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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.

Eyebrow Evolution: Shapes, Styles, and Trends of Decades Past

BellaSugar — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:00:02 PDT

Most of you prefer heavier eyebrows, but just like hairstyles, makeup shades, and clothing fashions, different shapes and textures of eyebrows go in and out of style over time. In the the '20s and '30s, it was all about thin, dramatic brows with lots of curves. In the '80s, it was all about a bigger-the-better attitude. And then there were the '90s, when brows were so thin, tweezers never got a break. So let's take a peek at some of the most memorable eyebrow styles over decades past. Which era stands out most for you?

Words That Move You...

FitSugar — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:45:00 PDT

Sometimes all you need are a few good words to get you moving...and here's a bit of inspiration from the original funny lady.

“The more things you do, the more you can do.”

- Lucille Ball

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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!

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

Look of the Day: Chic and Classique

FabSugar — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:32:33 PDT

Wow, the warm weather has really brought out some great dresses in the LookBook! Today I love girlygirl1129's chic and classique look, first of all because she paired pink and black together, but also because she just looks so sophisticated! She says the look reminds her of Lucille Ball, but I have to say, I'm getting a little bit of Audrey Hepburn vibe.

Here's what she has on:

Dress: Beau Bois
Shoes: Nine West

Congrats to girlygirl1129!

Everyone else, submit your looks and vote on your favorite ones today and I just might feature you on FabSugar! If you live overseas and have a fab outfit to share, join the Overseas Fashionistas Group and to submit a Look in this group learn how to post a blog.

Interview With Brad Meltzer Author of Heroes For My Son

LilSugar — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:31:26 PDT

Most parents make a baby book for their kid, but if you're author Brad Meltzer's son, yours is bound to be a bestseller. Well known for having all six of his fiction novels hit the New York Times best-selling list, Meltzer's latest tome, Heroes For My Son ($12) is both his entry into nonfiction and a gift to his firstborn. From concept to creation, the father (of now three children) was involved in nearly every step of the process from the look and layout of the pages to selecting photographs of the 52 heroes - from Dr. Seuss to Albert Einstein and Paul Newman to Pele - in the book. The dedication reads, "For Theo and Jonas, my sons, my heroes." And, that's the point of the book, that anybody can be a hero. It just takes an act of greatness. I recently had the chance to chat with Meltzer about his labor of love, here's what he had to say.

LilSugar: You write that you thought up the idea for the book while waiting at a stoplight on the day your son was born, where were you going?
Brad Meltzer: I was coming home from the hospital. It my first true moment alone as a father. And it was in that moment that I couldn't help but think, "What kind of man did I want my son to be?" That moment is a beautiful one because it's filled with so much hope and idealism and all the things we quickly forget about as life takes over. But it was in that moment that I said, I'm going to write a book that lasts my son's entire life. And in that moment, Heroes For My Son was born.

LS: If you realized that you “have little to say in the matter” when it comes to what type of people your children will become, then what purpose will this book serve?
BM: I think we have little say when it comes to telling our children what they'll be. But we have a great deal of say in showing them the potential that exists within them. And that's what I wanted to capture, by showing him the greatest single moments in the lives of Jim Henson, Rosa Parks, Mr. Rogers, Abraham Lincoln, and the Wright Brothers, who used to bring extra materials to every test flight, since they knew they'd fail. That preparation is exactly why they took off. This book isn't about fame or money or even success. It's about what we're all capable of on our very best days.

To see who Meltzer's personal hero is and how his son reacted when he was read the book,

read more. LS: It’s taken eight years to put this book together and I imagine your son has plenty of his own opinions by now. Did he influence you to include any heroes in the book - a favorite athlete, family member, or someone he learned about in school? BM: My son loves sports, so I certainly included a few more athletes -- from Muhammad Ali to Lou Gehrig -- for that reason. But for me, my favorite hero in there is my Mom, who died from breast cancer two years ago. On the day my publisher was shutting down, and no one was there to take over my contract, I thought I was watching my career deteriorate. So I called my Mom and told her how scared I was. She told me, "I'd love you if you were a garbage man." It wasn't anything she practiced. Just her honest feelings in that moment. And to this day, every day I sit down to write, I say those words to myself, soaking in the purity of my Mom's love. That's my hero. LS: You say that Mr. Rogers and Jim Henson are heroes that resonate with you, which heroes in the story resonate with your children? BM: A few weeks back, I finally gave a copy of Heroes For My Son to my son. This was the moment I'd waited nearly a decade for. And of course, he didn't care about Rosa Parks or Eleanor Roosevelt. He went right for the athletes, flipping to the story of Roberto Clemente, the baseball player who went down in an airplane crash while trying to take food and medicine to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. And as we're reading it, I'm thinking, "Don't take your shoes off, son -- you're gonna be so inspired, we may go out and start changing the world tonight." But as he read the story, he started shrinking in my arms. And he turned back at me and whispered, "Dad, this is sad." Right there, I realized I'd broken his heart for the first time. So the next night, I leave the book aside. And my son bounds into the rooms, grabs the book, hops up on the bed and says, "Who we reading tonight, Dad!?" He tells me he loved that story of Clemente -- and I ask him why, and he says, "Because he gave his life to save those people." And I knew right there, you can't teach about a hero unless you teach why you need that hero. You can't show them the high without showing them the low. And like my best moments as a dad, they're always the result of complete and perfect accident. I was so anxious to protect my son, but the strength was already inside him. LS: You wrote that your daughter wants to know where her book is - will Heroes For My Daughter be an extension of this title or something completely different? BM: Every single hero in Heroes For My Son is also a hero for my daughter. Every one. Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Lucille Ball, Mother Teresa... Those are heroes for all of us. LS: You are best known for writing fiction, did you find the process and end result of writing nonfiction more or less rewarding? BM: In my thrillers, I can make up whatever I want. Here, these were the stories of Gandhi and Thomas Jefferson and the woman who actually found Anne Frank's diary. I need to get it right. I felt like the guy who carries the Olympic torch for one block. It's not mine. But for this one block, I'm the caretaker. That mattered to me. And it's why the emotional rewards from this book have been so overwhelming. My son actually cares about George Washington. Photos courtesy of Cori Meltzer