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...until she was 40 did Lucille Ball become Lucy Ricardo. She was elevated from the ranks of the Ann Millers of the world forever, however, once I Love Lucy premiered in 1951. The show, created by Ball and her husband, bandleader Desi Arnaz, was an instant smash...
Offscreen, the couple's marriage was marred by Arnaz's drinking, gambling and incessant philandering. Ball was forgiving, but the pair finally divorced in 1960. Arnaz proved a poor manager of their joint Desilu production company, while Ball persevered, starring in another top-rated sitcom, The Lucy Show. "There's no way I'm going to stay here and become Mr. Ball," said Arnaz early on. If anyone in this immensely readable book fits the unlikely description of misery-stricken sitcom star...
...novel provides a chronicle of life in America from 1898 to the present and beyond (one of the sisters, a psychic, predicts the cancer-caused death of Fidel Castro in 1995) Hijuelos displays the inventive and playful quality that surfaced in Mambo Kings, which incorporated Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Here, he manages to work in everyone from Teddy Roosevelt and jimmy Carter to Error Flynn and Noel Coward...
...wish Glimcher had given us more music, and performers like Desi Arnaz, Jr. (playing his father) are sometimes bland, but the film remains an extraordinary, agile piece of work. It is a positive and sensitive portrayal of the immigrant Cuban culture, and the music reigns supreme throughout. This movie, as Celia Cruz would say, is pure "Azucar...
...movie's Mambo Kings become famous in the mid-'50s for one hit album, some saucy nightclub gigs and a fleeting appearance on the I Love Lucy show (reconstructed here with artfully interpolated footage of the brothers, Lucille Ball and, standing in for his dad, Desi Arnaz Jr.). But theirs is a ^ story of wanting, not necessarily getting. In Cynthia Cidre's witty, synoptic screenplay, The Mambo Kings becomes a parable about the intoxication of dreaming of success; it's The Commitments with a Cuban accent...