#carol cox

[linthehero]

carol COCKS

[intrepid-captain]

Cringe culture has been revived in the single act of me making a BRCU sona/j I keep rewatching Blame The Hero and I'm like man Elmer just needed a friend or something. Probably couldn't fix him but it'd sure as hell be funny to try

[polgara6]

Can’t sleep so

In order

Blame & Duke

Paisley & Courtney

Karen & Cathy

Bryce & Bobby

Carol & Luxy

Feel free to debate!

[newtstesco]

carol cox and pastor knees know each other because i said so, and every time she comes to discuss the bible with him he has to hide annabelle and noah while they both try to scare the shit out of her but keep failing due to looney tunes ass shenanigans carol has no idea they exist

[marzipanandminutiae]

director of The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): okay we need to costume both our puppets and humans in something festive and Victorian. but you know. no need to go crazy. it’s a kids’ movie, after all

costume designer, snorting a line of coke off an 1843 issue of Le Bon Ton fashion magazine: right, right

[kwebtv]

Chrysler Presents The Bob Hope Special - NBC - December 19, 1968

Christmas Special

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Bob Hope

Glen Campbell

Carol Lawrence

Nancy Ames

Wally Cox

Jerry Colonna

Janet Leigh

Les Brown and His Band of Reknown

Henry Corden

Kathleen Freeman

Sid Haig

Luis Peralta

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Pine Warbler by Carol Elizabeth Cox

[papermoonloveslucy]

MOVIES on TV!

Part 3 ~ The Movies of “Here’s Lucy”

In “Here’s Lucy,” Lucille Ball had a new character, a new family, and a new show - but one thing remained constant, her love of movies!  Here are some of the movies (real and imagined) of “Here’s Lucy.” 

~FACTUAL FILMS~ 

“Lucy and Carol Burnett” aka “The Unemployment Follies” (1971)

Carol and Lucy stage a tribute to Hollywood using unemployed actors. The films mentioned and/or feted include:

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)

BLUE ANGEL (1930)

CASABLANCA (1942)

42ND STREET (1933)

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)

ROSE MARIE (1954)

The set is decorated with posters from:

HOLLYWOOD OR BUST (1956) 

SAMPSON AND DELILAH (1949)

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) 

SHORT CUT TO HELL (1957) 

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) 

UNDER TWO FLAGS (1936) 

“Ginger Rogers Comes To Tea” (1971)

Ginger Rogers leaves her purse in a movie theatre where she's gone incognito to see one of her films for the first time. Lucy and Harry discover the purse and hope to get to meet the star in person by inviting her to tea. Instead of working late, Lucy tells Harry that she wants to go to a Ginger Rogers Film Festival. They are showing Tender Comrade (1943) and Flying Down To Rio (1933), two films made at RKO, which eventually became Desilu.  

Rogers tells Lucy she has done 73 movies. Rattling off some of Rogers' hits, Lucy adds a sugar cube to Ginger's tea for each title: Top Hat, Roberta, Flying Down To Rio, Follow the Fleet, Shall We Dance, and The Barkleys of Broadway.  When Lucy realizes she's put six lumps of sugar in Ginger's tea, Rogers says she only wanted Top Hat and Roberta (two lumps).  

Trying to impugn the taste in films of the mystery woman (a disguised Ginger Rogers), Lucy tells her to try back next week and they might be showing Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). This was the fourth of the light comic films set on the California beach starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.  

After dancing the Charleston with Lucy and Kim, Lucy asks Rogers to do a scene from Kitty Foyle, Ginger’s Oscar-winning role. Rogers graciously declines, asking Lucy to become a Katherine Hepburn fan instead!  

“Guess Who Owes Lucy $23.50?” (1968)

Lucy loans Van Johnson money to fix his car – but the man turns out to be an impostor. This episode is written for Van Johnson to work in a not-so-subtle plug for their latest film Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) starring Henry Fonda.

VAN IMPOSTER:“I loved working with that kooky redhead.” LUCY: “Personally, I thought she was much too young for Henry Fonda.”  

Lucy says she remembers Johnson from his appearance in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947).  She later tells him she saw the film 17 times!  When Lucy is escorted out by the studio guards at Van’s direction, Lucy says that now she’s glad he got court martialed in The Caine Mutiny (1954).

