When Lucy and Desi divorced, I cried inconsolably. As a little girl with few successful female role models, I thought it meant I couldn't be a girl boss and have a happy marriage. In truth, I wasn't all that far off, as over 60 years later male underlings still mansplain to my much more experienced daughter.
I am grateful to Lucy and Desi, not only for defining television and the new studio system, but for the role models they provided for a mid 20th Century model American girl like me. I am the breadwinner and I am married to an Hispanic man, I worked while I was pregnant, and I made sure people were paid well. I saw them do it, and I understood that it was possible, even if you came from poverty.
Thank you for the documentary, which is the best way to see the extraordinary gifts these two people had. It made up for the godawful Sorkin polemic. And thank you, Lucie, for your always clear eyed understanding of just who your parents were, and just how much it cost them to give their gift to all of us.
I am grateful to Lucy and Desi, not only for defining television and the new studio system, but for the role models they provided for a mid 20th Century model American girl like me. I am the breadwinner and I am married to an Hispanic man, I worked while I was pregnant, and I made sure people were paid well. I saw them do it, and I understood that it was possible, even if you came from poverty.
Thank you for the documentary, which is the best way to see the extraordinary gifts these two people had. It made up for the godawful Sorkin polemic. And thank you, Lucie, for your always clear eyed understanding of just who your parents were, and just how much it cost them to give their gift to all of us.