Residents of town where Lucille Ball was raised are angry about ugly statue
Resident campaigns to have 'nightmare' statue of Lucille Ball removed
A 400-pound bronze Lucille Ball is making news around the globe faster than you can say "Vitameatavegamin."
The statue was commissioned by two local residents in the western New York village of Celoron, who wanted to honor the legendary comedienne in the town where she was raised, but now a Facebook group formed three years ago calling for the statue's replacement is gaining international attention with articles in the U.K.'s Daily Mail and elsewhere.
The group's owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, is seeking public support for removal of the statue that was created by artist Dave Poulin in 2009, saying it doesn't look anything like Lucille Ball.
"Lucille Ball was one of the most talented, beautiful, funny women who ever appeared on television. A pioneer, a giant of television. My only goal is to have a sculpture of her in Jamestown which does her justice," the Facebook group's owner told us via email.
Jamestown, home to the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum & Center for Comedy, is Ball's birthplace, though she was raised in adjacent Celoron.
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I know a sculptor named Terry Lee (who made six of these statues...
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Terry explained to me how bronze statues are made.
First, build a wire armature that roughly conforms to the shape of the statue. Then cover it with modeling wax and form what you think is the final design of the statue.
Next comes the hard part: Everyone who's got even a little say in the statue has to approve it. (The people who approved the Lucy Ball statue seem to have been hitting on the Vitameatavegamin a bit too hard, but that's an issue for another time.) Figure on this taking two to three months and you having to re-carve a LOT of your statue, especially the face.
Eventually everyone will be happy with your statue. You then crate it, put the crate and another 100 pounds of modeling wax in a truck, and drive the truck to the foundry. When you get it to the foundry, you peel off the crate and patch any damage the statue may have suffered in transit. You have to take photos of the statue at the foundry and send them to its patrons for a very last approval, or the patrons may go to the foundry and check it again.
Then comes the fun part: the foundry cuts your statue into many pieces. (His latest piece is a construction worker, which was cut into fifty pieces.) Each one is made into a mold, the molds are all cast in bronze, and then the pieces are welded together to return the statue to its original form. Then it's aged and varnished before shipping to the customer.
What they should do with this piece is to remove it from view, make a new head that looks like Lucy, change the heads and refinish the statue. Cheaper than a whole new statue and much more effective.
I don't think that thing is salvagable, unless they want to re-make it into a representation of Mrs. Garrett feeding one of her boarding school students some cough medicine, or something....
That just ain't Lucy....
Ricky was very confused.
This statue is wrong on so many levels, the world's worst sculptor should offer to remove this atrocity for free.
I hope the petitioners prevail.
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Looks like something from another planet off a Star Trek episode!
I'm convinced that's the problem.
No. Just no. 
Statue of Lucille Ball terrorizes small town
I Love Lucy served as a cautionary tale of humanity’s capacity for sin—the pride, the avarice, and the envy that could cause an ordinary housewife to chase a showbiz career at the expense of her marriage, with the denial of those selfish dreams transforming her into a wrathful, wailing banshee. It’s a vision of a waking hell that still haunts generations of people, and particularly those who live in Lucille Ball’s hometown of Celoron, New York, where an artist has captured it all in one horrifying statue. And it’s a nightmare from which they’re now begging to be freed.
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...local residents have gathered around a Facebook page called “We Love Lucy! Get Rid of This Statue” to complain about the work from artist Dave Poulin, who sculpted Ball in a scene from the classic “Vitameatavegamin” bit. That episode found Lucy drunk on her own power—and drunk on health tonic—in a way that Poulin has expertly depicted here, with Lucy’s eyes deranged and wild with rapacity, her teeth bared like she would consume your very soul for a spoonful of fame. She also sort of looks like Clint Howard, the most envious of Howard brothers.
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