Oct 26, 2021

Celebrity wisdom. Lucille Ball, Ringo Starr, Galileo.

By Mary Trigiani • Issue #1035 • View online

Celebrity wisdom: two words you rarely see in a phrase or a sentence. Yet we can find wisdom and corresponding inspiration all around us, even if we merely stumble upon it. For example, I’ve always admired Lucille Ball, for all the usual reasons. When I came across a new podcast featuring radio interviews she did with other celebrities in the 1960s, it felt like a treasure trove. Miss Ball gets to the essence of subjects through her elegant way of conversing with interesting people. Genuine interest, kindly expressed, always brings out the real story.

We still love Lucille Ball, and now she has a podcast debuting on SiriusXM

In 1964, Lucille Ball was starring in her second hit CBS sitcom, “The Lucy Show,” while serving as chief executive of Desilu, one of the largest independent TV production companies in Hollywood at the time.

But the comic actress, whose legacy was already solidified by the wildly popular “I Love Lucy,” still found time to do a daily 10-minute radio program for the CBS radio network called “Let’s Talk to Lucy.” Using her own portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, Ball sat and chatted with the biggest stars in show business at the time, many of whom were her friends.

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Ringo Starr Speaks on How Paul McCartney Behaved in The Beatles

I was telling someone the other day - if Paul hadn’t been in the band, we’d probably have made two albums because we were lazy buggers.

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Who Was Galileo? 6 Facts About the Incredible Life of This Scientific Genius

Born in Pisa in 1564, Galileo Galilei is known to the world for changing how science is viewed. A strong proponent of the scientific method, he advocated for carrying out research to support scientific theories. And, importantly, he was a major advocate for how we view the stars. In an age when it was believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, he used his own observations to suggest that it was actually the Sun that we revolved around.

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