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Q.   Hi Lucie!  I was just curious what your kids interests are......like what kind of music they listen to who's their favorite singer, who's their idol? I'm a teenager also and I was just curious what they liked.

Lucie:  My eldest son, Simon, is a great fan of PHISH -- follows their concerts, collects all their recordings. You can't see what colour his car is because it has so many PHISH stickers on it! He's also a great fan of the Dave Matthews Band. My son Joe listens to rap. The kind I don't get. Very angry and full of curses, but I'm hoping the less I say about it, the quicker it will pass. My daughter, Kate, loves lots of different types of music. We both are fans of N'SYNC. She also loves BLINK182 and Christina Agulara, and she knows every lyric to every top 40 song on Z100 in NYC. She wants to record, I think, someday on her own, and she's starting to take singing very seriously. She has a sweet and very flexible vocal sound. But, hey, I'm a little biased!

Q.   I loved watching the character of Kim Carter develop over the 6 years of Here's Lucy. She was a funny as Lucy Carter, in a different kind of way-- down-to-earth and witty. How much were you, Lucie, and your character Kim, similar and different in real life?

Lucie:  Thanks for the lovely compliment. I'm quite flattered that you thought Kim Carter was that amusing. The writers wrote kind of a stereotypical "teenager" for me in the beginning (because they had no idea what I could do -- neither did I!) but as they saw what I could do with various material, they began to develop a "Kim" style that was very much based upon what they saw "Lucie" do on the set. After the first few seasons, Kim Carter was a lot of fun to play, and yes, I believe she represented the real me fairly well. I'm happy you enjoyed it.

Q.   I understand Lucie loves visiting a place on the eastern shore of Maryland. Can she tell us more about it?

Lucie:  Thank you for asking about my fetish with the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It all started about 3 years ago when two of my favourite people (who used to live in the world's greatest apartment in New York overlooking the East River and the Statue of Liberty!!!) decided to chuck it all and move to a beautiful little "real people" town called Salisbury. They bought and decorated their first home there and invited me and a very small group of our mutual friends to spend the a weekend. I fell in love with the place. We went to Rehoboth, the boardwalk, The Old Crab Mill in Delmar, met the mayor, and floated in the pool while most of the neighbourhood dropped by to say hello.

My pals cooked meals that were out of this world and it was such a wonderful battery charge for all of us, especially me. Away from the hassles of city life, parenting, work and weeding my own back yard -- just laughing for 4 days. Perfection! The same core group has made it an annual trek now, and we're all so proud that we manage to carve out this special time. We braved a hurricane to be there, and risked the wrath of spouses and significant others (who, of course, are not allowed) to keep the flame burning. It's absolute heaven. And Gary Herb...you and Michael have just made us all so happy. We love you.

P.S. Love to Brian, Kathy, Christopher and Emily, the Mayor, Charlotte Buster, and tell Rose I never liked her!

Q.   Lucie-- Thank you so much for taking the time to answer our questions. I was wondering -- Do you have any upcoming speaking engagements or plans to perform your nightclub act? I recently saw your husband in Cabaret and I saw you in Master Class. Are the two of you going to do any theatre projects together?

Lucie:  Thanks for the thanks. This is kind of a treat for me to touch base with some of you, and find out what you're thinking -- what you like, etc. So, it's really my pleasure.

As far as speaking engagements, I only have one coming up between now and the end of this year -- in Lansing, MI (Ingham Regional Medical Centre), speaking about parenting and careers -- a talk I call, "Surviving Success."

My nightclub act is always ready to go, but recently I seem to be concentrating more on theatre again, which is great because it was always my first love. I'm in Los Angeles now, performing from October 8 - 31 in The Musical Theatre of Southern California's pre-Broadway production of Wonderful Town. See Laura's info, or go to www.lucylibrary.com for more info on the same.

Unfortunately, as much as we'd love to continue working together -- my husband and I performed in several Broadway tours and films together when we were first married -- since our children are in school full time, one of us has to be home if the other is working. Maybe in 5-6 more years!

Q.   Hi Lucie! I think this is good what you are doing by answering fans questions it is really nice of you to spend time with this. Here is my question. Do you have any personal favorite I Love Lucys? Also do you ever watch I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, or Here's Lucy with your children and/or husband?

Lucie:  Of course, yours is an unanswerable question. No one can have one favourite of a show that good. I have dozens, and they change constantly. I see one that hasn't been rerun often, and that becomes a favourite. Isn't it great that some things are still dependable -- like I Love Lucy always being there to cheer you up? By now it's probably a Federal crime to cancel the show! Don't you think? There would be a mutiny!

As for watching those shows with my kids or with Larry -- sure. We don't plan it, but if we're together channel surfing and we stumble upon an episode, someone will yell, "Ooh, leave it here!" I'm constantly asking Larry to watch certain episodes of one of my mother's series because he rarely caught any of the originals when then were on. In fact, when I met Larry in 1979, he confessed he'd never even seen I Love Lucy! Maybe that's why our marriage has lasted 20 years!

Q.   Hi Lucie - I was just wondering what the last photo of Lucille Ball was? I know that her last public appearance was at the 1989 Academy Awards but I have always wondered what the last picture of her was.

Lucie:  I have no idea. That's an interesting trivia type question, but, quite honestly, I don't know how you'd ever find out. It was probably some fan photo taken by one of the people hovering around the emergency entrance when she was wheeled in for surgery! You think I'm kidding? That was her life.

If you ever do find out, don't show me. I have the only last photo I need, in my mind, and it's lovely.

Q.   Lucie, I was just wondering if you've ever been to Seattle, Washington?

Lucie:  I played Seattle with Seesaw in 1974, and have been back through on promotional tours, most recently for the Lucy-Desi Scrapbook CD-ROM.

Q.   Dear Lucie, I have been collecting Lucy memorabilia for the past ten years. And it always puts a smile on my face to have a new "Lucy" piece. I was wondering did you or your mother ever do any collecting? And if so, what do you/did she collect?

Lucie:  YES -- SCRAPBOOKS!! She collected 110+ of them, Sherrie. My mother also collected fans (not as in admirers, the kind you hold in your hand to fan yourself in the heat). She used them on the set all the time. She also had a beautiful collection of Limoges china boxes which now sits on a window sill in my bedroom.

I collect birdhouses and dust (mainly on the 110 scrapbooks and samples of licensed memorabilia we are sent constantly).