where Lucy first became a redhead. She had the longest-running contract of all of Mr. Factor's celebrity clients and he frequently used her image in his PR and ad promotions. The Redheads Only Room has been carefully preserved in her memory today. The museum’s historic connection to Lucy is the reason the U.S. Postal Service chose to unveil its official Lucille Ball commemorative stamp here in 2001.”<br /><br />The exhibit is presented in partnership with CBS DVD and Paramount Home Video, which just released a new DVD set “The Best of ‘I Love Lucy’” featuring 14 classic episodes that have been digitally restored. CBS describes the set, “Television's all-time queen of comedy is at her candy-wrapping, grape-stomping, Vitameatavegamin-pushing best in this timeless collection of I Love Lucy episodes. From Hollywood to Europe, from ballet to burlesque to the birth of Little Ricky... it’s all here in this hilarious 2-disc set.” The 14 episodes: “The Ballet,” “The Freezer,” “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (Vitameatavegamin), “Job Switching” (The Chocolate Factory), “Lucy Is Enceinte” (Lucy reveals pregnancy), “Lucy Goes to the Hospital,” “L.A. at Last,” “Lucy Gets in Pictures,” “Harpo Marx,” “The Great Train Robbery,” “Bon Voyage,” “Paris at Last,” “Lucy Gets a Paris Gown,” “Lucy’s Italian Movie” (Grape Stomping).<br /><br />The opening of the exhibition will be celebrated at a private party to be held tonight with Lucie Arnaz in attendance. On Lucille Ball's 100th birthday, Aug. 6,, the museum will stage a Lucy look-alike contest plus a contest to declare the best birthday cake.<br /><br /><B>“Lucille Ball at 100 & ‘I Love Lucy’ at 60” Exhibit includes:</B><br />· “Redheads Only Room" where Max Factor worked on Lucy’s famous look, featuring their original signed contract.<br />· Awards, Certificates, Statuettes/Trophies, Plaques - including the special tribute to Lucy at the 33rd Annual Emmys (1981) and a congratulatory letter from President Ronald Reagan<br />· The famous first national TV Guide (April 3, 1953) featuring Desi, Jr. on the cover as the $50 million baby<br />· Items showcasing the genius of Desi – including original editing equipment which allowed for the technical advancement of TV production (3 cameras, live audience, on film)<br />· A huge photography collection spanning Lucy’s life including her childhood, modelling career, films, radio and TV with some never-before-seen candid personal shots<br />· Lucy's autographed leg cast from her 1972 ski accident at Snowmass, CO<br />· Personal annotated copies of Lucy’s scripts from TV shows and films<br />· Desi's original recordings + sheet music<br />· Montage of original photos from Lucy and Desi’s homes and apartments including Palm Springs, NYC and Beverly Hills<br /><br /><B>Costumes Include:</B><br />· Elizabethan gown worn by Lucy opposite guest Tallulah Bankhead (“The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,” 1957).<br />· Artist smock worn by Lucy opposite guest Danny Thomas ("Here's Lucy," 1973).<br />· Flapper dance costume worn by Lucie Arnaz in a specialty flapper dance number ("Here's Lucy," 1972).<br />· Bold hound’s-tooth wool pant suit worn by Lucy during the filming of her last film “Mame” (1974). Unfortunately neither the costume nor the scene made it to the final cut of the film.<br />· Ivory and lavender beaded gown worn by Lucy in her first MGM film "Du Barry Was a Lady" (1943) opposite co-stars Red Skelton and Gene Kelly.<br />· Iconic trench coat worn by Lucy and featured in ads for the classic film noir “Lured” (1947).<br /><br /><B>Lucy's Scripts Include:</B><br />·“I Love Lucy” – Season 6, Episode 6: “Off to Florida” (Nov. 12, 1956)<br />·“The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” – Episode 2: “The Celebrity Next Door” (Dec. 3, 1957)<br />·“The Lucy Show” – Season 1, Episode 1: “Lucy Waits Up for Chris” (Oct. 1, 1962); Season 1, Episode 5: “Lucy Buys a Sheep” (Oct. 29, 1962)<br />·“Here's Lucy” – Season 2, Episode 10: “Lucy the Cement Worker” (Nov. 24, 1969); Season 3, Episode 1: “Lucy Meets the Burtons” (Sept. 14,1970); Season 5, Episode 16: “Lucy Goes on Her Last Blind Date” (Jan. 8, 1973)<br />·“Life with Lucy” – Season 1, Episode 1: “One Good Grandparent Deserves Another” (Sept. 20, 1986)<br /><br />For more details, please go to <a href="http://yousend.it/mZTcDY">http://yousend.it/mZTcDY</a><br />WHERE: The Hollywood Museum, 1660 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90028<br />WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday<br />EXHIBIT INFO: Aug. 4, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2011<br />PRICE: $15 for adults; $12 for seniors and children under 12.<br />INFO: (323) 464-7776 <a href="www.thehollywoodmuseum.com">www.thehollywoodmuseum.com</a><br /><br />Here's a video of the News Broadcast that night of the opening Gala. What's neat about this video is that 44 seconds into it, you see a shot of the two articles of clothing I lent to the museum for this exhibit. They are the Aqua Chiffon Caftan with Feather-Boa Sleeves, the 3-Piece Lilac Pant Suit and the Deep Purple High-Heeled shoes. Pictured at the top of this article.<br /><center><object id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268"><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&station=kabc§ion=&mediaId=8290400&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&configPath=/util/&site=" ></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" src="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&station=kabc§ion=&mediaId=8290400&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&configPath=/util/&site="></embed></object></center><br /></div>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-22831421135673933672011-08-02T12:00:00.008-04:002011-08-07T19:20:14.100-04:00Double Feature! Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday!<center><img width="390" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/lucilleball390.jpg"></center><br /><table align="left"><tr><td><img width="164" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/egyptiantheater.png"></td><td width="5"> </td><td valign="top">THE LONG, LONG TRAILER / THE DARK CORNER<br />Beloved performer Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989) is spotlighted with screenings of the Lucy-Desi comedy THE LONG, LONG TRAILER and her more dramatic turn in the noir THE DARK CORNER.</td></tr></table><br /><div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><table align="left"><tr><td><img width="184" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/longlongtrailer184.jpg"></td><td width="5"> </td></tr></table><br /><B>THE LONG, LONG TRAILER</B><br />1954, Warner Bros., 96 min, USA,<br />Dir: Vincente Minnelli<br />Long before VACATION and RV, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz hit the road (though not as the Ricardos) in color in this slapstick romp about newlyweds who buy a shiny new trailer and decide to take a cross-country honeymoon. Needless to say, "There's gonna be a lotta 'splainin' to do!" With Marjorie "Ma Kettle" Main, Keenan Wynn and Madge Blake; written by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich (FATHER OF THE BRIDE).<br /><hr color="#FF00FF"><br /><table align="left"><tr><td><img width="184" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/thedarkcorner184.jpg"></td><td width="5"> </td></tr></table><br /><B>THE DARK CORNER</B><br />1946, 20th Century Fox, 99 min, USA,<br />Dir: Henry Hathaway<br />Wrongly convicted private eye Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens) is sprung from prison, but bad luck sticks to his gummed shoes. Who's the mystery man in the white suit and why won't he leave Galt alone? What's his connection to the big money boys on the Upper East Side? Galt's no Marlowe. Without his loyal gal Friday (Lucille Ball), he wouldn't make it out from behind the 8-ball alive. <i>"I'm backed up in a dark corner," he grouses, "and I don't know who's hitting me." Co-starring Clifton Webb, William Bendix.</I><br /><center><img width="490" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/am_cinematheque543.png"></center><br /></div>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-24631066180645433632011-08-01T12:00:00.001-04:002011-08-07T17:37:18.573-04:00Anniversary waltz for Lucille Ball, 'Lucy'<div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><center>From<img width="225" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/variety_logo.gif"></center><br /><table width="225" align="left"><tr><td><img width="225" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/lucy_desi.jpg"><br><font size="2"><i>Variety kept a close eye on Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's bold gamble in producing "I Love Lucy" on film through their Desilu banner.</i></font></td><td width="5"> </td></tr></table>A full-page launch ad ran in the Sept. 5, 1951, edition of "Daily Variety."<br />It's time to take a moment to remember why we love Lucy.<br /><br />A number of tributes, exhibits and events are set to mark the twin milestones this year of the 100th anniversary of Lucille Ball's birth, on Aug. 6, 1911, and the 60th anni of "I Love Lucy's" debut, on Oct. 15, 1951.<br /><br />The backstory of "Lucy" and the many achievements of Ball and Desi Arnaz have been well documented, but it's a legacy of risk-taking, innovation and unparalleled talent that has grown only more impressive with the passage of time.<br /><br /><img width="296" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/variety_news.snip_caption.png" align="right">Through the couple's insistence on producing a show on film from Los Angeles, rather than live in New York, "Lucy" invented the three-camera sitcom, modern editing techniques and the riches of syndication. And Lucy and Desi owned it all, through Desilu Prods., after spending their own money on a pilot to convince skeptical CBS execs that America would warm to a ditsy redheaded housewife and her Cuban bandleader husband.<br /><br />Three months after the launch of Desilu in April 1950, Daily Variety reported the first rumblings that the pair were about to produce a "tele pilot film" but were keeping mum on details. The following year, the bet-the-farm gamble that Desilu was taking on "Lucy" was palpable in a full-page launch ad that ran in the Sept. 5, 1951, edition.<br /><br />Variety's review of the "Lucy" bow wasn't a rave, but it hit the mark in noting that the show "should sell lots of cigarettes" for sponsor Philip Morris.