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papermoonloveslucy · 1 year

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THE WILD BLUE YONDER!

Lucy & Aviation

Thanks to Orville and Wilbur Wright, the world became a smaller place and travel by air become as commonplace as train or car travel. Lucille Ball and her many characters had lots of reasons to take to the ‘friendly skies’ - here are just a few.

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane. The Wrights were mentioned several times in the Lucyverse:

Olin Howland (Mr. Skinner in “First Stop” 1955) ~ As a young man he learned flying from the Wright Brothers.

“Speech for a Civic Organization” (1949) ~ Liz intends to speak about the Wright Brothers, despite her favorite husband’s objections.

“The Good Years” (1962) ~ Orville and Wilbur were mentioned in the special starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda.

“Swing Out Sweet Land” (1970) ~ Rowan and Martin played the Wright Brothers and Lucy voiced the Statue of Liberty in John Wayne’s TV special celebrating American history.

As a busy radio, film and television star, Lucille Ball was constantly photographed boarding and disembarking from aircraft.

1930′s ~ Young model Lucille Ball holds a model airplane for a photo shoot.

May 1938 ~ Publicists created fascinating and completely untrue backgrounds for Hollywood stars. In this article, Monroe Lathrop claims that Lucille Ball was a skilled aviatrix who shot crocodiles while flying over a jungle river.

“On a visit to Colombia, Lucille, avid for new adventure, went with friends Into the jungle, meeting a flood that had swollen the streams and overrun the banks with huge crocodiles. Instead of heeding the natives' warning, Lucille went to wireless station, ordered an airplane and rifles, and spent a day pumping lead into the big green saurians. Natives rewarded her with a generous helping of crocodile steak later.”

Five Came Back (1939) ~ Nine passengers from all walks of life and a crew of three take off from Los Angeles, bound for Panama City, but a sudden storm blows them off course and causes the plane to crash in the Amazon jungle. Lucille Ball played passenger Peggy Nolan. The B film helped Ball launch an A list career.

1940s ~ Lucille Ball posing in a biplane cockpit.

June 1943 - Newspapers reported that Jimmy Cagney had christened a B-17 bomber named The Lucille Ball. After it was scrapped due to battle damage, a second bomber was christened The Lucille Ball in 1944.

A Woman of Distinction (1950) ~ Lucille Ball appears in a cameo as herself, a jet-setting film star, in this Rosalind Russell / Ray Milland film.

“Return Home From Europe” (1956) ~ To get back to New York in time to play the Roxy, the Ricardos and Mertzes fly home from Europe, rather than go by ship. Unable to whittle down her luggage allowance, Lucy is intent on smuggling a cheese aboard, disguising it as a baby.

There are establishing shots of Pan American World Airways (PAA) President Clipper Service. The Clipper in the insert shot is named Bald Eagle. There are two insert shots of Pan Am aircraft: one taking off, and one in mid-flight. The DC-7C (nicknamed “seven seas”) first entered service for Pan Am in December 1955 and was dubbed “the zenith of piston-engine technology.” Pan Am had 27 DC-7Cs flying during 1956. By 1958, jet travel began to overtake propeller airplanes.

The interior of the aircraft was recreated on the Desilu soundstage. The PAA logo is visible on blankets and tote bags, items provided by Pan Am for the use of their name and images of their aircraft as well as possible other promotional consideration.

“The Ricardos Visit Cuba” (1956) ~ While in Miami, the gang flies to Havana to visit Ricky’s family.

The gang once again flies Pan American Airways, the same carrier they took home from Europe. The airline folded in 1991.

As with their previous flight, there is an establishing shot of the plane in the air and the interior was recreated on the Desilu soundstage. The set is basically the same one used in “Return Home from Europe”. It also features PAA branded promotional items.

“Lucy Goes To Alaska” (1959) ~ The Ricardos and Merztes fly to the brand new state of Alaska, where Ricky and Fred have bought some land and Ricky is doing a TV show with Red Skelton. Although the action is set in and around Nome, the second unit footage was filmed in Lake Arrowhead, California, about 100 miles from Hollywood. The exteriors were done with doubles and none of the regular cast left their newly-purchased Desilu (formerly RKO) Studio.

