I'm am anticipating the release of this book, does anyone have anyinformation on it? I heard it is to be released later this summer or autumn.

There is some info and a preliminary photo of it at www.lucy-desi.com

So this is totally different than the Scrapbooks CD or DVD or whatever then? Sounds pretty good.:)

Did you know Ms Edwards is Lucie Arnaz' secretary? She had another great book that 50th anniversary i Love Lucy coffee table book!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
Did you know Ms Edwards is Lucie Arnaz' secretary? She had another great book that 50th anniversary i Love Lucy coffee table book!

That's the only one I need to get; I have 6 bussiness cards collected from the museum and can get it shipped for free :cool:

Good, cause it weighs a ton and would have cost a fortune! LOL!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
Good, cause it weighs a ton and would have cost a fortune! LOL!

:lol:

Yeah, I have that book! It was my first Lucy book! :D I LOVE it, and have probably read over it at least 10,000 times! knew what the episodes were going to be about before I even watched them! LOL

It is similar to the scrapbooks, but in literary form. It is supposed to have letters and rare pictures. I recently heard that Lucie plans to put her parents scrapbooks, in the Library of Congress.

Oh what fun it would be to read those. Especially if there are private letters or journels involved. :eek: I dunno, I myself love looking at the pictures. The loving Lucy book by Tome Watson, is neat to look at, but I wish they would upsate it. That was written over 20 years ago. Lucy liked that book, when it came out she sent each of her friends a copy.

I think Lucy's book should have had more pictures in it as well.

I'm really looking forward to reading this book. I guess it's supposed to come out in August. I won't be able to ask for it for my birthday, though, since that's in July. I guess I'll have to wait for Christmas. :(

Well, maybe someone could pre-order it for your birthday. Of course then they'd have to just wrap up the little receipt, but still! :)

I remember anticipating the arrival of my Lee Tannen book I had preordered through the museum in New York. I saw it in the book store when it came out and started to read it and got so excited I was gonna buy the book, But then I thought "Woah there, it is coming in a day or two, contain yourself." This time I am buying it at the store. I am just too impatient

I agree about Tom's book, Loving Lucy is terrific, Tom's books are always great as he has access to everything, they only lack GOSSIP, LOL! Talk about being LOYAL, she's been gone almost two decades and he's still so loyal to her. Admirable but slightly dissapointing, LOL! I can beat your Tannen story, i looked at the pictures whike exiting the store, and read quite a bit of it at red lights on my way home!

Tom gives me the impression of acting like he thinks he KNOWS EVERYTHING, when in all reality, I don't beleive he does. I don't think he has the first clue about what Lucille's life REALLY was. Her life is so hush-hush, that not even the FBI could bring ant public life to it. But, yet it is OK, she DOES have a right to privacy you know. I know there are questions that gnaw at the pitt of our brains. Beleive me, if he knew everything at all, it would only take some major cashola to coax it out of him. I am sure he could tell you what she was like as a person, but we already know that from interviews and books.

I was browsing the official fan club fansite recently, and some fans were discussing rumours about the infamous "bothched abortion" that supposedly did and didn't happen. All I can say is that person is DEAD wrong about that rumour. That never happened. If it did at all, they had their facts mixed up. It would have never happened with Desi.

People can incinuate all they want. It would take real detective and mastermind to crack the safe.

Ok, no abortion, now how about that third child raised by the Davita family?

What???????????:eek:

Unfortunately, there is no one who can get this story straight. So many different stories to this. Some say that she did, some say she didn't, some say she had the alleged abortion around this era.

I personally don't know what to think. I just remember reading something in a rag magazine a number of years ago, but you really cannot beleive what you hear in those trashy things. They claim she had a son. It is really none of our business whether or not she did. As Marion Strong had blaintly put it in Kathleen Brady's book " A true friend would not say whether she did or not, but as a result of her Aunt Lola's death, Lucille did a lot of thing she probably shouldn't have." Reading between the lines I thing the answer lays right there.

How can it get in a rag magazine without having some truth in it somewhere? It would explain the no funeral thing, secret will and so on, but i doubt that could happen without our finding out about it, although i did hear that old people in Jamestown accost people with that story.

Secret will? :confused: Sorry if I sound dumb, but could someone splain?

Only meant that everything seemed so HUSH HUSH when she died. Hey, i don't believe any of it either, i just want it out in the open so it can be discussed, amplified or discredited altogether, so we can finally know the truth! I wanted three answers when i joined these boards, and so far i have ONE, i really need the OTHER two!

Probably you'll have to live with the one you have; sometimes it's better that way..What were the 2 other questions that you had?

One was about her being difficult to work with, i know that one now. The other two involve that supposed abortion and the phantom third child.

I think I heard somewhere that in a tabloid once upon a time there was a story about Lucy's supposed long-lost son. I know it's probably based on SOMETHING, but I dunno...most of what's in tabloids I don't believe. I think a lot of it's trash, but it can be enjoyable to read when you're waiting in line at the grocery store. :lol: Anyway, I certainly don't know the answers, but to me, it's more believable that Lucy had an abortion than a phantom child. Guess it's just one of those mysteries that we'll never know for sure. :crazy: And whatever happened, it certainly doesn't make me think any less of her.

