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Lucille Ball

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“You had now her daughter has these hours. She says, I had the chance to listen to some 20 hours of the original interview. She has these tapes of her mom's voice recalling her life story. And so if you go back to the introduction, I think this is really important. This is something I'm trying to work on with my dad because we didn't do this with my mom, unfortunately. You document, you ask some questions, you interview them, you write it down, record it on video, whatever you have to do because it talks about, you know, now my parents are both gone from the daughter's perspective here. And yet she's, I have one of the most remarkable comprehensive family histories ever documented. We just happen to get, we are, you and I are able to read into learn about their family histories. But for most, you know, for most people, it's not going to be the case. But I think this idea is really, really important. Create a comprehensive family history. Do it through writing, do it through audio, do it through video, I think is the idea here.”
2022-02-07 · Founders · #230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And she says, these were not ordinary parents. And then she talks about the bizarre, like just how she can hear her mom, she can watch her mom, but she can't talk to her anymore. And she says, oddly, in some ways, after all these years, life goes on as if they are still here. She's talking about her parents. They're simply off somewhere, on location, perhaps, and unable to get to a phone. And then there's just good writing because she goes on for a little bit about that. And then she goes, and then so many times you wish that they were still here. Even if it was just for a few moments, but you quickly realize that the voices that once could both calm your fears and drive you so crazy are truly silent forever. And so in addition to the manuscript, there's also she did this, she's working with an author that she would basically talk into a recorder. So that's why it sounds like from the first person. And you had the manuscript and”
2022-02-07 · Founders · #230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're not supposed to do. After many decades of being taken advantage of by other people, she bet on herself, she started her own company. She owned her show. She decided to control her own destiny. Not only was that extremely rare for an actor to do that, it was unheard of for a woman to do that at this period of time. If you study the early history of Hollywood, they just looked at his actresses as like a pretty young face that were disposable, that should just do what they're told. Lucy is not the kind of person that's ever going to do what she's told. And as a result, her and in partnership with her husband wind up innovating, they're credited. Think of how crazy this is because we've seen all these people build generational wealth through owning a syndicated sitcom rerun. So think about Jerry Seinfeld, you know, the billions of dollars he's going to make over his life just from reselling his show over and over again. Lucy and Desi are credited as the innovators, the people that invented”
2022-02-07 · Founders · #230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love the way she wrote about her feelings for dad. It was very powerful for me to hear about when she first met him. Some people prolong their unhappiness by dramatizing it, like expecting applause for having a headache. Mom does not do this. Instead of over dramatizing what happened in her life, she seems to be trying to understand what her life is all about. That's what I found most endearing about this autobiography, the way she looked at life, especially regarding her earlier memories and what happened during her most formative years that contributed to the kind of woman, actress, and mother she became. This book gave a much deeper understanding of the pain that she had to assimilate as a child, and the depth of her struggle to achieve the kind of success she eventually did.”
2022-02-07 · Founders · #230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There in a dusty box he uncovered what turned out to be a never before published autobiographical work of our mothers. The package postmarked nineteen sixty six simply said Lucy. The manuscript was written in the first person and seemed to span mom's entire life up to nineteen sixty four. I was stunned. When I read it, I cried. When my brother Desi read the manuscript, he was overcome with emotions. He said I loved it. I loved reading it. There's a wonderful energy that comes through, a fire in her belly. As a young kid, a sense of adventure. Like I want to make some noise. Her connections from the past to the present. I salute her for her ability to think in terms of what did I learn from the past? And there's some great straight from the heart advice.”
2022-02-07 · Founders · #230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source