William Frawley-related stories
Posted Jan 16th 2009 11:33AM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Battlestar Galactica, Video, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Battlestar Galactica is premiering! Did you know that?
BSG is starting again. Ten eps left. Best show ever. Can. Not. Wait. Especially because we
need to know the identity of the final Cylon!
Look, we're so crazy excited for the season premiere that the only thing we could do to keep ourselves from going a'spoiler-hunting was to create a wishlist. Below are six characters from other shows throughout history whom we imagine share the same genetics as those frakkin' Toasters.
Continue reading Six characters from other shows whom we wish were Cylons - VIDEO
Posted Mar 23rd 2008 10:31AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV Royalty, OpEd, Retro Squad, Standout Episodes
(S06E20) Funny is funny and it never goes out of style. That's really true when you consider the enduring hilarity found in the black and white treasure known as
I Love Lucy. In honor of Easter, I offer for your enjoyment memories of one of the most brilliant episodes from a series brimming with classics. The episode is
Lucy Does the Tango, and it's all about eggs. Lucille Ball and three dozen eggs to be exact.
Continue reading I Love Lucy: Lucy Does the Tango
Posted May 13th 2007 2:44PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Web, Celebrities
Looking for that special last minute Mother's Day gift? Nothing says Mother's Day like the death certificates of your favorite TV star!
Someone is selling the death certificates and wills of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley on ebay. These aren't just one page descriptions of the date and manner of death, they are the actual detailed wills that they wrote before they died. Lucy didn't want to be embalmed and wanted to make sure her brother Fred and his wife didn't get anything. Desi made sure his mom was cared for. Vance left most of her estate to her much younger husband, and Frawley's will has a lot of bills and notes from creditors attached. It's probably interesting reading, but creepy.
For more background on the stars, here are the Wikipedia pages for Ball, Arnaz, Vance, and Frawley. Vance and Frawley hated each other.
[via TMZ.com]
Posted Jan 30th 2007 8:10AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Obituaries
Bob Carroll Jr. and writing partner Madelyn Pugh Davis (that's them in the pic, with Jess Oppenheimer in the middle) were writing for Steve Allen's radio in the 1940s when they decided to take a week off. Not for a vacation, but to write a script for Lucille Ball, who was looking for writers for her radio show My Favorite Husband. They got the job, and went on to write on all of Ball's TV shows, including I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, Here's Lucy, and Life With Lucy, Ball's last TV show in 1986. Caroll also wrote for The Mothers-In-Law, The Paul Lynde Show, Dorothy, and Alice, which he also co-produced. He wrote the 1968 movie Yours, Mine and Ours (yup, Lucy again), which was remade a couple of years ago with Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo.
Carroll died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Saturday. (Pugh Davis lives in California. She released a book with Carroll in 2005 titled Laughing With Lucy.)