Funny Love Icons

In addition to the surge in interest on the internet, Lucy continues to inspire fascination and reflection. A recent and very popular book about a man's late-life friendship with the actress is now being cast as a play. Episodes of the classic TV sitcom I LOVE LUCY are rumored also to be casting for upcoming live recreations of the still-popular show. A new musical about the making of that sitcom, REDHEAD CUBAN HAUSFRAU HUSBAND, is in the first leg of a summer run in Los Angeles, CA. And on television or on the stage, America still loves Lucy.
Why do we treasure this icon? People all over the world watch reruns of I LOVE LUCY, which some say plays virtually around the global clock. At any given moment, they suggest, that show is playing on a television somewhere in the world. And they could well be correct. Many in my generation, and those before and after mine, grew up watching syndicated reruns like I LOVE LUCY and have much fondness associated with that experience. But other, lesser programs like BEWITCHED occupied the same pocket of memory without any of the dedication or loyalty that Lucy inspires. And the same case in point illustrates that it is more than merely childhood associations or nostalgia that wins Lucy our love. We don't universally love THE BRADY BUNCH, for example.
And there is great love associated with this tragic clown, Lucille/Lucy. Her tumultuous relationship with husband, business partner and costar Desi Arnaz is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Now it is almost impossible to think of Ball without reflecting on the sorrowful trajectory of her doomed marriage to the Latin bandleader. And like so many modern-day celebrity marriages, their turbulent union fascinates.
But, with all due respect to the late genius Desi Arnaz, he does not appear on the Yahoo! search list. Nor is it the pair of names which appear together. It's Lucy's name we're seeing on that Yahoo! page. And we love her not because we are sorry for her loss, or for our own; at least not entirely.
Foremost, I suspect the reason we remain so steadfastly loyal to the brassy redhead is simple: she was funny. Her show was funny. The writers were good, the actors were good. Ball dedicated a lot of time and attention to working through the bits of which so many are now considered classic, getting the feel of props and movements and obtaining a seamlessness between herself and the material. She worked hard to make it seem effortless, the mark of a master. But hard worker or not, she was funny.
But there were a lot of funny performers in Ball's time; George Burns, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Jack Benny. They were all hard workers, too. And they are beloved, no doubt. But not even Jerry Lewis retains the kind of legend that Ball has; at least not while he's alive. George Burns is dead, but he does not occupy the kind of American Icon status that Lucy does.
Lucy was also a woman, which put her squarely in what was then clearly a man's field. This made her stand out, no question. But there were other great comediennes in Lucy's day and before, including Gracie Allen, Mae West and Imogene Coca; all hilarious and also nearly lost to history.
So it's more than being a woman, and it's more than being funny, and more than being hard working and even more than being dead. Because there are different shticks, or acts, for different performers. There is something particular about Lucy's shtick, and also something universal (always, the universal can be found in the particular.) Milton Berle wore dresses, Jack Benny was cheap and vain, Groucho Marx was sardonic and slick. Gracie Allen was dizzy and Mae West was a slut.
Lucy persevered.
So much of what made her show and its characters great was its honesty, its realism. We feel we know these four people in this New York apartment building because they seem so real to us. They seem real because they were real. The characters were built around the actors; Desi Arnaz had a legitimate problem with English turns of phrase and often misused the language. This became central to his character and a signature of his shtick. Lucy was jealous of Desi's popularity with women (not without reason) and this became a central part of their on-screen relationship. Lucille was a driven performer, also central to the makeup of her onscreen persona, Lucy. Even their supporting characters, once meant merely to offer a line or two per episode, became iconic television characters because they were given life by the people who embodied them and the writers who guided that process. Vivian Vance's Ethel Mertz is a strong foil for Lucy Ricardo, as Vance was to Ball in their personal friendship. Frawley's Fred Mertz has all his contention and disagreeability, but his heart and the heart of the character beat with compassion and reason. And Frawley was Frawley. Sure, Gale Gordon could have played cheap and grumpy, but there was no replacing that deadpan sourpuss in Little Boy Blue knickers, holding a giant lollypop and singing in a growly baratone, "Rippety pippety Ayyyyyyyeeee" Let's face it; Fred was funny because Frawley was funny. The characters were created with honesty. They were real.
Nowhere is this more evident than the relationship of the actress Lucille Ball and her character, Lucy Ricardo. Ball was a protestant, raised to work hard and hold her head up high. She was a one-time fashion model who re-enforced her sense of dignity with the understanding of the value of appearance. Lucille and Lucy both always held their heads up high. And the bits designed for her character all highlight this persistence, this dogged determination. Whether she was stuffing chocolates into her mouth or stomping grapes, clinging to the building's ledge in the rain or stalking William Holden, Lucy never quit. And neither did Lucille; in her relentless drive to keep her family together, in her determination to thrive in a field dominated by men. But her persistence went beyond mere women's liberation issues. It didn't matter what the odds were or even what the challenge was; reigning in a tomcatting husband or trying to pass herself off as a clay bust of herself, running a television studio or trying to wrangle hundreds of freshly hatched chicks, neither Lucille nor Lucy ever gave up.
This is why we love Lucy, because she reflects that part of us that refuses to quit; even when the chocolates are impossibly innumerable, even when we're out on that rainy ledge dressed like Superman. Because even if we cannot laugh at ourselves in the struggle, she allows us to laugh at her and with her. And that brings us closer to laughing at ourselves, and understanding ourselves all the more. And if we are still fascinated, still recreating and reinventing her, perhaps it is a reflection of our need to recreate and reinvent ourselves. Like Lucy, we don our costumes and concoct our own crazy schemes. When one fails, next week we'll try another. We persevere.

