This is Lucille Ball, onetime fashion model, mother of the sit-com, actor-comedian, studio exec, TV pioneer. She had her ups and downs, everybody does. What I find fascinating is that she nurtured friendships that lasted a lifetime with women in film and television. I must have been carrying that thought in my mind when I started my recent novel. Just how defining those friendships are, and how nobody in Hollywood really talks about them. What also was clanging around in […]

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