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BETTY: Did the accident with the, the trial and everything
don't you think that strengthened your family feeling too?
LUCY: Yes probably. I was too young then to step out and take care of them.
I always, as their fortunes waned during those years
I was very eager to make enough to take the burden off their shoulders.
He was the king of the rhumba.
The king of Latin music.
Now he saw me when I was 16 years old.
And that's how I ended up in the United States of America.
And people liked me. Thank God!
Cugat discovered a lot of excellent talented people,
and I am one of them.
Cugat discovered Desi.
And he could see that he was a real dreamer.
I met Desi because I knew Xavier Cugat.
They have a lot in common,
although Cugat was older.
Because Cugat grew up also in Cuba.
So they were, like they say in America, two peas in a pod.
Cugat the maestro, and the student Desi.
1... 2... 3... Kick!
When you have that rhythm so heavy,
all percussion. It goes to your bones.
BETTY: You felt right from the beginning
that this was going to be difficult didn't you?
BETTY: Did she come out to Hollywood as soon as you two moved out here?
DESI: They called her "The Queen of the B's".
In those days remember they were called the B pictures. Smaller budgets.
REPORTER: Were you envious of her success?
No not at all. But I couldn't stay out here and just, don't do anything.
BETTY: How did you feel?
BETTY: Do you think being in vaudeville
had anything to do with you losing the baby?
LUCY: I don't know.
BETTY: Did you enjoy changing the baby and bathing it?
DESI: In 48 hours we lost everything we had. Everything.
They put all the congressmen in jail. All the mayors. All the governors.
Everybody was in the can.
And my dad was there for 6 months.
BETTY: And what happened after you sold the reruns for 5 million?
Why didn't he retire right then and there?
DESI: She didn't want to quit.
She'll never want to quit.
Why doesn't Bob Hope quit? Or Jack Benny?
Like Hope says, he gets bored fishing
because he can't get a laugh from the fish.
That's... I'm not judging.
Because that's their life and they enjoy that.
I happen to like other things, besides being in front of an audience.
DESI: When the opportunity came to buy RKO, I bought RKO.
Not because I wanted RKO.
But I had only two choices. Either quit or get bigger.
That is the way business is in the United States.
You cannot be half-assed successful.
DESI: I was at that place at 8 o'clock in the morning,
and I had all my calls to New York,
and I don't think I ever left the place before 10 or 11 o'clock at night.
DESI: I got a one track mind.
The biggest fault in my life is that I never learned moderation.
I either work too hard or I play too hard.
If I drank, I drank too much. If I worked, I worked too much.
I don't know. One of the greatest virtues in the world is moderation.
That's the one I could never learn.
BETTY: This was the New York psychiatrist?
Did you feel like you got anything out of it yourself?
Did you get any insight into yourself?
You decided it wasn't your fault?
DESI: I was the one who wanted out.
I brought it up and I, and I laid it.
And I laid the plan for months ahead of time so it would work.
Because I didn't want any part of it anymore.
I just made up my mind I couldn't live anymore, that way.
BETTY: Well weren't you rather weepy on that last show?
You probably thought there would never by any more didn't you?
DESI: I hated every minute of it...
...after a while.
DESI: Oh goddamn! We're giving the minorities a break this week huh?
Jesus Christ!
The minorities are working this week huh?
BETTY: Now isn't your job unique in the whole world right now?
Aren't you the only woman who's the head of a corporation as big as Desilu?
We're bringing it in to the very limit.
And there is no-
I don't know how to light a scene without lights.
Period.