Barbara Eden says Lucille Ball ‘appreciated’ her avoiding Desi Arnaz on ‘I Love Lucy’ (exclusive) - Entertainment Weekly

Key PointsLucie Arnaz celebrated her parents on the 75th anniversary of I Love Lucy. The daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz lauded the landmark sitcom and its writers. "I could not be more proud to be a part of this family," Arnaz wrote of her parents and brother Desi Arnaz Jr. Lucie Arnaz just helped celebrate a milestone anniversary of her parents Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's landmark show. "Happy 75 years I Love Lucy," she captioned a 2011 interview she did with the Television Academy. "You're still lookin' great!!! "She explained in the video that the sitcom had been about four friends, sure, but it was more importantly a story of "unconditional love. "Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter. "Because it seemed like no matter how much trouble the Lucy character would get into, there would always be somebody at the end of the day to say it's all right, you know," said Arnaz, the sister of Desi Arnaz Jr. "And they would still love her. "She added, "We remember the show for its laughs, but, oddly enough — because people talk about this all the time and ask me, 'Why do you think? Why do you think?'

Hollywood is filled with book-to-screen adaptations that have ignited grumbling and spirited debates. Even before its release, Zoe Kazan’s interpretation of John Steinbeck’s sprawling 1952 masterwork, “East of Eden,” roused passionate opinions from loyalists of the text on social media. Much of the discourse surrounds Kazan’s creative choice in how to portray the book’s infamous antagonist, Cathy Ames, in Netflix’s seven-episode limited series out Thursday. Steinbeck’s multigenerational saga ruminates on family, the power of choice and the nature of good and evil — deeply exploring the biblical stories of Cain and Abel and the fall of Adam and Eve — through the intertwined destinies of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons. Cathy (later known as Kate) functions as a chilling, destructive force in the saga. Kazan pared down much of the Hamilton family’s story for the show and centered Cathy (Florence Pugh), whose arrival alters the lives of the Trask brothers, Adam (Christopher Abbott) and Charles (Mike Faist).