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Article: Lucy, With Love And Laughter; The Irrepressible Magic of Television's Favorite Comedian
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 27, 1989
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You don't want to cry about her, you want to laugh about her.
Lucille Ball is gone, but Lucy remains behind, still stomping grapes
with her feet, gobbling candies off an assembly line, stealing John
Wayne's footprints from the Chinese theater, still setting her putty
nose on fire and dipping it into a cup of coffee to extinguish it.
She's our Vitameatavegamin girl, spooning her way to health,
taking repeated gulps of high-alcohol tonic and getting
progressively, giddily, and yet somehow charmingly, sloshed. She's
Mrs. Ricky Ricardo, pregnant with her first child, walking into the
living room to announce that "this is it" and then being left behind
as her husband and two best friends ...