SoHo's Day off!!

My friend Chris from college came back to L.A. so we're hanging out like crazy. Today I was off so we went to kenneth hahn park on La Cienega to hang out and exercise and just relax. We ran up steep hills, jumped on giant rocks, climbed up mountains, i climbed some trees, we fed ducks and competed who could do high knee jumps longer. My freind Chris snapped some pictures of me being victorious after climbing mountains and going through thorny shrubs, weeds,dried tree branches, and lots of lizards and bugs. I stood at what became my victory tree and posed victoriously for the picture LOL!! we raced to his car and I won lol! check out some of the pictures from today! Enjoy!!

Guilty or Not: You be the judge

It's been more than a month since "my" Michael died. I'm still in disbelief (yes even after all this time). I don't think I will be able to get past this until someone is punished. Who might that someone be? Conrad Murray! I'm sorry, I don't care that people say that Michael was addicted to painkillers, etc. but as a doctor, one should know better than to give in to someone's whim simply because they can afford to pay for what they want. As a doctor, your first priority should be to protect & preserve lives, not assist in the destruction!

Anyway, as DEA & other authorities try to figure this all out & while we wait on the tox screen, let's examine what we know so far. After that, you decide if Conrad Murray is guilty of a crime or not!



1. Murray was in financial straits & met Michael through one of Michael's bodyguards.
2. Murray gave Michael Diprivan (Propofol) the night before he died.
3. Around 9:20am two female associates of Murray (possibly employees) went to a storage facility where Murray kept items, removing about 6 boxes of items/documents/etc.
3. Murray usually went to the kitchen to get Michael something to eat/drink around 10 am DAILY - on the day he died, he didn't go down until after noon, yelling for help.
4. Murray didn't call 911, someone from Michael's security detail called.
5. Murray didn't call 911 because there was supposedly no dial tone and didn't call from his cell phone b/c he said he didn't remember the address where he'd be living for weeks.
6. Murray performed CPR on Michael on a bed which does not allow for adequate chest compressions while security called 911 more than 20 minutes after Michael was supposedly found.
7. When the paramedics arrived at Michael's home, Murray insisted on being the one to work on Michael.
8. Murray would not allow the paramedics to pronounce Michael at the house, rather insisting resuscitation attempts continue & they bring him to the hospital.
9. Upon arrival at the hospital, Murray didn't stick around, but took off without his car that was back at Michael's home.
10. Murray has not spoken publicly, except through his attorney.
11. Murray felt the need for a defense attorney.
12. Murray's attorney insisted that Murray gave Michael nothing that "should" have killed him - notice the careful wording: "should" rather that "could".
13. Murray has said that Michael hadn't paid him for the time he'd been there and has complained of being far behind on his mortgage and possibly losing his $1.65 million home.
14. There are reports (not sure if true or not) that Michael kept a very large sum of money in the house.

As you can see there are many inconsistencies here and very strange behavior on the part of Conrad Murray. I'm not claiming that he killed Michael on purpose but there is clear medical malpractice, negligence and plain ol' stupid going on here! My theory is he found Michael in a very bad state & rather than call 911 immediately, he tried to clean up as much evidence as possible, even going as far as calling the two female employees getting them to get rid of evidence there. If the story about Michael collapsing & Murray, Prince Michael, Jr. & a bodyguard carrying him to his room is true, then I still believe that Murray waited to call 911. I believe that had he called when whatever happened first occurred, Michael may have survived. The sheer fact that his attorney said Murray didn't give Michael anything that "should have killed him", rather than "could have killed him" let's me know that something went very wrong. Attorneys are careful with their words because one preposition or adverb can make the difference between a lie and the truth.

At any rate, we'll continue this as more evidence comes forward... hopefully we next learn the results of the toxicology report.

Taco Bell Dog dies too

July was in my opinion a deadly month. so many celebs including Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Walter Cronkite died this month and now the Taco Bell Chihuahua has died too!! what's going on here? GEEEZ!!!



Gidget, the famed Chihuahua who appeared in Taco Bell ads, died Tuesday at the age of 15.

Karen McElhatton, Gidget's owner, tells Usmagazine.com the dog was with her trainer, Sue Chipperton, watching television when she began making "strange noises" and suffered a stroke.