To get from Westport CT to Nome AK, the gang first flies United Airlines, then transfers to Alaska Airlines. There is establishing footage of both planes in mid-flight.

The set features a couple of travel posters for Alaska Airlines, enticing viewers to visit the 49th state for tourism. In the second half of the hour, a small propeller plane is introduced to rescue Red and Lucy from a blizzard.

RED: “What’s that blue stuff?” ESKIMO PILOT: “Sky.” LUCY (To Red): “You act as though you’ve never seen sky before.” RED: “I haven’t. I live in Los Angeles.”

The plane is buried in a snowbank. Lucy pays an eskimo pilot $100 to fly her and Red to safety.

While the plane in the snowbank was filmed in the Hollywood studio, the safe landing was done at Lake Arrowhead using actor doubles.

“The Ricardos Go To Japan” (1959) ~ The final time we see the gang airborne is on a trip to Japan. Although there is a poster for Japan Airlines (JAL) in the airport...

According to the establishing footage of the jet in mid-air, the foursome travels on United Airlines.

The Facts of Life (1960) ~ The film about two marrieds flirting with infidelity has Kitty Weaver (Lucille Ball) waiting at the airport where a United Airlines jet can be seen on the tarmac in the background.

“Mr. & Mrs.” aka “The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour” (1964) ~ A comedy special in which Lucille Ball plays the head of a studio trying to track down Bob Hope to star in a show about husband and wife television stars. The first half concerns Lucy's tracking the elusive Hope all around the world. In San Francisco, there is establishing footage of a jet landing which was supplied courtesy of TWA, a carrier that went out of business in 2001.

“The Victor Borge Comedy Theatre” (1962) & “Lucy Flies To London” (1966) ~ The unaired pilot for an unsold comedy anthology series hosted by Borge featured a sketch starring Gale Gordon and Lucille Ball as two strangers on a plan.

It was filmed before “The Lucy Show” paired the two as a comedy duo. In the pilot, the characters were strangers. Gordon played a businessman and Ball a neurotic first-time flyer.

When it came time for Lucy Carmichael to fly to London for the special “Lucy in London”, the writers realized they could recycle the script from the un-aired pilot for “The Lucy Show” episode. The dialogue is nearly identical, now with the added context that Mr. Mooney and Lucy are boss and secretary.

“Lucy in London” (1966) ~ An hour-long special set in England and filmed on location. The sequence involving Lucy de-planing from the Pan Am clipper jet had to be accomplished in between flights already on the tarmac at Heathrow. No planes were available to be grounded for a day of shooting. Coincidentally (or perhaps not) Pan Am was also the carrier when Lucy Ricardo flew home from Europe and from Miami to Havana on “I Love Lucy.”

“Viv Visits Lucy” (1967) ~ To greet her old friend, Lucy meets her at the airport, where a backdrop shows jets on the tarmac. Lucy looks up and sees Viv’s flight approaching.

LUCY: “Oh, look! Someone’s hanging out of the plane. It look like Viv!” PILOT: “That’s the landing gear.” LUCY: “Oh.”

“Little Old Lucy” (1967) ~ When the 90 year-old president of the bank (Dennis Day) is in town and needs an escort to the bank’s banquet, Lucy is volunteered. Lucy and Mr. Mooney meet him at the airport, where jets can be seen in the background.

“Lucy and Carol Burnett: Part 1 & 2″ (1967) ~ Lucy and Carol Tilford (Carol Burnett) sign up to be flight attendants, then put on a variety show celebrating aviation. They are employed by the fictional Globe World Airlines.

Instead of asking bachlor GWA VP Mr. Brenner if he would like coffee, tea or milk, Lucy says “coffee, tea or me”! Earlier in 1967, the book Coffee Tea or Me? was published. It was the alleged memoirs of two stewardess and their romantic and sexual escapades in the air. The popularity of this book may be the reason for this episode.

