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Keith Thibodeaux

"Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended."

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Donna Grant

"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."

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Donna Grant

"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."

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Donna Grant

"The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him."

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Donna Grant

"Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended."

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Donna Grant

"My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing."

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Donna Grant

"I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party."

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Donna Grant

"I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough."

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Donna Grant

"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."

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Donna Grant

"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."

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Donna Grant

"One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn't, you knew it, also."

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Keith Thibodeaux
"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."

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