Lucy was really a beautiful woman. Those old black and white I Love Lucy shows really didn't do her justice -- beauty-wise. She was also funny as all get out.
I feel the same way about Aunt Esther.....Believe it or not back in Redd Fox's Vaudeville days she was the opening act...Not a stripper in the modern sense but with the feather boas and the dance......When she would finish she would leave the stage and get her frumpy dress and church hat on and play a sort of straight comic to Red's funny man....I heard that she and Red NEVER had any written lines on Sanford and Son....They just did what they had been doing for the last fifty years...Ad lib and play off each others words...
Here she is back in the day...
I feel the same way about Aunt Esther.....Believe it or not back in Redd Fox's Vaudeville days she was the opening act...Not a stripper in the modern sense but with the feather boas and the dance......When she would finish she would leave the stage and get her frumpy dress and church hat on and play a sort of straight comic to Red's funny man....I heard that she and Red NEVER had any written lines on Sanford and Son....They just did what they had been doing for the last fifty years...Ad lib and play off each others words...
Here she is back in the day...
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Fred: "Every body walking around saying "Black is beautiful" and then they met your family and said "hold everything"....
Esther: "My family has inner beauty..."
Fred: "Then you should put your liver where your face is..."
Esther: "I know God's gonna smite thee but I just can't wait..."
That's some serious off the cuff comedy gold right there......
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Seriously though, I've always wondered what the term "aggravated" means when it's put in front of some other crime (aggravated assault, aggravated rape, etc.). It makes it sound like, "Yeah, they committed a crime, but there were extenuating circumstances."
I take back everything I ever said about how dumb thigh holsters look....All of it...
Some people can make anything look good!