Funny Love Poems

When it comes to writing a funny love poem you may find yourself faced with a task a lot harder that first thought.
This article contains tips and ideas that will help you write a funny love poem.
Before you begin your funny love poem I would recommend reading and listing to other poems in the same genre. This will give you some ideas about the styles they were written. You will also be able to decide if your funny love poem is going to be long or short, rhyming or not rhyming.
Find inspiration, by simply reading a verse or line from another funny love poem you may just find the inspiration to write your own. Once you have the foundation you then need to bulk it out.
If your funny love poem is intended for someone in particular you may already have ideas about what you want to include. If this is the case then spend some time making notes about the specific thing you want to incorporate.
As hard as it sounds try to write down your emotions and feeling as this is what makes a poem special and meaningful. Don't be afraid to say things you would not normally say.
Think about the event or person the funny love poem is for, writing notes or a list as you remember the emotions and feeling you had at that time and have now. Once the list is written you can then go through and add or remove what ever you see fit.
You will need to think about the style of your funny love poem. There are many styles of poems including haiku, sonnets, limericks or free verse. It is important to decide the style before actually putting your poem together.
Use vivid descriptions and words of emotion such as love, happiness and joy. Try to include descriptive images, so instead of putting 'the garden' put 'the lush green garden' these descriptions will paint a better picture in the readers mind.
Always save the best part of your poem for the end. The end should be like a punch line to a joke, something that gives the reader something to think about after the poem has been read.
When you feel your poem is complete read it and read it again, don't be afraid to edit and make changes or better still ask others for their opinions and advice in how they feel the poem reads.
The most important thing is to be sincere, especially if you are going to be giving the poem as a gift to someone you love.

