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RED, WHITE AND BABALU
Being the Ricardos is sobering for fans of the ’50s I Love Lucy television show, around which the film revolves. It derails the laugh track to a beloved comedy still in reruns 65 years later by highlighting ugly stuff: racism, sexism, McCarthyism and network censorship over Lucille Ball’s pregnancy — a television first. Yet the film, now on Prime, offers insight into the lives of both the on- and off-screen couple, especially the myriad ways they shattered the status quo. Against the backdrop of America’s ’50s-era zeitgeist and it’s Trumbo-esque red stain,
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