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...E.D.T.) tests a knowledge of television history so superficial that even the most desultory viewer should score at least a B-plus. It is a multiple-choice TV trivia quiz that is merely trivial. Sample question: What was Lucille Ball's baby's name? 1) Little Desi, 2) Little Lucy, 3) Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What Was Lucy's Baby's Name? | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...every cliche of every spy-adventure film ever made--not to create clever satiric effect, but to provide hoakey chills and thrills. As the corpses pile up, La Cage II becomes less exciting than almost surrealistically weird: watching Tognazzi and Serrault dodge bullets and burly hitmen is like seeing Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in a bad James Bond movie...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Happy Loving Couples | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

BORN. To Lucie Désirée Arnaz, 29, actress (Broadway's They're Playing Our Song) and daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and her husband of six months, Actor Laurence Luckinbill, 46: a son, her first, his third; in Los Angeles. Name: Simon Thomas. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1980 | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

MARRIED. Lucie Désirée Arnaz, 28, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who played a flaky lyricist in the Broadway musical They're Playing Our Song; and Actor Laurence Luckinbill, 45; both for the second time; in Kingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 7, 1980 | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...millions of TV 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1979 | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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