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Funny Love Quotes

Funny quotes are an excellent way of expressing your love for your beloved and at the same time relieving the stress of daily living. Presenting your beloved with funny quotes will help create memorable moments in your life. Sharing these sorts of quotes you can enjoy the lighter moments in life particularly if it is a party that you are attending with some of your closest friends.
The latest trend is to share funny quotes with friends via email through the internet especially if you are working away from home and your loved ones it is interesting to share quotes when you are staying connected to friends and family through social networking sites like the Facebook, Twitter or Orkut.
Sentiments and feeling play a rather significant role in your lives, so no matter whether you are at work or at play take precious moments off to share funny love quotes with your beloved. Send your partner or special friend SMS through the mobile to let him/her know how you feel about them.
Today most youngsters and especially those who are in love know what it means to send love quotes and funny quotes to their friends. These quotes do not necessarily have to always be mushy, and in fact they do not need to be quotes either, it's just that the fact that you care that is important.
There are times that you feel that sending quotes created by other people are not really what you should be sending to your beloved, but you will find that while going through some of them they convey exactly what you feel for your friend and are tempted to send it to them. Whichever way you look at it you will find that love quotes and love poems have made quite an indelible impression on the minds of both men and women alike in spite of the fact that they take a knock on the man or the woman in them.

He Broke My Heart Quotes

A couple of years ago I was single and content to be unattached. I was with a group of associates waiting for a couple more people to arrive for our meeting. The pub door blew open and strong rays of sun poured through the door, enveloping someone. Through this sunshine cloak I began to make out a person. The door shut and there stood a man in a dark long wool coat, sunglasses. His long blond hair flowed around a handsome face and deep blue eyes. He took my breath away. Till then, someone who looked like he walked out of an MTV rock video wasn't my type. I preferred nerds. But there was something immediate and all-encompassing about him. Maybe it was that he was a rock guitarist with all the charm and intoxication that accompany musicians.
I was more shocked when he walked to the table and said hello. He was part of our group, someone I'd never met. There was so much chemistry between us and I instantly felt like we should be together, or already were. Long story short we dated and it was amazing. We split up. He came back. We split up. It's been well over a year since then and yet there is still the pull, the draw on my end, even though we're not together. He's back with his long time girlfriend and that's probably where he belongs. But what is it about some people that make us throw caution to the wind, who root themselves so deeply in our hearts that even after other long-term relationships come and go, we're still frozen in their memory? We keep poems or pictures hidden in a book or a drawer and every so often glance at them and remember...
My ex husband often talked about an Italian girl he dated back in college. He was in Florence for the summer and Marielle stole his heart. I argued it was the unrequited aspect of her that mesmerized him. Maybe it was or perhaps she was in his "one that got away."
This quote says it all. "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." Judy Garland. Another good one is "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."-Aristotle
When I was young, those were the love quotes we believed. But as I grew older, new studies were done. Now we're supposed to be separate, stand on our own, support ourselves, be with equal partners. My happiness should not come from him and vice versa. I guess I'm confused then what love is supposed to be if not connection and reliance, trust and a sense of completion. Companionship?
Shel Silverstein wrote a great book called The Missing Piece. It's about a circle missing a wedge and he's trying to find someone to make that fit so he's complete. In the end, instead of finding a partially formed (aka unhealthy) mate, he ends up with another circle and they roll away side by side. But so much of me still thinks there should be a click, a sense of knowing when the right person shows up. A feeling of needing them, even if it's just for companionship. There's the big quote in Jerry McGuire. "You complete me." But now that thinking is shunned. We're supposed to enter the relationship already complete.
I've had the I-can't-breathe-or-eat-or-function-I'm-so-in-love relationships (see above) and the ones that were comfortable and easy (till they weren't -recent breakup) and others in between. So who is "the one," the elusive man we strive to meet and marry, the one that got away? Is it the person who sweeps us off our feet, with whom we seem to share a soul? Or is that just obsession? A crush gone full throttle? Is "the one" merely the person we end up staying with, the one you don't break up with and so he wins by default? Hard to say.
I'd like to love someone so much that I do feel I need him, that he completes me, so that when it's over it's not just business as usual the next day, packing boxes and going to work like it's no bigger a deal than ordering the wrong dinner.