<br /><br /><img width="360" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/variety_ill_launch_caption.png" align="left">Among the upcoming tributes, the Hollywood Museum on Highland Avenue will unveil an extensive exhibit of Lucy-ana that runs Aug. 4-Nov. 30. Ball's daughter Lucie Arnaz, "Lucy" editor Dann Cahn and other notables will be on hand for the opening night.<br /><br />For hardcore enthusiasts, there's Lucy Fest, which runs Aug. 3-7 in Ball's hometown of Jamestown, N.Y., which pays year-round tribute to its famous daughter with the Lucy Desi Center. This year's festivities include an attempt to set a Guinness Book record for the number of people dressed as Lucy Ricardo.<br /><br /></div>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-15329692912818495262011-07-18T09:01:00.001-04:002011-08-07T14:47:34.452-04:00Some New Videos Available<div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><table align="left"><tr><td><img width="220" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/RKOcomedyCollection.jpg"></td><td width="5"> </td></tr></table>It was announced that <B>The Lucille Ball RKO Comedy Collection, Vol. 1</B> will be released 9/26/11 on DVD with three movies on it not previously released. (That's good!) Carol Meeley (Lucille Ball) is the wife of a dimwitted bank teller (Joe Penner) who finds himself accused of collaborating with a gang of robbers. Carol's only hope of clearing her husband's name is by proving he's not nearly smart enough to be a criminal, in the comedic caper <B>"Go Chase Yourself"</B> (1938). With Richard Lane, June Travis. Next, in order to claim a $20 million inheritance, Nancy Crocker Fleming (Ball) simply hires a temporary husband (James Ellison). But their cross-country trip to Reno for a quickie divorce leads to a series of comedic-and romantic-entanglements, in <B>"Next Time I Marry"</B> (1938). Lee Bowman, Granville Bates co-star. And, some of the greats of radio comedy team up for the frantic farce <B>"Look Who's Laughing"</B> (1941). Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy land their plane in Wistful Vista, home of Fibber McGee and Molly, and decide to build an aircraft factory there. Ball co-stars as Bergen's secretary; with Harold Peary, and Jim and Marian Jordan. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono. Two-disc set. <br /><P><br />Also-<BR><br /><table align="right"><tr><td width="5"> </td><td><img width="220" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/ClassicLegends.jpg"></td></tr></table><B>Greatest Classic Legends Film Collection: Lucille Ball</B> - "<B>Forever Darling</B>" (1956) stars Lucille Ball, who begins to feel neglected by her workaholic chemist husband, Desi Arnaz. When Ball wishes for more attention from her spouse, her guardian angel (James Mason) appears and warns her of trouble unless she can take more of an interest in him. When Ball accompanies Arnaz on a camping trip to work matters out while he tests an insecticide, hilarious catastrophes ensue when everything goes wrong. Two-disc set also includes "<B>Room Service</B>," "<B>Du Barry Was a Lady</B>," and "<B>The Long, Long Trailer</B>." 6 hrs. total. Standard/Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; theatrical trailers; bonus footage; bonus shorts "Party Fever" (1938), "The Daffy Doc" (1938), "Seeing Hands" (1943), "Bah Wilderness" (1943). "Ain't It Aggravatin'" (1954), "Dixieland Droopy" (1954). <br /><hr color="#33CC00"><br /><br /><br /></div>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-57429211809102850902011-07-17T17:48:00.020-04:002011-07-18T11:44:06.574-04:00July 11-17, 2011 - From Walmart to Lucies Birthday<div style="text-align:justify;"><br /><B>Tuesday July 12-</B><br>This morning Nelsa, Doris' sister (these are friends in the neighborhood) gave me a ride over to the Walmart at 88th Street in Jersey City. I always went to the one in South Kearny, NJ. I didn't know about this one. This one was in a shopping center with a Petsmart and a Target and a few other large stores. This one was HUGE!!!! It was just as big as a Wegman's with a large produce department, a large arts and crafts department and large sections of stuff all over the store... Oh, and a large frozen foods section with packages of PF Changs frozen food that I haven't seen in stores since mom took me to a Target in Balto months and months ago. (I love PF Changs Chinese food) So- I got my two boxes of Scoop Away® cat litter and a large bag of Cat Chow®, a few cans of Friskies®, A few frozen food things, delicious Peperoni and Cheese Rolls & Garlic Parmesea French Bread. Ooooh, is that good!!!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/CchanningbyGlen5in-72.jpg" width=150 align="right"><B>I found it, I found it, I found it!!!!!</B><br />I've been looking for this for a long time ever since I met Richard Skipper in the mid eighties. I drew this back in 1973 when I was in art school for illustration. I was at lunch with a friend from class and I was talking about Carol Channing. This person didn't know who I was talking about. I said she was famous for the Broadway musical "Hello, Dolly!" and he still didn't know her, so I drew this for him and then he knew exactly who I was talking about. Pictured is a scan of the original napkin drawing.<br /><hr color="#FF0000"><br /><B>Sunday July 17 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCIE ARNAZ</B><P><table align="left"><tr><td><img width="150" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/B&N16.png" border=1></td><td rowspan=3 width=5> </td><tr><td><img width="150" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/B&N2.png" border=1></td><tr><td><img width="150" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/B&N1.png" border=1></td></tr></table>Didn't really have much happening this week. Today is Lucies birthday... Happy Birthday to Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill. When I was looking for an appropriate video to put here that showed something Lucie did or is doing or whatever... I found this made to celebrate her birthday last year. I thought I'd just put it here. The pics down the side I took at her performance at Barnes & Noble last year in May.<p><center><iframe width="300" height="244" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SdRjJpsBUWQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><P><center><a href="http://www.lucylounge.com/" target="new"><img width="490" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/lucie60.jpg"></a></center><br /><hr color="#FF0000"><br /></div>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-31269768757976289222011-07-11T13:48:00.000-04:002011-07-11T13:48:28.117-04:00July 1-9 Still Some Car Woes & Mikey on MyLiTv.com<div style="text-align:justify;"><br />This is the start of what I hope to be a weekly blog. Since this is the first entry, it covers July 1st through the ninth. That's a week and a few days. But after this, I will make it a point to enter the happenings of every day from the week past.<br /><hr color="#29AFD6"><br /><table align="right"><tr><td width="5"> </td><td><iframe width="250" height="203" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ohObPx7X3cU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></td></tr></table><B>Friday July 1-</B> was a sad day for me as my car was towed away after I sold it for junk to CAR-TECH AUCTION, INC. The funny thing about this is... after the car was hit, it sat there on the street for about three and a half weeks before anything was done. Then, today, the truck operator gets into the car, starts it up and litterally drives it out of the space and onto the flatbed truck that would tow it. Driving on the flat tires and all. I mean, I knew the car started and I never tried moving it because of the flats. But I think now, if I had the flats fixed, it may have been drivable. But ya never know how bad the alignment would have been or if because of this accident the frame could have craked and I wouldn't know it till I was dead.<br /><hr color="#29AFD6"><br /><img width="150" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/licenseplate.png<br />"align="left"><B>Tuesday July 5-</B>, I took the car license plates to the DMV to return them but the line was so long coming out the door that I decided to go away and come back another day.<br /><hr color="#29AFD6"><br /><B>Wednesday July 6-</B> I recieved the papers from Esurance Insurance Company with the figures on what they will offer me to settle this whole car matter. I weighed it against what my own insurance company (AAA) offered me already 2 weeks ago. Oh, what to do?<br /><hr color="#29AFD6"><br /><B>Thursday July 7-</B> I was on the phone back and forth with agents from AAA trying to find out once and for all how my stupid $2000. deductible would play into this and whether or not I would get any of it back. After Ms. Rizzi-the woman who wrote up my policy told me that the extra amount not recovered from Esurance can be covered by the underinsured/uninsured section of my policy I thought I would just simply go with them. Because then AAA would act on my behalf with anything that had to be done in recovering the money from the other company. Someone later that day from AAA told me no, that's not for collision, it's for Medical. I argued with them saying this was not medical. Why would Ms Rizzi even mention it to me if it were medical coverage when she knew the specifics of this accident and knew nobody was injured in it. Medical coverage had nothing to do with it. This person will check with Ms. Rizzi to see what she told me and call me tomorrow morning.<br /><hr color="#29AFD6"><br /><B>Friday July 8-</B> I got the call from David Maturi of AAA claims and he told me, YES, that underinsured/uninsured part of my policy can be implimented in this case and I would then get back all but the $500. deductible that this part of the policy has. That total would be $57.85 less than the total figure offered to me by Esurance. I just may go with them. I left home for lunch with the folder in hand to get the Property Damage Release form from Esurance Insurance Company signed and notorized to be paid for damages from them rather than go thru my own insurance company where any deductibles play into the final amount. And of course I want to get as much out of this as possible. And it's $57.85 more than if I went with AAA. Got home, prepared and copied the documents and folded them into the envelope for mailing directly at the post office tomorrow morning on my way in to NYC for Broadway Barks and a gathering for someone's birthday at Richards later in the evening.