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Laugh at Marriage With Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred

Annie Scudder — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:20:00 PDT

I Love Lucy debuted 60 years ago today, on Oct. 15, 1951, and for six years real-life spouses Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz made Americans laugh out loud once a week. Although the series ended along with their marriage, generations of TV-watchers found humor in Lucy's antics and Ricky Ricardo's temper thanks to reruns. And let's not forget about Fred and Ethel Mertz. Their hilarious no-nonsense banter has made us love them as much as Lucy. To celebrate six decades of the sitcom, let's laugh at some of the funniest quotes about marriage from the show.

Buzz In: What is Your Favorite Old-School TV Show?

BuzzSugar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:30:23 PDT

TV Land, home to classics like The Brady Bunch, Three's Company, and Bonanza, is branching out into original comedies. The network just announced that they're developing two scripted shows, titled Hot in Cleveland and Retired at 35. But will people actually flip to the channel to check out this new programming?

Personally, the older shows are the only reason I'd tune into TV Land. I used to be obsessed with I Love Lucy as a kid - I even had a Lucy calendar hanging up in my room. Thanks to Nick at Nite, I could watch it on a regular basis, along with Bewitched, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Mary Tyler Moore. (I live for Rhoda!) Now, Nick at Nite plays mainly 90s favorites like Home Improvement and Family Matters, so TV Land has become my vintage channel of choice. Hopefully they won't go the way of MTV with music videos and make the older shows completely obsolete - that would just be sad.

Admittedly, I'm a bit of a dork when it comes to classic TV, but tell me, what is your favorite old-school show?

Buzz Gift Guide: For the Hip Grandma

BuzzSugar — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:00:11 PST

Dear old Grandma deserves the best this season, so check out today's holiday gift guide specially created with grandmothers in mind.

Here's a gift that could be a treat for both of you: I Love Lucy: The Complete Series. Make some tea and cuddle up with Grandma to watch Lucy and her hilarious adventures.

Or perhaps your grandmother is more of the mystery-solving type? Check out the seventh season of Murder, She Wrote, just released last month.

Listening to Nat King Cole's album The Christmas Song takes me right back to holidays spent at my grandparents' house. Cole's soothing voice provides the perfect soundtrack for a cozy holiday season.

The 1954 musical movie White Christmas features the fantastic foursome of Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, and Vera-Ellen, some great costumes and even greater songs, all by Irving Berlin. It's a sweet holiday film to watch with Grandma.

Bella Donna: Lucille Ball

BellaSugar — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:00:41 PDT

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead." So said this week's Bella Donna, the hilarious and lovely Lucille Ball. The star and co-producer of the long-running show I Love Lucy, she was also the first woman to head her own television production company, Desilu. She would have turned 96 this past Monday.

Oddly enough, while most people associate Lucille Ball with blazing red hair, she wasn't a natural redhead. A natural brunette, she colored her hair blonde as a starlet in the 1930s and 1940s. To look better in front of the television camera, she dyed it red and often wore a wig on the set. She stayed with that hue from the 1950s onward. (She once joked that she was keeping the economy of Egypt afloat with her annual orders of henna.)

Lucille Ball's look relied on very fair skin, bright red hair and exaggerated, drawn-on eyebrows. It made for an excellent on-screen contrast, but it's a little too dramatic for today. For suggestions on creating a modern interpretation of Lucille's style, and to see a gallery of her look throughout the years (including a rare shot of her as a blonde),

Lucille Ball was a spokesmodel for Max Factor, preferring Pan-Cake makeup. It's difficult to find, and to be honest, it's too heavy and cakey. Instead, go for a medium-coverage foundation-it's more contemporary.
If you're thinking of coloring your hair red, I strongly suggest going to a professional colorist. While red is one of the most beautiful hues, it's one of the easiest to mess up at home (and yes, I learned the hard way). If you're confident with coloring your hair at home, Feria 77 Sunset Blaze will get your hair on the Ball.
Lucille also loved classic red nails. As with any bold color, red looks chic on short nails rather than long ones.
Lucille's brows were dramatically drawn-on. Update the look by keeping yours thick and well-defined, then filling them in with a brow pencil.
Mascara? Yes. Black.
During her younger years, Lucille Ball favored matte red lipstick; this may have been because red was one of the most widely available colors! As she entered her later years, she migrated to coral colors. The lighter shades are easier to wear for older women because if lipstick bleeds, it won't look quite as obvious as a smudge of red. So if you're of pre-retirement age, rock the red!
Finally, find a quirky yet loveable neighbor and a Cuban band leader and get into all sorts of hijinks. After all, laughter always was he most beautiful thing about Lucille Ball.

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The Results Are In: Recast "I Love Lucy"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:29:16 PDT

Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

I was delighted by way too many of the recast ideas for "I Love Lucy" to name them all here, but I do want to make some shout-outs before running out of room! I was highly impressed with some of the non-Debra Messing ideas for Lucy, such as K2's Kelly Ripa, Livience's Amy Adams and most of all the popular choice of Isla Fisher. I also liked many of the Ethel casting choices, like Marcia Gay Harden selected by prbeachbum, and ddene5713's pick of Kate Winslet. Finally, I think Pinkflats is onto something with casting John Leguizamo as Ricky.
My favorite list overall, however, comes from pepperatstate! In the end, I do think Debra Messing would make a perfect Lucy, and pepperatstate's other choices are great too. So to see who she picked along with a new cast photo,

read more pepperatstate's cast: Lucy - Debra Messing Ethel - Jane Krakowski Ricky - Antonio Banderas Fred - Chris Noth P.S. - Praise is also in order for marebare's very own self-made recast photo! Nice job, marebare!

