| Show - r - All ‘ lte 4A-ti-"e- I Pir I 1 - 4 approached she found herself becoming more concerned about I'm really age honest not up until the time I lost both parents" she said "How I realize we really only have a if and I limited time 'How am I to going spend it and what am I gOing to leave behind? But I don't worry or about crow's-fethat sort of thing" Then after a bit she added "I'm sorry that my mother didn't live think et longer—long enough to enjoy her grandchildren the way I'd like to think I'll enjoy mine" i Iseems I've been I Z i O'N- i' 4 ) ( --0400 0 ' - 'rs t V ' - ' 1 V)01l -"r'41— 11 1 t b she perience" it "The called pilot was fine" she 1 1 -It o 0 t lt:i 'sk4-- 4 t i 0 zi b I ) tended family 4' f bridging several generations latTiti "I wouldn't have done it if I didn't 0 6 T1 "ti t I kt 1 I A She was a teenager on "Here's 'Awe Then there 'was "TheDucteAnzaz Show" a flop Now Lucie's back again: Thursdays on CBS rtwootyr i Previously married to Philip Menegaux i Married Laurence !AMAMI in 1 three children 19usode THEATER: nc Cabaret 1972 1 i a 1 5eesas1974 Vanitles1977 41 Annie Get Your Gun 1978 They're Playing Our Song a 1979 TV: Includes Luc 1968-7- 4 Here's TI The 'kiln Lucie Stem 1985 Sons and Dalieters119911 ti explained "so they ' 676 —I BORN:July 171951 In Los Angeles- PERSONAL: changed everything The executive producer literally went gray over that show Very frustrating—we were preempted so often They panicked after the second week and we never got ratings Alan Aida took me aside and said 'They panic too soon People forget that for its first year or two APASH was number 49 in the ratings and we joked that at least we were in the top 50" But what about Larry Luckinbill's Desi: The Musical? "My father wrote a book years ago" she said "about coming to this country and his band and all that and was always talking about turning it into a musical and finally he said 'What the hell I'll never make it You try' So Larry wrote a script and hired two very fine musicians and lyricists Ron Abel and Chuck Stefan" Lucie and Larry are still working on plans to produce it What Lucie clearly isn't thrilled about from her recent remarks to the press is a movie that CBS plans to do about her parents This isn't the time Lucie told me then she recalled her mother saying she pitied "the poor people that would - I head of the household—a single professional woman raising an adopted daughter in the Pacific Northwest and coping with an ex- show and I thought maybe I should wait and get a show all my own but the script and writing were so good I couldn't say 'no' And the director of the pilot David Carson who's from London is the best director I've had in years "When we did the pilot! said 'If there is a God this show will get on' and it did I'm not usually fond of working with child actors but these are just kids real kids and it's a delight With all those kids I have at home it years since her ear- Her series The Lu cle Arnaz Show "A depressing ex-- (C-t- Hammersmith love the script" Lucie told me "It's an ensemble living my whole life up to now just getting ready for this show" It has been five c full-blow- Lucie recently had turned 39 and I asked if as 40 Z 70111 Hfrom INPHOYNEkD 1 BRADY'S BITS n I 1 Lucie Arnaz was at her home in Brentwood a loveLos suburb of ly leafy Angeles which is she assured me "one of the few places here where there's sufficient breeze to blow away the smog" Although she is forever Desi and Lucy's little girl in the American consciousness Lucie these days is the decidedly mother of three children (plus grown-u- p two stepsons) and the star of a new CBS television show Also in the offing for this fall is a stage play by her husband the actor and writer Laurence Lucicinbal-- n a project that could become a called musical Dal The Broadway Musical l l Guess just who that's about! The CBS series is called Sons and Daughters and in it Lucie plays Tess I be asked to play us" Lucie's brother Desi Jr has had his difficulties and I edged tentatively into asking how he was doing Lucie was anything but tentative "Desi's great!" she said enthusiastically "He was down at our father's house in Baja Mexico which we kept He's happily remarried and adopted a daughter We talk more now than ever because we have so much business to discuss Desilu Lucy and Desi's production company was sold years ago but there are rights and the estate and paperwork is my nemesis So Desi and I formed 'Desilu too' to handle it" And how's her marriage doing? "We made it to 10 years" she said "so it's going okay" PAGE Iltworolosommr— MdEEms DI( -- l — MMIMIIMIEME iINEMIMNEMO IIMM11 22 SEPTEMBER 30 1990 PARADE MAGAZINE 0L a ti at 1 s n L I Si d s4 it TE 41 Phi PAR) |