<br /><P><br /><table align="left"><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/mylilogo.gif"></td><td width="5"></td></tr></table>While Mikey and I were on the phone tonight, he reminded me to go to MyLITV.com to check and see if that interview with Lucie was there... sure enough... it WAS. Exactly what I suspected... "I" was not in the video at all. In fact, I'm behind the back of Eric Schwarz' head which is prominant in the foreground and if ya didn't know I was next to Mikey, you wouldn't be able to tell I was there at all. But I know where I was standing in relation to the camera angle and I'm in the shot a split second. <table align="right"><tr><td width="5"></td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/fios1.jpg" border="1"></td></tr></table>Here are a few stills from the video. See... Mikey is right there next to Lucie. I knew my interview wouldn't be in it because I couldn't think of what I was saying and it probably came out all wishy washy. So they didn't use it. That's okay.<center><table><tr><td><img width="200" height="140" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/mylitv-1.jpg"></td><td><img width="200" height="140" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/mylitv-2.jpg"></td></tr></table></center> If ya want to see the video, you can see it here:<br /><a href="http://www.mylitv.com/evplayer.swf?HTMLkey=170ebccb28945964d09b">http://www.mylitv.com/evplayer.swf?HTMLkey=170ebccb28945964d09b</a><br /><hr color="#29AFD6"><br /><B>Saturday July 9-</B> It was Broadway Barks day in Shubert Alley. I went for just a little bit between 3pm and 5 pm. Then I left to get on the train to go uptown and meet with Pat & Joe for a ride to Richards for a birthday party.<br /><hr color="#29AFD6"><br /></div>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-42651592268301496432011-07-07T23:50:00.000-04:002011-07-07T23:50:32.892-04:00'All My Children,' 'One Life to Live' to get an Internet afterlife<table align="left"><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/susanlucci.jpg" align="left"></td><td width="5"> </td></tr></table>Disney’s ABC has sold the online rights to the two canceled sudsers as part of a deal with media company Prospect Park, the New York Post reported Thursday. <br /><br />As part of the deal, “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” -- which are due to wrap in September and January, respectively -- will pick up where they left off on a new, still untitled online TV network once they've ended their run on ABC. The show's cast and crew will make the transition as well. <br /><br />The soaps are expected to be the first of a number of brand-name TV shows to eventually land at the site.<br /><br />Prospect Park is lead by ‘Royal Pains’ executive producers Jeff Kwatinetz and executives Rich Frank, who is also a former Disney Studios executive.<br /><br />An email to ABC seeking confirmation was not immediately returned.<br /><br /><b>[Updated at 10:55 a.m.:</b> ABC sent out an official release confirming the "exclusive multi-year, multi-platform" deal. <br /><br />The programs are said to continue in the same format and length. Additional details of the new productions will come from Prospect Park. <br /><br />“We are privileged to continue the legacy of two of the greatest programs to air on daytime television, and are committed to delivering the storylines, characters and quality that audiences have come to love for over 40 years," Frank and Kwatinetz said in a statement. <br /><br />"‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ are television icons, and we are looking forward to providing anytime, anywhere viewing to their loyal community of millions. ... We believe that by continuing to produce the shows in their current hour format and with the same quality, viewers will follow the show to our new, online network.” <b>]</b><br /><br />-- Yvonne Villarreal<br /><br /><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/07/all-my-children-one-life-to-live-to-get-an-internet-afterlife.html?track=icymi" target="new">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/07/all-my-children-one-life-to-live-to-get-an-internet-afterlife.html?track=icymi</a>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-78242135570897856472011-06-30T11:47:00.012-04:002011-07-01T22:39:22.033-04:0010 things you didn't know about landscape architect Dan Sherman<img width="200" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/dansherman.jpg" align="right"><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/lohud.com.png"><br><br />Written by Bill Cary, Jun 26, 2011<br><br />Eight years ago, Dan Sherman moved his very successful landscape design business from Manhattan to a cozy office overlooking a brook in Valhalla. It just stopped making sense to make the commute into the city from his longtime home in Piermont and then back out again to meet with clients, most of whom live in Westchester or Connecticut.<br /><br />"We are so central to everything in the Westchester and south Fairfield area," says Sherman, who has been working as a landscape architect since 1977. "As soon as we moved, I bought a boatload of Stickley furniture and did the office up in a cozy Mission style, like a home office studio."<br /><br />His six-person team includes a senior landscape architect who is "great with contractors, building departments, tree and plant vendors and helps track work in construction" and two young landscape architects who keep him fresh. They "chomp through designs, drafting, details, permits and clients' endless emails."<br /><br />Sherman's design projects have ranged from the small and local (and pro bono) — the Piermont Community Garden, Main Street planters, Piermont dog park and the war memorials in town — to the grandiose and international: giant and elegant office parks in France and U.S. Air Force bases in Germany. He has also renovated a half-dozen campuses for Atria Senior Living, including ones in Ossining and Albany.<br /><br />People with large estates in Greenwich, Southampton and Westchester keep him busy, too. "Mostly my clients are captains of finance and industry — and loads of hard-working people who love their homes and aspire to a better landscape."<br /><br />Here are 10 things you probably didn't know about Dan Sherman:<br /><br />1.He was able to form his own company in 1992 because Larry Condon, the president of the Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation, took a liking to his work and offered to sponsor the launch of his own business. (Joyce Mertz and her parents, LuEsther and Harold Mertz, founded Publishers Clearing House.)<br /><br />Moonlighting while working full time for another firm, Sherman had created a brownstone garden for the foundation on East 18th Street and was subsequently taken to LuEsther's grand home in Port Washington. "At a party, a Tarot reading was laid out for me and the past, present and future were told with astonishing and accurate clarity," he remembers. "I made the daring jump the next day."<br /><br />2.His partner of 21 years is Richard Skipper, a performer best known these days for his full-length shows impersonating Carol Channing.<br /><br />"They are very good friends, and he is her official tribute artist," Sherman says. Skipper is also co-producer of the New York Bistro Awards and is very involved with the New York cabaret community. He's performed at the Rockland Center for the Arts and is a frequent guest performer at various benefits and fund-raisers around Rockland.<br /><br />3. Sherman got at this gardening thing very early. Growing up in Lewiston, N.Y. (near Niagara Falls), "we had two neighbors who had very interesting and complicated gardens that fascinated me," he remembers. "My birthday is at the end of April and my mother would buy me a bale of peat moss and flats of flowers to plant around the house. I was happy — who knew?"<br /><br />4.His best-known client is probably Derek Jeter, who hired Sherman to create a landscape for a Scottishs-tyle castle on Greenwood Lake in Warwick.<br /><br />"I worked closely with Derek's mom, Dot, on the project," he says. "She is very respectful and nurturing and a lot of fun to work with."<br /><br />5. He's a founding member of the Piermont Community Garden and he's had a plot there every year since the garden got going in 1995.<br /><br />6. Some of his favorite plants right now include variegated Solomon's seal, Indian pinkroot, ajuga, epimedium, cranesbill geranium 'Rozanne' and dark pink double Knock Out roses.<br /><br />7.For a cool combo in his own garden, he sends morning glories climbing up his 'Annabelle' hydrangeas. "It looks amazing in the morning with the blue flowers all over the white flowers." And he's got fall-blooming clematis climbing up inside a lilac tree in his front yard.<br /><br />8. He hasn't yet, but he would love to work on historic properties. "I haven't figured out how to steer my career in that direction, so it's exciting that the kind of work I would most like to do is still out there to learn and do."<br /><br />9. When he's not in Valhalla, Piermont or Manhattan, you'll likely find him at his cottage on a lake in northern Ontario.<br /><br />"This was our family's camp for 40 years," he says, which he bought two years ago when his parents decided they shouldn't be someplace so remote. Now Sherman coordinates the upkeep and vacation schedules of various family members.<br /><br />10. Because of his partner's involvement with the cabaret scene, Sherman has a very busy social life — out attending shows and receptions at least three nights a week.<br /><br />"I would probably not pull myself out of the garden and clients' landscapes if I weren't compelled, but New York has a very rich and underrated world of off-the-chart entertainers — it's pretty amazing."<br /><br />He also likes to tag along when Skipper takes his show on the road. "We were out in Palm Springs in February to stay with Carol Channing," Sherman says. "Everyday something new pops up with Ruth Buzzi, Tommy Tune, Mitzi Gaynor or Julie Wilson."<br /><br />Garden designer by day, bon vivant by night. Sounds pretty great, doesn't it?lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-77040526200208494642011-06-17T15:15:00.001-04:002011-06-17T15:16:56.143-04:00New Comic Book To Celebrate Lucille Ball's Centennial<img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/comicsLucilleBall.png" width="295" align="right">Here's some fun news for a Friday afternoon:<br /><br />Bluewater is pleased to announce a special comic book project featuring one of the most beloved and widely known figures in the history of American culture, the legendary Lucille Ball. “Comics: Lucille Ball” will be released in August 2011 and have a cover price of $3.99, just in time to celebrate her 100th birthday. Written by Jaymes Reed and drawn by Patricio Carbajal.