I suppose I can live without just about anything or anyone – except for I Love Lucy.
Happy 75th anniversary to the best there ever was – a show that continues to make us laugh upon the zillionth viewing! It all began in this day in 1951 with the episode “The Girls Want to Go to the Nightclub.”
That was followed by all kinds of antics and adventures that included stealing John Wayne’s footprints from Grauman’s Chinese Theater, impersonating martians on the roof of the Empire State Building, Lucy lighting her putty nose on fire in front of William Holden, Lucy and Ethel trying to eat 25 pounds of cheese on an airplane, Ricky and Lucy celebrating their anniversary in the living room closet, and the show’s gayest moment: Designer Don Loper playing himself during a fashion show in which Lucy has to fight a painful sunburn to appear.
In all, there were 179 half-hour episodes and 13 hour-long specials that ran over nine seasons.
But who knew then that this sitcom about zany red-headed housewife Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), her bandleader Ricky (Desi Arnaz) and their best friends and neighbors Fred and Ethel Mertz (William Frawley and Vivian Vance) would just go on and on and on?
Everyone has a favorite episode whether it be the chocolate factory, the grape stomping in Italy, Vitamitavegamin, the Hollywood episodes, Lucy doing the tango when her blouse was filled with eggs, Lucy having the baby.
Some of my favorites are Aunt Martha’s Old Fashioned Salad Dressing, when Lucy and Ethel hitched a ride to Florida with Elsa Lanchester (“I love buttered grass!), when the girls went to charm school (“I’m not wearing powder”), when Lucy was afraid of her mean maid Mrs. Porter, when Lucy danced with Van Johnson, when Lucy got jealous of Ethel and Betty’s friendship, when the Ricardos and Mertzes bought a diner, and, of course, when Lucy and Ethel had a big fight over Ethel’s birthday present (hostess pants to wear to smart dinner parties). Oh! And let’s not forget The Operetta! (“MY song!”)
It’s all just so delicious.
We watched all the reruns as a family growing up on Channel 11 and once they were on VHS then DVD and now streaming, we just break them out after a family meal. My siblings and I know so many lines and one nephew has also learned quite a few. Our dad used to crack up as we’d do the lines during the episode.
It’s a part of so many of us like no show before or since!
Lance Bass makes his Zach Sang Show debut and talks about his new show Cocktail Wars with longtime bestie and fellow ‘NSYNC member Joey Fatone, filming 10 shows in five days, and just how much liquor was imbibed. He takes us back to the early days of ‘NSYNC, from living together and figuring out his place in the group to the moment he realized just how famous they’d become. Lance also opens up about growing up gay in Mississippi, spending his boy-band years in the closet, and the secret relationships and celebrity crushes of the ’90s. Plus, he tells us about his intense six months training to become a cosmonaut in Russia, his ‘Zoolander’ cameo, making out with Danielle Fishel, discovering Ryan Tedder (with a little help from his mom), and life as a dad to twins.
It was 28 years ago today that Matthew Shepard died from severe head injuries after being abducted and tortured by two men who left him to die – tied to a fence – near the town of Laramie, Wyoming.
The college student was just 21.
The attackers were arrested and eventually sentenced to two-consecutive life sentences each for one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history.
‘October is always a very difficult month because it’s the anniversary,’ Shepard’s high school friend, Michele Josue, said in 2016 after a screening I was at on the Paramount Studios lot of her outstanding documentary Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine.
‘He was a wonderful human being and we miss him terribly.’
His parents, who created The Matthew Shepard Foundation shortly after their son’s death, gave their blessing and cooperation to Josue as she began work on the film in 2010.
It debuted on the film festival circuit in 2014, won numerous audience and jury awards and received the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Special.
At the screening for Paramount’s LGBT employee group, Josue fought back tears as she talked about her friend.
‘(His death) devastated me. I was not only traumatized but so angry. I’ve learned that it’s okay that I’m not over it and I’m still so angry and still so tearful every time I see the film – and I’ve seen it a thousand times.’
