Tag: tv
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RIP Michael J. Pollard
1939-2019 Oscar nominated actor Michael J. Pollard has died at age 80. He was born in 1939 in Passaic, New Jersey. In addition to his many film and television credits, he was the original Hugo Peabody in Broadway’s BYE BYE BIRDIE in 1960. In January 1964, he appeared as Ted Mooney, son of Gale Gordon’s…
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Lucille Ball endured ruthless criticism on ‘Life with Lucy,’ says co-star: ‘They were so bloody’
Lucille Ball endured ruthless criticism on ‘Life with Lucy,’ says co-star: ‘They were so bloody’
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Oldest Italian restaurant in Hollywood: Miceli’s celebrates it’s 70th anniversary
Miceli’s hosted Lucille Ball when she needed to learn how to toss pizza dough for “Visitor from Italy” (ILL S6;E5) in 1956. Oldest Italian restaurant in Hollywood: Miceli’s celebrates it’s 70th anniversary
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RIP Jerry Fogel
1936-2019 Jerry Fogel was best remembered as the hapless Jerry Buell on TV’s “The Mothers-in-Law” (1967-69) produced by Desi Arnaz. Arnaz also appeared in several episodes alongside Fogel, playing matador Raphael Del Gado. Fogel was the last surviving principal cast member of “The Mothers-in-Law.” When the series was cancelled, Lucille Ball employed Fogel in an episode of “Here’s…
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RIP Bill Macy
1922-2019 Although they never acted together, stage and screen actor Bill Macy (born Wolf Martin Garber) and Lucille Ball were connected by Beatrice Arthur, who was Lucy’s co-star in the film Mame (1974) as well as several TV variety shows and specials. Macy played Walter Findlay, the long-suffering husband in Bea Arthur’s first hit TV series, “Maude”…
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Ball & Bell: Lucy and the Telephone
In 1891, Lucille’s paternal grandfather Jasper becamem excited by the idea of a new discovery known as the telephone. With new found zeal he operated a primitive telephone switchboard in Busti, New York, a small community south of Buffalo. His second son, Henry (Lucille’s father) seemed to share his father’s enthusiasm for the telephone and…
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RIP Wayne Fitzgerald
1930-2019 Emmy Award-winning film title designer who created the main titles for the Lucille Ball film Mame (1974). Over a career that spanned 55 years, he designed close to a thousand motion picture and television main and end title sequences for top directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, Mike Nichols, Robert Redford, Roman…
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RIP Diahann Carroll
1935-2019 Diahann Carroll and Lucille Ball never acted together, but they were both groundbreaking television personalities with network shows (”Here’s Lucy” and “Julia”) airing in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both of their TV characters were widows who defied convention. They did appear together on the small screen several times. First, on “Dean Martin’s 1968 Christmas…
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“The View” ~ September 23, 2019 The show’s Hispanic Heritage FYI highlighted the contributions of Desi Arnaz, the first Hispanic to star on American Primetime Television.
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71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards ~ September 23, 2019 Comedy legends George Burns and Lucille Ball were represented by wax figures. Bob Newhart was represented by Bob Newhart!
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