Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are playing Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos. Many of us were thinking they were going to be bad. However, we would not really know until we saw the trailer.
Today, Amazon Studios released the first look, and they are not bad. They are awful. Kidman is trying to speak like an American, so her speech is slowed down. Therefore, she sounds like herself and not the legendary actress. Since we didn’t really see her in action, we don’t know if she looked like her or not. Bardem, on the other hand, looks more like Fred Flintstone than Ricky Ricardo.
I love Aaron Sorkin’s work, and I know that Lucie Arnaz praised the movie, but I think this is a colossal fail. However, a TV executive said to me today that he is going to wait to see the whole movie before he judges the performances. He is a better man than I am a woman because I think as awful a person as Ball was rumored to be, she deserves better than this.
Are you going to see it on December 20th, or would you rather watch an I Love Lucy marathon that will most likely be airing that weekend instead?
Back when I was a kid, my dad showed me History of the World Part I. I was glued to the screen for every second of it. So when they showed the preview for History of the World Part II, I believed it was real. I spent most of my life believing it was real.
Then one day, the lightbulb went off. And I realized it was a joke. My heart was broken. I felt dumb and naive.
It turns out I wasn’t so dumb and naive. That is because Hulu teamed up with Mel Brooks to give us an 8-episode sequel to the 1981 movie.
Brooks, 95, is going to write and produce the follow-up. “I can’t wait to once more tell the real truth about all the phony baloney stories the world has been conned into believing are History!” Brooks said.
He will not be doing it alone. He will be joined in the writers’ room with Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen, and Kevin Salter.
According to Variety, production is slated to begin in the Springtime, as in for Hitler. Wrong Brooks film.
Seriously, this is the best television news I have heard in a really long time. I just hope they don’t fuck it up. Or I will go all Spanish Inquisition on them.
Before Kyle Richards was afraid of the other housewives on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she had someone to be truly horrified of in Halloween. How impressive was the 7-year-old in that 1978 movie?
