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Lucille Ball: Television
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Lucille Ball -- whose career in front of the camera spanned five decades -- served as a pioneer for female comedians, as well as for the television industry itself. Named TV Guide's "Biggest TV Star of All Time," Ball was only one of two women to successfully star in three separate long-running sitcoms in successive decades. (The second woman was Jane Curtin).
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Lucille Ball's last television appearance was with Bob Hope, who was in many respects her male counterpart in show business. Together they presented a production number featuring rising young talent on the 1989 telecast of the Academy Awards. Ball died only weeks later.
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In addition to receiving four Emmy Awards, Ball received numerous other honors. She was one of the first inductees into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 1984 and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986. Shortly after her death on April 26, 1989, she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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The re-election campaign of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is turning out ads almost as fast as the bonbons in Lucille Ball's famous chocolate factory skit. The Kentucky Republican last week hit the television airwaves with six ads, each specially crafted for the market in which it was running. The ads went on the air in Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Hopkinsville, Owensboro and Paducah. In the four latter cities, he reminds viewers that he is building on the legacy of Alben
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CBS has taken the troubling phenomenon of bag ladies and turned it into a movie vehicle for Lucille Ball. Don't misunderstand. The marvelous Miss Ball deserves all the vehicles television can throw her way. But anyone in search of biting, or even illuminating, social insights in ''Stone Pillow'' - at 9 o'clock this evening -can look elsewhere, perhaps only as far as the streets outside the window.
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The depth of feeling for Ball spoke to the power of the medium she helped popularize. Thanks to television, viewers around the world would form an intimate bond with the comedienne, thinking of her not as a star like Bogart or Bacall but as a part of their extended family who dropped by on Monday nights. It's no surprise that the episode including the birth of her small-screen son was seen by more Americans than Ike's inauguration.
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