(This date is part two of our series 10 Ways to Change Up Dinner and a Movie ) In 2015, it equalled approximately $2.2 million. I find myself always wondering, what if we could dust things off our shoulders the way Lucy and Ricky do, with a look to the camera and a grimace? That's certainly not the way it would work for me in Lucy's shoes. In the end of the episode, Lucy loses all the money on a single bet. In 1956, the money she lost equalled $250,150. She's lucky for winning the money, unlucky that the money is proof of a broken promise. She had sworn to her husband that she wouldn't step foot in the casino, so she must figure out how to explain the money. ![]() Lucy is always a risk taker, in the casino or otherwise-sometimes lucky, sometimes unlucky. ![]() Something about the scene has always stuck with me. She tosses it on a table in an attempt to return it to whoever dropped it and ends up winning 875,000 francs in roulette. There is an episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy enters an elegant casino in Monte Carlo and finds a single chip on the ground. ![]() Not much better.) However on screen, casinos are refined and glamorous, full of opportunity and daring. I hear now they deposit tickets to be redeemed like an arcade. In real life they smell like stale cigarette smoke, and the quarters clanging out of slot machines rings in your ears for days on end. I am much more of a fan of casinos in the movies than in real life.
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