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———. “Desilu Appoints Director.” March 22, 1963.

———. “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.
“Desi Paid Hush Money;
Confidential
Scandal.” August 13, 1957.

———. “Lucy Becomes President.” December 9, 1960.

O’Connor, John J. Review of “A Lucille Ball Special, Starring Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason.”
New York Times,
December 3, 1975, 90–91.

———. 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.”
New York Times,
October 24, 1991, sec. C, p. 22.

Oppenheimer, Jess. “Lucy’s Two Babies.”
Look,
April 21, 1953.

Osborne, Robert. “Lucy Festgoers Should Love Forgotten Ball-Arnaz Movie.”
HollywoodReporter,
August 7, 2001.

Ostrow, Joanna. “Lucy Without Laughs; Comedienne Ball Stars as Bag Lady.”
Bergen
Record,
November 3, 1985, Lifestyle section.

Palm Beach Post.
Interview with Bea Arthur. December 11, 2001.

Palm Springs Life.
“Love Lucy.” January 1997.

Parade Magazine
[Los Angeles]. “Collector’s Item: Lucille Ball.” June 4, 1989.

———. “He Said, She Said.” March 27, 1994.

———. Review of
Hollywood Babble On,
by Boze Hadleigh. March 27, 1994.

Parnell, Tony. “Last Night’s View: Lovable Lucy Has Last Laugh.” London
Daily Mirror,
November 21, 2001.

Pegler, Westbrook. As Pegler Sees It: “The Case of Lucille Ball and How to Treat Reds.”
New York Journal–American,
September 22, 1953.

People.
“Ask Her Anything About Desi Sr., Divorce, Drugs, Gay Rights—Lucille Ball Hasn’t Become Bashful.” February 11, 1980.

———. “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.

———. “Readers Poll of Personalities and Their Impact 1974–1994 [inset on Lucy].” November 1, 1993.

Peterson, Peter. “So Why Love Lucy?”
Daily Mail
[London], November 23, 2001.

Phillips, Louis. “A Summer Spent Watching Lucille Ball Perform.”
Journal of Popular
Culture
17 (Fall 1983): 99.

Phillips, Sidney. “Desi Arnaz Took His Show on the Military Road.”
Desert Sun
[Palm Springs], December 10, 1986.

Phoenix
[Ariz.]
New Times.
“Frankie with the Snarling Face.” May 28, 1998.

Photoplay.
“Stop Crying.” February 1942.

———. “The Bouncing Ball.” September 1946.

Pisetzner, Joel. “Life of a Glad Bag Lady; Lucille Ball in
Stone Pillow.

Bergen Record,
November 1, 1985, Lifestyle section.

Pittsburg Post–Gazette.
“Bad Movies We Love. How to Ring in the New Year with a Festival of Flops.” December 31, 1993, Entertainment, p. 2.

Pollio, Mark. “Fans of Lucy Have a Ball During Auction.”
Buffalo News,
May 29, 1994.

Press–Enterprise
[Riverside, Calif.]. “Lucy’s Appearance at Claremont College.” November 2, 1985.

———. “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
[Rhode Island]
Journal.
“For Sale: Lucille Ball Childhood Home.” March 23, 2002.

Reed, Rex. “Lucy: I Ran My Studio Like My Home.”
New York Times,
October 8, 1967.

———. “Lucy the Lioness: Steely Pride on Those Journeys.”
Chicago Tribune,
February 17, 1974, sec. 2, p. 18.

———. “Secret History: Seeing Red.”
Talk
[New York], June/July 2000, 114.

Riggs, Robert. “Where’s Ricky Ricardo’s Hollywood?”
Los Angeles Times,
January 7, 1983, sec. 2, p. 7.

Robertson, Nan. “Will Broadway Love Lucy?”
New York Times,
December 11, 1960.

Roeper, Richard. “Women Couldn’t Get Arrested for Inciting a Laugh Riot.”
Sun–Times
[Chicago], March 31, 2000.

Roraback, Dick. Review of
Lucy & Ricky & Fred & Ethel,
by Bart Andrews.
Los Angeles
Times,
November 28, 1976.

Rosen, Jay. “
Love
Boat
Goes to College.”
Channels
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Rosenberg, Howard. “Hard to Sit Long for
Stone Pillow.

Los Angeles Times,
November 5, 1985, sec. 6, p. 9.

Rosenfield, Paul. “Lucy on the Platter of Honor.”
Los Angeles Times,
November 7, 1977, sec. 4, p. 13.

