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Sewers of Paris: Lucy Would Not Take This Down (Ep 466 Lucille Ball/Eli McCann)
🕑 Added 2024-05-02 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Eli McCann, a lawyer, a humor columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, and a devotee of Lucille Ball since the age of six. That made him an easy kid to shop for, and by the time he was a teen he’d amassed a treasure trove of Lucy memorabilia … which nearly led to a crisis when he caught wind of his classmates’ plan to ambush him at home and reveal what had been, until then, a mostly private obsession.
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SG
Great talk. Much as I love 'ILL,' I've always been perturbed by the level of rage behind its comedy. Even as a kid I felt the characters actually hated each other, but didn't realize it or couldn't admit it to themselves. It had a 'No Exit' quality to it. Also, June Cleaver: in early seasons, Ward and June are inspired by Ricky and Lucy, and there's this zing in their relationship. The writers slowly make June passive after that, but she is always very clearly in control of her marriage and her little world, and with some frequency lords her power over her ground-down husband.
