July 24, 2004
UNEXPECTED FINDS, PART II
Also found this shot I took in the I Love Lucy museum at Universal Studios Orlando. It's a framed award given to Lucille Ball on the 30th anniversary of her first appearance in television.
But that's not nearly as impressive as the names of the people who signed the award in her honor. It reads like a Who's Who of bad 70s television:
Bea Arthur and Bill Macy of "Maude."
Vegas lounge act and perennial Hollywood Squares participant Leslie Uggams.
"Mary Tyler Moore Show" (and "Golden Girls") actress Betty White.
"Taxi" star Marilu Henner.
Henner's co-star on "Taxi," Tony Danza.
"Shogun" and "Thorn Birds" actor Richard Chamberlain.
Annette "I haven't worked in 40 years" Funicello.
Talk show hostess and borderline singer Dinah Shore.
"Archie's Place" co-star Danielle Brisbois. (How sad I know that from memory.)
"Diff'rent Strokes" child actor Todd Bridges.
Ed Asner, co-star of the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "LouGrant."
'50s comedianne, Imogene Coca.
The unlikely signing pair of Nell "Gimme A Break" Carter and Sid "Your Show of Shows" Caesar.
"Roots" author Alex Haley.
Character actress and commercial queen Nancy Deusault. (Who once, inexplicably, was on "Night of 100 Stars.")
Big band leader Lawrence Welk.
"Diff'rent Strokes" actor - and future California gubernatorial candidate - Gary Coleman.
His TV father, Conrad Bain.
"Trapper John, M.D." star Pernell Roberts, who played "M.A.S.H." character Trapper John back in the states, and star Mike Farrell, who replaced Wayne Rodgers on "M.A.S.H." after his character, Trapper John, left the show. (Peace back atcha, Mike.)
Ted Knight, who played Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and Judge Elihu Smails in "Caddyshack." He also was the narrorator on the '70s Saturday Morning cartoon "Superfriends."