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What is “We Love Lucy”?

“We Love Lucy” is a documentary short detailing the legacy and lasting fanbase of Lucille Ball and “I Love Lucy.” We follow Judith Edlund’s relationship with the sitcom from a young age, and through her tell a story involving the ways in which “I Love Lucy” impacted her growing up. We go on to tell the stories of other people who were greatly impacted by “I Love Lucy,” and ultimately try to understand the magic behind a show that has lasted so far beyond it’s time.

Who They Are?

Judith Edlund
Director & Fellow Lucy Fanatic
Judith Edlund is a Chicago and New York based actor. Her New York debut was in Stephen Brown-Fried’s production of O restes at The New School for Drama. Her artistic career defies what a traditional actor would do. She is a fashion enthusiast and photographer. She is currently the Marketing and Social Media Coordinator for startup Fashion Company called DENIMRUSH. Judith has trained professionally for the last ten years in both Chicago and New York. She attended The Chicago Academy for the Arts – a private performing arts high school where she specialized in theatre. During her time in high school she was very active within the theatre community in the city. Her junior year she was apart of The Cindy Bandle Young Critics Program at The Goodman Theatre. The following summer she attended the General Theatre Studies Program for 6 weeks culminating in a devised theater piece called “Remixing The March.” Her senior year of high school she was invited to be a member of The Goodman Youth Arts Council. She also interned at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the entire 9 months of her senior year.
In 2014, she made the big move to New York City to pursue her BFA in Dramatic Arts with a focus in Acting at The New School for Drama. While earning her BFA, she has also been working hard towards her two minors at Parsons New School for Design in both Fashion Communications and Photography. She is expected to graduate with her undergraduate degree in the spring of 2018. Meanwhile she is working towards her Masters in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship at The New School College of Performing Arts.

Jessica Ashleigh Pomeroy
Production Manager
Jessica Ashleigh Pomeroy is an NYC-Based Director/Producer, currently studying for her BFA at The New School for Drama in NYC.
Recent credits include: S trange Things Done (by Liam Broadhurst) – an NYC premiere, and Kid Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh (Asst. to Sherri Eden Barber).
In January, Jessica will be interning with the PROTOTYPE Musical Theatre and Opera festival in NYC.

To see photos of the documentary being shot in my house click this link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17Iq_DM_E_rNoJTaQ-5nqwUOV0DiKdfek?usp=sharing

My “little Ricky” pussy cat went to the vet today. In the past he’s been diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism and Asthma. Everything’s under control. This was just a checkup today. Blood was taken so to check levels and stuff like that. He has lost weight since the last time he was at the vet. In fact, today he weighed 10.6 lbs. Last July, 2017 he was 13.4 lbs and in January of 2017, he was 14 lbs. His eating habits seemed to slow down a bit. I can’t tell if he doesn’t like the food I give him or if he’s just not hungry. He seems to be hungry all the time but doesn’t necessarily eat everything I give him. I will open cans of Fancy Feast food and give him some until I find one he likes. Then I would go to the store and get several cans of that particular kind when all of a sudden the next day he would sniff it and walk away. Don’t know what to do with him. I also microwave the food for a few seconds just to heat it slightly to make the smell to him more enticing. This works most of the time. As for him taking his pill with every meal… he will sometimes leave the pill in the pocket on the plate with the food and other times he would eat the pill pocket without the pill. I would later find the pill sitting there on his plate. Then I would have to feed him the pill by hand. I’d say he gets this pill 95% of the time he’s supposed to.

Dr. Slovan will call in a few days and let me know what the blood work shows. I will update here.

Feb. 3 – Just heard from the Vet. All of Ricky’s levels are in the normal high. That’s how he put it. So there is nothing showing any abnormality in his blood work. Liver function and kidneys and all that are just fine. Just got to get him to eat better. That’s all.

The front cover designed by Krista Dedrick Lai. You can order the book from Amazon by clicking here.

Neat huh?

In an amused tone, Kaplan offers gentle science fiction that is sympathetic to the human condition. The first chapter, “Escapade,” features Gomer and Muriel Ackerman, a retro couple in the mid-21st Century who are searching for old-fashioned values such as privacy in a twentieth-century settlement but do not get what they bargained for. In “A Dementia Returnee,” their friend Virginia becomes one of the first people cured of dementia but who runs into an unexpected detour to complete health. Later in the book, Gomer’s wife dies and he seeks consolation from a custom-designed robot that satisfies in some ways and does not in others. In the last chapter, Muriel’s grandniece Beatriz discovers extraterrestrials in another solar system who must be stingy with words in order to survive. If you too are a curiosity seeker, you will find yourself with kindred spirits within this collection of interrelated stories.

Here’s the part I like…. I designed the text on the back cover. Notice my name on the bottom after the cover artist? Oh, you can get the book from Amazon by clicking here. And you can read all about the cover artist, Krista Dedrick Lai. Now, I should go read the book!

About Karen Kaplan…

Biography
Karen B. Kaplan has an unusual background for a science fiction writer: she a hospice chaplain and instructor of English as a Second Language. She has always wanted to write sci-fi with a compassionate touch, rather than portray the wars writ large and nasty robots found in dystopian scenarios. In her most recent book, Curiosity Seekers, Kaplan cooks up a blend of irony and an exploration of spiritual values such as privacy and the need to be heard. She enjoys surprising and entertaining readers by finding humor in the most unexpected places. In one of these interrelated stories, a grieving man tries to circumvent his grief by ordering up a robot that looks and acts like his wife. But complications ensue when her sexuality as well as other traits differ from the “original” mate.

While serving hospices in New Jersey and New York for seven years, Kaplan visited over 4,000 patients and their families from all walks of life. That is when she wrote her first book, Encountering The Edge: What People Told Me Before They Died. Even in the context of hospice Kaplan is always alert to quirky anecdotes. “I always have an eye out for it,” she says. “I remember a funeral where the deceased’s niece looked at the grave and said, ‘Auntie, you sure have been fussy about apartments. But you’d better be satisfied with this one, because it’s gonna be your very last.’” When she was ordained in 1992, she became one of the first 200 female rabbis worldwide and earned board certification as a healthcare chaplain in 2007.

To follow Kaplan’s most recent writing see her blog, Offbeatcompassion or follow her @chaplainkkaplan. She would love your suggestions for her next science fiction adventure.