Frustrated by Lucy and Carol's bungling, Mr. Brenner (Rhodes Reason) says “Is this any way to run an airline?” The line gets a huge reaction from the studio audience. In 1963 a National Airlines TV commercial featured a flight attendant asking “Is this any way to run an airline? You bet it is!” In 1966, singer Tom Paxton wrote and recorded a song with the same title.

In Part Two, their musical salute to aviation features Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen, stars of the very first Academy-Award winning motion picture Wings (1929), a movie about flight. Coincidentally, on the same day this airline-themed episode premiered, the supersonic Concorde was unveiled in France. Also on this date, newspapers announced the crash of a twin-engine plane in Madison, Wisconsin that killed recording star Otis Redding and six others.

The revue ends with “The Army Air Corps Song” with flight attendants and college boys perched on the wings of a bi-plane.

“Lucy and the Great Airport Chase” (1969) ~ Filmed entirely on location at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Lucy and Harry get caught up in chasing down spies. Part of the chase takes them onto the tarmac with the jets.

A Douglas DC-8-52 of United Airlines is on the right and Douglas DC-8-54AF Jet Trader of United Airlines Jet Freighter is in the background.

“The Carol Burnett Show” (1969) ~ In a sketch, Lucy and Carol play flight attendnts and Harvey Korman plays a mysterious passenger with a Fidel Castro-like beard, cigars tucked in his breast pocket, and a Spanish accent. When this episode was aired, hijackings were in the news.

“Lucy, the Sky Diver” (1970) ~ Trying to show her kids how dangerous their hobbies are, Lucy jumps from a plane! Although there is second unit location footage of the plane and Lucy floating down on her parachute, Lucille Ball remained at the studio with a recreation of the aircraft and a simulated parachute.

“Lucy, the Part-Time Wife” (1970) ~ Lucy and Harry go to the airport to meet an old flame of his (Carole Cook). The airport background shows jets on the tarmac.

“Lucy Helps David Frost Go Night-Night” (1971) ~ Lucy takes an assignment accompanying David Frost on a transatlantic flight so that he can get some rest. Thanks to Lucy, his flight is anything but restful! The first class section of a 747 was recreated for the episode.

The jet seen in the stock footage of the airport is a Pan Am Boeing 747 with an upper deck first class lounge.

David Frost reckons that he has taken 346 air trips or traveled 1,853,000 miles!

Mame (1974) ~ At the end of the film, Auntie Mame waves goodbye to Patrick, has she flies off to her next adventure.

“Lucy Gets Lucky” (1975) ~ Although Lucy Collins took the bus to Las Vegas to see her favorite star Dean Martin, at the end of the special she flies off into the sunset with him on his private jet. Dreams come true!

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bookfirstlinetourney · 10 months

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Round 1

By the time Professor Richard Lovell found his way through Canton’s narrow alleys to the faded address in his diary, the boy was the only one in the house left alive.

-Babel: An Arcane History, R.F. Kuang

It wasn't prison.

-Chasing the Falconers, Gordon Korman

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva obscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita.

(Midway upon the road of our life I found myself within a dark wood, for the right way had been missed.)

-La Divina Comedia/The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

#books #polls #reading #round 1 #tournament poll #babel #rf kuang #chasing the falconers #gordon korman #the divine comedy #dante alighieri

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baronvonkrieger · 1 year

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My Five Top Dracula Comedies.

In 1897, Bram stoker wrote a novel about a Vampiric count who comes to England in search of fresh victims. The book revolutionized horror, and has been filmed several times. Some of the takes on the character have been comedies, and of those, I thought it might be fun to include the five I’ve enjoyed the most. I could have included Grandpa from the Munsters here, but the Munsters is deserving of it’s own blog, and I’ll cover them in the future. So with Halloween here, I thought I’d start with my favorite of them.