<br /><br />Lucille Ball is arguably the most influential figure in the history of American television. This comic will focus on her humble beginnings and the incredible events that led to her eventually becoming a household name at a time when that meant virtually every American household as the star of the classic” I Love Lucy" program. Though she would pave the way for many female comediennes that came after her, she towers over the rest. There is still only one Lucy. This book shows the influences on her comedy that still influence every person who tries to make a living making others laugh.<br /><br />“The series as a whole was created to help me laugh during terrible times following my mother's death on New Year's Eve 2009. When preparing the initial line-up for the COMICS series, I knew right away a Lucille Ball book would be near the top. Besides for being the Queen of Comedy, she was my mother's favorite television personality, nearly to the point of serious addiction. I grew up on corn flakes, Texas sunshine... and each episode of everything Lucy ever starred in! "COMICS: Lucille Ball" will partly feature my mom as a little girl and will also be dedicated to her memory."<br /><br />Publisher Darren G. Davis said, “ Our goal is to show the little-known events and influences that resulted in Lucille Ball becoming the phenomenon she remains to this day, 100 years after her birth and years after her death. A visual medium provides perspective that is not only accessible but more relatable to the average person without losing any of the information involved”.<br /><br />This 32-page comic book will be chronicling this saga, “COMICS: Lucille Ball ” will explore all sides of this amazing talent, from her positive contribution to her fans' lives and society at large and how she is one of the few celebrities hardly anyone says a bad word about. Through it all, she always remained true to herself and appeared to be genuine. What you saw is what you got with her. There didn't appear to be a phony bone in her body. That - and her remarkable talent - is what has made her an enduring legend. Interest is still strong and steadfast for one of the most powerful women in the history of entertainment.<br /><br />Join Bluewater Productions as we examine the life-affirming journey of Lucille Ball and how she became the ultimate American story and forever remembered as the Queen of Comedy.<br /><br />For more information on "COMICS: Lucille Ball” and other comics from Bluewater Productions, go to www.bluewaterprod.com or check them out in your local comic book shop, Barnes and Noble and amazon.com. To Pre-order it on Amazon click here: http://amzn.to/jqOIBX<br /><br /><a href="http://www.comicbookbin.com/newscomics126.html" target="new">http://www.comicbookbin.com/newscomics126.html</a>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-85491810081117084342011-06-12T21:24:00.017-04:002011-07-01T21:09:00.447-04:00The ? Demise of the Mustang<table align="left"><td><img width="200" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/car0.jpg" align="left"></td><td width="5"></td></table>Oy! What a day I had today!!! I was woken up at 3:35 AM this morning along with perhaps half the neighborhood. Some screeching, then BANG!!! (some more screeching) then BANG!!! BANG!!! BOOM!!! Then the car alarms set off. I jumped up off the sofa in the living room, threw off my robe put on my pants and shoes and ran out to see what had happened. It looked like my car had been hit along with the car in front of mine and the car in front of that one. I ran back inside to get my cellphone and my camera. Came back out to the car and examined the whole thing. My car was severely damaged on the left rear tire, drivers side door and front hood. The front of the car had been crashed into the car parked in front of mine and that car was crashed into the car in front of it.<br /><center><img width="420" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/cars1a.jpg"></center>While I was on the phone explaining to the police dispatcher where, when what where who and all that, some kids came running from around the corner on Bond St. yelling, "He's stuck around the corner, go catch him. He's stuck, can't go anywhere." So I went running around there and at the top of the hill on Bond St. was the car trying to back out of a turn into the curb to get away, was the car that just hit mine. I quickly took a picture of the license plate then went up to the driver and stalled him till the police arrived.<br /><br />When they did, they told me and Abdellatif, the guy who owns the car that my car got pushed into, to wait back around the corner with our cars. We both walked back to our cars and waited. After 20 minutes the police hadn't come over to us yet so we walked back up around the corner to find the kids car was being towed and the kid was watching from the sidewalk. I was curious as to why he wasn't in handcuffs or sitting in the back of the police car. But he was right there out in the open watching his car going up on the lift. I asked a few of the officers standing around watching this whole thing and they couldn't answer me. It made me angry.<br /><center><img width="420" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/cars2.jpg"></center>Then I noticed one of the officers that was taking the report start walking down the street and around over to our cars. we followed. When we reached our cars, the officer took Abdellatiff's report first, then mine. I was prepared with my registration and insurance info. The officer said that the kid was "A little slow", "Mentally challenged" Well, it makes you wonder why and how they give drivers licenses to these kind of people.<br /><br />Anyway, he also had full insurance coverage. That's all that mattered here. His insurance would pay for the work that our cars needed to be repaired if this was possible. Abdellatiff's car looks like all it needs is a rear and front bumper and a hood. My car needs a bit more. It may need rear alignment, a drivers side door, a hood, a bumper, new tires and wheel hubs and possibly rear axle work.<br /><center><img width="420" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/cars3.jpg"></center>At 7 AM my doorbell rang. I jumped up off the sofa, threw my robe off, put my pants on and ran downstairs to see that it was my landlady who was letting me know what happened to my car. I told her I knew. I explained all that went on this morning. It was then I learned that the fore-most car in this lineup of parked cars was none other than hers. A black PILOT. One of those bigger SUV-type looking cars. She was lucky because when she got in and started it up and pulled away, the car behind hers which was Abdellatiff's, fell off her bumper and his car alarm went off again. Not a scratch on her car. She then pulled it into her driveway and that was that.<br /><br />At about 7:45 AM another neighbor who was passing by saw my car and decided to ring my bell to let me know. I told him thanks, I already know about it and began the explanation all over again of the 3:35AM events.<br /><br />At 10:30AM I called my insurance company and filled the claim. They will get the police report, contact the kids insurance company, send an adjuster out to estimate my car damage and let me know the outcome. This should all come within the next three or four days. But the adjuster will call me to come out Monday or Tuesday.<br /><center><img width="420" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/cars4.jpg"></center>At 11AM i had to leave for a doctors appointment in Brooklyn at 1 PM. I got there on time and didn't wonder at all why my blood pressure was elevated a bit today. When I got back home from the appointment, Abdellatiff was outside taking better pics of his car. He had taken some early in the morning but I told him it would be better later when the sun was up. After all- the cars weren't going anywhere. We also decided at that point that he should start up his car and move it forward to get it off of my car so he can get better pics of his rear bumper and I can get better pics of the front of my car. I picked up out from the front hood and light debris, my mustang emblem. I want that if nothing else can be saved or fixed.<br /><HR color="red" width="90%" size="2">Update: <B>July 1, 2011</B><br />By now, the car was looked at by both my own insurance company and the driver who hit the car's insurance company. Both companies have declared the car "totaled" meaning it would cost more to have it fixed than the whole car is worth. My Ins. Co. gave me two prices. One was if they take the car and the other was if I keep the car. The difference between the two was only $25.00 so I decided to hold off and let the other company make their decision. I'll find out about it next week. Meanwhile, the car can't sit on the street any longer because it will get ticketed by the parking authority. So, yesterday I was on the phone with companies that pay cash for junk cars and today, one of them came to get the car to take it away.<br /><br />Say "bye bye" to my '94 Ford Mustang...<br /><br /><iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ohObPx7X3cU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />A few stills of the final moments with the car: <a href="http://www.glencharlow.com/stuff/car/car_demise/IMG_0230.html">Click Here</a>.<br /><P>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-62773860893423864672011-06-11T21:42:00.003-04:002011-06-11T21:48:14.385-04:00Lucie Arnaz brings "Latin Roots" to area stage<img width="300" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/LucieArnazLatinRoots.png" align="left">Lucie Arnaz evokes memories of her famous parents, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, when she visits the Landmark Theater in Port Washington with “Latin Roots,” on Saturday, June 18, at 8 p.m.<br /><br />Arnaz returns to Long Island with a powerful reinterpretation of the American Songbook to honor and celebrate her father and his Latin roots.<br /><br />The concert evolved from her recently released CD of the same name, highlighting her father’s legacy, with material both directly taken from her father’s music (with Desi Arnaz’s signature song “Babalu”) and inspired by him – such as Arnaz’s version of “Blame It On The Bossa Nova.”<br /><br />Growing up in the public eye with her beloved parents and brother Desi Arnaz IV, Arnaz has demonstrated her many talents throughout the years as an actress, singer, dancer, business executive, producer, director, and Broadway star.<br /><br />Tickets are $45 and $40; available at (516) 767-6444 or www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.