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...Offscreen, the couple's marriage was marred by Arnaz's drinking, gambling and incessant philandering. Ball was forgiving, but the pair finally divorced in 1960. Arnaz proved a poor manager of their joint Desilu production company, while Ball persevered, starring in another top-rated sitcom, The Lucy Show. "There's no way I'm going to stay here and become Mr. Ball," said Arnaz early on. If anyone in this immensely readable book fits the unlikely description of misery-stricken sitcom star...
...also an imposing presence offscreen. One of the first actors to create an independent production company, Lancaster had a rangy entrepreneurial curiosity. In some of the films he produced, such as Paddy Chayefsky's Marty (an Oscar winner in 1955) and The Catered Affair, the star did not appear. But he got the pictures made, and they set the mood for other sympathetic dramas about little people -- Hollywood's neatly scrubbed version of Italian neorealism...
...Splash, then in Big). He is a throwback to old Hollywood, when everybody went to the movies, when movies were the world's TV, when the norm was more ... normal. Back then, quiet types like Henry Fonda and Gary Cooper played the extraordinary ordinary man. That's Hanks. Offscreen, apparently, he leads a calm, happy life. Onscreen, he is less likely to explode than to simmer and smile. With his suburban niceness and elusive, rubberized features -- any photo of him is bound to look smudged -- he is a '40s fella...
...make up for missed dramatic opportunities, Carolyn Carmichael is suddenly stricken with an undefined terminal illness. But fear, grief, loss -- the powerful emotions bound to be loosed by this sudden realization of childhood's most terrifying fantasy -- are avoided by Lee. Carolyn dies quietly offscreen. Her children, and the movie, are denied emotional release...
...turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing host of a TV kiddie show who is a child molester offscreen...