Word: desilu
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...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 in additional income from reruns. Two years after Ball and Arnaz divorced in 1960, he sold his interest in Desilu; he interrupted his retirement to produce pilots for proposed TV series, only...
...seven years since the publication of Lehman's story, Winchell had aged toward a cranky obscurity; if a younger generation remembers him today, it is as the narrator of the Desilu crime series "The Untouchables." Sullivan, Winchell's rival at the Daily News, was a far more potent starmaker on his Sunday night TV show than in his column. All the stars of daily journalism were diminished, because TV had quickly become the primary source of news...