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TMC
10-25-2018, 01:59 AM
https://pagesix.com/2018/10/24/ricki-lake-hated-lucille-ball/amp/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

When Ricki Lake met Lucille Ball at the 1989 Oscars, she wasn’t prepared for how salty the comedy legend would be behind the scenes.

“I mean, everyone blasted it and said, ‘It was awful! It was one of the worst Oscars!’ But it was a dream come true for me. I mean, I was so starstruck,” Lake, 50, recalled on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocoTh-dgl9c) on Tuesday. “I couldn’t believe it. I got to sing, dance, tap dance, make out with Christian Slater — like, all of it in one number. I would do it again in a heartbeat. And Lucille Ball and Bob Hope introduced us.”

When Cohen asked the former talk show host if Ball was “salty,” Lake didn’t hold back.

“She wasn’t very nice — ‘salty’ is putting it mildly,” Lake griped. “She was not nice. She was smoking a cigarette, and we were in this cardboard green room. I mean, I was pinching myself.”

“She didn’t do anything directly at me, but she was not happy to be there,” she said. “And she died shortly after that.”

A happier memory for Lake was losing her virginity on the set of “Crybaby.”

“Not to Johnny Depp,” she specified (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKyPNxeZhg).

“Another actor, a really handsome actor. He was very kind to me, and I was very large,” she said bluntly. “I was very happy to get it over with ’cause I was almost 21. He was really sweet! My first time was really a good one.”

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OH Nuts!
10-25-2018, 08:42 AM
It doesn’t sound like she hated Lucy just that Lucy wasn’t happy to be there. Maybe Lucy wasn’t feeling well. She did pass away later that year.

HuntingtonM15
10-25-2018, 10:39 AM
It doesn’t sound like she hated Lucy just that Lucy wasn’t happy to be there. Maybe Lucy wasn’t feeling well. She did pass away later that year.

Exactly. This is an extremely misleading/ridiculous thread title. :rolleyes:

Chocolate Moose
10-25-2018, 02:10 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

James28
10-26-2018, 09:58 AM
Exactly. This is an extremely misleading/ridiculous thread title. :rolleyes:

I think practically, it sounded like Lucille Ball hated her (Ricki Lake).

HuntingtonM15
10-26-2018, 10:36 AM
I think practically, it sounded like Lucille Ball hated her (Ricki Lake).

No...it didn't.

TV Guy
10-26-2018, 11:18 PM
Lucy was smoking? I don’t believe it!

:lol:

Torgo
10-27-2018, 09:15 AM
No...it didn't.

Not even remotely.

tlc38tlc38
11-09-2018, 12:53 PM
Everybody loves Lucy! :D

Dale Key
12-15-2018, 05:56 PM
Everybody loves Lucy! :D

There is a song about that! Jump to 2:16.

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SitcomsHeydayfan
12-16-2018, 01:15 AM
Lucy was smoking? I don’t believe it!

:lol:

Once she's that old and already had heart surgery it likely won't make much difference unless she chain smoked all day!

It's like when Patrick Swayze kept smoking after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. It's not like if he quit smoking he would've lived!

CoolGuyBevHills
12-17-2018, 11:44 PM
https://pagesix.com/2018/10/24/ricki-lake-hated-lucille-ball/amp/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

Well, I never cared for Ricki Lake. Her talk show was crapola.

SitcomsHeydayfan
12-17-2018, 11:52 PM
Well, I never cared for Ricki Lake. Her talk show was crapola.

How is it different from any other talk show?? It depends on the topic. If it's a really interesting topic you could grab 200 or 300 random people off the street and have a really interesting show regardless of the host. Even many of Oprah's shows were bad when the topic was bad.show

I'm just saying the host doesn't make THAT much of a difference especially if the topic is boring to begin with. It's not like the host puts on a magic show up there or something! :lol:

CoolGuyBevHills
12-17-2018, 11:57 PM
How is it different from any other talk show?? It depends on the topic. If it's a really interesting topic you could grab 200 or 300 random people off the street and have a really interesting show regardless of the host. Even many of Oprah's shows were bad when the topic was bad.show

I'm just saying the host doesn't make THAT much of a difference especially if the topic is boring to begin with. It's not like the host puts on a magic show up there or something! :lol:

Talk shows, in general, are nothing more than time-fillers. Oprah, Jerry Springer...all of them are pointless, but they make zillions of dollars. It takes so little to entertain the feeble-minded in this country.

However, I found Ricki Lake to be the LEAST entertaining of the bunch.