| Lucy in the Afternoon: An Intimate Memoir of Lucille Ball (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) |  | Author: Jim Brochu
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1593438
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 343
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 1
ISBN: 081615077X
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
EAN: 9780816150779
ASIN: 081615077X
Publication Date: July 1991
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Condition: FORMER LIBRARY BOOK - still in very good readable condition - IF YOU LOVE LUCY, VERY ENJOYABLE BOOK!
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 Lucy April 2, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jim Brochu's bio was an interesting read for this avid Lucy fan - but take it - the entire dish - with a grain of salt.
I was aleady forewarned that Brochu exaggerates his friendship with Lucy (I found myself rolling my eyes plenty of times). This is filled with historical innacuracies matched only by Brochu's continual lapses into fantasy - he claims he and Lucy's hubby Gary Morton sat on the lanai one afternoon discussing deal-making with a TV network.
Why oh why would Morton discuss anything of the kind with Lucy's new backgammon bud?
A much better bio (endorsed by Lucie Arnaz) can be found in Lee Tannen's excellent biography of Lucy's last ten years in which he was her close friend. Unlike Brochu who knew her the last eight months of her life, Tannen really was there. And the guy can write.
I found it amusing (or was it alarming) that Brochu reports with great authority on incidents he was not involved in - Tannen was, incidentally but Brochu never mentions this. He glosses over Tannen like he does everything else that's real in the bio. His daydreams (he claims they are real dreams)about Lucy and his scary eyes in the phhotos tell me Lucy dropped dead to escape him.
 IF LUCIE ARNAZ DIDN'T ENDORSE THIS....... April 16, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
why should anyone else??? Her own daughter says it is filled with inacurracies and indeed, the author makes it a point in every page to make himself the ONLY friend Lucy ever had. As Lucie Arnaz herself said, "skip this one".
The gayest imaginary friend anyone ever had July 12, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I find it highly unlikely anyone allegedly getting these old Hollywood stories from Lucille Ball herself would have gotten them so inaccurately. Approximately two chapters into the book, I began to strongly suspect this man never knew Ms. Ball at all. He supports their "intimate friendship" with an insert of photographs, all of which were obviously taken on only two different occasions, my guess is they were taken right before she had him arrested for stalking. Passing up no opportunity to toot his own off-key horn, the author tends to paint Ms. Ball as a bitter old clown who apparently hated everyone in the world except Jim Brochu, wildly incongruent with virtually every other existing account of Lucille as a generally warm and generous soul who was well loved by those who knew her. Brady's "Lucille", Andrew's "Lucy & Ricky & Fred & Ethel" and Ms. Ball's own "Love Lucy" are only three of a number of infinitely better, more entertaining, and more accurate books on this subject that I can think of without even looking it up. This book is total garbage, it should be read only to placate the author's obvious need to display his psychosis to the rest of the world, and then kept on hand in case the reader should run out of loo paper one day.
LITTERED with INACCURACIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Skip this one!!! June 9, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As with other reviewers here - this guy thinks too much of himself in relation to Miss Ball. I wonder if there are not a few splinters in the windmills of his mind. While searching through Lucie Arnaz' website I found this quote in response to a fan looking for reading material: "The Jim Brochu , "Lucy in the Afternoon" book (which was released moments after her passing) is littered with inaccuracies, and totally fabricated stories. Skip THAT one!" Unfortunately, I read this book before realizing any of that. I do believe this book to be JUNK
Please Don't Purchase this book July 24, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have read every book that has been written about Lucille Ball and this is by far the least accurate, odd, book that has been written about the legend. Timed for release, immediately after her death, "Lucy in the Afternoon" chronicles one boys obsession with the entertainer that he, later in life, confuses with a soul-mate type frendship. Very odd reading. Stories are quite obviously fabricated and I find it highly unlikely that Lucy went into great depth with this man about her life. Covering everything from her broadway days to her ex-husband to her movie and televison career. These are highly personal topics to be discussed with what was a stranger. An aspiring writer. This book should deffinetly be skipped by avid Lucy readers and just readers in general. There are far better books about Ball out there.
I would suggest the most recent release "Ball of Fire" or the excellent "Desilu, the story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz". T
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