When my great uncle was in the Korean War he told me that him and a bunch of G.I.s when they came home, all line uped to get a kiss from Lucille Ball, it was one of those things she did for the G.I.s or whatever. But he told me that it was when she was really young and she was doing "My Favorite Husband" at the time, he said she was young and beautiful and she had bright orange-red hair and big blue eyes. I was excited when he told me that story and I always ask him about it. So thats the closest I've ever got to Lucille Ball...through mr great uncle...how about you?

my tv set

He must have gotten out of the war pretty early, because the war didn't start until 1950 and ILL started in 1951.

Anyway, what Mr. Roper said...my TV Set.

Hey, sorry to go O/T here, but that's a great new picture you have there, dawsongirl. The real Incredible Hulk! :)

Well, Doctor Banner, strictly speaking, but still... oh how much better than that awful bloody film!

Smelling her perfume on that autographed picture she sent, FOR CLAUDE, LOVE LUCY! And, when she did Lucy in London, Montreal was on the list of other cities considered, pathetic isn't it? And when this big star was rumored to have come here for a face lift, they said it was Lucy, but it was only Bette Davis! I did accost every star she ever worked with that came here to perform though! Jack Benny, Danny Kaye and many others.

The closest I've ever gotten to Lucille Ball is my TV set. I have met some of the people that worked with her like Keith Thibodeaux, Carole Cook, and Jimmy Garret, but I don't know if that counts.

Originally posted by mr roper
my tv set

same

It only counts if you TOUCHED them, well, did you?

Hey all..I'm new to the board.:)

The closest I've ever gotten is my t.v. set. But when I was a baby my parents saw Lucie Arnaz in person..does that count?:lol:

The closest I've ever gotten to Lucy..and Desi..is in my dreams! lol!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
Smelling her perfume on that autographed picture she sent, FOR CLAUDE, LOVE LUCY! And, when she did Lucy in London, Montreal was on the list of other cities considered, pathetic isn't it? And when this big star was rumored to have come here for a face lift, they said it was Lucy, but it was only Bette Davis! I did accost every star she ever worked with that came here to perform though! Jack Benny, Danny Kaye and many others.


you have an autograph from Lucy? I am now pea green with envy of you!!! Anyways, im with dawsongirl, the closest I have ever gotten to Lucy is by the tv set.

Originally posted by Mickey
Hey, sorry to go O/T here, but that's a great new picture you have there, dawsongirl. The real Incredible Hulk! :)

Well, Doctor Banner, strictly speaking, but still... oh how much better than that awful bloody film!

Thanks! The Incredible Hulk is such a great show. Haven't seen the film, but I haven't heard anything good about it! Besides...a computer generated Hulk? Shame.

I much preferred Bill in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, he was excellent in that! Did you see that Bio they did of him, he was in so many shows i had forgotten like Martian.

WOW! You smelled her perfume!?? Thats unbelievable. And an autographed picture with your name on it? What more does a person need in life when he owns that? Nothing, in my opinion.:lol:

Sorry, i was kidding about the perfume!

I went to Los Angeles once in the 70's and if she was in town I was probably within 20 miles of her. Now that's pretty damn close if you ask me!!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
It only counts if you TOUCHED them, well, did you?

LOL, well yes, actually, Keith Thibodeaux was in the museum at the same time I was, so I accidentally, "bumped" into him. It's really crowded in there anyway, but that gave me one excuse to touch him! But then when he signed my book the next day I got to touch him and talk to him. The others I got as close to them as I could, but already they were swamped with fans asking for autographs. I did the best I could! :lol:

Aw you guys are soOo lucky!!! Getting her autograph...being 2o minutes away from her...and talkin to people she knew!! I'm jealous...lol.

Meeting Barbara Eden, Sheila MacRae and Angela Cartwright, all people who have met and worked with her.

I guess being with her brother Fred Ball, her nephew Geoffrey, Lucie, Desi Jr and Cleo. Does that count ? Oh! And wearing her bathrobe! :eek:

Originally posted by onlyonelucy
I guess being with her brother Fred Ball, her nephew Geoffrey, Lucie, Desi Jr and Cleo. Does that count ? Oh! And wearing her bathrobe! :eek:

Sherry you are so lucky!!!

Very blessed, honey! I just love me some LUCY! :loveya:

For me, my TV set is the closet I've come...but back in the 70's my mother has seen her from a few feet away (when she was dressed up as a witch at a haunted house, or something like that....)

Do you let people try on the bathrobe, you know, just for fun? LOL! Guys too????? ROTFL!

Originally posted by HuntingtonM15
Meeting Barbara Eden, Sheila MacRae and Angela Cartwright, all people who have met and worked with her.

