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PAGE TENSEYMOUR DAILY TRIBUNE, SEYMOUR, INDIANBv MEL I1EIMER%Miss Lucille Ball, a pinkish blonde household word who maybe the only living female to have pulled off the impossibledaily double—becoming a high-powered business woman andretaining the femininity thatwith being a broad—isgoes witn Deing coming out of the TV stallgates for the 18th vear ... but with a slight difference * My two children, Lucie and Desi Jr.. who are 16 and 15. are going to be regulars on next fall s program, ' the charming Miss B told me, “and the other switch is. we re going to try to discover America.She isn't just whistling Dixie. She already has laid out a quarter of a million (or, the new corporation, Lucille Ball Productions. has i for a huge truck that will fetch technical equip ment ‘ wherever we want togo.' It'll have a story line, of course, this show—Gail Gordonwill be “Uncle Charley Hooper, who owns the “Unique Employment Agency at which Lucy works—but th#» backgrounds, ifthe idea works out, will be anywhere from the Everglades to the Great Lakes“1 always wanted to see the country with my kids. Lucy said, “and if the scripts work out, well do just that. You might say we'll be learning— and earning. We haven't got a title for the show yet—people are always lurking in the woods, ready to swipe titles—but I’ve been studying maps like mad. of inland waterways and the like, to see where we can go.The first seven or eight shows,Lucy'* daughter is a bit bigger than tbit tot, but she lev** 'em in all sizes.already' scripted, will be shot in and around California — “Our biggest trip yet planned is to our house in Palm Springs, where we’ll do an episode about a tight-fisted resort operator (who else but Jack Benny?)” —but after that, Lucy hopes tobranch out.Both Lucie and Desi Jr. have had some TV7 exposure already, and the vouthful Desi has been■7. W ftappearing with a r-and-r group for a couple of years now “I don t think it s spoiled him too much, Lucy said. “Althoughbetween his hit records and Desi s understandable habit of being too generous with him. I've had my work cut out But Gary and 1 clamp down on him for his own good with the ‘Alright. upstairs to your homework' bit Miss B meanwhile just has polished off a film, her first since 63. called “Yours, Mine and Ours with Henry Fonda, based on the true-life story of a widower with 10 children who married a widow with eight kids—and had two more, to make it an even twenty. “It took some doing to get Hairy available for the role, she said, ‘‘but we did—and I think we've got a good one on our hands Anyway it’s not an obscene film, as so manv are these years Lucy has smoke coming out of her ears when she talks of the evervthing-goes trend in movies today. “I know it's gotten so lax that it's ridiculous and laughable now. she said, and I think it's starting to swing back to normalcy—but I still can't help getting enraged at some of the junk on the screen right now All of the Desilu enterprises w’ere sold by Lucy last year in a multi-million-dollar deal, but not before she had launched such TV standouts as “Star Trek. “Mannix and the No.1 thriller of our times, “Mission: Impossible.’ She gave her husband. Gary Morton, credit for picking that one out. “I couldn't understand the first script, it was so full of gadgets. ' Lucy said, “but he said, look, it'll be a hit. And he was so right. TV CAMEOSLucille BullLucy and the KidsSee America
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Seymour Daily Tribune
Seymour, Indiana, US
Sat, Apr 20, 1968
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