Before the dog's death, "She had a good day and was running around as normal," McElhatton tells Usmagazine.com. "We're happy that she was very well off right until the end."

See other famous Hollywood chihuahuas

Gidget -- whose "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" spots debuted in September 1997 -- also had a cameo in Legally Blonde 2, in addition to appearing in other TV spots.

We enjoyed working with Gidget, and she will be missed by many," a Taco Bell spokesperson tells Us in a statement. "Our deepest sympathies go out to her owners and fans."

The dog had an exceptionally happy life, her owner says.

"She lived like a queen," McElhatton tells Us. "She had a great life. We're very sad. She's a wonderful little dog."

See photos of stars with their favorite dogs

McElhatton tells Us the dog will likely be cremated.

Find out what celebs' dogs say about them

Adds McElhatton: "She was old. Of course, we were hoping she'd be around for a few more years, but if you have a dog that lives that long, you can't really complain."

Michael Jackson's Memorial Speakers Hardly Knew Him

This was way too obvious. I actually thought about this when watching the memorial on tv. I thought well how many of those ppl were actually close to michael? turns out none. The people that were close to Michael decided not to go to his memorial. check out this info.



The majority of boldfaced names at Michael Jackson's July 6 memorial at Los Angeles' Staples Center hadn't spoken to the the singer in years.

Many never even met him at all.

Brooke Shields - who broke down in tears as she remembered her "true friend" - last saw Jackson (whom she met as a teenager) 18 years ago at Elizabeth Taylor's 1991 wedding. (At the memorial, she recalled how the two of them sneaked into Taylor's room for a peek at her dress.)

See photos from Michael Jackson's memorial

Corey Feldman -- who befriended Jackson in the 1980s -- also hadn't talked to the star in several years after having a falling out. Feldman ended up wearing a Jackson costume to the ceremony. "I'm just drained," he told Us.

Many of Jackson's close friends were no-shows: Macaulay Culkin, ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley, Webster's Emmanuel Lewis, among others.

Quincy Jones, Jackson's longtime producer, and Diana Ross -- who was named in Jackson's will as a backup guardian to Jackson's three children -- also skipped the ceremony. Ross said she was at the memorial "in spirit," but that she "decided to pause and be silent" because it "feels right."

Look back at photos of Michael Jackson and his children through the years

Arnold Klein, Jackson's longtime dermatologist and biological father to his two oldest children, was also noticeably absent. Debbie Rowe, mother of Jackson's two eldest children, said she skipped because she felt she'd "be an unnecessary distraction."

As for Elizabeth Taylor? She said she stayed home because she didn't want to "be a part of the public whoopla."

Even Jesse Jackson, who counseled the singer during his trial, was not present to speak. (A source tells Us Joe Jackson dislikes him and made sure Rev. Al Sharpton -- who laughed about Jackson during a 2008 discussion on race -- delivered a speech instead.)

See how Michael Jackson's appearance has changed over the years

Instead, most of the people who paid tribute to Jackson at Tuesday's memorial never met him at all.

Queen Latifah, who eulogized the singer, told David Letterman: "I never actually got to meet him. My partner met him because we managed Naughty by Nature and they did a remix with him. He thought I had beautiful cheekbones."

John Mayer -- who performed an instrumental version of "Human Nature" -- told Larry King he also "never met" the King of Pop. His only connection was listening to Thriller as a teen. He said the Jackson family asked him to perform. (The Los Angeles Times' Ann Powers remarked, "I don't know why John Mayer is here. Was Slash not available?")

See Michael Jackson's most unforgettable moments

Jennifer Hudson -- who performed "Will You Be There" -- also had no prior relationship with Jackson. Mariah Carey covered the Jackson 5 classic "I'll Be There," which she sang at the memorial. Though she worked with Jackson on his 2001 charity single "What More Can I Give?" she wasn't close with the singer, a source tells Us.

Look back at Michael Jackson's life

Usher, who sobbed and touched Jackson's coffin while singing "Gone Too Soon," performed with Jackson at his 2001 celebration concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden. But "their contact was minimal," the source tells Us, even though Usher has stated how influential Jackson was on his career.

Twelve-year-old Britain's Got Talent finalist Shaheen Jafargholi's connection to Jackson? He toured as a young Jackson in the Thriller Live show and sang the Jackson 5 cover version of "Who's Loving You" on Britain's Got Talent.