1. Love at First Bite (1979)

After “Young Frankenstein”, my favorite horror Comedy. In this comedy, George Hamilton plays a sympathetic Count Dracula, who is forced to come to America, when the Communist party, decides to turn his castle into a training camp for gymnasts.The film is perfectly cast. Artie Johnson is in top form as Renfield, and Richard Benjaman has never been better as Dr. Rosenberg-well it was Van Helsing, but the character said he changed his name for “professional reasons”. Susan St. James is funny as Dracula’s love interest Cindy Sondheim, a woman who is trying to accept being a liberated woman, but deep down wants an old fashioned love. This film is very funny, but also very politically incorrect. Like Blazing Saddles, this is the kind of film that could not be made today. Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Jewish people, and gays, are all poked fun of. We can’t have that today! Reeeeeee!

2. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

One of the best horror comedies ever made, this would mark a turning point for the Universal Horror films, when they went from serious to comedy, and then back again with sci-fy and the Creature of the black Lagoon series. With so many having experienced the actual horrors of war, the idea of the mad scientist creating havoc in his crumbling castle, was becoming quaint in comparison. Dr. Frankenstein had noting on Dr. Mengele.

A big reason this film works, is the monsters are allowed to be played seriously, and the comedy is largely left to the comics. We also have the return of Bela Lugosi as Dracula, which he still was in top form. He plays the count with gleeful evil, and it was good to have at last one more chance to see him as the Count.

3. Dracula Dead and Loving It (1995)

I have come to love this film, but when I originally saw it. I was expecting a Dracula comedy as funny as Young Frankenstein, or Love at first Bite. It was seeing it later on, and no longer expecting it to be as funny as Young Frankenstein, that I began to enjoy it as the comedy it was.

There is honestly a lot to love about this movie. It was deliberately filmed to look like the old sound stage bound horror films, everyone is putting on an exaggerated British hack-cent, except Leslie Nielsen, who is giving us his best Transylvania hack-cent. The sets look pretty good. Unlike Keannu reeves who struggled like an actor in a high school stage play portraying Jonathan Harker in Coppola’s “Dracula”, Stephen Webber looks like he’s having a fun time playing that same character. Peter MacNicol is hysterical as Renfield, While Harvey Korman bases his portrayal of Dr. Seward, who runs the sanitarium next to the ruined Carfax Abbey that Dracula purchased, on Nigel Bruce. This parody pretty much follows the famous Hamilton Deane stage play, that Lugosi’s version was based on, with nods to Coppola and Hammer tossed in.

4. Vampira (Old Dracula) 1974

This was a film I saw as a teenager, during it’s initial released, at the Eagle Rock Mall. I was a fan of David Niven, so I enjoyed it. David Niven is in fine form playing a sinister predatory vampire, who has found renting out his castle for tours, and “borrowing” blood from guests, has allowed him to enjoy a quiet life of no longer having to hunt for his food, and helps pay to maintain his castle, His only need at this point is to resurrect hi love, who has been in slumber for half a century. As Dracula, David Niven plays the part with his usual wit and elegance. Teresa Graves, plays the title role of Vampira, his mate that becomes black because of a blood transfusion, is also attractive and is a lot of fun in this film. I find the film is an entertaining 1970s British Horror film, but a lot of people find it disappointing, and some out right hate the film.

Part of this probably has to do with the marketing of the film in the States. Because of the popularity of “Young Frankenstein” some marketing genius thought it was a good idea to rename it “Old Dracula”. The half sheet poster I own even claims. “If you liked ‘Young Frankenstein’ you’ll love Old Dracula”. The two comedies represent different kinds of comedy films. If you liked Young Frankenstein, there’s a likelihood you wouldn’t like this film at all, and unlike Young Frankenstein, this film has gotten some hatred. But since I went into the film, to see a David Niven comedy, I wasn’t disappointed, and enjoyed my recent re-watch of this film.

5. Hotel Transylvania (2012)

It’s hard to believe that I would enjoy any film by Adam Sandler, but I found myself enjoying this film, and it’s sequels. It probably has to do with Sandler playing a very sympathetic Dracula, who wants to raise his daughter without putting her at risk from the humans who destroyed his home, and killed his wife, so I could genuinely enjoy the film. Adam Sandler brings along several of his friends (David Spade, Steve Buscemi Kevin James) to play the monsters, while Selena Gomez is good playing Dracula’s daughter “Mavis”. The film being direction by Genndy Tartakovsky, made it a very watchable film.

