WilliamM

I spent a small part of my work life dealing with realtors. Sweden is my favorite European country, but not Fredrik. The show needed a strong contrast to Ryan, and Fredrik provides it. Let's agree though that some of the show is fake, probably much more than I realize.

As a physical comic, few people got more laughs and higher ratings than Lucille Ball in "I Love Lucy." I was too young to watch the first few seasons of ILL, but certainly the later seasons. It's possible I did not have a TV when "Golden Girls" was on the air. In real life Jack Benny and Mary Livington lived next door to Lucy and Desi Arnaz for many years on Roxbury Dr. in Beverly Hills.

Bob Hope died in 2003 at age 100. The publicity for this PBS American Masters special maintains Bob Hope was successful in every branch of show business. If true, why has he remembered only for his many Christmas USO tours? Dick Cavett provides the best explanation: Bob Hope almost never talked about his family or personal life, except occasional kind jokes about his wife, Delores, who also lived a very long life. Hope was a first-rate stand-up comic who appeared often in specials and hosted the Academy Awards for many years, appeared in dozens of films (often with Bing Crosby) and starred on Broadway with Ethel Merman. Perhaps his USO tours during the Vietnam war did him in. Bob was a proud & relentless hawk on Vietnam. I was not the only one who refused to see him in Vietnam at Christmas 1968. Hope was performing only a few miles away and I could have easily driven there in my jeep. (I am unsure if this post should have been posted in the political forum.)

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