A "unique experience" for Went!!

Agian Zie, queen of Went realated material has provided us with this vid of went leaving his NY hotel and check out what the paparazzi asked him to which he replied is a "unique experience" ahhh he's so grounded I love that!! thanx again Zie!!

I must watch this!!!

Ok so I was streaming French tv actually I was watching ClapTv and I saw a clip for a French movie titled "Coco" it looks like a really funny movie and at times like this when I want to watch a movie from another country that I dont speak the language, I wish i could speak the language!! in this case, French. I know Laila you speak some French right? anyway I was wondering if you guys have seen this movie yet and if it was any good or not. I know there are subtitles to everything but i just want to be able to understand. LOL anyway i think "Coco" is HOT!!! he has such beautiful eyes!!! I've worked with a few French-Morrocans and I guess most of them do have amazing eyes!! check out the trailer!! Enjoy!!!=)

America's Favorite Redhead!

One of my all time favorite television geniuses is the one and only Lucille Ball most commonly known as "lucy" from her hit tv series "I Love Lucy". To me this woman was a master of her field. Her show has been running every day since if first aired in the 50's. To this day "I Love Lucy" is watched by millions everyday even though they are all reruns. I dont get tired of that show. If you have not seen it, you must check it out. Ball was absolutely hilarious! you can find a few full episodes on youtube so definitely give it a shot. Here's some history on this amazing actress/comedian/model/film executive.



Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. Lucille Ball was one of the most popular stars in America during her lifetime and had one of Hollywood's longest careers.[1] She was a movie star from the 1930s to the 1970s, and appeared on television for more than thirty years.

Ball received thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four wins.[2] She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.[3]

In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name "Diane Belmont". She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was labeled as the "Queen of the Bs" (referring to her many roles in B-films). In 1951, Ball was pivotal in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then husband, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Vivian Vance and William Frawley as Ethel and Fred Mertz, the Ricardos' loveable landlords. After the show ended in 1960, Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968, and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974. Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life With Lucy. The show proved to be a critical and commercial flop which was canceled less than two months into its run by ABC.[4]

Ball met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Desiree Arnaz.[5] A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.[6] Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960. On April 26, 1989, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age seventy-seven.[7] At the time of her death, she had been married to her second husband, standup comedian and business partner Gary Morton, for twenty-eight years.
Ball was born to Henry Durrell Ball (September 16, 1886 – February 19, 1915) and Desiree "DeDe" Evelyn Hunt (September 21, 1892 – July 20, 1977) in Celeron, New York near Jamestown. Although Lucy was born in the Jamestown suburb, she told many people that she was born in Butte, Montana.[9] Her family was Baptist; her father was of Scottish descent, and his mother was Mary Ball.[10] Her mother was of French, Irish and English descent.[11] Her genealogy can be traced back to the earliest settlers in the colonies.[12]

Her father, a telephone lineman for Anaconda Copper, was frequently transferred because of his occupation, and within three years of her birth, Lucille had moved many times, from Jamestown to Anaconda, Montana, and then to Wyandotte, Michigan.[13] While DeDe Ball was pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted typhoid fever and died in February 1915.[14] After her father died, Ball and her brother Fred were raised by her mother and grandparents.[15] Her grandfather, Fred C. Hunt, was an eccentric socialist who also enjoyed the theater. He frequently took the family to vaudeville shows and encouraged young Lucy to take part in both her own and school plays.[16]

In 1927, Ball dated a gangster's son by the name of Johnny DeVita. Because of this relationship, her mother decided to ship Ball off to the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City.[17] There, Ball attended with fellow actress Bette Davis. Ball went home a few weeks later when drama coaches told her that she "had no future at all as a performer".[18]

Ball was determined to prove her teachers wrong, and returned to New York City in 1929. She landed work as a fashion model. Her career was thriving when she became ill with rheumatoid arthritis and was unable to work for two years.[19] She moved to New York City once again in 1932 to resume her pursuit of a career as an actress, and had some success as a fashion model for designer Hattie Carnegie and as the Chesterfield cigarette girl. She began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name "Diane Belmont" and was hired—but then quickly fired—by theatre impresario Earl Carroll from his Vanities, and by Florenz Ziegfeld from a touring company of Rio Rita.[20]