Exactly! Me either. Half of Hollywood has done much worse and it takes decades for us to get at the truth. Look at that Sullivan thing, that Jane Kean said that he raped her, now would you believe old laughing boy would have done that? NEVER! But, it's true, it happened. I guess the fact that most of the books don't have info on all of it means it NEVER was true, or that it was very well hidden, one of the two.

I don't know. Ed Sullivan is kind of weird. :rolleyes: And if it doesn't really matter to you, why is that one of the 3 things you wanted to know the most about her?

Well the only way to kill the "curious cat" is to go out and research it yourself. You might get your answers that way or you may hit a brickwall. Contact the city of Jamestown Public Records office, I am sure that you can get the address or phone number online. Either way you can say that you tried that way. Anyone who really knows the story, may not be willing to tell it to the world about it yet. then again, you may meet someone who does know the story and to shed some light on it. I have only been to Jamestown myself twice. Once in 1999 and the other I think was in 2002, when Richard Simmons was there. I was talking to a guy there who thought he knew the story, he is a writer who lives in Pennsylvania. Anyways, he claimed she had a daughter. I had try to confirm this by asking someone at a local historic society, and they said they never heard anything about it. I don't know if that writer guy was telling a fib or if he had actually talked to someone who maybe was just humoring him a little. Couldn't tell you, really, I only met this guy at the festival there that one time and we never kept touch after that. Besides I had only heard this because I was standing in line behind him and and he was talking about this subject with some woman at the time. I was sort of well you know eavesdropping. Curiosity got the best of me and I asked him about it, and said I read a similar story In The National Enquirer, or Globe years back, and as someone mentioned before, it said nothing about a daughter, just a long lost son. Maybe there is more to the mystery than we think. In any case, it is an interesting story, It doesn't bother me in the least bit, I am not losing any sleep over it, but if it is one of those things that is gnawing at you, maybe you should try some research on it and see where it gets you. Never know until you try.

Lodee, it matters to me because i want the truth, not a publicists' imagined stories. Lucy's mom was not a concert pianist, she played the piano, Lucy was NOT Diane Belmont, she lied to build up her two husbands, she amplified and exaggerated stories, even told the world the nose on fire was NOT planned, any person in her position would have done the exact same thing, most stars lie to this day and the publicists just cover up everything. I know a lot about her and won't rest easy till i know these two things are fabrications or the truth. But it won't change how i feel about her in the least. I still say if it's not in any of the books, chances are it's untrue, although they might have feared a lawsuit. I mean she sued The Rolling Stones over an unflattering picture of her on their album cover, or was it that they hadn't gotten permission to use the pic?

Originally posted by SPLAIN
I mean she sued The Rolling Stones over an unflattering picture of her on their album cover, or was it that they hadn't gotten permission to use the pic?

I've heard it was because the picture was unflattering, but knowing Lucy, if it was a bad pic of her they probably wouldn't have gotten permission to use it anyway.

Thanks for splainin that splain. :) I get where you're coming from now.

I swear i mean no disrespect, i just would like to KNOW once and for all if it's all rubbish or if there's any truth to it all. You know some spiteful people could just be making it all up. Lucy got called the wicked witch of the West for merely protecting her son from Patty Duke and it took us decades to find out Lucy was right, the kid was never HIS and that Patty was looney at the time. Although she eventually turned out to be a good mother herself.

I have only heard bits and peices to that Rolling Stones thing. I don't think Lucy actually ever sued anyone. I think it just ruffled her feathers. I know Lucy wasn't crazy about their music. Then again, I don't know Everything about Lucy.
I beleive she was a good mom too, but with a comprimising career, she just couldn't be there all the time. My mom works quite a bit too she is single and raises four kids, there are times I wish she could have been there a little more. But, I think she has done a damn fine job thus far, and I give her more credit than I could ever give myself. I couldn't do what she does in a million years.
I think the thing about Dede was said that she could have been a fine concert pianist, but she met and married Henry Ball. She did attend Chautaugua Institute of the Arts, and she taught piano. But, she wasn't a 'celebrity'.
Can't really blame her for having made up some of that stuff, some people do that just to make their lives more colorful, and sometimes they just are covering things up because they don't want the world to know their business. We all are entitled to a little privacy, even legends.

But i was referring to Patty's kids having turned out well, hence the reason i bear her no ill will for the trauma she caused Lucy for a year and a half or more. Lucy was a terrific mother, how the heck she found any time for them is amazing considering what she accomplished in her life. But she still managed to watch them , play with them, counselled them about school, watched them closely, their friends, and eventually even their careers.

I know very little about Patty except, like Judy Garland, she had agents and managers that doped her up with pills.
Talk about a "SYBILL Servant" ;)
She was a REAL "Couch Case"

Yes true, her foster parents did her harm and even took most of her money too i think. Patty was very very unstable at the time of her affair with Desi jr, she left him to marry a man she knew for a week and left him for John Astin a little while later and told the world John was the real father after all. DNA tests proved Mike Tell to be the father recently and the mystery is finally solved and ends up Lucy was right all along, it was never her grandchild.

But later on, Patty got help, got her act together and raised great kids who love and respect her, so, at least she got her life together and i admire her for that, even Desi jr kept in contact with both Patty and Sean over the years. I just love that about Lucy and Desi's kids, that they stayed friendly with their exes like mom and pop did also!