How is Barbara? Is she nice?

I know it's not for me to answer but i LOVE Barbara, keep seing her on Larry King and she's so great even through her recent grief as her son died of drugs should take a heavy toll on her, but she's getting through it and keeps going, just like Carol Burnett, truly admirable women!

LOL, well yes, actually, Keith Thibodeaux was in the museum at the same time I was, so I accidentally, "bumped" into him. It's really crowded in there anyway, but that gave me one excuse to touch him! But then when he signed my book the next day I got to touch him and talk to him. The others I got as close to them as I could, but already they were swamped with fans asking for autographs. I did the best I could!

You bumped into him? lol I would have died.

I would't know what to say if I got the chance to talk to someone on ILL. What did you say to him?

Argh...LUUUUCKYY DUCKS!

Originally posted by crazyredhead
You bumped into him? lol I would have died.

I would't know what to say if I got the chance to talk to someone on ILL. What did you say to him?

Argh...LUUUUCKYY DUCKS!

LOL, yes, he just "happened" to be a few inches away from me so I just "happened" to bump into him. :lol: Well, the first thing I said to him was "Pardon me" for bumping into him, lol, but then when he signed my book for me the next day, he said hi and he asked me how I was, so I said "Hi" and "Fine, how are you?" and then "Maggie" when he asked me who I wanted the book signed to. I know it's not much, but I was really excited to meet him! :) His wife is a lovely person too. I ran into her in the bathroom at one of the events, but that was before I knew she was Keith's wife. :lol:

Originally posted by SPLAIN
Do you let people try on the bathrobe, you know, just for fun? LOL! Guys too????? ROTFL!

Of course honey. Doesn't bother me any. I LOVE to see people get excited about Lucy.

Originally posted by onlyonelucy
Of course honey. Doesn't bother me any. I LOVE to see people get excited about Lucy.
That is so so awesome that you have Lucy's bathrobe. Really cool! :D I'm jealous! :lol:

Now get LUCY WHO printed on it!

Speaking of Carol Burnett, who by the way was one of Lucy's closest friends throughout the years, I caught her at Barnes & Noble in NYC. SHe looked great. Thats the closest I got to another legend, and since I'm sure she's hugged Lucy throughout the years, thats the closest I've ever got to Lucille Ball.

Originally posted by Gidget
How is Barbara? Is she nice?

Yes, she was nice.

Originally posted by Mkaleek
Speaking of Carol Burnett, who by the way was one of Lucy's closest friends throughout the years, I caught her at Barnes & Noble in NYC. SHe looked great. Thats the closest I got to another legend, and since I'm sure she's hugged Lucy throughout the years, thats the closest I've ever got to Lucille Ball.

How cool! I love Carol Burnett, she seems like such a nice lady. :)

Yeah she really is. She's so people oriented. It was very satisfying to see a legend for the first time.

Yes, Carol Burnett is VERY cool! You guys that get to see all of these people are SOOO lucky!!!! What am I whinning about?! I'll get to see them in due time!:D I'm going to be an actress. (why let my Lucy gene go to waste?;) )

One of the best and greatest, i love her, i certainly hope you TOUCHED her because she touched Lucy many many times, lucky dog!

IT was so crowded. I never even got the chance to touch her. But I definitely caught a full visual of her. By the way Gidget, what "Gene" are you talking about?

I want too meet someone famous!! *pouts*. Course i would probably act like a bubbling idiot if i met them. I have seen Dennis Quaid at the Roadhouse resteraunt in LA when we were there, and i almost fell down the stairs...thats as close as i have gotten to a famous person before LOL.

Originally posted by *ShortCake*
I want too meet someone famous!! *pouts*. Course i would probably act like a bubbling idiot if i met them. I have seen Dennis Quaid at the Roadhouse resteraunt in LA when we were there, and i almost fell down the stairs...thats as close as i have gotten to a famous person before LOL.

Omg, Dennis Quaid! *drools* :lol: Lucky duck! Does he look as good in person as (I think) he does on screen? lol.

well i was born and lived in upstate newyork a little bit aways from Jamestown.

We always have all these big names filming movies here, but you never see them around town or anything.

Hey FANS, how far is a little ways?

Originally posted by Mkaleek
IT was so crowded. I never even got the chance to touch her. But I definitely caught a full visual of her. By the way Gidget, what "Gene" are you talking about?

Oh, she's my cousin through my great-grandfather.

OOOHHHHHHHHHHH REALLY?????

Originally posted by MagsLovesLucy
Omg, Dennis Quaid! *drools* :lol: Lucky duck! Does he look as good in person as (I think) he does on screen? lol.
YES!!!! I thought he was taller..but he is a little shorter then I thought he'd be. butomg...he was so cute! LOL.

