Ball of Fire (53 page)

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———. “Lucille Ball Reports Gains at Desilu.” August 21, 1963.

———. “Desi Charged with Assault After Firing a Gun at Several Youths.” September 1, 1966.

———. “Gulf & Western to Buy Desilu; Lucille Ball to Stay as President.” February 15, 1967, 59, 65.

———. “Gulf & Western Plans to Sell Part of Desilu.” July 26, 1967.

———. “Lucille Ball to Return to Fall Series on ABC.” March 8, 1986.

———. “ABC Drops Lucille Ball and Ellen Burstyn.” November 8, 1986, 50.

———. Editorial: “We All Love Lucy.” April 27, 1989.

———. “A Star Who Stays in the Shade.” May 26, 1994, 36, 89, 91.

New York Times Magazine.
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———. “Lucy Becomes President.” December 9, 1960.

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New York Times,
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———. Review: “Lucille Ball Plays a Bag Lady on CBS.”
New York Times,
November 5, 1985, sec. C, p. 21.

———. Review: “Lucille Ball Returns in ABC Comedy Series.”
New York Times,
September 22, 1986.

———. “Women Who Have Made Viewers Giggle and Roar.”
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Palm Beach Post.
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Palm Springs Life.
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———. “He Said, She Said.” March 27, 1994.

———. Review of
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People.
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———. “Fan Review.” March 4, 1985.

———. “TV’s Rerun Madness.” March 4, 1985.

———. “Top 25 Stars—Lucille Ball.” May 4, 1989.

———. “Lucy: The Life Behind the Laughter.” August 14, 1989.

———. “Casting a New Lucy.” August 6, 1990.

———. “Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter.” September 3, 1990.

———. “The Untold Story of Lucy & Desi.” February 18, 1991.

———. “The Greatest Love Stories of the Century.” February 12, 1993.

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Peterson, Peter. “So Why Love Lucy?”
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Phillips, Louis. “A Summer Spent Watching Lucille Ball Perform.”
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Phillips, Sidney. “Desi Arnaz Took His Show on the Military Road.”
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Phoenix
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———. “The Bouncing Ball.” September 1946.

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”
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Pittsburg Post–Gazette.
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Press–Enterprise
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———. “Question and Answer: Lucy with Gary Morton.” July 10, 1988.

———. “The Fans Show They Love Lucy.” April 20, 1989.

———. “Specific Diseases That Killed Lucy.” April 24, 1989.

———. “How We Loved Lucy.” April 27, 1989.

———. “Lucille Ball Dies.” April 27, 1989.

———. “Entertainment Briefs: Fans Visit Sidewalk Star to Mark Lucy’s Passing.” May 2, 1989.

———. “Lucy and Gary in 1987.” November 5, 1995.

Providence
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Reed, Rex. “Lucy: I Ran My Studio Like My Home.”
New York Times,
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———. “Lucy the Lioness: Steely Pride on Those Journeys.”
Chicago Tribune,
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———. “Secret History: Seeing Red.”
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Riggs, Robert. “Where’s Ricky Ricardo’s Hollywood?”
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Robertson, Nan. “Will Broadway Love Lucy?”
New York Times,
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Roeper, Richard. “Women Couldn’t Get Arrested for Inciting a Laugh Riot.”
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Rosenberg, Howard. “Hard to Sit Long for
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”
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Rosenfield, Paul. “Lucy on the Platter of Honor.”
Los Angeles Times,
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———. “Compulsively Lucy.”
Los Angeles Times,
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New York Herald Tribune,
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San Antonio
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San Francisco Chronicle.
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———. “Desi Denies ‘Confidential Affair’: Call Girl Names Desi Arnaz in
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———. “
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———. “Lucy Divorcing Desi: ‘I Just Can’t Go On.’ ” March 4, 1960, 1, 5.

———. “Lucy Tells Judge Desi Was a ‘Jekyll and Hyde.’ ” May 5, 1960, 7.

———. “Lucy’s Childhood Home for Sale on EBay.” February 27, 2002.

Sann, Paul. “Lucy on Breakup.”
New York Post,
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Schallert, Edwin. “Bromfield Seeks Desi Arnaz as Star—Hopes to Lure Brigitte Bar-dot.”
Los Angeles Times,
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”
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Cosmopolitan,
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Express,
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Shales, Tom. Review: “Lukewarm Lucy: A Bag Lady in CBS
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”
Washington
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———. “Lucy Coming to Life: At 75 TV’s Definitive Star Is Back at the Grind.”
WashingtonPost,
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———. “The Laughter Lucy Gave Us Helps Us Wash Away the Tears.”
Press–
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———. “Funny Women: The Ball Epoch.” Washington Post, October 24, 1991, sec. C, p. 1.

———. “Lucy & Baba-luminous.”
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Ladies’ Home Journal,
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Los Angeles Times,
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Shirley, Paula W. “Reading Desi Arnaz in The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.” Melus [Storrs, Conn.] (September 1, 1995): 20.