She was let go again from the Shubert brothers production of Stepping Stones.[16] After an uncredited stint as one of the Goldwyn Girls in Roman Scandals (1933) she permanently moved to Hollywood to appear in films. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, including movies with the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges. She can also be seen as one of the featured models in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Roberta (1935), where she met her lifelong friend, Ginger Rogers.[21] She and Rogers played aspiring actresses in the hit film Stage Door (1937) co-starring Katharine Hepburn. Ball was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s, but she never achieved major stardom from her appearance in those films.[22]
from the trailer for Stage Door (1937)

She was known in many Hollywood circles as "Queen of the B's"—a title previously held by Fay Wray—starring in a number of B-movies, such as 1939's Five Came Back.[23] Like many budding starlets Ball picked up radio work to earn side income as well as gain exposure. In 1937 she appeared as a regular on The Phil Baker Show. When that completed its run in 1938, Ball joined the cast of The Wonder Show starring future Wizard of Oz tin man Jack Haley.[24] It was on this show that she began her fifty year professional relationship with Gale Gordon, who served as the show's announcer. The Wonder Show only lasted one season, with the final episode airing on April 7, 1939.[25]

In 1940, Ball met Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz while filming the film version of the Rodgers and Hart stage hit Too Many Girls. Ball and Arnaz connected immediately and eloped the same year, garnering much press attention. Arnaz and Ball frequently argued, especially over his indiscretions with other women, but they always made up in the end.

Arnaz was drafted to the United States Army in 1942. He ended up being classified for limited service due to a knee injury. As a result, Arnaz stayed in Los Angeles, organizing and performing USO shows for wounded GIs being brought back from the Pacific. That same year, Lucy appeared opposite Henry Fonda in The Big Street, an uneven film but a strong personal performance. In this film she plays a tough nightclub singer whose legs become paralyzed. Fonda plays a busboy who cares for her.

Ball filed for a divorce in 1944. Shortly after Ball obtained an interlocutory decree, however, she reconciled with Arnaz again.[26] Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were only six years apart in age but apparently believed that it was less socially acceptable for an older woman to marry a younger man, and hence split the difference in their ages, both claiming a 1914 birth date.[27]

[edit] I Love Lucy and Desilu
Main article: I Love Lucy
Ball as Lucy, Vivian Vance as Ethel on the "Job Switching" episode of I Love Lucy

In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cugat (later "Cooper"), a wacky wife, in My Favorite Husband, a radio program for CBS Radio. The program was successful, and CBS asked her to develop it for television. She agreed, but insisted on working with Arnaz. CBS executives were reluctant, thinking the public would not accept an All-American redhead and a Cuban as a couple. CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's Desilu Productions company, so the couple toured the road in a vaudeville act with Lucy as the zany housewife wanting to get in Arnaz's show. The tour was a smash, and CBS put I Love Lucy on their lineup.[28] The I Love Lucy show was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way for her to try to salvage her marriage to Desi Arnaz, which had become badly strained, in part by the fact that each had a hectic performing schedule which often kept them apart.[29]

Along the way, she created a television dynasty and reached several "firsts". Ball was the first woman in television to be head of a production company: Desilu, the company that she and Arnaz formed. After buying out her by-then ex-husband's share of the studio, Ball functioned as a very active studio head.[30] Desilu and I Love Lucy pioneered a number of methods still in use in television production today.[31] During this time Ball taught a thirty-two week comedy workshop at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. Ball is quoted as saying, "You cannot teach someone comedy, either they have it or they don't."[32]

When the show premiered, most shows were aired live from New York City studios to Eastern and Central Time Zone audiences, and captured by kinescope for broadcast later to the West Coast. The kinescope picture was inferior to film, and as a result the West Coast broadcasts were inferior to those seen elsewhere in the country. Ball and Arnaz wanted to remain in their Los Angeles home, but the time zone logistics made that broadcast norm impossible. Prime time in L.A. was too late at night on the East Coast to air a major network series, meaning the majority of the TV audience would be seeing not only the inferior picture of kinescopes but seeing them at least a day later.[33]

