Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I’d grown up watching I Love Lucy like everyone else of our generation,” Purdum explained in an exclusive interview. “I wasn’t a ...

There's been plenty written about I Love Lucy, but mostly about Lucy. What about I? Desi Arnaz—the man who played Lucille Ball's husband on the show, and was married to her in real life too—was not ...

And about time. Desi Arnaz — the “I” in “I Love Lucy” — has never been given his rightful due as a protean force, perhaps the protean force, in early television history. Still, the subtitle of Todd S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Desi Arnaz is returning to Miami as the focal point of a new book. Long before he loved Lucy, Arnaz loved Miami. The city and the ...

Like just about everyone who grew up at a time when a few networks decided what Americans watched on their television sets, author Todd S. Purdum knew all of the antics of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, the ...

When most people think of the classic TV show "I Love Lucy," they picture Lucille Ball's on-screen antics. But there was a secret behind the show's success: her co-star and real-life husband, Desi ...

What's it like to be raised by the first major TV comedienne? “You don’t grow up a fan of Lucille Ball. You grow up her daughter,” Lucie Arnaz said when reminiscing about her childhood both in Los ...

When Todd S. Purdum first set out to write Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, it wasn't just a passion project-it was a gamble. Purdum, best known for his political reporting at The New York ...