Angels with Dirty Faces Never Steal Anything Small Shake Hands With the Devil All previous entries. Great actress, but, as my wife says, she doesn't have a funny bone in her body. You kind of need that for Lucille Ball. Her face looks odd. The eyes mostly. And it means she can't really do Lucy's outsized facial expressions.
Stop getting work done, everyone. But it definitely should have been Javier Bardem as Ricky Ricardo, despite the idiot controversy over his casting. Oh no, a Spanish actor is playing a Cuban character! He brings life to every scene. Stop it, everyone. Sharp, quick. Is it signature or have you just become a parody of yourself? Sorkin stuffs it all into the same week.
Did Vivian Vance try to lose weight and did Lucy passive-aggressively tell her not to? Who knows, but Sorkin shoves all that in, too. It felt like a consciousness-raising session from the s rather than a tete-a-tete between a writer and the biggest star on television about the character they both created.
And the timing is ridiculous. Because surely you have nothing else on your mind. World of difference. World war of difference. When were those three, let alone those four, ever up for the same role? Edgar Hoover yet. Good god. The guy who shows up at the end to save the day?
Edgar Hoover. Philip Loeb must be rolling over in his grave. Or Jean Muir? John Garfield? Red Channels? Why not bring in some context? You know, for kids. He denied it, but the sponsor, General Foods, wanted him gone, and he was.