Sponsor Philip Morris did not want to show day-old kinescopes to the major markets on the East Coast, yet neither did they want to pay for the extra cost filming, processing and editing would require, pressuring Ball and Arnaz to relocate to New York City. Ball and Arnaz offered to take a pay cut to finance filming, on the condition that their company, Desilu, would retain the rights to that film once it was aired. CBS relinquished the show rights back to Desilu after initial broadcast, not realizing they were giving away a valuable and durable asset. Desilu made many millions of dollars on I Love Lucy rebroadcasts through syndication and became a textbook example of how a show can be profitable in second-run syndication. In television's infancy, the concept of the rerun hadn't yet formed, and many in the industry wondered who would want to see a program a second time.[34] In fact, while other celebrated shows of the period exist only in incomplete sets of kinescopes too degraded to show to subsequent generations of television viewers, I Love Lucy has virtually never gone out of syndication since it began, seen by hundreds of millions of people around the world over the past half century. The success of Ball and Arnaz's gamble was instrumental in drawing television production from New York to Hollywood for the next several decades.[35]

Desilu also hired legendary German cameraman Karl Freund as their director of photography. Freund had worked for F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang, shot part of Metropolis (1927) and had directed a number of Hollywood films himself. Freund used a three-camera setup, which became the standard way of filming situation comedies.[36] Shooting long shots, medium shots, and close-ups on a comedy in front of a live audience demanded discipline, technique, and close choreography. Among other non-standard techniques used in filming the show, cans of paint (in shades ranging from white to medium gray) were kept on set to "paint out" inappropriate shadows and disguise lighting flaws.[31][37]

I Love Lucy dominated the weekly TV ratings in the United States for most of its run. In the scene where Lucy and Ricky are practicing the tango in the episode "Lucy Does The Tango", the longest recorded studio audience laugh in the history of the show was produced. It was so long, in fact, that the sound editor had to cut that particular part of the soundtrack in half.[38] The strenuous rehearsals and demands of Desilu studio kept the Arnazes too busy to comprehend the show's success. During the show's hiatus, they starred together in feature films: Vincente Minnelli's The Long, Long Trailer (1954) and Alexander Hall's Forever, Darling (1956).

Desilu produced several other popular shows, most notably Our Miss Brooks (starring Ball's 1937 Stage Door co-star Eve Arden), The Untouchables, Star Trek, and Mission: Impossible. Many other shows, particularly Sheldon Leonard-produced series like Make Room for Daddy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and I Spy, were filmed at Desilu Studios and bear its logo.

[edit] Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities

In 1953, Ball was subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities because she had registered to vote in the Communist party primary election in 1936 at her socialist grandfather's insistence (per FBI FOIA-released documents in a declassified FBI file).[39] Immediately before the filming of episode 68 ("The Girls Go Into Business") of I Love Lucy, Desi Arnaz, instead of his usual audience warm-up, told the audience about Lucy and her grandfather. Arnaz quipped: "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that's not legitimate." Then, he presented his wife and she received a standing ovation from the audience.[16]

[edit] Children and divorce
with her husband Desi Arnaz in 1953.

On July 17, 1951, one month before her fortieth birthday and after several miscarriages, Ball gave birth to her first child, Lucie Desiree Arnaz.[5] A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to her second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.[6] When he was born, I Love Lucy was a solid ratings hit, and Ball and Arnaz wrote the pregnancy into the show (indeed, Ball gave birth in real life on the same day that her Lucy Ricardo character gave birth).[6] There were several challenges from CBS, insisting that a pregnant woman could not be shown on television, nor could the word "pregnant" be spoken on-air. After approval from several religious figures the network allowed the pregnancy storyline, but insisted that the word "expecting" be used instead of "pregnant". (Arnaz garnered laughs when he deliberately mispronounced it as "'spectin'").[40] The episode's official title was "Lucy Is Enceinte," borrowing the French word for pregnant;[13] however, episode titles never appeared on the show. The birth made the first cover of TV Guide in January 1953.[41] Ball's instincts with business were often astonishingly sharp, and her love for Arnaz was passionate, but her relationships with her children were sometimes strained. Lucie Arnaz, her daughter, spoke of her mother's "controlling" nature.[42] Ball was very outspoken against the relationship that Desi Jr. had with Liza Minnelli. She was quoted as saying, "I miss Liza, but you cannot domesticate Liza."[43] She had a few very good friends in the business: Ginger Rogers, Mary Wickes and Vivian Vance. All were childless; Wickes never married.