#Adam Sandler #Mel Brooks #Abbott and Costello #Dracula #David niven #Bela Lugosi #Dracula Dead and Loving it #Love at First Bite #Hotel Transylvania

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kwebtv · 2 years

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TV Guide - October 27 - November 2, 1962

Eamon Joseph O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) Film and television actor and film director. His career spanned almost 40 years.

Primarily a film actor O'Brien worked heavily in television, on such shows as Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, Lux Video Theatre and Schlitz Playhouse of Stars and Playhouse 90 episode, The Comedian,

From 1959 to 1960, O'Brien portrayed the title role in the syndicated crime drama Johnny Midnight, about a New York City actor-turned-private detective.

O'Brien had roles on many television series, including an appearance on Target: The Corruptors!, The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point and Mission: Impossible.

In the mid-'60s, O'Brien co-starred with Roger Mobley and Harvey Korman in the "Gallegher" episodes of NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. From 1963 to 1965, he co-starred in the NBC legal drama Sam Benedict.

Richard Rust (July 13, 1938 – November 9, 1994) Actor of stage, television, and film born in Boston, probably best remembered for his role as a young lawyer in NBC's Sam Benedict series (1962–1963).

In 1959, Rust appeared in the episode "Well of Gold" of the NBC children's western series, Buckskin, starring Tom Nolan. He also appeared in several western television programs, including Black Saddle with Peter Breck, The Man from Blackhawk starring Robert Rockwell, The Rifleman starring Chuck Connors, Gunsmoke with James Arness, Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson, Johnny Ringo with Don Durant, and Have Gun – Will Travel with Richard Boone. He twice guest starred on ABC/Warner Brothers series, Bourbon Street Beat with Andrew Duggan, and 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Rust guest starred on other ABC/WB programs too, including Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins, Bronco with Ty Hardin, Lawman with John Russell, and The Roaring 20s. Rust appeared on the syndicated series, The Brothers Brannagan with Stephen Dunne and Mark Roberts, and Rescue 8, with Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries. He guest starred too on James Franciscus's short-lived CBS series The Investigators.

After Sam Benedict, Rust appeared in various television programs, including Gary Lockwood's The Lieutenant, which occupied the former time slot on Saturday nights held the previous year by Sam Benedict. He guest starred on three episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel starring Richard Boone, two episodes of Perry Mason with Raymond Burr, Bonanza, Christopher George's The Rat Patrol, and Cade's County with Glenn Ford. Rust appeared as James Vining in 1975 on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. (Wikipedia)

#TV Guide #TV #1962 #Edmond O'Brien #Richard Rust #Sam Benedict

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burningexeter · 3 months

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NOW THIS IS JUST PURELY FOR FUN:

Most episodes of HBO's Tales From The Crypt along with its 1995 spin-off film Demon Knight all take place in the same universe as each other and somehow in some way, shape or form, the Cryptkeeper is somehow responsible for the events in every one of them, said episodes are literally all of the following that you see here right about.... now —

• The Man Who Was Death

• And All Through The House

• Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

• Only Sin Deep

• Lover Come Hack To Me

• Collection Completed

• Cutting Cards

• Til Death

• Three's A Crowd

• The Thing From The Grave

• The Sacrifice

• For Cryin' Out Loud

• Four-Sided Triangle

• Judy, You're Not Yourself Today

• Fitting Punishment

• Korman's Kalamity

• Lower Berth

• Mute Witness To Murder

• Television Terror

• Carrion Death

• Abra Cadaver

• Top Billing

• Easel Kill Ya

• Undertaking Palor

• Mournin' Mess

• Split Second

• Deadline

• Yellow

• None But The Lonely Heart

• This'll Kill Ya

• On A Deadman's Chest

• Beauty Rest

• What's Cookin'

