ATTENTION BRETT SOMERS and all her FANS!

[maggie~hamilton]

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(Where IS Brett btw? Doesn't seem to have posted here in a long time...)

 

[brettsomers]

im right here, Maggie! i'm more interested in how you got the Best of Match Game at Walgreens for so cheap!

 

[maggie~hamilton]

heh heh

Hi Brett! The drug store has bins of DVDs ranging from 1.99 to 9.99. It's a real grab bag. Most of it is crap but there are gems every now and then. I also got a copy of "America's Funniest Home Videos" for 3.99. Other times I have found "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "The Beverly Hillbillies" (including the pilot episode) "Here's Lucy" (not her best effort by any stretch) and so on.

This is Volume 1 of "Match Game" ---- and Brett, at the end, hints there will be more so I assume there are by now, since this was made in 2005.

I really love the 60s and 70s game shows --- tacky in the extreme but fun, and sometimes pretty bawdy. Especially "The Hollywood Squares," one of my favorites! I have a DVD set from that show as well, that I got on eBay.

 

[petek]

So what ruined Here's Lucy? I think it was Lucie and Desi Jr. who didn't help it. LOL

 

[maggie~hamilton]

"Here's Lucy"

just didn't have the magic - the chemistry - of "I Love Lucy." For that matter, neither did the last episodes of "I Love Lucy" -- nor the hour-long "Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" that came next.

By that time, their marriage was completely on the rocks; she was miserable; he was an alcoholic and a notorious womanizer.

When she divorced him and moved on, she put on a good front and pretended to be happy in her marriage to Gary Morton, but there's a subtext of quiet, deep sadness running through all the shows she did on her own.

By the time she did her last, short-lived series, "Life With Lucy" ... well, it was really just tragic.

 

[whirlcool]

I seem to remember something from her last series, Life With Lucy.
I think there was a scene where she was in a jogging outfit and it made her look 100 years old. The show didn't last to long, as I remember it was cancelled mid season. I think TV Guide in their review of the show told Lucy to retire already, she's just too old! People wanted to remember Lucy as she was, not for how she aged!

When I was up in Chicago this week I saw an interview with Michael York on television. Man, has he aged! If it wasn't for the voice, I wouldn't have recognised him.

 

[whirlcool]

And Lucy wasn't always nice!

She flew on one of my flights back in the 70's. While she was pretty quiet, one of the F/A's told me that she had a reputation for being volitile, and could be set off quickly if you said anything to her "the wrong way". She had power and wanted you to know it, or else!

 

[washerboy]

Stone Pillow

I'm a die hard Lucy fan...I cant begin to count how many of her eposides I bought..it's almost sinful!!! I have a friend tht lived in Hollywood for awhile..he said he was in a drug store one day and Mrs. Ball cussed one of the store employees like he'd never heard. He said he really never had much liking for her after that...well..unlike myself...I cried for two days when she passed. Although I enjoy her sitcoms my favorite work of her's was the movie "Stone Pillow". It was a movie that adressed the life of the homeless. I read once that she was alway true to her craft..she always made us laugh and in her finial performance she made us cry. I miss her.

 

[maggie~hamilton]

Stone Pillow

I saw it, and thought it was an interesting departure for her. The film was not well received by critics, as I recall, but I also remember interviews with her where she stated that doing the film meant a lot to her - on many levels, apparently.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090080/

 

[whirlcool]

Even though Lucy could be hard to handle on a person to person basis, we can't ever forget the amount of joy and laughter she provided for countless people around the world.

I never did see Stone Pillow, though I wanted to. It never seems to show up on television. I wonder if her family has a "lock" on the rights to it?

John Wayne's family withheld the rights to the movie "The High And The Mighty" until only a few years ago. They finally released it.

 

[appliguy]

She was Ms. Ball or Mrs. Morton

and when she was married to Desi she was reffered to as either Ms. Ball or Mrs. Arnaz.