“Lucy and Aladdin’s Lamp” (1971) 

When Lucy holds a garage sale, she discovers an old lamp that she believes may be make wishes come true. Lucy pulls out a fur-lined jacket she says was worn by Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce.  The 1945 film won Crawford an Academy Award. Craig says that judging by the shoulder pads she could have worn it in The Spirit of Notre Dame, a 1931 football-themed movie starring Lew Ayres.  

“Lucy and Flip Go Legit” (1971)

Lucy takes a temp assignment with Flip Wilson in order to answer his fan mail. When she is caught sneaking into Wilson’s office to ask him a favor, she gets caught and fired.  The favor is to appear  in a community theatre production of Gone With The Wind (1939) – as Prissy. Lucy plays Scarlett O’Hara, Harry plays Rhett Butler, and Kim takes the role of Melanie Wilkes. 

“Won’t You Calm Down Dan Dailey?” (1971)

Lucy gets a job working for Dan Dailey. When he starts to dictate a letter to Paul Newman at Universal Studios, Lucy says she saw Newman on the late show in Winning, a 1969 film about a race car driver.

“Lucy and Rudy Vallée” (1970)

Famous crooner Rudy Vallée is waiting tables to pass the time until his music comes back into style. Lucy convinces Kim to help update his look and sound while Harry gets him a booking at the local teen hangout. When a life-size portrait of Vallée in a raccoon coat is revealed, Vallée says he wore the coat in his first picture, Varsity Hero, a silent picture where critics raved about his singing!    

In reality, Vallée’s first film (aside from two shorts playing himself) was The Vagabond Lover in 1929.

“Lucy and Chuck Connors Have a Surprise Slumber Party” (1974) 

Harry rents out Lucy’s home for a movie shoot. After causing several re-takes, Lucy is banished from her own home. When she returns early, she doesn’t know that Chuck Connors is staying overnight – in her bed!  

Jerry, the film’s director, tells Chuck that his film Good Morning, Miss Dove starring Jennifer Jones is on television that night. Connors says the film was one of the few times he got to nuzzle something besides a horse. Released in 1955 by 20th Century Fox, the film co-stars Mary Wickes, a frequent guest star on all of Lucille Ball’s sitcoms. It also features Jerry Paris, who directed two episodes of “Here’s Lucy” before being fired, and Robert Stack of Desilu’s “The Untouchables.” Other “Lucy” alumni in the film include Herb Vigran, Hal Taggart, and Arthur Tovey – all appearing uncredited.

“Lucy Meets the Burtons” (1972)

The hotel manager tells Burton that the back door is mobbed by the Elizabeth Taylor Fan Club – Glendale Chapter. Membership to the club requires seeing National Velvet 10 times!  National Velvet (1945) was made when Taylor was just twelve years old.  

“Lucy’s House Guest, Harry” (1971)

As Harry is finally is finally about to leave, Lucy has a horrible thought: what if he is like Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner and falls on his way out and must stay with them even longer?  The play, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, opened on Broadway in 1939. It starred Lucille Ball's good friend (and “Here's Lucy” performer) Mary Wickes as Nurse Preen. Wickes was one of several actors who recreated their roles in the 1942 film adaptation.

~FICTIONAL FILMS~ 

“Lucy, the American Mother” (1970)

Craig makes a film about Lucy, a typical American mother. During the episode, Kim does impressions of Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door (1937), a film that also featured Lucille Ball, Maurice Chevalier in Innocents of Paris (1929), and Bette Davis in The Great Lie (1941).  

The title of Craig's movie will be “A Day in the Life of My Mother.”  When Lucy can't seem to act natural in front of Craig's camera, she suggests he get someone else to play his mother; someone like Raquel Welch, Carol Burnett, or Don Knotts.

~FILM INSPIRATIONS~ 

“My Fair Buzzi” (1972)

Kim’s shy and awkward friend Annie (Ruth Buzzi) comes out of her shell in order to audition for a 1920s revue, only to find the director was looking for someone shy and awkward in the first place! The episode title and story of transformation were inspired by the 1956 Broadway musical and 1964 film My Fair Lady, which, in turn, was inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Both are mentioned in the dialogue of the episode.