• The New Arrival

• Showdown

• King Of The Road

• Maniac At Large

• Split Personality

• Strung Along

• Death Of Some Salesman

• As Ye Sow

• Forever Ambergris

• People Who Live In Brass Hearses

• Two For The Show

• Well Cooked Hams

• Came The Dawn

• Half-Way Horrible

• Only Skin Deep

• Revenge Is The Nuts

• The Bribe

• The Assassin

• Staired In Horror

• Surprise Party

• 99 & 44/100% Pure Horror

• You, Murderer

• Fatal Caper

• Escape

• Horror In The Night

• Cold War

• The Kidnapper

• About Face

and finally coming to an end —

• Confession

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Demon Knight essentially serves as the grand finale to the whole universe at least on the Cryptkeeper's end while the universe itself keeps going because there's more to it than that. Considering that the show was developed and executive produced by A-list filmmakers Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis, it only makes sense some of their work would be in the same universe as Tales From The Crypt.

However, here are my choices on my end.

Here's what I can sharing the same universe as the "Crypt-Verse"....

#tales from the crypt #hbo #ec comics #Youtube #Spotify

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visplay · 1 year

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Chris: Blazing Saddles is a spicy comedy written partially by Richard Pryor, it seems to fix Mel Brooks as the US Monty Python, still funny, Watch: On Subscription Service.

Richie: It’s good but definitely not the most funny Mel Brooks movie, Watch: On Subscription Service.

#movie review #blazing saddles

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clocktownvendor · 2 years

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All of the Books I’ve Read in the Past Five Years

- House Arrest by K. A. Holt

-Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

-That’s Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger

-RIP Eliza Hart by Alyssa Sheinmel

-Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

-Mr. Terupt Falls Again by Rob Buyea

-Children of Exile by Margaret Peterson Haddix

-Children of Refuge by Margaret Peterson Haddix

-Greeting From Witness Protection by Jake Burt

-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

-Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix

-Blue Fingers Cheryl Aylward Whitesel

-Turnabout by Margaret Peterson Haddix

-New Moon

-Eclipse

-From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

-Stuck on Earth by Marilyn Sadler

-Girl, Stolen by April Henry

-Screenshot by Donna Cooner

-Warcross by Marie Lu

-Wildcard by Marie Lu

-Restart by Gordan Korman

-Not if I Save You First by Ally Carter

-Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

-Breakout by Kate Messner

-When by Victoria Laurie

-You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly

-The Maze Runner by James Dashner

-Twilight

-Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

-We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

- Percy Jackson: The Lightning Theif by Rick Roirdan

-Scythe by Neal Schusterman

-Thunderhead by Neal Schusterman

-Posted by John David Anderson

-One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

-Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

-The Toll by Neal Schusterman

-Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

-The Eight Day by Dianne K. Salerni

-Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

-The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McGlaughlin & Link Neal

-Dry Ice by Stephen White

-Peak by Roland Smith

-Famous Last Words by Katie Alender

-Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

-Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

-Want to Go Private? by Sarah Darer Littman

-The List by Siobhan Vivian

-Jacked Up by Erica Sage

-Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

-A Cold Trail by Robert Dugoni

-Divergent by Veronica Roth

-One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus

-Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

-Eragon by Christopher Paolini

-Eldest by Christopher Paolini

-Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

-Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

-Life and Death (Gender-swapped Twilight)

-Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

-The Body Finder by Kimberley Derting

-Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson

-The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

-To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

-Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards

-Panic by Lauren Oliver

-Neuromancer by William Gibson

-Every Day by David Levithan

-Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

-Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

#book #reading list

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kitsunetsuki · 2 years

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Richard Avedon - Cynthia Korman Wearing a Outfit by Michael Mott for Paraphernalia (Vogue 1969)

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addictivecontradiction · 4 years

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Blazing saddles, 1974

#comedy #western #blazing saddles #mel brooks #norman steinberg #andrew bergman #richard pryor #alan uger #harvey korman #hindrance

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badmovieihave · 9 months

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Bad Movie I have History of the World: Part 1 (1981)

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papermoonloveslucy · 1 year

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LUCY’S THIN BLUE LINE

Lucy and Law Enforcement ~ Part 2

On “The Lucy Show,” Lucy Carmichael not only had multiple run-ins with the police - she actually became one for a couple of episodes! Here’s a look at Carmichael and Cops!

