Tag: Lucy and Desi Before The Laughter

• TV GUIDE

  February 9, 1991 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz appeared posthumously on the cover of the February 9, 1991 issue of TV Guide (issue #1976) in connection with the unauthorized bio-pic “Lucy and Desi: Before The Laughter” airing that week.  Lucie and Desi Jr. felt the film was “biased” while the filmmakers contended it was “truthful”.   The inside article was…

  Michael T. Mooney

  February 9, 2021

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• RIP William Luce

  1931-2019 Luce wrote the Broadway plays THE BELLE OF AMHERST (1976), BARRYMORE (1997), LUCIFER’S CHILD (1991), and LILLIAN (1986) profiling Emily Dickinson, John Barrymore, Isak Dinesen, and Lillian Hellman, respectively.   Based on his experience writing about real life figures, in 1990 he collaborated with Cynthia A. Cherbak to write the screenplay for the TV movie LUCY…

  Michael T. Mooney

  December 10, 2019

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• RIP Reverend Billy Graham (1918-2018) ~ who was mentioned in “Lucy and Johnny Carson” (HL S2;E11). Crashing dinner at the Brown Derby with Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, Lucy Carter confuses a report by Walter Cronkite (left) about campus unrest with “The Tonight Show.”  Lucy then confuses an Ed Sullivan (center) routine about a boxing kangaroo with…

  Michael T. Mooney

  February 21, 2018

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