Before Johnny Sibilly was an out-and-proud star of game-changing LGBTQ+ shows like “Pose,” “Hacks,” and the “Queer as Folk” reboot, he was an actor in a class, trying to find his voice and place in the entertainment industry.
Before Johnny Sibilly was an out-and-proud star of game-changing LGBTQ+ shows like “Pose,” “Hacks,” and the “Queer as Folk” reboot, he was an actor in a class, trying to find his voice and place in the entertainment industry.
Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentOn June 29, 1966, CBS had an internal debate over its morning programming: Whether to cut to a news conference about a turning point in the Vietnam war — the U.S. bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong — or to air a decade-old “I Love Lucy” rerun. They decided to stick with “Lucy.”The sitcom, which ran 1951-57, is more than beloved: It’s become part of our collective unconscious.
Apparently it is the season to celebrate the iconic marriage and professional relationship of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed a penetrating, funny, revealing, and ultimately moving film, Being The Ricardos which covers a lot of ground in the Lucy/Desi world using dramatic license to place several real events in their lives all in the course of one week of production on I Love Lucy. Although starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as the iconic pair, it felt quite real and actually was as you discover watching Amy Poehler’s marvelous love letter to their lives and times in Lucy And Desi, which like Ricardos will be available on Amazon Prime, the perfect companion piece to Sorkin’s film, and a compelling documentary portrait all on its own.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.But when he arrived to take them to the event, the snide and bickering couple he found resembled anything but America’s sweethearts.“She shouted denunciations at him, at one point calling him [an ethnic slur].
Aaron Sorkin is following up with a biopic about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz — titled — and that Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are playing the couple.«I think that the people thought that we've cast them as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo,» Sorkin tells ET's Matt Cohen.
Nicole Kidman has broken her silence about her upcoming role as Lucille Ball in "Being the Ricardos." Kidman, 53, opened up to Variety on Wednesday to talk about playing Ball opposite Javier Bardem, 51 — who is set to play Ricky Ricardo — in the Aaron Sorkin-directed biopic. "I was like, ‘Yeah, I would love to give it a go,’" Kidman stated in the interview.
Nicole Kidman, after news that the star is in talks to play her mother was met with a backlash online. The comedy legend will be depicted in Aaron Sorkin’s new film, Being the Ricardos, which will focus on the on and off-screen relationship between Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz.
Jaime Camil is making big strides for the Latinx community — off screen and on.
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