Siegel, Lee. “Disease That Hit Lucy Can Be Among the Most Painful Known.”
Press–Enterprise
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Silvian, Leonore. “Laughing Lucille.”
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Siskel, Gene. “Tired Lucy: A Redhead Whose Dander Is Up.”
Chicago Tribune,
March 13, 1974, sec. 2, pp. 1, 2.

———. “Put the Blame on
Mame,
Boys.”
Chicago Tribune,
April 1, 1974, sec. 2, p. 10.

Smith, Cecil. “Lucy to Meet Stiff Foe: Her Movie.”
Los Angeles Times,
November 4, 1973.

———. “Curtain Rings Down Lucy Show After Record 23 Years.”
Los Angeles Times,
February 27, 1974.

———. “The Long Shots of Desi Arnaz.”
Los Angeles Times,
March 4, 1976, sec. 4, p. 2.

———. “They Still Love Lucy.”
Los Angeles Times,
May 23, 1977, sec. 4, p. 13.

———. “A Walking History of TV.”
Los Angeles Times,
November 21, 1977, sec. 4, p. 14.

———. “Lucy: Truly a Child of the Tube.”
Los Angeles Times,
January 3, 1980, sec. 6, p. 16.

———. “Looking Back on Life with Lucy.”
Los Angeles Times,
October 14, 1981, Calendar section.

Smith, Dinitia. “The Newest Wasserstein Creation Comes Home.”
New York Times,
December 23, 1999.

Sokolsky, Bob. “I Love Lucy: Television’s Queen of Comedy Will Share Some Memories from Her Best Years.”
Press–Enterprise
[Riverside, Calif.], November 2, 1985.

———. “Amidst Laughter, Few Tears, Audience Still Loves Lucy.”
Press–Enterprise
[Riverside, Calif.], November 4, 1985.

———. “The Arnaz Way.”
Desert Sun
[Palm Springs], December 4, 1986.

———. “She’ll Always Be Lucy.”
Press–Enterprise
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Stack, Mary. Guardian Women: “As the Women Said After Smoking the Ashes of Her Husband.” Guardian [Manchester, U.K.], October 19, 1984.

Starr, Shannon. “Celebrities Starred in Parade.”
Press–Enterprise
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Stoop, Norma McLain. “Here’s Lucy as ‘Mame.’ ”
After Dark
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Sun–Times
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Taubman, H. Review of
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Thomas, Kevin. “Second Thoughts: A Miscarriage.”
Los Angeles Times,
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Thompson, Carolyn. “Travel News: Jamestown Has Even More Lucy to Love.”
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Thompson, Thomas. “Lucy—Having a Ball at 62.”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
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Time.
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June 20, 1934.

———. Review of
Too Many Girls.
November 11, 1940.

———. “Sassafrassa the Queen.” May 26, 1952.

———. “The New Tycoon.” April 7, 1958.

———. People. March 14, 1960.

Times Union [Albany, N.Y.] “And No, the Mertzes Didn’t Own It.” March 5, 2002.

Toronto Star.
“Lucille Ball’s Bag Lady Has Her Funny Moments.” November 1, 1985, sec. D, p. 22.

TV Guide.
“Lucy the Lecturer.” October 31, 1959.

———. “A Visit with Lucille Ball.” July 18, 1960.

———. Review of
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1967.

———. “
I
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50 Funniest Moments.” October 13, 2001, 18–40, 67.

———. “50 Greatest Shows of All Time.” May 4, 2002, 22.

———. “50 Greatest TV Guide Covers.” June 15, 2002, 14.

———. “In Jamestown, New York, They Love Lucy.” July 6–12, 2002, 28.

———. “50 Worst Shows of All Time.” July 20, 2002, 20.

TV Stage.
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Unger, Arthur. “Lucille Ball as a Bag Lady?”
Christian Science Monitor,
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U.S. News & World Report. “Comedienne Lucille Ball on the Mess in Television Land.” September 26, 1977, 88.

———. “Lucy Has Grown Up a Lot.” September 22, 1986.

USA Today Magazine.
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Valentine, Leslie. “Lucy Today: Her Life of Love, Luck & Loneliness.”
Photoplay,
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Variety.
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———. “Harry Finstein (Parkyakarkus).” November 16, 1958.

———. “When in Trouble Call ‘Lucy.’ ” November 19, 1958.

———. “Parkyakarkus Fatally Stricken.” November 25, 1958.

———. “Martin Leeds Exits Desilu.” September 28, 1960.

———. “Shows on Broadway
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” December 21, 1960.

———. “Lucy Continues to Recover from Surgery.” April 26–May 2, 1989.

———. “Tribute to Lucille Ball.” May 3–9, 1989.

Vejnoska, Jill. “Lucy Lives On.”
Atlanta Journal–Constitution,
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