“Dirty Gertie” (1972)

Lucy gets a surprise fruit basket and heads downtown to share her good fortune with her hairdresser. On the street she is mistaken for Dirty Gertie, an apple peddler who just happens to be the good luck charm of a local gangster. This episode was inspired by the 1961 Frank Capra film Pocketful of Miracles in which Bette Davis played Apple Annie, a poor woman reduced to selling apples on the street. The film featured previous “Lucy” co-stars Edward Everett Horton, Jay Novello, Ann-Margret (film debut), Sheldon Leonard, Jerome Cowan, Fritz Feld, Ellen Corby, Benny Rubin, Hayden Rorke, Bess Flowers, Vito Scotti, Bert Stevens, Arthur Tovey, and Romo Vincent.

“Lucy Runs the Rapids” (1969)

The Carters take a road trip in a camper. The episode opens with the soundtrack playing “Breezin’ Along”, the theme song from The Long, Long Trailer (1954), a film starring Lucy and Desi as a couple honeymooning in a trailer. 

~FILM FAKES~

“Lucy Cuts Vincent’s Price” (1970)

Price is filming a new horror film titled Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Wolfman? He says it has the best title since he starred in The Giant Chihuahua That Ate Chicago.

~FILM REFERENCES~

“Lucy, the Cement Worker” (1969)

In Pierre’s the knife thrower’s studio, there is a handbill on the bulletin board for ‘Cherokee Jim’s Rodeo and Wild West Show’, which is a direct reference to the 1945 film Incendiary Blonde starring Betty Hutton as Texas Guinan. The film was directed by George Marshall for Paramount, the same director and studio producing this episode of “Here’s Lucy” 25 years later!  

“Lucy in the Jungle” (1971)

When Harry sees baby chimps Fido and Rover, he reminds Lucy and Kim that King Kong started out as a baby, too!  King Kong, Hollywood’s tale of a giant ape, was first filmed in 1933, then re-made in 1976 and 2005. Fay Wray, one of the stars of the original film, also made The Bowery that same year, one of Lucille Ball’s first films. 

“Lucy and the Ex-Con” (1969)

Lucy and Rocky (Wally Cox) go undercover as little old ladies to catch a crook.   When Lucy and Rocky pass out (as planned) one of the crooks says to the bartender “Give me a hand with arsenic and old face.”  Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 film where two elderly spinsters serve lethal glasses of elderberry wine to unsuspecting older gentlemen and bury them in their basement!  

“Lucy and The Generation Gap” (1969)

Lucy and Uncle Harry help Kim and Craig stage the school musical. In the first act of the musical set in ancient Rome, Lucille Ball is reading a magazine called 'Roman Scandals’. Roman Scandals is also the title of Lucille Ball’s uncredited film debut in 1933.     

“Lucy and Shelley Winters” (1968)

Hired to watch over dieting movie star Shelley Summers. On the mantle of Summers' apartment is a photo of a svelte Shelley Winters from the 1950 film Frenchie. She glances guiltily at the photo when she is about to overeat. 

“Lucy Carter Meets Lucille Ball” (1974)

Although Lucille Ball's dressing room wall is lined with photographs of Mame and the soundtrack plays the title tune by Jerry Herman, the name of the movie is never specifically mentioned. The film was given its world premiere on March 7, 1974 three days after this episode first aired, and released nationally three weeks later. As Mame, Lucy failed to ‘charm the husk off of the corn.’

[cccovers]

Ms. Marvel #20 (December 2007) variant cover by Aaron Lopresti and Jeromy Cox.

Based on the cover of Ms. Marvel #1 (January 1977).

[astromechs]

top 5 favorite comic book character live action adaptations

aah, i love this question! i'm going to answer this by casting and/or character portrayal, regardless of how much i liked the end product as a whole:

1) andrew garfield as peter parker in the amazing spider-man (2012), the amazing spider-man 2 (2014), and spider-man no way home (2021); i think out of all the actors who have played him, andrew understands the character from the source material the best. his spider-like physicality in the role is so great, and he imbues peter with the panache right from the comics.

2) chris evans as steve rogers in the mcu; the writing may have been really inconsistent, but when it was on, it was on, and evans does a really good job of embodying steve.

3) so i'm going to give a two-way tie to this one; i enjoy the casting of both henry cavill (dceu) and tyler hoechlin (superman & lois) as clark kent. hoechlin's version has better writing, but man cavill deserved so much more than what he got. tbf i also liked brandon routh in superman returns. and i loved tom welling on smallville. and i loved christopher reeve in the ogs. honestly the only live action superman i don't like is dean cain lmao

4) jk simmons as j jonah jameson in the raimi spider-man films and more; literally THE best translation of a character from page to screen i swear.

