``I Loved Lucy: My Friendship with Lucille Ball'' by Lee Tannen an Insider's Memories of America's Comic Legend.Entertainment, Lifestyle & Book Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2001 Fifty years ago, on Oct. 15, 1951, "I Love Lucy I Love Lucy is a television situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, also featuring Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on CBS (181 episodes, including the "lost" Christmas episode and original " hit the airwaves on CBS-TV. But for author Lee Tannen, the zany redhead was much more than just a TV character. For him, being best buddies with America's favorite comedienne, Lucille Ball, meant having both his backgammon backgammon (băk`găm'ən, băk'găm`ən), game of chance and skill played by two persons upon a specially marked board divided by a space, called the bar, into two tables (inner table and outer table), each of which has 12 skills and his comical retort honed to perfection Adv. 1. to perfection - in every detail; "the new house suited them to a T" just right, to a T, to the letter ! "I Loved Lucy: My Friendship with Lucille Ball" (St. Martin's St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to:
Said Lucille Ball's daughter, Lucie Arnaz: "What ... a wonderful, `look through the key-hole' at this very unique and complicated woman ... It had me in tears. Good tears!" Few people knew America's comic sweetheart, Lucille Ball, the way Lee Tannen did. Lee first met Lucy as a child, but cemented their close and enduring friendship as an adult. During the last years of Lucy's life, mostly lived out of the spotlight, Lee became Lucy's confidant in her Beverly Hills and Palm Springs hideaways and on his home turf in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . "I Loved Lucy" is an intimate portrait of a woman whose public face is all too well known. For the first time, we get a glimpse of what it was really like to be with Lucy, the way she truly was and the way she chose to live. Lee finally reveals how Lucy was like -- and not like -- her television alter ego A doctrine used by the courts to ignore the corporate status of a group of stockholders, officers, and directors of a corporation in reference to their limited liability so that they may be held personally liable for their actions when they have acted fraudulently or unjustly or when . He describes what it was like to be fed lunch by Lucy (awful) and how it felt to be her escort to the White House for the Kennedy Center Honors The Kennedy Center Honors are held to be the highlight event in the cultural life of the United States. The idea was the brainchild of George Stevens, Jr. (who remains involved), and he and his partner, the late Nick Vanoff, put together the first event, launching it in 1978. (wonderful). Not to mention their adventures on the ski slopes in Snowmass; in a balcony at the movies in Manhattan; and endless afternoons reminiscing over Lucy's beloved custom-made backgammon tables. This is Lucy as you've never seen her or known her before, a rich and personal portrait that can only add to our love of the legend. On Oct. 15, Lee Tannen will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the "I Love Lucy" TV series with an autograph signing at Barnes & Noble, 66th and Broadway, in New York City. |
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