Marlo Thomas reviews "Being the Ricardos"

[LessAspin]

Should be a good one...

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There is a wonderful scene in “Being the Ricardos” — Aaron Sorkin’s wrenching chronicle of the pioneering TV comedy series “I Love Lucy” — in which Lucy drags two of her co-stars to the studio at 2 a.m., during a thunderstorm, to re-block a comic moment in a dinner scene that hadn’t gone well in rehearsal. It wasn’t even her bit — it was between her two fellow actors — but she knew it wasn’t good enough, funny enough. And so we watch Lucy push them to rehearse it — position them, instruct them — and they comply, even though their expressions reveal that they think she’s gone mad.

But Lucille Ball knew where the funny was. She could envision it. She could hear it. And she knew what to add to it to make it better.

And making it better haunted her.

Sorkin knows the drive it takes to make things better, and he soon shows us just how much better — and how much funnier — Lucy makes the scene when it is finally filmed the next day. I dare you not to laugh at it.

Sorkin didn’t have the chance to talk with Lucy about what drove her that night, but that didn’t keep him from writing exactly what she must have felt.

”I am the biggest asset of CBS, the biggest asset of Phillip Morris and Westinghouse,” Lucy tells her impatient co-stars, “and I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing…and

all I have to do to keep it is kill every week for 36 weeks in a row… Kill. So let’s do it again.”

It’s a breathtaking moment...

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[Sherman A1]

1. Watched it yesterday

and it was excellent! I highly recommend this film.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Nicole's voice is much gentler, softer than Lucy's voice

[Haggard Celine]

3. I've been meaning to watch it but forgot about it.

I'll be watching it tonight for sure.

[LakeVermilion]

4. Could this film be political?

Perhaps it could strike a chord of understanding in the women who voted for TFG.

They might see some behaviors that they recognize, and which could free their minds just enough.

[bahboo]

5. watched it last night and we really liked it....

thought Nicole and Javier both gave very nuanced performances...especially the differences between their real life and tv life. Notice the change in Nicole's voice when she "plays" Lucy. And I love seeing how the sausage is made.....

[virgdem]

6. Watched it yesterday afternoon. The acting was superb.

[Skittles]

7. I thought it was very good

although I did find Nicole's overly-botoxed face a bit distracting, especially when she smiles

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. I watched it Wednesday thought it was great

Although I wish the part of Lucy had gone to Debra Messing

[3catwoman3]

9. I um undecided about watching this.

I must be one of the few people on the planet who did not like any of the I Love Lucy shows.

I was born in 1951, the year I Love Lucy first aired, so wasn't watching then, of course. During my childhood, it seemed like reruns were always on. Even as a little girl, I didn't like the relationship between Lucy and Ricky - it bothered me that she had to be deceptive, or sneaky, or act stupid, or cry in order to get something she wanted.