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Lucy Fixed Hollywood’s Female Superhero Problem

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Scarlett Johansson took a bunch of drugs, started using more of her brain, and beat up The Rock at the box office this weekend. 

An artist's concept of the Psyche spacecraft.

Two new NASA missions look to asteroids for clues about our early solar system

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A man looks at a Neanderthal fossil at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

A new fossil may date humanity’s ancestor further back than we thought

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Immigrant author discusses winding road from Caribbean to pages of The New Yorker

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Bonus Track: Deconstructing Lucy

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Bonus Track: Notes on a Scandal

In 1955 Confidential Magazine, a Hollywood scandal rag, reported on Desi Arnaz’s supposed philandering.   Dartmouth Film and TV professor Mary Desjardins explores the less desirable side effect of being a celebrity couple. â?? Read about Lucy and Desi in Confidential Magazine (1955)

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Why do we still Love Lucy?

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This weekend will mark 100 years since the birth of an American comedy icon. Gina Barreca discusses Lucille Ball’s legacy.

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I Love Lucy

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It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy was a bad girl trapped in the life of a ?50s housewife; her slapstick quest for fame and fortune ended in abject failure weekly. Both the antics and the humiliation entered the DNA of TV comedy, from Desperate Housewives to 30 Rock ? writers can’t […]

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Global Hit

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Two women named Lucy are in the news today. One is the schoolgirl who inspired the Beatles’s song �Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds��the other a multi-million year-old skeleton. Anchor Marco Werman makes the connection.

I Love Lucy

This is where television invented itself. It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy was a bad girl trapped in the life of a ’50s housewife; her slapstick quest for fame and fortune ended in abject failure weekly. Both the antics and the humiliation entered the DNA of TV comedy, from Desperate Housewives […]

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