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...Huge homes for celebrities including Lucille Ball, Lon Chaney and Frank Sinatra tended towards revivalist colonial or Tudor....
...The leading contender for Best Actress remains Nicole Kidman, cast as Lucille Ball in biopic Being the Ricardos....
...The pair live in the affluent LA neighbourhood of Bel Air, in an estate built in 1938 by Hollywood architect Paul R Williams, who designed houses for Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball throughout his career....
...Displaying an endearing mixture of charm and clumsiness, Jumbo has comic talents reminiscent of Doris Day or Lucille Ball....
...At the wonderful BB King museum in Indianola I learnt that King named his guitar, Lucille, after a woman in a juke joint in Twist, Arkansas, which burnt down when two men fought over her while he was playing...
...Sharing their hundredth birthday with the AER this year are Ronald Reagan, Tennessee Williams, Ginger Rogers, Phil “Sergeant Bilko” Silvers and “I Love” Lucille Ball....
...Success opened up screen opportunities in Hollywood, first in Four Jacks and a Jill, made in 1942, where she played opposite Desi Arnaz, later famous as Lucille Ball’s television, and real life, husband....
...Three weeks later Johnson strolled into his Café de Champion in Chicago with the blonde teenager Lucille Cameron. The government accused him of leading Lucille into “white slavery”....
...“They represented writers, such as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams,” she says, lighting the first of several cigarettes. “They were very proper and wore hats.”...
...NORTH AMERICA The Echo Maker By Richard Powers William Heinemann £17.99, 464 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 Powers won the 2006 National Book Award in the US for this, his ninth novel....
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