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I Loved Lucy: My Friendship With Lucille Ball by Lee Tannen (2001, Hardcover)
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Focusing on the last 10 or so years of her life, this memoir tells of the author's time with the famed comedienne. Tannen reveals how, despite physical and professional setbac...Read more
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What Becomes Lucy Best! "I Loved Lucy"
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I Loved Lucy: My Friendship With Lucille Ball by Lee Tannen (2001, Hardcover)
Author: Lee TannenPublisher: St Martin's PrLanguage: English
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Focusing on the last 10 or so years of her life, this memoir tells of the author's time with the famed comedienne. Tannen reveals how, despite physical and professional setbacks, Ball was both like and very unlike her television persona. Includes photographs.
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A close friend of the famous comedic actress shares a memoir of the TV star, focusing on the last decade of her life, recalling games of backgammon, conversations with Desi, and details of the houses in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs.
At last, an insider's view of the "lost" Lucy years....
Focusing on the last 10 or so years of her life, this memoir tells of the author's time with the famed comedienne. Tannen reveals how, despite physical and professional setbacks, Ball was both like and very unlike her television persona. Includes photographs.
| Key Details | |
| Author: | Lee Tannen |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Pr |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: | 0312287534 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780312287535 |
| Additional Details | |
| Edition Number: | 1 |
| Size | |
| Length: | 239 pages |
| Thickness: | 1 in |
| Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
A close friend of the famous comedic actress shares a memoir of the TV star, focusing on the last decade of her life, recalling games of backgammon, conversations with Desi, and details of the houses in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs.
At last, an insider's view of the "lost" Lucy years....
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 ten years of Lucy's life-years mostly lived out of the spotlight--Lee became Lucy's confidante in her Beverly Hills and Palm Springs hideaways traveled with her and entertained her on his turf in New York City.
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, which was based on a persona well-developed over years in show business. 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 (wonderful). Not to mention their adventures on the ski slopes in Snowmass 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.
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What Becomes Lucy Best! "I Loved Lucy"
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) Thank You Lee Tanen for allowing us to take such a personal journey next to My all time favorite comedy Icon. Your book took us to personal places that Lucy almost never showed to her public.
As a Lucy fan and L.A. resident, I was able to visit 1000 N. Roxburry Drive at Lexigton many, many times...as a fan. Being one of the millions who either passed by bus, drove by with Movie star map in hand, or even stopped and Hopped over her wall Ala Lucy.
Though I never got to meet Lucy, I seemed to know as a kid that she was an actress. Maybe because I grew up in L.A. and had an early understanding of film making. We had family members who were at one time working in sevral of the studios. So I knew what she did was work. This secured a solid work ethic in me, and I later went to work in Hand Props. working for Desilu's last propmaster Alen LaVine.
I was 8 I think when Dad took me to the Hollywood priemere of "MAME" at the Cinerama Dome on Sunset blvd. We arrived late, and Dad never told me what we were going to see. I never knew that my favorite Red Head was already there enjoyig the movie...I was too young to understand. Ever since then I watched everything Lucy did. I learned who she could be, and beleived it.
My point is this book shows us the Lucy we all thaught we knew. The reality may be that Lucy loved us back sooo much that she allowed us to keep a personal concept of her. Our sister, our daughter,our wife, our first crush, our first flirt, our first gut laugh, our first dashed dream, she allowed us her persona, and was left to lead a life next to herself. Being fully aware that she was THE most recognised woman in the world. Lucille Ball gifted us as Lucy, but Lucy robbed us of Lucille Ball.
Lee's words paint a vivid picture of What Lucy was. So much has been written that simply relys on rehashed words. All original is all I can lable this as.
The descriptions you give of her Beverly Hills Home braught me to tears as I have passed it hundreds of times touring visiting relitivs and friends. The Garden of Paradice, and the pool room, the lani, the green and yellow and blues as decore, it all shows us that Lucy lived in her own time and no one elses. Lucy's ego dictated that you love her, and at the same time Ms. Ball's gratitude could not be more evident. Her love buffered much of her misguided hostilities, unless you chose not to see it.
Thank You again lee for keeping it real, and reminding the reader of Lucy's death throughout the book...it keeps things in perspective, and prepared me for the enevitable, your loss of a dear friend.
I cryed in a couple of spots, but balled at the end. Mostly I laughed my ass off. I couldnt put it down and demand to read anything that was cut out.
READ THIS BOOK!
sernatek@yahoo.com
As a Lucy fan and L.A. resident, I was able to visit 1000 N. Roxburry Drive at Lexigton many, many times...as a fan. Being one of the millions who either passed by bus, drove by with Movie star map in hand, or even stopped and Hopped over her wall Ala Lucy.
Though I never got to meet Lucy, I seemed to know as a kid that she was an actress. Maybe because I grew up in L.A. and had an early understanding of film making. We had family members who were at one time working in sevral of the studios. So I knew what she did was work. This secured a solid work ethic in me, and I later went to work in Hand Props. working for Desilu's last propmaster Alen LaVine.
I was 8 I think when Dad took me to the Hollywood priemere of "MAME" at the Cinerama Dome on Sunset blvd. We arrived late, and Dad never told me what we were going to see. I never knew that my favorite Red Head was already there enjoyig the movie...I was too young to understand. Ever since then I watched everything Lucy did. I learned who she could be, and beleived it.
My point is this book shows us the Lucy we all thaught we knew. The reality may be that Lucy loved us back sooo much that she allowed us to keep a personal concept of her. Our sister, our daughter,our wife, our first crush, our first flirt, our first gut laugh, our first dashed dream, she allowed us her persona, and was left to lead a life next to herself. Being fully aware that she was THE most recognised woman in the world. Lucille Ball gifted us as Lucy, but Lucy robbed us of Lucille Ball.
Lee's words paint a vivid picture of What Lucy was. So much has been written that simply relys on rehashed words. All original is all I can lable this as.
The descriptions you give of her Beverly Hills Home braught me to tears as I have passed it hundreds of times touring visiting relitivs and friends. The Garden of Paradice, and the pool room, the lani, the green and yellow and blues as decore, it all shows us that Lucy lived in her own time and no one elses. Lucy's ego dictated that you love her, and at the same time Ms. Ball's gratitude could not be more evident. Her love buffered much of her misguided hostilities, unless you chose not to see it.
Thank You again lee for keeping it real, and reminding the reader of Lucy's death throughout the book...it keeps things in perspective, and prepared me for the enevitable, your loss of a dear friend.
I cryed in a couple of spots, but balled at the end. Mostly I laughed my ass off. I couldnt put it down and demand to read anything that was cut out.
READ THIS BOOK!
sernatek@yahoo.com
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