Lucille Ball Articles
Jerry Lewis, Christopher Hitchens: Unfunny Women, Reactionary Men
While accepting the award for Best Comedy for Bridesmaids at the 2012 Critics Choice Awards ceremony, Judd Apatow ended his speech with the following: "Jerry Lewis [photo] once said that he didn’t think women were funny. So I’d just like to say, with all respect, fuck you." Jerry Lewis' negative comment about female comedians was made at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in [...]
Lucille Ball Movie Schedule: EASY TO WED, THE BIG STREET, PANAMA LADY
Lucille Ball, Easy to Wed Lucille Ball Centennial on TCM: STAGE DOOR, BEST FOOT FORWARD Schedule (ET) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 AM DU BARRY WAS A LADY (1943) A night club employee dreams he's Louis XV, and the star he idolizes is his lady love. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly. C-101 mins. 8:00 AM PANAMA LADY [...]
Lucille Ball Centennial on TCM: STAGE DOOR, BEST FOOT FORWARD
Unlike Robert Taylor, who would have turned 100 today, or Ginger Rogers, whose centennial was last July 16, Lucille Ball is actually going to be remembered on the occasion of what would have been her 100th birthday this Saturday, August 6. Turner Classic Movies' "Summer Under the Stars" series continues with 14 Lucille Ball movies. All of them have been shown before on TCM. [Lucille [...]
Maria Schneider Dies: LAST TANGO IN PARIS, THE PASSENGER
Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria Schneider, best known for her sex scenes with Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), died of cancer earlier today in Paris. Schneider was 58. [Addendum: In a strange coincidence, Lena Nyman, the [...]