Rewind: This Week's Buzz

BuzzSugar — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:03:00 PDT

This week, I challenged you to come up with 50 songs for 50 states, and you did ... in about 20 hours. Whoa. But I'm still taking suggestions for the playlist.
Speaking of playlists, I gave you a great set of vacation songs. And if you need other weekend listening, check out the new Ryan Adams album or videos from Kanye West and Amy Winehouse.
With this weekend's opening of Michael Moore's controversial Sicko, I asked you if you typically see documentaries in the theater or wait to rent them.
This week we learned that Harry Potter is looking for a few good kids, while Cameron Diaz will try her hand at horror and Ryan Gosling will play the dad in The Lovely Bones. No Susie yet, though.
Were you as surprised as I was about who got kicked off "So You Think You Can Dance" and which guy Molly chose at the end of "The Starter Wife"?
If you could recast "I Love Lucy" with modern-day actors, who would you pick? And speaking of great comedy, check out my favorite five (living) comedy couples.
What do you make of Brett Ratner's Hugh Hefner biopic and Laurence Fishburne's adaptation of The Alchemist?
And finally, this week marked Pearl's final acting performance. Let us all take a moment of silence.

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Recast "I Love Lucy" and Win a Prize!

BuzzSugar — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:43:29 PDT

Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

This week's recast challenge is an oldie but goodie that was a recent recast request. Sure, certain aspects of the 1950s TV hit "I Love Lucy" make me cringe now (Ricky's jokey little threats of physical abuse come to mind), but overall this classic is still entertaining and endearing. If you could recast this show today, which actors would you cast as Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that many of you will put Debra Messing in Lucy's role, which is certainly fitting (how many times has she gotten that comparison?), though I'm curious to see if anyone has other ideas as well.

Leave your entry in the comment section below, and I'll pick one winner to feature Tuesday, July 3, complete with a "new" cast photo. To see a list of characters to recast and a photo of the BuzzSugar t-shirt,

read more Characters to recast: Lucy (Lucille Ball) Ricky (Desi Arnaz) Ethel (Vivian Vance) Fred (William Frawley) The BuzzSugar t-shirt Source

Ellen "Helps" Sofia Vergara Get Made Up the Most Hilarious Way Possible

Miriam Lacey — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:07:23 PST

If you've been having a bad day, this clip from Ellen is exactly what you need. Ellen DeGeneres and fellow CoverGirl spokesmodel Sofia Vergara get together to talk about the brand's new foundation, but instead of a beauty lesson, the entire thing degenerates into some of the best slapstick, I Love Lucy-style antics we've seen in a long time. Sofia and Ellen are both very funny ladies, so you won't want to miss all the great "beauty lessons" on offer here.

Buzz Time Machine: Britney Spears Loves Rock 'N Roll in Crossroads

BuzzSugar — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:00:01 PST

Britney Spears turns 30 today, and to celebrate the pop princess's birthday, we're taking a look back at her starring role in her first feature film, Crossroads. Watch as Lucy (Spears) takes center stage at a club backed up by her two BFFs Kit (Zoe Saldana) and Mimi (Taryn Manning) to sing Joan Jett's "I love Rock 'N Roll." Though she's a little uncertain of herself to begin with, it's not long before she's racking up the tips and confidently asking us to put another dime in the jukebox.

Life as a Stuntwoman: A Sneak Peek Into Luci Romberg's Fit Career

Fitness Magazine — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:01:27 PST

We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Fitness Magazine here on FitSugar!

Whenever the latest blockbuster hits theaters, we rush to our seats to watch stars pounce from vehicle to vehicle, race through a collapsing building or barrel under a semi-truck. With all this action, we often forget that someone other than the superstar is actually performing these stunts. Sometimes celebs, like Tom Cruise, are fit enough to do their own moves, but most often a professional is called in for the job. Enter Luci "Steel" Romberg, a professional stuntwoman and freerunner, who has been in top films like Green Lantern, Zombieland and Terminator. We caught up with the super-fit daredevil to find out how you get into a less-than-mainstream career and what keeps her always coming back for more.

Most people don't think of "stuntwoman" when plotting out future careers. What made you pursue this path?

I was a gymnast all through college, and a national champion my senior year at Texas Woman's University. I was a kinesiology major, but there just wasn't really anything else I wanted to do. I could have been a professor, a physical therapist, a coach or a handful of other things with my degree, but none of them appealed to me. One day one of my teammates came back from acting in LA, and she just convinced me to give it a shot. When I first got there, I had no idea what being a stuntwoman actually entailed. I was just so pumped on the idea of it that I knew I had to at least give it a try. I've been lucky enough to stick around.

What's a typical day like when you're hired for a film?

There is no typical day. Sometimes it's really exciting and you're working right away, doing anything from falling down a flight of stairs to rolling under a semi-truck, and other days you spend the day waiting around to see if they're going to get to your segments. It's definitely exciting though, I love that I don't know what to expect when I go into work.

More about Luci after the break.