Word: arnaz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viewers as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's best friend and neighbor, on the long running and even longer rerunning show I Love Lucy; of cancer; in Belvedere, Calif. A star in Broadway musicals, the Kansas-born blond was in semiretirement when recruited by Ball and Desi Arnaz to play Ethel-the role she played from 1951 to 1956. "After a while," she said, "you're not sure who you are-Ethel Mertz or Vivian Vance." When cast as Lucy's sidekick on the 1960s The Lucy Show, Vance insisted that her character be called Vivian...
Cowan spent his summer vacations running around the West Coast, meeting Elvis Presley, Donna Reed and eating dinner with Desi Arnaz at the Brown Derby. (I'll bet he didn't even order the cobb salad.) "Probably none of this should have impressed me," Cowan says. But it has. Although the book is no defense of his now-dead parents, it is tinged with their memories. If anything comes out of all this, its that Cowan doesn't really care about the structure of the network system. He'd rather gossip in gory detail about the promotional practices...
...show is very New Yorky in mood, with an opening backdrop of the Manhattan skyline that is like a bas-relief of tinseled Christmas trees. A top-name pop composer. Vernon Gersch (Robert Klein), surveys the scene from his luxury apartment where he first meets Sonia Walsk (Lucie Arnaz), an aspiring lyricist much in awe of his success. When she picks up his solid-gold Oscar, she is astonished: "They're lighter than I thought!" Quips Vernon: "They're chocolate inside...
This becomes believable because the personalities of Klein and Arnaz are so appealing that you root for them. Klein has a flair for light comedy that is mightily infectious, and he commands the stage like a pirate sweeping a deck. Arnaz matches his strength, and she sings her lyrics in-depth with Streisand's gift for matching feeling with meaning. She hurdles the barricade of being the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz by imitating neither, but she has inherited their incomparable comic timing...
...Lucie Arnaz is a chip off the old carrottop. The daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lucie, 27, graduated from playing her mother's daughter on Ball's TV show Here's Lucy to leads onstage and in films. She has also published some song lyrics and seemed the natural choice to play the lyricist to Actor Robert Klein's songwriter in Neil Simon's new play, They're Playing Our Song. So Simon said after trying out 300 other actresses for the role. The critics agreed when the comedy opened...