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- 9780375413155
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375413154
ISBN-13
9780375413155
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2320473
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ball of Fire : the Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
26.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-043090
Reviews
"Among Stefan Kanfer's gifts as a biographer are scrupulous research, fine judgement, and a critical knowledge of the wider world. But what sets him apart is his sense of music, which allows him to see the inexpressible. In Ball of Fire he gives us Lucy, whose life was hard and collapsible, yet who enchanted us because she was the music." Roger Rosenblatt "While paying close mind to the details of an astonishing career, Kanfer also illuminates the inner turmoil...Kanfer gently conveys how great she was and how small she could be." N.Y. Daily News "Canny critic and cultural historian Kanfer...[with] entertaining and thoughtful observations bring(s) The Redhead into sharp focus." Kirkus "...excellent, compulsively readable..." Publisher's Weekly "Ball of Fire is a memorable portrait of its subject in all her gifted weirdness." Washington Post Book World "Ball of Fire does convey a vivid sense of [Lucy's] fearlessness. Stefan Kanfer has the whole heroic story." New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
791.45/028/092 B
Synopsis
For more than fifty years Lucille Ball has been television's most recognizable and beloved face. As Lucy Ricardo she was the ultimate screwball housewife, getting herself into and out of scrapes with unmatched comic finesse. Indeed, she was so funny, and so central to the cultural landscape, that we often overlook Ball's role in shaping that turf: as producer of her own show and a cofounder of a major studio, she was a pioneer, rewriting the rules and forging new paths for women in the boardroom and on the sound stage. InBall of Fire, Stefan Kanfer goes beyond the icon to examine the difficult life and enduring work of the most influential woman in modern American comedy. Kanfer traces the arc of her career from its unlikely beginnings in a lonely and desolate childhood in upstate New York. There she discovered that making people laugh could ease the pains of a fragmented family life. But she was more than amusing. She was also beautiful, and when Lucy's adolescent attempts to crack Broadway ended in failure, she became a runway model and on a fluke, journeyed out to California to be an extra in one film. That led to another, and another, and another bottom-of-the-bill movie, until she became, in her own words, "The Queen of the B's".Ball of Firetracks Lucy's pursuit of the superstardom that eluded her on the big screen and follows the actress through a series of disappointing affairs and sorrows until she meets a Cuban conga drummer six years her junior, and falls headlong in love with Desi Arnaz. Working with her husband, Lucille Ball becomes a different kind of comic artist in a program calledI Love Lucy, the show that is still running in more than eighty countries around the globe. Taking us through the development of television both as technology and cultural phenomenon, Kanfer chronicles the difficult birth of the sitcom that changed the world. He details the early executive meetings, the rocky first productions, the shaky first weeks and the unpredicted triumph. We see all of Lucy's behind-the-scenes battles for creative control of the show; her surprising confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee when it was discovered that she had once registered to vote as a Communist; her groundbreaking on-air pregnancy; and a series of in-depth analyses of the classic scenes and Chaplinesque slapstick that guarantee her a permanent place in the pantheon of American comedy. Finally, we see the aftermath of her hard-won fame: the turbulent marriage and painful split from Desi, the man she never stopped loving; her second marriage; and her sad last years out of the limelight and away from the applause. This is the first biography to examine the legendary Lucille Ball in all her many dimensions: her personal struggles and the torments that forged a comic genius; and, at last, her posthumous influence on television comedy, on feminist scholars and cultural critics, and on the public at large.Ball of Fireis the definitive biography Lucy fans have been waiting for.
LC Classification Number
PN2287.B16K36 2003
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