You guys are so lucky that some of you were alive to meet her...sadly I was born 2 months after she passed.

If only i had been born in Los Angeles instead of Montreal, Michael Stern would be unknown and i would be the one with all the great Lucy memories.

When I visted her at Forest Lawn Cemetary in Hollywood Hills in 2002.

Wow thas cool Kristina...by the way great pic for your avatar!

Originally posted by x1LucyFanx
Wow thas cool Kristina...by the way great pic for your avatar!

Thanks! I like yours too, it's cute. :)

Closest so far is i touched Laura who runs Lucie's website and she touched Lucie who got touched a lot by Lucy herself! Wellllllllllllllllllll, it's a start!

Well then here's mine. I touched the DVD's you sent me that you touched who touched Laura that touched Lucie that touched Lucy. Wait, how do you know that Laura Touched Lucie?!?:lol:

Trust me, i K N O W !

And Lucie touched DESI too; so if we put it together; you touched Laura that touched Lucie who was touched by DESI. Then the tapes that you sent me had the touch.:eek:

Yes, but remember one can't wash after the touching, or it leaves! We'll be connected, but maybe a little smelly!:lol:

Well, can I touch someone so I can touch Lucy too? Share the fortune!!

Mkaleek, theoretically the air you breathe everyday has already been breathed in and out by everybody who has ever walked the Earth. So if you want to think about it that way, you could well currently have atoms of oxygen in your lungs that once nestled inside the capillaries of Lucy and/or Desi.

I wouldn't recommend you never breathing out again, just to keep them though! ;)

Oh this kid is goooooooooooooooooooooood! Oops, i'm about to choke on Ronald Reagan air! Get me some Lucy cleanser air!

Originally posted by Mkaleek
Well, can I touch someone so I can touch Lucy too? Share the fortune!! Well, if you lived closer you could!:lol: I think Mickeys idea about the air is your best bet.:D

Put some in a box and mail it to him!

If you sent him a tape then he already has the conection because you touched the tape. Boy am I smart sometimes or what?:p

I did, so he has!

With all this talk I feel like I'm falling into Darwin's theory of Evolution:lol:

I think this is more along the lines of Seven Degrees of kevin Bacon. :)

Kevin Bacon? Yuck. Can't it be somebody else?!

Kevin is one of my all time favorite actors, down to earth, normal and a great dad too.

But still... Flash Dance?! :nonono:

;)

He's done loads of great parts to make us forget Footloose, not Flashdance, and besides, i loved the music.

I know... Didn't he do Sleepers?

Originally posted by Mickey
Kevin Bacon? Yuck. Can't it be somebody else?! Well okay, pick someone else. ;)

Bruce Campbell.

Lucy, but male and with a chainsaw. :lol:

Originally posted by Mickey
But still... Flash Dance?! :nonono:

;)

AHH, I saw that movie a couple months ago...bad. :nonono:

Originally posted by Mickey
But still... Flash Dance?! :nonono:

;)

KEVIN was on FOOTLOOSE; not FLASHDANCE:wave:

Or, maybe I can breathe make-believe air from Lucy and Ricky Ricardo when they lived in New York City. I'll admit this only to you guys. I recently went downtown to try and find their brownstone at 628 E. 68th Street, but they were in the middle of the east river. It was still fun to look though.:happyface

Originally posted by I'maDESIlover
KEVIN was on FOOTLOOSE; not FLASHDANCE :wave:

Yes, Splain's already pointed that one out. Still a bad film though! Extraordinary casting choice, too.

Not a bad film, just bad subject matter, the music and dancing were great. Yes Kevin was in Sleepers and JFK and so many other great films.

I thought Footloose was good! What was wrong with the subject matter?

And Mickey, who is Bruce Campbell? Lucy with a chainsaw?:eek:

Bruce is a B movie actor who has become famous for films like Army of Darkness and the like, he's got a very big following. I meant the subject matter of ******** towns who don't allow dancing is not going to bring in the kids to the theaters, can't believe places like that still exist! I still love the movie, i just fast forward to the great musical numbers.

Burce Campbell is a terrific physical comedian. Watch Evil Dead II, when his hand becomes possessed and proceeds to hurl him all over the kitchen. It's wonderful! He's a funny guy.

I know, the name of his OTHER movies just escaped me there, i used to have both of those. Bruce is excellent in those. I just remembered Darkness because i saw it recently. The role that the guy from Jackass the movie played in Men in Black Two would have been ideal for him!

One of the first things I did after moving to LA a few years ago was to see Lucy's plot at Forest Lawn. Glad I did now, since they've moved her.

Morey Amsterdam is nearby too.