One of the famous I Love Lucy episodes involves Lucy making wine and getting into a fight with her fellow grape stomper. That’s in the fifth season episode “Lucy's Italian Movie”. A few years ago the last boss I had at the Defense Support Center Philadelphia, Jeannie Lacovara, sent me a photo of her at a … Continue reading Lucy and Jeannie
Humor
Lucy Goes to School
Quote of the day: The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.—Oscar Wilde In Jess Oppenheimer’s memoir Laughs, Luck…and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time he relates how he got to work on Fanny Brice’s radio show, “Baby Snooks”, and when … Continue reading Lucy Goes to School
The Obvious Question
Quote of the day: From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.—Groucho Marx Jess Oppenheimer’s memoir Laughs, Luck…and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time is filled with anecdotes about his time in radio. … Continue reading The Obvious Question
An Unintelligible Radio Moment
Quote of the day: There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.—Alfred Hitchcock Todd Purdum’s book on Desi Arnaz reminded me that years ago I had read another book that covered some of the same material. It was Jess Oppenheimer’s memoir Laughs, Luck…and Lucy: How I Came to Create the … Continue reading An Unintelligible Radio Moment
Mad Max
Quote of the day: It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton I have long believed that 4K, like a lot of other stuff coming out of the tech world in the last few years, is mostly hokum. … Continue reading Mad Max
Big Phony Schmuck!
Time for another song parody from guess who?!
Burns and Benny
Quote of the day: The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.—Will Rogers My grandmother, my mother’s mother, Tillie Zellers, saw Jack Benny on a talk show one time. I remember her telling me this story that Jack had related on that program. This is Jack Benny telling it as … Continue reading Burns and Benny
Bye Bye Hatred
Quote of the day: The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.—Friedrich Nietzsche I may not have made it to a No Kings protest—and to be clear, I was only going to go in order to snap some photos, although I was wearing my Visit Canada T-shirt so if someone … Continue reading Bye Bye Hatred
A Cozy Game of Scrabble
Quote of the day: I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.—Jack Benny I don’t recall hearing about the movie Foul Play when it came out in 1978. Perhaps I did, but when I heard that Goldie Hawn was in it, I may have lost interest. I always associated … Continue reading A Cozy Game of Scrabble
Hitch at a Gala
Quote of the day: If I won't be myself, who will?—Alfred Hitchcock Pat Hitchcock (along with Laurence Bouzereau) wrote a chatty book entitled Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man that was published in 2003. It’s filled with anecdotes about both of her parents as well about her growing up first in England and later … Continue reading Hitch at a Gala