<br /><br />Jeanne Rimsky Theater, 232 Main St., Port Washington.<br /><br />Original: <a href="http://www.liherald.com/stories/Luci-Arnaz-brings-Latin-Roots-to-area-stage,33393" target="new">http://www.liherald.com/stories/Luci-Arnaz-brings-Latin-Roots-to-area-stage,33393</a>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-34772504417320252352011-05-16T16:42:00.005-04:002011-05-16T18:28:53.648-04:00NATE Show: The Great Outdoors<center><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/nate.logo.png"><br /><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: May 2, 2011 p.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: May 16, 2011</B> (today)</font><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.16.11airing-mainpic.jpg"width="500"></center><br /><b>"The Great Outdoors"</b><br />Nate is joined by celebrity chef Guy Fieri who, along with the audience, judges the show’s first-ever grill-off! Guy reveals his top grilling tips and how to take your cookout to the next level. Plus, Nate's design plan for turning your small outdoor space into your own vacation hot spot and how one “House Proud” viewer created her very own backyard oasis!<br /><P>Nate's Tearsheet: Here are a few ways to prolong the life of cut flowers from your garden. Cut flowers early in the morning with they have the most moisture and are cool from the night temperatures. Have a bucket of water handy so you can immediately put them in water. Once inside, recut the stems under water on a slant…this helps water intake and flow once they’re arranges. Also, take your flowers to the sink each morning and mist them to maintain humidity and moisture.<br /><br /><b>Some shots on the set...</b><center><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.02.11am.taping-3.JPG" width=230 height=173></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.02.11am.taping-4.JPG" width=230 height=173></td></tr></table></center><br /><b>A snap from TV...</b><center><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.16.11airing1.JPG" width=230 height=165><br><font size="2">I'm bottom of the screen 2nd from right</font></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.16.11airing2.JPG" width=230 height=165><br><font size="2">Standing 3rd in from center blur.</font></td></tr></table></center>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-40572390456966961002011-05-16T16:38:00.013-04:002011-05-16T20:36:40.812-04:00We Are the NATE Show Audience Regulars...<table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-1.jpg" width=470><br><font size="2">On the last day of taping, some of the "Nate" crew pose in front of their special group of audience regulars. The four front-most people are (l-r) Raff (with mustache), Matt (very front), Eddie (green shirt) & Dena (plaid shirt).</font></td></tr></table><br />May 12, 2011<br /> What a whole bunch of fun it is going to the tapings of the Nate Berkus Show. He tapes his show every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday two times a day. I've been going a few times a week since my first time January 25, 2011. That first time was special to me because I was picked to dance for the audience and sort of became famous. Everyone loved my dancing and remembered who I was from that point on. Tonight was the last taping of the first season and it was just as special in so many ways.<br /> When I entered the studio, Allison, the audience coordinator who seats people as they walk in, told me to sit in the front row and pointed to the pit section. I said, "You're kidding, right"? She said, "No. Front row." I was like, "WoW!". I was sure she would come back to me in a bit and ask me to move. She didn't. Just before the show started taping I turned around and noticed that all the regulars were sitting in my row and behind me in this section. I thought to myself, 'somethings up'. Why were we all sitting together on this last night of taping?<br /> That was evident after the first segment was taped because we seemed to be getting the royal treatment as far as being acknowledged for our loyalty. Dena told everyone else in the studio audience that we were the "regulars". The crew all got pictures of us and we got pictures with them.<br /> The best thing thru the evening... well, not the best thing but very close to it, was that the camera seemed to be right there in my face a lot. But that never means anything. We'll see when this show airs. The special guest is Lisa Oz (Dr Oz's wife) and she was there talking about relationships and stuff. Nate did a living room make-over and there was a cooking session with Calin Cowei and a married couple re-engaged themselves with him presenting a new ring to her.<br /> In one of the breaks between segment tapings Dena asked four people to get up and stand in front of certain sections of the audience. I knew right away she would have us dance. (I hadn't danced since the very first taping I came to January 25th). So I thought, "Okay, why not". Everyone liked it the first time, they'll like it again. And they did. The cameras were once again in my face and all around me while I was dancing. It was fun to catch glimpses of what they were filming up in the monitors.<br /> So, the best thing of the evening was before Nate did his closing, he acknowledges all of us "regulars" to the rest of the audience and then after the taping of his closing, he came over in front of us and had his pic taken with us. We couldn't give anyone our own cameras to get that pic but others said that Allison was going to email it to us. Still waiting for it today.<br /> That's why this final taping of the first season was just as special to me as the first time. I danced again. I'm going to miss the tapings for the summer while the show is on hiatus but will be back at the first taping in August once they resume. It'll be great to see the crew again. And I hope to see Sandra, Pat, James, Paul, Heather, Susan, Rosemary and all the rest of the regulars. I am greatfull for all the friends I've made during the tapings of these shows. What fun we had.<br /> On the way out of the studio afterwards, a bunch of pics were taken with crew members. I posted them here:<br /><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-2.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">with Dena</font></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-3.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">with Eddie</font></td></tr></table><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-4.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">Sandra and Eddie</font></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-5.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">with ?</font></td></tr></table><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-6.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">with Christina</font></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-7.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">with Jonathan</font></td></tr></table><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-8.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">with ?</font></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-9.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">with Allison</font></td></tr></table><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-10.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">Sandra & Allison</font></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/5.12.11pm.taping-11.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">with the Security Guard</font></td></tr></table><br /><center><a href="http://www.glencharlow.com">To GlenCharlow.com</a></center>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-34345998157805963532011-04-21T23:42:00.010-04:002011-04-23T12:26:32.145-04:00Madelyn Pugh Davis dies at 90; 'I Love Lucy' writer<I><B>Madelyn Pugh Davis collaborated with partner Bob Carroll Jr. on the groundbreaking series in the 1950s and continued to work with Lucille Ball over four decades. The pioneering female comedy writer is remembered as a 'class act.'</B></I><br /><br /><img width="500" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/MadelynPughDavis.jpg"><br /><br /><font size="2" face="verdana" color="#D6BE37">By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times - April 22, 2011</font><br /><br />Madelyn Pugh Davis, who with her writing partner Bob Carroll Jr. made television history in the 1950s writing Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's landmark situation comedy "I Love Lucy," has died. She was 90.<br /><br />Davis, a pioneering female radio and TV comedy writer whose work with the red-haired queen of TV comedy spanned four decades, died Wednesday at her home in Bel-Air after a brief illness, said her son, Michael Quinn Martin.<br /><br />The team of Davis and Carroll was writing Ball's CBS radio comedy "My Favorite Husband," co-starring Richard Denning, when they and their colleague, writer- producer Jess Oppenheimer, wrote the pilot episode for "I Love Lucy."<br /><br />The Emmy Award-winning series about a wacky New York City housewife and her Cuban bandleader husband ran on CBS from 1951 to 1957. It was ranked No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for four of its six seasons and was never out of the top three.<br />"I Love Lucy" has been playing around the world continuously ever since.<br /><br />When interviewers asked Ball, who died in 1989, what she thought was the secret of her show's enduring popularity, she had a stock answer: "My writers."<br /><br />"My mother never accepted an award where she didn't immediately say, 'I could not have done this without my writers.' She always put them first," Lucie Arnaz told The Times on Thursday.<br /><br /><img width="300" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/MadelynPughDavis.png" align="left">"Madelyn was such a class act," Arnaz said. "She was a very private person, very soft-spoken, genteel, feminine — all those lovely words you associate with great ladies. And yet she had the ability to write this wacky, insane comedy for my mother.<br />"She and Bob together were just such a wonderful team, a great match-up. They complemented each other's zaniness."<br /><br />Davis and Carroll, who were along for the "I Love Lucy" show's entire ride, wrote a string of classic episodes such as the ones in which Lucy and Ethel ( Vivian Vance) are chocolate candy dippers trying to contend with a fast-moving conveyor belt, Lucy stomps grapes in Italy, and she gets increasingly drunk doing a TV commercial for the health tonic Vitameatavegamin.