PEOPLE can exclusively unveil the replacement statue for “Scary Lucy”, the bronze work of art in the town of Celoron, New York, that made a menacing figure out iconic (and quite beautiful) comedian Lucille Ball.
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A new statue of the queen of comedy will be unveiled this weekend in her a hometown in Celoron, N.Y., and unlike the old one, this one actually looks like the Lucy everyone loves.
Sculptor Carolyn Palmer hopes her tribute will please fans who demanded that another artist’s unflattering version be banished. “Get Rid of this Statue” went viral a year ago.
She worked on the new statue for nine months and studied Ball’s image in depth as it appeared in still photos, all of her movies and last but not least, all the episodes from her ever-popular sit-com from television’s Golden Age, I Love Lucy. A new statue of Ball is being unveiled Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, in the late ac.
Village officials said Poulin’s original tribute to the amusing lady will also remain because it has become such a tourist attraction – but be moved to another part of the park.
“Scary Lucy” is getting a makeover.
Schrecengost knows that might not sit well with the fans who wanted Scary Lucy gone.
Carolyn Palmer’s life-size statue wears a polka-dot dress, and steps forward with her arm on her hip and head held high.
The statue will be unveiled Saturday at noon in the park where Lucy played as a child.
The statue, created by the talented sculptor, Dave Poulin, is not meant to show Lucy when she was at her loveliest, but to show her when she purposefully was trying to look disgusted by the taste of the “health product” she was drinking down.
As you remember, the “Scary Lucy” statue was created in 2009 and created a buzz on social media.
Harder to capture, Palmer said, was Ball’s penchant for wearing “sort of painted-on makeup”, which doesn’t always translate in bronze.
Palmer’s past projects include sculptures of Pope Francis, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Orville and Wilbur Wright, and Thomas Jefferson.
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“I’m a thin-skinned person and artists are sensitive, and I do feel bad for [Poulin]”, Palmer told the Hollywood Reporter.