5) robert pattinson as bruce wayne in the batman (2022); i know this movie just came out but, listen. he was incredible. this is THE best onscreen batman we've had in terms of the character and portrayal. so can't wait for more of him.

ask me my top 5 anything!

[linthehero]

ive been thinking about these two lately

[wornoutspines]

Reacher (Season 2 Review) | A Seamless Blend of Adaptation and Innovation.

#Reacher S2 delivers a seamless blend of adaptation and innovation! The new location, strong casting choices, and nods to #LeeChild's #bookquotes make it a must-watch for me. While some action scenes push the limits, the story adds depth. #TVReview

The prime video show thrilled me and many other viewers with its stellar adaptation of The Killing Floor in season one, and the amazing cast they gathered for it. The show skipped nine books for its sophomore season by adapting book 11 Bad Luck and Trouble. They also brought in Serinda Swan (Devotion, Inhuman), Robert Patrick (The Night Agent, Peacemaker, Perry Mason), Shaun Sipos (Krypton, The…

[polgara6]

Arcade

Carol Cox/Luxy Leroy Childhood AU

Sitting on a bench outside the arcade, leads to young Carol meeting a boy who makes her heart beat funny.

Carol was sitting outside the arcade waiting for her parents to pick her up. She’d never been inside the arcade but her parents had told her about all the horrible things that happened in there. Greed ran rampant and Carol was a good girl so she never went inside. She checked over her clothes as she sat. Her black Mary Janes were perfectly clean, her socks were perfectly white, her skirt didn’t have a wrinkle and lay perfectly flat, her sweater didn’t have a spot on it, and her most prized possession, her rosary, was perfectly polished and clean as a whistle.

She was about to start checking in her hair when the door to the arcade slammed open. A boy ran out like the hounds of hell were chasing him, his pockets overflowing with tickets. She’d heard other children bragging about them so she could only assume that’s what they were. The boy had long hair, far too long to be proper, and he was wearing a backwards baseball cap like she’d heard hooligans do. She wasn’t quite sure what a hooligan was honestly but she knew it was bad.

Other then that though he looked pretty normal. He had a nice polo shirt and some shorts. His freckles reminded her of the youth pastor who visited their church once. He’d made her cheeks feel hot when he’d smiled at her and she’d had to pray twice as hard that night. Suddenly the boy whipped around like he’d felt her staring at him.

“Hi I’m Luxy” he said cheerfully waving at her. She couldn’t help the small smile that appeared on her lips as she waved back. This boy seemed really nice and though she knows she’s not supposed to talk to boys outside of school and youth group maybe this boy wasn’t so bad.

“Hi I’m Carol” she introduced herself. The boy’s smile got even bigger as he walked over to her bench. She automatically scooted over so he could sit down as well. She’d never been this close to a boy she wasn’t related too; after all even in school they separated the boys and the girls and they did the same in youth group.

“Do you want some tickets?” He pulled some of the tickets out of his pocket revealing even more. Carol wasn’t sure whether to be horrified or impressed. He was clearly someone who spent a lot of time indulging greed but she’d overheard from the other children that it was particularly tricky to get tickets in this arcade compared to the other one across town.

“No thank you, I’m just waiting for my parents” Carol responded fiddling with her waist length hair. She wasn’t allowed to cut it beyond little trims and when she was an adult she knew she wanted it short. Her hair was far too much to handle. Luxy seemed disappointed at her response slumping slightly before promptly bouncing back.

“Aww are you sure, you can get some good stuff at the prize counter with these” he said shaking the tickets like that would somehow make them more enticing. Carol couldn’t have helped the giggle that came out of her if she tried. This boy was clearly covered in sin but he was so… something. Carol didn’t have a word for what he was but it made her heart beat faster and her cheeks flush.

Then her parents station wagon came around the corner. Carol immediately felt a mixture of sad and guilty. She knew that if her parents had come a second later she probably would’ve said yes to this charming boy then where would she be? Nowhere good that’s for sure.

“That’s my parents car I have to go, it was very nice to meet you Luxy” Carol said struggling to keep her tone even. The boy pouted visibly but still waved goodbye. Carol realized he was sad to see her go. A funny feeling emerged in her stomach that she wasn’t sure if she liked or not. She got in the car.