<br /><br />Davis, Carroll and producer-writer Oppenheimer wrote the first four seasons together — more than 125 episodes. Writers Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf joined them in 1955 and, after Oppenheimer left the show in 1956, Davis, Carroll, Schiller and Weiskopf wrote the remaining episodes.<br /><br />Davis often said that no one involved with "I Love Lucy" had any idea that it would still be watched around the world more than a half-century later.<br />"In those days, we were mostly hoping we had an idea for the next show," she told the Sarasota [Fla.] Herald-Tribune in 2001.<br /><br />Of course, with "I Love Lucy" the story lines had to have their share of slapstick stunts for its star. And Ball never balked at the physical gags her writers dreamed up.<br /><br />"Lucy was willing to do anything if it was funny," Davis told U.S. News & World Report in 2001. "She'd black out her teeth, wear funny wigs. She never said, 'What do you mean setting fire to my nose?' And she didn't care how dangerous it was. It was very freeing to write anything in the world and know she had the nerve to do it."<br />Whatever the writers came up with for Lucy, they would try it out on Davis first to see if it would work and was safe to do.<br /><br />"Madelyn always said she's more expendable than Lucy, but not for me she wasn't," Carroll told "CBS This Morning" during a joint appearance in 1990. "So we'd wrap Madelyn in rugs and strap her into swivel chairs and hang her out of windows, and she came through nicely. So I said, 'If it works for Madelyn, it will work for Lucy.' "<br />In an interview with The Times in 2007 after Carroll's death Davis said she and her writing partner were not much alike, personally — "Bob was strong on jokes and very funny" — but they shared the same comic sensibility.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/MadelynPughDavis2.jpg" align="left">"One time, we were reading a script at the table," she recalled. "I felt that a joke could be funnier if we added a certain word. I wrote it in the margin of my script, and I looked over and Bob had written the same word.<br /><br />"So we thought alike and thought the same things were funny."<br /><br />One thing she was proud of was that "Bob and I never had any arguments, which with teams is very rare. Neither one of us liked fussing and fighting."<br /><br />After writing "I Love Lucy", Davis and Carroll wrote for "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy." They also were on board for Ball's short-lived comeback series, "Life with Lucy," in 1986. And they wrote the story for "Yours, Mine and Ours," the 1968 family comedy starring Ball and Henry Fonda.<br />Davis and Carroll received two Emmy nominations for their work on "I Love Lucy" and one for "Here's Lucy."<br /><br />Among their other TV credits: They created "The Mothers-in-Law," a 1967-69 sitcom starring Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard and were producers on the 1970s and '80s sitcom "Alice."<br /><br />Born Madelyn Pugh in Indianapolis on March, 15, 1921, Davis knew at an early age that she wanted to become a writer.<br /><br />She majored in journalism at Indiana University in Bloomington. But, unable to land a newspaper job after graduating in 1942, she found work as a staff writer at WIRE, the NBC radio station in Indianapolis, where she wrote commercials and patter for the disc jockeys, among other things.<br /><br />A year later she headed to Los Angeles and immediately was hired as a staff writer for the NBC radio network. Six months after that, in 1944, she was hired by CBS, which owned radio station KNX and had a large staff of writers.<br /><br /><img width="150" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/madelyn.book.png" align="left">Davis was the second woman hired on the writing staff — Kathleen Hite was the first. As Davis wrote in "Laughing with Lucy: My Life with America's Leading Lady of Comedy," her 2005 memoir" "No one actually wanted to hire women in 1944," but with so many men away at war, "what else was there?"<br /><br />During her third year at KNX, she was teamed with Carroll to write a half-hour show about a newlywed couple, "The Couple Next Door."<br /><br />After working on that show, Davis and Carroll wrote comedy sketches for a half-hour Pacific Network show called "It's a Great Life," starring a young comedian named Steve Allen. They left the Allen show to write for Ball on "My Favorite Husband."<br /><br />In 1992, Carroll and Davis received the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for achievement in television writing from the Writers Guild of America. And in 2001, the UCLA Film School honored them for lifetime achievement in television writing.<br /><br />Davis, whose first marriage to producer Quinn Martin ended in divorce, married Dr. Richard Davis, her former college sweetheart, in 1964. He died in 2009.<br /><br />In addition to her son, Davis is survived by four stepchildren, Brian Davis, Charlotte Davis, Lisa Davis and Ned Davis; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.<br /><br />Services will be private.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-madelyn-pugh-davis-20110422,0,4201375,full.story" target="new">Original article found here</a>.lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-67514169950433898012011-04-20T21:41:00.001-04:002011-04-20T21:42:56.541-04:00NATE Show: Reclaim Your Style<center><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/nate.logo.png"><br /><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: March 31, 2011 p.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: April 20, 2011</B> (today)</font><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/ReclaimYourStyle.jpg"width="500"></center><br /><b>"Reclaim Your Style"</b><br />Get Nate's guide to restoring your home, your looks, and your life, with special guest, Dana Delaney!<br /><br />Nate reveals his design tips for living a clutter free life and says that although it’s great to fill your home with memories and to layer the old with the new, sometimes you need to clear out some items in order to live your best life. Actress Dana Delaney stops by to discuss how she preserves her memories and also how she comes from a long line of designers including her mom and her sister! Plus, a dumpster diva shares her tricks for bringing new life to old items, while turning a profit!<br /><br />Nate's Tearsheet: Today’s show was all about reclaiming your style! Here are three easy ways to restore memories, furniture and sentimental items in your home:<br />Digitalpickle.com – specializes in restoring, updating and sharing memories captured in old photos and videos.<br />Chinaandcrystalrepair.com – Save your broken or chipped heirloom china, porcelain and crystal items here. They provide free estimates and free return shipping.<br />Furnituremedic.com – If you have antique woodwork, vintage wood furniture or reclaimed wood in your home that could use a little face lift, check out furnituremedic.com. They specialize in refinishing and polishing hard-to-treat wood items.<br /><br />A snap from TV...<br /><center><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/4.20.11airing-1.png" width=350><br><font size="2">...As the camera passes by during the credits...</font></td></tr></table></center>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-44903423387117371542011-04-13T22:39:00.003-04:002011-04-13T22:53:15.344-04:00NATE Show - Anytime Design<center><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/nate.logo.png"><br /><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: March 22, 2011 p.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: April 13, 2011</B> (today)</font><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/web3.22.pm.taping.jpg"width="500"></center><br /><b>"Anytime Design"</b><br />Nate enlists a team of experts to reveal the projects you can do in your home no matter how much time you have (or don’t have). From redesigning a room in a week, to preparing a month's worth of food in a day and to finding happiness with just a few spare seconds a day, Nate’s got you covered. Find out how to get your backyard barbecue ready for the summer in just one day and how Nate is able to help an eleven-year-old girl's design dream come to life.<br /><li> <b>The Secrets To Happiness</b> - Author of "The Happiness Project," Gretchen Rubin gives a working mom some tips on making time for herself.<br /><li> <b>An 11-Year-Old's Dream Room</b> - 11-Year-old Amy has fully sketched out the room of her dreams. What she doesn't know is that Nate has created the room for her!.<br /><li> <b>A Month Of Meals</b> - The creators of "Dream Dinners" are on set to help you create more meals for your family.<br /><li> <b>Backyard Makeover In A Day</b> - DIY network's Steve Watson helps a couple totally transform their backyard in just one day!.<br /><br />2 shots of the set<br /><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.22taping-1.JPG" width=230></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.22taping-2.jpg" width=230></td></tr></table><br />A snap from TV...<br /><center><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.22.11pm.taping.JPG" width=350><br><font size="2">...As the camera passes by during the credits...</font></td></tr></table></center>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-7001723092955268592011-04-11T13:42:00.004-04:002011-04-11T13:47:54.944-04:00NATE Show - Regret Proof Your Design<table><tr><td align="center"><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/nate.logo.png"><br /><br /><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: March 15, 2011 a.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: March 30, 2011</B></font><br /></td><tr><td><br />Nate’s sharing the secrets to regret-proofing your wardrobe, décor and relationships. "Flipping Out"’s Jenni Pulos joins Nate in helping one regretful couple convert their man-cave into the perfect “his and her” space. Also, Nate confesses his biggest style regret! Then, the ultimate style emergency kit to avoid your next fashion faux pas!<br /><B>Nate's Tearsheet</B><br />There are two easy ways to regret-proof your next design project: 1. Make sure you’re happy with a paint color before you buy. Ask for larger chips or sample jars to test the paint in the room, and check the paint in different lighting. Don’t test the paint on the wall; test it on a piece of cardboard. 2. Avoid the common problem of buying furniture that’s too big or too small for your room. Create a mock floorplan with newspaper and measure the dimensions of the furniture you want to purchase. Make sure the scale feels right before you buy!