The film tells how Shepard had only recently returned to his hometown in Wyoming to go to college after a post-high school spiral during which he dropped out of college in North Carolina then spent a year living in deep depression in Colorado.
Once outgoing and upbeat, Shepard had struggled after being raped by a group of men in Morocco during a trip there with friends from high school.
‘He battled depression, he wasn’t perfect,’ Josue said. ‘He had a lot of joys but a lot of struggles.’
But by the time of his death, several friends interviewed in the film say he had regained his footing.
‘I felt like it was my obligation to share with the world who he really was as a human being besides this horrific, violent act that happened to him,’ said Josue.
The film aired on Logo TV in 2016 and is available on Netflix.
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Wishing a happy 49th birthday to one of my very favorite actors Matt Bomer.
This year Matt co-starred with Keanu Reeves and Cameron Diaz in the feature film Outcome and is in pre-production for the film The Book of Ruth and the TV series Foster Dade.
Matt only got to do one season of the wonderful comedy series Mid-Century Modern with a cast that also included Nathan Lane, Nathan Lee Graham and Linda Lavin. I went to a taping a few years ago and loved the show which was Miss Lavin’s final role.
Matt was just coming off of the limited series Fellow Travelers which earned him and co-star Jonathan Bailey well-deserved Emmy nominations.
The Peabody Award-winning show followed the lives and volatile romance of two different men, through purges, wars, protests, and plagues, overcoming obstacles in the world including the “Lavender Scare” of the 1950s that most of us didn’t know much about before. Matt has never been better than in this complex role that called for him to age and to portray a character who became so good at compartmentalization and at living a secret life but also giving us glimpses of his heart and soul.
Matt is not one of my faves just because he’s so damned good looking or because he’s always been so sweet to met whenever I’ve seen him over the years. He’s a favorite because his work on television and in film has been so varied and superb.
The Golden Globe Award-winning actor was so captivating for six seasons on USA Network’s White Collar as con artist Neal Caffrey. I binged watched all the seasons during the pandemic and gained a deeper appreciation for Matt and the rest of the cast which included the late Willie Garson with whom Matt shared a beautiful chemistry. There is talk of a White Collar revival so here’s hoping!
Matt’s versatility was on full display in 2020 when he appeared in a recurring role on Will & Grace as Will’s boyfriend while at the same time playing a serial killer on the series The Sinner.
He was a revelation as a New York Times reporter dying of AIDS in 2014’s The Normal Heart and was robbed of an Emmy Award that year in my opinion. But he did win the Critics Choice Award that year and the Golden Globe.
Other strong and memorable work from Matt that I particularly liked were the films Papi Chulo, Anything, The Nice Guys, and Boys in the Band. He’s also fun – and very fit – as a stripper in Magic Mike and the sequel Magic Mike XXL. Matt was also in TV’s Doom Patrol and Echoes and has appeared in several seasons of American Horror Story.
Matt’s birthday coincides on National Coming Out Day and it is important to point out that Matt’s thriving career has only gotten bigger since he came out publicly in 2012.
Rosie O’Donnell is back on Broadway—and there’s nowhere she’d rather be. The beloved entertainer joins Broadway.com’s Paul Wontorek to celebrate her return to the stage as the Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show, revealing how an overwhelming standing ovation nearly brought her to tears on opening night.
In this candid conversation, Rosie reflects on her lifelong love affair with Broadway, the impact of The Rosie O’Donnell Show on a generation of theater fans, her memories of bringing Taboo to Broadway and her experiences as a trailblazing LGBTQ+ entertainer. Plus, she reveals that there’s talk of bringing back a version of her beloved talk show, shares her admiration for the extraordinary Rocky Horror cast and explains why being part of a Broadway company remains her greatest showbiz dream.
So glad to see social media star Andrew Neighbors doing videos again – it’s how we first got to know him more than a decade ago and, I think, he’s so charming and personable. We all know he’s a gorgeous guy who puts in a lot of time at the gym but you’ve got to have more to really connect with fans.
This is the story of Andrew getting to fly First Class from Brazil to Atlanta and finding out a guy he had been flirting with on Grinder while in the airport lounge was on the same flight – AND in First Class.
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