Word: arnaz
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...writer who helped define the seminal '50s sitcom I Love Lucy; in Los Angeles. Carroll and partner Madelyn Pugh were the first permanent writers hired for Lucille Ball's 1940s radio show My Favorite Husband--the precursor to the TV hit starring Ball and real-life husband Desi Arnaz. Carroll, who later wrote for The Lucy Show and Life with Lucy, went on to write for every I Love Lucy episode...
DIED. Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-born actor, bandleader and innovative TV producer, best known for playing Harried Husband Ricky Ricardo in television's phenomenally successful series I Love Lucy (1951-59); of lung cancer; in Del Mar, Calif. Fleeing Cuba after the revolution of 1933, he formed a Latin dance band, making his film debut in Too Many Girls (1940), where he met and married his leading lady Lucille Ball. While co-starring with her in Lucy, he headed their production studio, Desilu, pioneering in the use of film for TV programs. The approach preserved Lucy and other shows, resulting...
...Desi Arnaz, Freddie Prinze y yo", dice George L?pez, "pertenecemos a un club que s?lo tiene tres miembros". Suena arrogante, pero es cierto. Desde 1951 y hasta la fecha, los tres comediantes han interpretado roles principales en las ?nicas series televisivas en cadenas americanas cuyos protagonistas son hispanos...
...know about vitameatavegemin. You know about the consuming romance and contentious breakup with Desi Arnaz. You know about the glory years of I Love Lucy and the slow slide into irrelevance with a string of Lucy knock-offs. But I'll bet you didn't know this about Lucille Ball: "She once took an open-cockpit plane up in weather 20 below freezing to effect the rescue of a schoolboy...
...TIME editor, presents her, Ball does fit one show-biz type well: the star whose early troubles (father dies young, family suffers financial ruin) fed an insecurity and need to please that paradoxically emboldened her to take risks. But as important as her talent and drive, Kanfer shows, was Arnaz, who handled her business savvily and smoothed over her tendency to bully co-stars and crew (though he also made her miserable with his boozing and philandering...