Amy Poehler is sharing some rare comments about her kids!
14.02.2022 - 22:09 / variety.com
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Lucy and Desi,” a new documentary from director Amy Poehler, tells the true story behind the television trailblazers who changed the landscape of Hollywood.In the first trailer, which dropped on Monday, icons like Bette Midler, Carol Burnett and Norman Lear attempt to put into words the impact that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had on the entertainment industry.“They established their own studio. That’s an enormous operation,” marvels Lear.
“She was fearless,” says Burnett, who counted Ball among her mentors. Midler adds, “You realized, women can do this, too!”“Lucy and Desi,” which premieres March 4 on Amazon Prime Video, explores how Ball and Arnaz met, fell in love and created a TV empire that would cement their legacy in showbiz.
As one of the industry’s most prolific power couples, Ball and Arnaz founded Desilu Productions, the company behind “I Love Lucy” and countless other popular shows, like “Mission: Impossible” and “Star Trek.” The trailer gets into the good, the bad, and the ugly (the couple eventually divorced because of Arnaz’s adultery) of their near-mythic story. In short, as the couple’s daughter Lucie Arnaz says in the trailer, there was a cost to their success.
“Work became our whole life,” Ball admits through archival footage.Poehler says she was drawn to direct the documentary in an effort to give audiences a better sense of Ball and Arnaz as real people.“Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, over the years, have been kind of flattened out and made two-dimensional,” Poehler told Variety before the movie premiered at Sundance Film Festival. “I was really interested in seeing the people behind the images.” She added, “People use words like ‘genius’ and ‘icon’ and
.Amy Poehler is sharing some rare comments about her kids!
Joining Deadline as part of the Amazon Studios presentation at Contenders Film: The Nominees event were two of the stars of Aaron Sorkin’s funny, moving and cleverly constructed story of the relationship of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos, which all takes place in a week during the course of a taping of an episode of I Love Lucy.
Since I Love Lucy ended, there have been a lot of questions about why Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz divorced and where they stood before their deaths three years apart from each other.
Hollywood icons! Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s boundary-breaking relationship and career evolution is the subject of Amazon Prime Video’s Lucy and Desi documentary.
Joy Behar started her day with a little tumble. On Thursday, co-host missed a step and took a slight fall during the opening segment of the show. As Behar and her co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines made their way to their revolving seats, the camera cut to the clapping audience, before panning back to the women, and a producer, helping Behar off the floor. Behar was fine as she got back in her seat and the panel quipped about the ordeal.
party and delivers a pick-up line for the ages. “If you don’t have anything to do tonight, how would you like to learn how to do the rhumba?” he asks.
For Amy Poehler and millions of millions of Americans, “I Love Lucy” wasn’t just something that was on television. It was a show that “came with your TV and was on your whole life,” she said.But it’s also one that, in the 65 years since it ended, loomed so large as a defining pillar of sitcom comedy that it and the vibrant couple behind the show have been flattened under the weight of words like “icon” and “trailblazer." It’s why Poehler was especially excited to dive into the world of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for the new documentary “Lucy and Desi” (streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Friday) and bring them back to earth.“One of my goals was to really make it feel like we were seeing them again as human people,” Poehler said.
Amy Poehler is once again stepping into the role of director for a new documentary exploring one of Hollywood's most iconic couples: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. brings together 10 contenders competing for a chance to share the stage with Lizzo on her upcoming world tour. And the long-awaited second season of the sci-fi dramedy is finally here.Access to Prime Video is a perk included in an Amazon Prime membership, available for $15 monthly or $139 for the year. If you aren't already subscribed or interested in subscribing to Amazon Prime and just want access to the Prime Video library, a membership to Prime Video is available for $9 monthly.
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— If “Being the Ricardos” left you wanting more Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, or just a less Sorkin-ized version of the larger-than-life couple, Amazon Prime Video has Amy Poehler’s documentary “Lucy and Desi” coming to the service Friday. Poehler has said that she wanted to give audiences a deeper understanding of the couple, their creativity, their tumultuous relationship and their groundbreaking sitcom “I Love Lucy.” The doc includes interviews with Norman Lear, Bette Midler and Carol Burnett.
center of renewed fervor in recent months, and Amy Poehler's new documentary on the pair aims to shine a different kind of light on their legacy.Poehler, who directed the forthcoming doc, spoke with ET's Matt Cohen at the film's Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday, and opened up about the difficulties she faced when helming the monumental project.«The challenge of this film, because Lucy and Desi are so known, is to figure out almost how to bring them back to life. Make them people again, rather than icons,» Poehler shared.
Amy Poehler gets sandwiched in by a few of her famous friends at the premiere of Lucy and Desi held at the Directors Guild of America on Tuesday night (February 15) in Los Angeles.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. With many projects about the couple's successful, yet tumultuous, marriage making their debut, their daughter, Lucie Arnaz, tells ET how she'd like her late parents to be remembered.«Exactly the way we're doing it right now. How can it get better than this?» Lucie tells ET's Matt Cohen at the Los Angeles premiere of on Tuesday.
The iconic couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz of “I Love Lucy” are getting another close up look at their life.
More than entertainment icons, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were an unstoppable couple. Director Amy Poehler highlights the pair’s personal pain and professional heights in “Lucy and Desi.” The project represents a chance for Poehler — herself an established comedic actress — to reach into comedy history for the endearing story that led to the genre-defining “I Love Lucy.” READ MORE: ‘Lucy And Desi’ Review: Amy Poehler’s Documentary Is An Enjoyable, If Overly Familiar, Look At The Iconic Couple [Sundance] The project features an incredible line-up of names that knew the legendary pair.
Will Arnett “cried for an hour” by the side of a road over his divorce from Amy Poehler. The 52-year-old actor had to pull over while on his way to work on 'Arrested Development' because he found splitting from the 'Parks and Recreation' star - the mother of his sons Archie, 13, and 11-year-old Abel - in 2012 such a "brutal" experience. He recalled to The Guardian newspaper: "[Shooting was] almost excruciating … Just brutal, brutal, brutal.
Ten years later, Will Arnett is opening up about his breakup from ex-wife Amy Poehler.
Video: Will Arnett remembers being pit against Amy Poehler amid divorce (Yahoo Entertainment US) "People talk about you like they know you and they talk about your relationship as if they know what's going on," he explained. "So imagine how weird that is. It's brutal with any relationship, and we have kids, and without getting into specifics, you then see stuff online, like, this one journalist wrote: 'I'm Team Amy.
Everyone needs a good cry every now and then. For Will Arnett, it happened on the side of the road. To be fair, the BoJack Horseman actor had recently split with Amy Poehler after nine years of marriage. This made his experience filming the Arrested Development revival “almost excruciating,” as he told The Guardian. “Just brutal, brutal, brutal,” he continued. “I was driving to the set one day and I pulled over to the side of the road and cried for an hour.”