“Lucy and Viv Become Tycoons” (1963) ~ When Lucy and Viv open their own business at home, they are visited by Sergeant Robbins (Bern Hoffman) to check on their permits and operating practices. In 1960, Hoddman appeared in the Lucille Ball / Bob Hope film The Facts of Life.

“Lucy Drives a Dump Truck” (1963) ~ Driving a truck to a nearby town, Lucy and Viv are pulled over by a Brewster policeman played by Richard Reeves, a veteran of nine episodes of “I Love Lucy” including playing a policeman in “Equal Rights” (1953). This is his only appearance on “The Lucy Show.”

“Lucy and the Safe Cracker” (1963) ~ When Mr. Mooney gets locked in the safe (again), Lucy contacts a safe cracker (Jay Novello) and Sergeant Wilcox (James Flavin) is on the scene. Coincidentally, Flavin played the Immigration Officer searching for Mario Orsatti (Jay Novello) in “Visitor from Italy” (1956). He will return to “The Lucy Show” two episodes later to play Sgt. Wilcox again in another bank-themed episode. He appeared in four films with Lucille Ball, including playing a police sergeant in Without Love (1945). During his long career he played so many officers of the law that his IMDB photo is of him in a police uniform!

“Lucy and the Bank Scandal” (1963) ~ Sergeant Wilcox (James Flavin) investigates a case of embezzelment at the Danfield Bank. Lucy suspects Mr. Mooney and digs up his yard to find the stolen cash.

“Lucy is Her Own Lawyer” (1964) ~ Officer Joe (Joe Mell) the Baliff, swears in Lucy Carmichael as well as Mr. Mooney and Nelson the dog! Mell returns as a Baliff in “Lucy the Meter Maid” (1964) and a Bank Guard in “Lucy the Stockholder” (1965).

“Lucy the Meter Maid” (1964) ~ Lucy joins the Danfield Police Force as meter maid. When Viv doesn’t feed the meter, Lucy issues her a summons and they land up in court. Once again, Joe Mell plays the Baliff.

“Lucy Makes a Pinch” (1964) ~ Still on the Force, Lucy is recruited to be part of a stake out. The episode features three of Danfield’s finest (left to right): Murdock (Jack Searl), Captain Bradford (Alan Carney), and Detective Bill Baker (Jack Kelly). As a child actor, Jack Searl was featured in the 1932 film Officer Thirteen, about motorcyle cops. Alan Carney played a policeman in the 1963 comedy classic It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. In 1955, Jack Kelly appeared on a TV series titled “City Detective.”

“Lucy the Coin Collector” (1964) ~ When Lucy drops a rare coin down the sewar grate, she is consoled by a cop on the beat (Ray Kellogg). his is the second of his seven episodes of “The Lucy Show.” He also did two episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” Just as in his other screen credits, most most times he played policemen, as he does here.

“Lucy and the Ceramic Cat” (1965) ~ While Lucy breaks into Bigelow’s Department Store, Viv stands guard, diverting the cop on the beat (John J. ‘Red’ Fox). Fox was best known for playing policemen, which is what he did on five of his eight appearances on “The Lucy Show” as well as three of his five episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

“Lucy, the Stockholder” (1965) ~ After buying a single share of the Danfield Bank for $32, Lucy the stockholder pays the bank a visit. She warns the lackadaisical guard (Joe Mell) that she has a nine year-old nephew who is quicker on the draw than him.

“Lucy and the Undercover Agent” (1965) ~ Trying to get access to performer Carol Channing, Lucy charms Military Police (MP) officer Sol Schwartz. The character name was specifically chosen so Lucy can sing “Hello, Solly” to the tune of “Hello, Dolly”.

“Salute to Stan Laurel” (1965) ~ In a special tributing the late comedian, Lucille Ball is part of a silent movie sketch featuring Buster Keaton and Harvey Korman as a policeman in the park.

“Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney” (1965) ~ A silent movie sketch based on Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid features the Keystone Kops (Sid Gould, above). Keystone Kops are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.

“Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (1966) ~ Mr. Mooney is questioned by Officer Collins (Robert Foulk) of the Beverly Hills Police Department. He doesn’t have a permit to sell maps to the movie stars’ homes and is hauled down to the police station. Foulk played the Brooklyn policeman on the subway platform in “Lucy and the Loving Cup” (1956). He will go on to play six characters on “Here’s Lucy,” two of them policemen.

“Lucy the Gun Moll” (1966) ~ Robert Stack plays Federal Agent Briggs in this satire on Desilu’s “The Untouchables.” Stack played G-Man Eliot Ness on the series and only agreed to the satire if the names were changed.

“Lucy and the Submarine” (1966) ~ Whe Lucy sneaks onto a submarine, she must get by a stoic Navy Shore Patrolman (SP) played by Steven Marlo. Marlo makes the first of his two appearances on “The Lucy Show.”

“Lucy and the Ring-a-Ding Ring” (1966) ~ Ray Kellogg plays the cop on the beat who discovers Mr. Mooney trying to get a nearly unconscious Lucy into his car because she has his wife’s ring stuck on her finger.

“Viv Visits Lucy” (1967) ~ To find a wayward Danfield boy, Lucy and Viv go to the Sunset Strip, where they are mistaken for hippie biker chicks by the police. Ray Kellogg plays the Motorcycle Officer (right) and John J. 'Red’ Fox plays Patrolman Harry McLeod (left).

“Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map” (1967) ~ Mel Torme is Mel Tinker, the deputy and Roy Barcroft plays his father, Police Chief Tinker, the law enforcement team in small town Bancroft. During his long career on screen, Barcroft played a sheriff 18 times between 1943 and 1966, including in Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966).

“Lucy Meets the Law” (1967) ~ Lucy thinks she’s being arrested for littering when she is actually being mistaken for a red-haired jewel thief. Claude Akins (Lieutenant Finch) is perhaps best remembered for playing Sheriff Lobo in “B.J. And the Bear” (1978-79) and its sequel “The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo” (1979-81).

Jody Gilbert plays the jail matron aka ‘Tinkerbell’. Gilbert will also appear in two episodes of “Here’s Lucy,” in one of which she also plays a prison matron.

Ken Lynch (Officer Peters, left) started playing policemen on TV in 1950 and continued to do so for much of his career. Joseph Perry (Officer Miller, right) started his screen acting career in 1956. Perry played a policeman on “My Living Doll” (1965) filmed at Desilu. He appeared on the police-themed shows “Policewoman,” “Police Story,” “Barney Miller,” “Hill Street Blues,” “CHiPs,” “The Rookies” “The Mod Squad,” “87th Precinct,” “The FBI,” “The Rookies,” and “The Sheriff of Cochise” a Desilu Production.

“Lucy Sues Mooney” (1967) ~ Irwin Charone (Bailiff) makes the third of his five appearances on “The Lucy Show.”

Two uncredited background actors play Officers of the Court.

“Lucy and the Stolen Stole” (1968) ~ Lucy and Mr. Mooney go shopping for Mrs. Mooney's birthday and wind up being arrested for possession of a stolen fur stole. The boys in blue are played by Ray Kellogg, Roy Shapiro, and John J. 'Red' Fox as Officer Shapiro.

“Lucy Gets Involved” (1968) ~ At Phil’s Fat Boy Burgers, a policeman (John J. 'Red' Fox) interrogates motorcyclist Tommy Watkins (Phil Vandervoort) with Mr. Burton (Jackie Coogan) overhearing.

“Lucy and Sid Caesar” (1968) ~ A forger who looks like Sid Caesar is passing bad checks at the bank. Lucy and Mr. Mooney try to figure out how to tell the real Sid Caesar from the forger. They enlist the help of the authorities (left to right): Irwin Charrone, John J. ‘Red’ Fox, and Ben Gage. Gage was mentioned on “I Love Lucy” in 1955. He appeared on “Our Miss Brooks” (filmed at Desilu Studios) and in Desilu’s “Star Trek.” His last two screen appearances were in “Policewoman” and “Police Story.”

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