In October 1956, Ball, Vivian Vance, Desi Arnaz, and William Frawley all appeared on a Bob Hope special on NBC, including a spoof of I Love of Lucy, the only time all four stars were together on a color telecast. Fortunately, at least part of the program has been preserved in a rare color kinescope.

By the end of the 1950s, Desilu had become a large company, causing a good deal of stress for both Ball and Arnaz; his increased drinking further compounded matters.[44] On May 4, 1960, just one month after filming the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, the couple divorced. Until his death in 1986, however, Arnaz and Ball remained friends and often spoke very fondly of each other.[45] Her real-life divorce indirectly found its way into her later television series, as she was always cast as a single woman.[46][47]

The following year, Ball did a musical on Broadway, Wildcat, co-starring Paula Stewart.[48] It was Stewart who introduced her to her next husband Gary Morton, a Borscht Belt stand-up comic who was thirteen years her junior.[8] Morton claimed he had never seen an episode of "I Love Lucy" due to his hectic work schedule.[43] That marked the beginning of a thirty-year friendship between Lucy and Paula. Ball immediately installed Morton in her production company, teaching him the television business and eventually promoting him to producer. Morton also played occasional bit parts on Ball's various series.[43]

[edit] Later career

The 1960 Broadway musical Wildcat was a successful sell-out that ended its run early when Ball became too ill to continue in the show.[43] The show was the source of the song she made famous, "Hey, Look Me Over", which she performed with Paula Stewart on The Ed Sullivan Show. She made a few more movies including Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968), and the musical Mame (1974), and two more successful long-running sitcoms for CBS: The Lucy Show (1962–68), which costarred Vance and Gale Gordon, and Here's Lucy (1968–74), which also featured Gordon, as well Lucy's real life children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. Ball appeared on the Dick Cavett show and spoke of her history and life with Arnaz. She insisted that Mame was by far one of her most favorite "family" movies she had ever done. During that interview, Ball revealed how she felt about other actors and actresses as well as her love for Arnaz. She continued by telling Dick that the success to her life was, getting rid of what was wrong and replacing it with what is right. (Talking about her divorce from Arnaz and marriage to Morton) Lucy also reveals in this interview that the strangest thing to ever happen to her was after she had some dental work completed and after placing lead fillings in her teeth, she started hearing radio stations in her head. She explained coming home one night from the studio and as she passed one area, she heard what she thought was morse code or a "tapping." She stated that "As I backed up it got stronger. The next morning, I reported it to the authorities and upon investigation, they found a Japanese radio transmitter that had been buried and was actively transmitting codes back to the Japanese."[32][49]

Ball was originally considered by Frank Sinatra for the role of Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate. Director/producer John Frankenheimer, however, had worked with Angela Lansbury in a mother role in another film and insisted on having her for the part.[50]
Ball at her last public appearance at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989 just four weeks before her death

During the mid-1980s, she attempted to resurrect her television career. In 1982, Ball hosted a two-part Three's Company retrospective, showing clips from the show's first five seasons, summarizing memorable plotlines, and commenting on her love of the show.[51] A 1985 dramatic made-for-TV film about an elderly homeless woman, Stone Pillow, received mixed reviews. Her 1986 sitcom comeback Life With Lucy, costarring her longtime foil Gale Gordon and co-produced by Ball, Gary Morton, and prolific producer/former actor Aaron Spelling, was a critical and commercial flop which was canceled less than two months into its run by ABC.[4] The failure of this series was said to have sent Ball into a serious depression, and other than a few miscellaneous awards show appearances, she was absent from the public eye for the last several years of her life. Her last public appearance, just one month before her death, was at the 1989 Academy Awards telecast in which she and fellow presenter, Bob Hope, were given a standing ovation. The clip was later included in the memorial homage Bob Hope's Love Affair With Lucy.

