A Lucille Ball Special Starring Lucille Ball and Dean Martin

I remember many great personal moments with Dino and Lucy...As he was my uncle. Billy is Billy Hinsche;he also played and sang with the Beach Boys for many years. He, Desi, and my cousin Ricci, have also formed a group playing the old songs and doing a tribute to Dean. They play smaller venues like Henderson, Nv. outside Vegas...Lucille Ball and Dean Martin always made me laugh, there aren't many greats like them left; they are missed...I agree with the previous comment Lucy was very intelligent that's why her silly behavior was so charming. I even named my (red haired) golden retriever Lucy so smart and so silly she always made me laugh. Uncle Dean spent his off time golfing and with family.I was devastated when he and my aunt Jeanne,divorced; but they never really parted; she was with him all the way 'til the day he died.

Is this available on DVD anywhere? Not that it was particularly good -- it's just a cheesy mid-70s special that Ball & Martin might have cooked up a decade earlier backstage at a Dino Desi & Billy concert. (Who the hell was Billy, anyway?) From what I recall, Lucy is the world's oldest ingénue trying to hold onto a job in a Vegas casino. In classic (by then cliché) Lucy fashion, she messes up badly but every time she's about to get fired, Dean Martin appears out of nowhere and convinces the pit boss that her slapstick hijinks were somehow intentional. But I'll never forget the final shot, a two-shot silhouette of these show-biz titans against the sunset as they prepare to board Dino's private plane. (Yeah, there was a double meaning to that title.) They're like battle-weary warriors on their way to Valhalla. Which they were, in a sense -- two hardworking professional entertainers who became legends and icons by creating personas so opposite their actual personalities (dizzy, dreamy Lucy was really quite smart and realistic, lecherous jokester Dino was actually rather sober and somber) that the entire concept of "authenticity" becomes laughable. Middlng entertainment but great history.

I remember many great personal moments with Dino and Lucy...As he was my uncle. Billy is Billy Hinsche;he also played and sang with the Beach Boys for many years. He, Desi, and my cousin Ricci, have also formed a group playing the old songs and doing a tribute to Dean. They play smaller venues like Henderson, Nv. outside Vegas...Lucille Ball and Dean Martin always made me laugh, there aren't many greats like them left; they are missed...I agree with the previous comment Lucy was very intelligent that's why her silly behavior was so charming. I even named my (red haired) golden retriever Lucy so smart and so silly she always made me laugh. Uncle Dean spent his off time golfing and with family.I was devastated when he and my aunt Jeanne,divorced; but they never really parted; she was with him all the way 'til the day he died.