“Who was that Carol?” Her mother asked.

“His name is Luxy, he was waiting for his parents too I think” she responded. Her mom hummed a thoughtful note.

“You should stay away from him Carol, you know boys are bad news”

That was the end of it. Carol knew she was to never go near Luxy and by extension the arcade again. But she knew she would probably think of him later and the strange feelings he’d given her. He was full of sin and she had to remain sin free to get to heaven but the feelings were so nice. How could that be sin?

———-

End note: Hello all, so I’m obsessed if that wasn’t completely clear. I’m also working on two worstthrust fics over on ao3 so that’s fun. I will post about updates on here or at least I’ll try too. My beta’s are my sister who is equally obsessed but despises reading and my aunt who I see once a week who has no idea what we are talking about but is incredibly supportive. So if things take a hot minute you know what’s up. Now Carol and Luxy… they are so cute. They are so fucking cute I can’t. The dildo noir vid was incredible and I loved it. Although Luxy and Flint would also be very cute. The simultaneous joys and sorrows of being a multi shipper. Anyway everyone have a good choose your own adventure release day to those who celebrate! See you guys later!

[writersrumpus]

COVER REVEAL, TRUCKER KID

COVER REVEAL, TRUCKER KID

Trucker Kid, my sixth book to come into the hands of children, launches on January 1, 2023. Fans of the amazing Nerdy Book Club will recognize this post from August 31st. But I have been blogging with Writers’ Rumpus for about ten years now and wanted to share my cover reveal here, too!   Nerdy Book Club is where my two passions, education and books, come together with like-minded #kidlit folks.…

[badgaymovies]

The Gauntlet (1977)

The Gauntlet by #ClintEastwood starring #SondraLocke, "barely more than the sum of its action bits and Eastwood is surprisingly unimpressive",

CLINT EASTWOOD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB USA, 1977. Warner Bros., The Malpaso Company. Screenplay by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack. Cinematography by Rexford L. Metz. Produced by Robert Daley. Music by Jerry Fielding. Production Design by Allen E. Smith. Costume Design by Glenn Wright. Film Editing by Joel Cox, Ferris Webster. Director and star Clint Eastwood attempts a character who is the…

[lands-of-fantasy]

Titular Women in Live-action Superhero Media

Cathy Lee Crosby as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1975)

Lynda Carter as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1975-79)

Helen Slater as Kara Zor-El / Linda Lee / Supergirl in Supergirl (1984)

Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-97)

Ashley Scott as Helena Kyle / Huntress, Dina Meyer as Barbara Gordon / Oracle, Rachel Skarsten as Dinah Redmond in Birds of Prey (2002-03)

Halle Berry as Patience Phillips / Catwoman in Catwoman (2004)

Jennifer Garner as Elektra Natchios in Elektra (2005)

Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers / Supergirl in Supergirl (2015-21)

Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter in Agent Carter (2015-16)

Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones in Jessica Jones (2015-19)

Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Olivia Holt as Tandy Bowen in Cloak & Dagger (2018-19)*

Evangeline Lily as Hope van Dyne / The Wasp in Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel in Captain Marvel (2019)

Sophie Turner as Jean Grey / Phoenix in X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Ruby Rose as Kate Kane / Batwoman in Batwoman Season 1 (2019-20)

Margot Robbie as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Helena Bertinelli / The Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Dinah Lance / Black Canary, Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

Margot Robbie as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl in Stargirl (2020-22)

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch in WandaVision

Javicia Leslie as Ryan Wilder / Batwoman in Batwoman Season 2–3 (2021-22)

Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane in Superman & Lois (2021-)

Scarlett Johansson Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in Black Widow (2021)

Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop in Hawkeye (2021-?)**

Kaci Walfall as Naomi McDuffie in Naomi (2022)

Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel in Ms. Marvel (2022-?)

Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022-?)

Letitia Wright as Shuri /Black Panther in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel in The Marvels (2023)

Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in Echo (2024-?)*

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*While not directly reffered as such in their shows, "Dagger" and "Echo" are, respectively, Tandy's and Maya's codenames in the comics.

**This also goes for Kate and the "Hawkeye" codename, but in her case the show implies she will use it in the near future with the blessing of Clint Barton (the original Hawkeye, who also stars in the show).