[edit] Death

On April 18, 1989, Ball complained of chest pains and was rushed to the emergency room of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was diagnosed as having a dissecting aortic aneurysm and underwent heart surgery for nearly eight hours. The surgery was successful, and Ball began recovering, even walking around her room with little assistance.[7] On April 26, shortly after dawn, Ball awoke with severe back pains. Her aorta had ruptured in a second location and Ball quickly lost consciousness. All attempts to revive her proved unsuccessful and at approximately 05:47 PST, Ball died at the age of 77.[7] She was initially interred in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, but in 2002 her children moved her ashes to the family plot at Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown, New York, where Ball's mother, father, brother, and grandparents are buried.[42]

[edit] Legacy and posthumous recognition

Ball has received many prestigious awards throughout her career including some that she received posthumously such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush on July 6, 1989.[52] The Women's International Center's Living Legacy Award.[53] There is a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center museum in Jamestown, NY. The Little Theatre in Jamestown, New York, was renamed the Lucille Ball Little Theatre in her honor.[54] Ball was among Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century.[55]

On August 6, 2001, on what would have been her ninetieth birthday, the United States Postal Service honored her with a commemorative postage stamp as part of its Legends of Hollywood series.[56] Ball appeared on the cover of TV Guide more than any other person; she appeared on thirty-nine covers, including the very first cover in 1953, with her baby son Desi Arnaz, Jr.[57] TV Guide voted Lucille Ball as the Greatest TV Star of All Time and later it commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of I Love Lucy with eight collector covers celebrating memorable scenes from the show and in another instance they named I Love Lucy the second most influential television program in American history.[58] Because of her liberated mindset and approval of the women's movement, Ball was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[59]

Finally, she was awarded the Legacy of Laughter award at the fifth Annual TV Land Awards in 2007.[60] and I Love Lucy was named the Greatest TV Series by Hall of Fame Magazine.[19] In November of that year, Lucille Ball was chosen as the second out of the 50 Greatest TV Icons, after Johnny Carson. In a poll done by the public, however, they chose her as the greatest icon.

NAKED FRIDAYS!

Would you enjoy the idea of going to work naked every friday? having naked fridays instead of casual fridays? well one company is doing just that!



Business psychologist David Taylor was called in to help a marketing firm in England, where workers were feeling pretty low after a round of layoffs. The remedy for the employee blues? He told them the solution was simple: Strip down and get naked together.

(I'm thinking of an old co-worker from ages ago and shuddering at this very second.)

"Inviting an organization to go naked is the most extreme technique I've used," Taylor said to The Telegraph recently. "It may seem weird but it works. It's the ultimate expression of trust in yourself and each other."

All but a few of the office staff agreed to join in on "Naked Fridays"--except for one man, and two women who kept their underwear on, thankyouverymuch.

One of the--female--workers said this: "It was brilliant. Now that we've seen each other naked, there are no barriers. We weren't put under pressure. If we wanted to come in clothed or in our underwear, we could. But I love my body and wasn't ashamed."

I'm sorry. I just find this wrong--on so many levels.

What do you think? Could you ever--in this lifetime--agree to go to work nude?

Robots taking over real life models!

Technology nowadays is absolutely amazing!!! check out this Japanese robot runway model!! you heard it!! robots are on the catwalk!

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/vid/14684921/

UPDATED: Video coverage of Wentworth on the set of SVU

Thanks to our wonderful Zie - you never cease to amaze me =)

ETA: Found 7 more vids! Enjoy! Notice in the second video how Wentworth looks right into the camera lol! I love it =)

colorful dogs

This is interesting. LOL!!

A woman walks with a bichon frise and a poodle both coloured with various dyes on a street in Wuhan, Hubei province July 11, 2009. Amid China's current pet boom, dog owners are flocking to pet beauticians to pamper their pets with everything from shampooing to hair trimming, and nail care to hair-dye, local media reported. Picture taken July 11, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA SOCIETY ANIMALS IMAGES OF THE DAY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Michael Jackson's unreleased song

Ok so apparently Michael Jackson was working on this song but unfortunately due to his passing, was not able to release it himself. Well I am sure most of you have already heard this tid bit of the song but if you havent, here it is. It's only 24 seconds but boy is it good!!! enjoy!!!

And here's more Went...

Of course the thanks is to Zie again for searching the net & finding these lovely treasures! Thanks to Tessa from WMiller for posting for all to see!

More Went on the set of LAO:SVU

Thanks Zie =)

LOOKING GOOD!!!

I dont know how she does it, but Zie has got to be the best Went picture finder i know. LOL Thanx to Zie, we have new pictures!!! Went is looking really good and happy!!! yay!! Thanx again Zie!!