———. “Compulsively Lucy.”
Los Angeles Times,
October 12, 1986, Calendar section.

Ross, Don. “Oil on Broadway; Lucy on the Trail.”
New York Herald Tribune,
December 1, 1960.

San Antonio
Express.
“Love of Lucy Keeps Fans Laughing, Buying.” July 15, 1997.

San Francisco Chronicle.

Confidential
Case: Trial Jury Told of Gable ‘Affair,’ He Issues Denial.” August 13, 1957, 1, 6.

———. “Desi Denies ‘Confidential Affair’: Call Girl Names Desi Arnaz in
Confidential
Trial.” August 14, 1957, 1, 4.

———. “
Confidential
’s Lurid Stories Read to Jury.” August 15, 1957, 1, 4.

———. “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,
May 8, 1960.

Schallert, Edwin. “Bromfield Seeks Desi Arnaz as Star—Hopes to Lure Brigitte Bar-dot.”
Los Angeles Times,
October 14, 1957.

Schwarzbaum, Lisa. Review: “Ball and Chain Lucy, the Outrageous Queen of Comedy, Unfortunately Tethers to Mannered, Ladylike Pattern in
Love, Lucy.

Entertainment Weekly,
September 27, 1996.

Scott, John A. “How to Be a Success in Show Business.”
Cosmopolitan,
November 1958, 67.

Selway, Jennifer. “On Last Night’s TV—Lucille Ball.”
Express,
November 23, 2001.

Shales, Tom. Review: “Lukewarm Lucy: A Bag Lady in CBS
Stone Pillow.

Washington
Post,
November 5, 1985, Style section.

———. “Lucy Coming to Life: At 75 TV’s Definitive Star Is Back at the Grind.”
WashingtonPost,
September 19, 1986, sec. D, p. 1.

———. “The Laughter Lucy Gave Us Helps Us Wash Away the Tears.”
Press–
Enterprise
[Riverside, Calif.], April 30, 1989.

———. “Funny Women: The Ball Epoch.” Washington Post, October 24, 1991, sec. C, p. 1.

———. “Lucy & Baba-luminous.”
Washington Post,
November 11, 2001, sec. G, p. 1. Shalit, Gene. What’s Happening: “Arnaz Mother/Daughter Interview with Lucille Ball and Lucie Arnaz.”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
October 1979.

Shaw, David. “Celebrities Act in Many Ways to Gain Privacy.”
Los Angeles Times,
September 5, 1973.

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
[Riverside, Calif.], April 24, 1989.

Silvian, Leonore. “Laughing Lucille.”
Look,
June 3, 1952.

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
[Riverside, Calif.], April 27, 1989.

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
[Riverside, Calif.], March 23, 2002.

Stoop, Norma McLain. “Here’s Lucy as ‘Mame.’ ”
After Dark
[New York], October 1973.

Strachan, Alex. “50 Years Later, We Still Love Lucy; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Revolutionized Television.” Vancouver [B.C.] Sun, November 10, 2001, sec. H, p. 9.

Sun–Times
[Chicago]. “Hazelwood Screened and Other Stories.” May 18, 1995.

Taubman, H. Review of
Wildcat. New York Times,
December 17, 1960.

This Week
[New York]. “Television Producer Desi Arnaz Arrested.” September 1, 1966.

Thomas, Kevin. “Second Thoughts: A Miscarriage.”
Los Angeles Times,
March 11, 1983, sec. 6, p. 2.

Thompson, Carolyn. “Travel News: Jamestown Has Even More Lucy to Love.”
News
day,
August 2, 2002.

Thompson, Thomas. “Lucy—Having a Ball at 62.”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
April 1974.

Time.
Review of
Five Came to Dinner.
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
The Lucy Show.
1967.

———. “
I
Love Lucy
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.
“Lucy and Desi’s New Ranch.” June 1954.

Unger, Arthur. “Lucille Ball as a Bag Lady?”
Christian Science Monitor,
November 4, 1985, Arts section.

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.

I
Love Lucy
Turns 50.” September 2001.

Valentine, Leslie. “Lucy Today: Her Life of Love, Luck & Loneliness.”
Photoplay,
September 1973.

Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Claiming Our History.”
Austin
[Tex.]
American Statesman,
September 26, 2000, sec. E, p. 1.

Variety.
Film reviews, 1938–1942.

———. “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
—Wildcat.
” 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,
October 15, 2001.

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