<br /></td><tr><td align="center"><br />Snaps from TV...<br><br /><table><tr><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.15.11am.taping-1.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">I'm right in the center between their faces wearing a navy blue sweater.</font></td><td width=3> </td><td width=230><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.15.11am.taping-2.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">I'm in the front row of audience there in the blue sweater to the left of the lady in pink in the lower right corner.</font></td></tr></table><br /></td></tr></table>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-56888213399158245892011-04-11T13:40:00.001-04:002011-04-11T13:41:43.434-04:00NATE Show - Turn Your Passions Into a Paycheck<table><tr><td align="center"><br /><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/nate.logo.png"><br /><br /><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: March 8, 2011 p.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: March 31, 2011</B></font><br /><br /></td><tr><td><br />These are a few shots I got of Nate with my cell phone which should have been off at this point. My bad!!!<br /></td><tr><td align="center"><br /><table><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11pm.taping-1.jpg" width=230></td><td width=3> </td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11pm.taping-2.jpg" width=230></td></tr></table><br /><table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11pm.taping-3.jpg" width=230></td><td width=3> </td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11pm.taping-4.jpg" width=230></td></tr></table><br />No Snaps from TV... Oh Well!!!<br /></td></tr></table>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-26865673581804940882011-04-11T13:34:00.006-04:002011-04-13T00:01:42.132-04:00NATE Show - Does Your Home Tell Your Story?<table><tr><td align="center"><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/nate.logo.png"><br /><br /><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: March 8, 2011 a.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: March 21, 2011</B></font><br /><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11am.taping-1.jpg"><br><font size="2">The only shot <u>from</u> the audience section where I was sitting.<br>They call it the 'West Wing".</font><br /><br />Snaps from TV...<br /><font size="2">I'm on the far right hand side, pink shirt.</font><br /><table><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11am.tv-1.jpg" width=230></td><td width=3> </td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11am.tv-2.jpg" width=230></td></tr></table><br /><table><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11am.tv-3.jpg" width=230></td><td width=3> </td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3.8.11am.tv-3a.jpg" width=230></td></tr></table><br /></td><tr><td align="center"><br /></td></tr></table>lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-76635600560766412882011-04-11T13:23:00.011-04:002011-04-12T23:58:14.476-04:00NATE Show - Catch upThis is where I catch up with documenting the Nate show tapings I've been to and the airings before the April 5th airing of the March 15th p.m. taping. Since this blog puts most recent at the top, I'll start with the first taping I went to and the fun I had there and continue on upward with the most recent after that coming up only to the ones that start from this point down. Confusing? Just read...<br /><br /><table><tr><td align="center"><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/nate.logo.png"><br /><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: January 25, 2011 a.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: February 9, 2011</B></font><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/1outside.png"><br /><img width="470" src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/2audience.png"><br /></td><tr><td><br />Oh, what fun I had. Wish you were there with me. I became famous. Today's taping theme began as a dance studio. There were hanging disco balls everywhere throughout the studio. The guests were a couple that couldn't and didn't dance at their wedding. So to help them were "Dancing With the Stars" real-life married couple Jonathan Roberts and his wife Anna Trebunskaya. So it was a cute segment of the show. In between taping segments, the audience has a bit of down time. So the audience girl, I don't know what she's called but she's the one who warms up the audience and prepares them for what's to come. She makes us practice clapping and laughing and reactions- anyway, pics me to dance in front of our audience section. So I went nuts dancing and everyone loved it. For this first dance section they gave me a NATE tee shirt.<br /><P><br />So at the next break in segment taping, she has me get up again in front of the entire audience (not just my section) with some other guy who has apparently been there before and she knows he dances, had a dance-Off. They played music and we danced for<br />everyone. A good 5 minutes. He did moves, then I did them and when it got to some softer music where this guy did some Ballet moves, I copied him and sort of turned into a "Lucy" at the bar kind of thing. It was hilarious and this audience girl (Dena Blizzard) gave us both a money card for Dunkin Donuts. I forgot how much is on it. But anyway, after all this another girl comes up to me and had me sign a release and said that this whole dance segment will be on the Nateshow website during the week the episode airs. By the way, it won't air for another 2 or 3 weeks. I am to keep an eye out on the website for the show. http://www.thenateshow.com<br /></td><tr><td align="center"><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/3meinaudience.png"><br><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/4meinaudienceanddena.png" width="470"><br /></td><tr><td><br />Oh, at some point during one of the breaks in taping, they came around with stickers to hand out to those who "stole" a banana from the audience waiting room. They were there to take and eat and she explained that a lot of people take them and keep them for later. I actually ate one there in the waiting room before being taken to the studio. She asked how many people had bananas with them now. About 10 people held up their bananas. So when they were passing out the stickers that say "I stole a banana from NATE: THE NATE BERKUS SHOW," I said I ate one in the waiting room. So they gave me a sticker.<br /></td><tr><td align="center"><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/stolebanana.sm.jpg"><br /></td><tr><td><br />They loved me and said to come back anytime I want and they'll probably have me dance. I can't wait to see me dancing on their website. They know me by name. Everybody called me by my name every time they referred to me. It was a lot of fun. Didn't get to meet NATE in person though. Bummer. But I took a pic of Anna and Jonathan as they were coming out of the building.<br /></td><tr><td align="center"><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/ticket.sm.jpg" border=1><br /></td><tr><td><br />The show finaly aired February 9th. I took this snippet from Nates website about the show and even snapped a shot off the TV. They didn't get my face in there but still... it's me!!! I never did get to see the dancing section get onto the website. I guess they changed their minds.<br /></td><tr><td align="center"><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/website.snippet.png" border=1><p><br />A snap from tv...<br><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/2001.02.09.jpg" width="400"><br><font size="2">I'm on the far right side looking off to the right in the blue shirt.<br>You don't see my face. But it's ME!</font><br /></td></tr></table><br /><table><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/2011.01.25am-1.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">I'm in the lower right corner in this one...</font></td><td width=3> </td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/2011.01.25am-2.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">This one...</font></td></tr></table><br /><table><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/2011.01.25am-3.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">And this one...</font></td><td width=3> </td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nateshow/2011.01.25am-4.jpg" width=230><br><font size="2">Here, I circled myself for easy ID.</font></td></tr></table><br /></td><tr><td align="center">lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-27366216747777629862011-04-07T02:16:00.017-04:002011-04-11T13:20:43.864-04:00NATE Show: Your House Proud Blueprint<img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate.Dena_Glen.png" align="left"><font color="#C06A45">I've been going to CBS Broadcasting Studios on West 57th St. in Manhattan to be in the studio audience of the Nate Berkus show. It's fun and energetic. The audience warmer, Dena Blizzard is a riot to listen to. She has a very quick wit and is very entertaining during the "down times" between segment tapings. So, whenever a show airs on TV that I was in the audience for, I will try to give the details for that particular show. It'll be fun to document them here.</font><br /><br /><center><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: March 16, 2011 a.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: April 7, 2011</B></font></center><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/Nate_Logo2.png" align="left" /><b>Nate shares design ideas to help revamp any room in your home. Plus, "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro makes a house call to end a couple's kitchen debate!</b><br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate.nateHimself.jpg" width="400"></center><br /><br />Nate shares one of the most important design plans for your home - how to make each room connect and have purpose. Then, TLC’s "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro makes a house call and helps put an end to one couple’s kitchen debate. Plus, the secrets to making your kitchen the heart of your home.<br /><br />Also:<br /><li> "Cake Boss" <b>Buddy Valastro</b> has made many cakes in his time cooking. Learn which cake was his favorite. (Hint: It's life-size!).<br /><li> Nate asks audience members to share the design inspiration behind their favorite room in their home.<br /><li> "Cake Boss" <b>Buddy Valastro</b> is in the kitchen with Nate sharing his grandmother's delicious lasagna recipe.<br /><li> Nate and design blogger <b>Kate Riley</b> help a couple who are in major need of a family room update.<br /><br /><table width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate2011.04.07/IMG_0910a.jpg" width="240"><br><font size="2">I am in the red shirt behind these girls.</font></td><td width="2"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate2011.04.07/IMG_0911a.jpg" width="240"><br><font size="2">I am in the blured part in red top right. This was at the end for the credit roll.</font></td></tr></table><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate.TheCakeBossBook.jpg" width="200" align="left" />The audience was given Buddy Valastro's book, "Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia" and a DVD of Season 3 of TLC's "The Cake Boss".lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-5868562610238699602011-04-06T00:21:00.013-04:002011-04-11T13:21:05.449-04:00NATE Show: In Your Backyard<img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate.Dena_Glen.png" align="left"><font color="#C06A45">I've been going to CBS Broadcasting Studios on West 57th St. in Manhattan to be in the studio audience of the Nate Berkus show. It's fun and energetic. The audience warmer, Dena Blizzard is a riot to listen to. She has a very quick wit and is very entertaining during the "down times" between segment tapings. So, whenever a show airs on TV that I was in the audience for, I will try to give the details for that particular show. It'll be fun to document them here.</font><br /><br /><center><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: March 22, 2011 a.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: April 06 2011</B></font></center><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/Nate_Logo2.png" align="left" /><b>Nate and guest Kelly Killoren Bensimon reveal the hottest trends in design and fashion that you can find right outside your front door!</b><br /><center><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate.Kelly.Killoren.Bensimon.jpg" width="300"></center><br />Nate proves that when it comes to the latest trends, the best finds are often in your own backyard! "Real Housewives of NYC" star, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, shows off her favorite finds in her home and in the city she considers her backyard – New York! Plus, Nate’s guide on how to refresh your style with items in your closet.<br /><br /><li> Check out Nate's unexpected ways to use local businesses for design projects.<br /><li> House Proud- Real Housewife <b>Kelly Bensimon</b> takes you on a tour of her chic Manhattan home.<br /><li> <b>Kelly Bensimon</b> takes you for a tour of her neighborhood and her favorite haunts.<br /><li> Nate reveals his favorite Manhattan locales.<br /><li> <b>Lilliana Vasquez</b> - Fashioneista will make new outfits with what's in your closet.<br /><li> Learn the most essential tips for cleaning out your closet from professional organizer <b>Andrew Mellen</b>.<br /><br /><table><tr><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate2011.04.06/IMG_0905a.jpg" width="230"><br><font size="2">I am in a light blue shirt top center.</font></td><td width="3"> </td><td><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate2011.04.06/IMG_0906a.jpg" width="230"><br><font size="2">Here, I am in the top right corner.</font></td><tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate2011.04.06/IMG_0907a.jpg" width="230"><br><font size="2">Top behind the front & center girl.</font></td></tr></table><br /><B>Nate's Tearsheet:</B> I’m lucky to have New York City as my backyard, so I’m bringing you my favorite blocks, stores, restaurants, hidden spots – everything I love about this city! Because not only can you visit them if you’re ever in town, but with the internet expanding all of our backyards, MY New York can easily become YOUR New York. The first stop on your tour? The Antiques Garage on West 25th street between 6th and 7th ave. It’s one of my favorite places to hit up on the weekend, and it’s full of buys no matter how much money you’re looking to spend!lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-12769071137376533142011-04-05T16:03:00.032-04:002011-04-11T13:21:23.885-04:00NATE Show: First Impressions<img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate.Dena_Glen.png" align="left"><font color="#C06A45">Lately, I've been going to CBS Broadcasting Studios on West 57th St. in Manhattan to be in the studio audience of the Nate Berkus show. It's fun and energetic. The audience warmer, Dena Blizzard is a riot to listen to. She has a very quick wit and is very entertaining during the "down times" between segment tapings. So, whenever a show airs on TV that I was in the audience for, I will try to give the details from the Nate show website & my notes for that particular show. It'll be fun to document them here.</font><br /><br /><center><font size="3" color="#3300CC"><B>THE NATE BERKUS SHOW - taping: March 15, 2011 p.m.</B></font><br><font size="3" color="#9900CC"><B>Aired: April 05 2011</B></font></center><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/Nate_Logo2.png" align="left" />Nate shows you how to make the best first impression when it comes to everything from decorating to dating! A former federal investigator reveals inside secrets on how your body language can help you land your dream job or date. Then Nate shows how to create a grand entrance in your home with five foyer essentials.<br /><center><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/nate-JanineDriver.png" width="300"></center><br /><li> Author <b>Janine Driver</b> reveals how your body language is perceived by others.<br /></li><li> Celebrity event planner <b>Debi Lilly</b> reveals how to create the perfect party ambiance to make your guest feel welcome the moment they arrive.<br /></li><li> <b>Matt Odom</b> of <a href="http://www.rockandrollhearts.com/">rockandrollhearts.com</a> shares tips on how you can get the most out of your wedding footage.<br /></li><li>Interior designer <b>Taniya Nayak</b> does "room readings," predicting a stranger's personality based on a picture from their home.<br /><br />Nate's Tearsheet: The message you send with a thank you card is priceless. Here are my two easy updates for making your next card stand out. Create stamped stationary by using blank, inexpensive stationary cards and using a beautiful stamp to create a classic, timeless, elegant look. Seal the envelope with wax, and personalize the type of seal!lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498182.post-46940992058560634132011-04-04T19:11:00.000-04:002011-04-04T19:12:36.299-04:00Emmy Award-Winning Comedian To Headline Lucy’s 100th Birthday Celebration<font size="2" face="verdana" color="#D6BE37">By The Post-Journal editorial@post-journal.com.</font><br /><br /><img src="http://www.lucilleball.net/blogpics/joan.rivers.jpg" align="left" hspace="5">A comedy legend and one of the industry's hottest stars will both be joining the celebration of the 100th birthday of Lucille Ball.<br /><br />Emmy-winner and comedy icon Joan Rivers is set to headline the birthday festival set for Aug. 3-7, The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center announced Friday, while also mapping out a vision for the center's future which includes the creation of a festival of comedy.<br /><br />''In 2011 for her 100th birthday, we give Lucille Ball what she always wanted, The Lucille Ball Festival of Comedy,'' said Journey Gunderson, the center's executive director.<br /><br />With Rivers highlighting the festival by performing Thursday, Aug. 4 at the Reg Lenna Civic Center, another big name was added to the celebration in rising comedian Whitney Cummings.<br /><br />''Staying true to our mission of not just honoring established comedy genius, but showcasing rising stars as we did Ray Romano, Lewis Black and Ellen Degeneres on their paths to the top in the early '90s, we couple our legendary headliner with a contemporary, just as she is exploding onto the scene, or as it's said in the business, 'blowing up right now,''' Gunderson said.<br /><br />Cummings who has performed on the Comedy Central roasts of Rivers, Donald Trump and David Hasselhoff, and appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno twice in the last month, has been courted by both NBC and CBS, who have each built pilots around her for this fall's network sitcom lineup.<br /><br />''Jamestown is thrilled to have grabbed her when we did,'' Gunderson said.<br /><br />The pairing of Rivers and Cummings is the start to the first of a four-pillar vision mapped out for the center's future.<br /><br />''Pillar one is a festival of comedy, the concept regarding her legacy that resonated with Lucille Ball the most when it was presented and discussed with her by the Arts Council of Jamestown shortly before her death in 1989,'' Gunderson said.<br /><br />The second pillar is a partnership with institutions of higher learning in order to provide educational programming in support of the development of the comedic arts.<br /><br />Bob Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, and professor at the Newhouse School of Communications, has agreed to be a lecturer, panelist and partner as we develop this programmatic series of seminars and classes.<br /><br />''With Candace Huber, director of Continuing Education at Jamestown Community College, we're developing the Summer 2012 platform of 'comedy college' courses, and, this August we begin a new category of Membership to the Center for Comedy, proceeds of which go to fund programs and opportunities for people and youth interested in all facets of the comedic arts, so that we can cultivate the next little Lucille Ball,'' Gunderson said.<br /><br />The third pillar, is a comedy film festival paying tribute to the legacy of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.<br /><br />The final pillar, and most aggressive in the Legacy of Laughter vision according to Gunderson, is the formation of a Comedy Hall of Fame and Award.<br /><br />''Like Cooperstown to baseball, Jamestown will induct and honor the comedic artists who most embody the legacy of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for their impact on the world through the comedic arts,'' Gunderson said.<br /><br />Tickets to all of festival performances go on sale Tuesday, and can be purchased at www.lucy-desi.com. A complete list of festival events is also available online.<br /><br /><a href="http://post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/582170/Rivers-To-Visit.html?nav=5192" target="new">Original article found here</a>.lucycollectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01839125364711466723noreply@blogger.com0