Talk:Desi Arnaz

message: "Despite the divorce, he continued to send Lucy flowers every year on their wedding anniversary, which was Nov. 30th. [June 19 was the date they were married in a church]. After their divorce, Lucille got into a nasty accident while making a film with Bob Hope. When Arnaz heard, he rode by horse from his ranch to the hospital to make sure that Ball was going to be okay. This should be an example of the love that Arnaz and Ball still shared."
Ya know, I would love to read one article in Wikipedia that held to the "NPOV" standards that wikipedia supposedly holds so high. Wikipedia is filled with communists/globalists. It's a propaganda arm for the CIA/NSA/DIA/CIC. 
And no I have no interest in writing this article myself. There are plenty of people wo have devoted huge chunks of time to this stuff already.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.96.18.5 (talk) 16:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: easily fixed by removal of a few words. Ortolan88 18:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As the tag says, the article is totally unsourced.  If the unsourced statements are removed, the article has no words in it.  Wanderer57 (talk) 17:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "He died several months later on December 2, 1986, at age 69. Two days before, on what would have been his 46th anniversary to Lucille,(November 30) she telephoned him. They shared a few words, mostly 'I love you's. She said "Alright, honey. I'll talk to you later." She was, in fact, the last person to ever speak with Desi Arnaz."
According to this, he was totally alone for the last two days of his life.  Does the reference really say this?
Wanderer57 (talk) 03:42, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this really true?

message: made it just ethnic as opposed to racial makes no sence in racial context--Wikiscribe (talk) 20:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: belifes

message: Why isn't Ceasar Romero mentioned in the article? Romero mentioned in a circa 1990 interview that he and Arnaz had had oral sex, I think sometime in the last few years of Desi's marriage to Lucy. I'm not kidding. --24.21.149.124 (talk) 05:14, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's really almost unbelievable that there exists anyone who would really care who reportedly had sex (oral or otherwise) with whom 22 years after their death.BrianAlex (talk) 22:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ceasar Romero?

message: Is it possible to use the image from the Ricky Ricardo page for Desi's? Not sure whether Fair Use is cool with that.86.25.144.171 (talk) 16:26, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: This whole story is extremely disputed, the chances are very slim that this happened.  Unless there is concrete proof that this Madeline person is the biological daughter (which is being disputed, since it's knowledge that Lucille Ball had miscarriages and were trying to have a baby for like 10 years), I'm removing that. Splent (talk) 03:09, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Madeline Jane???

message: This line currently appears in the film career section of the article.
:: "Arnaz co-starred in the premiere of I Love Lucy, in which he played a fictitious version of himself, Cuban orchestra leader Enrique "Ricky" Ricardo."
However, no mention is made of Arnaz' musical career, never mind that he was a band leader. (There is only a brief line that he played guitar for Xavier Cugat, but given turnover in big bands, this might have been a one-night gig, the opportunity of a lifetime, or the culmination of a lot of hard work on his part.) While I am sure I have read elsewhere that he did have his own orchestra, that's hardly a wikipedia standard for updating the article.
Consequently, the line should either be removed or someone should find some cite-able examples of his pre-film career in the music industry and include them in the article. 75.37.18.204 (talk) 19:04, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band leader? 

message: While there are probably more, and better sources, on this aspect of Desi Arnaz's life, it is worth noting that he endured significant ethnic prejudice in his life.  
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZwX7qqzVeF0C&pg=PT90&lpg=PT90&dq=%25+Desi+Arnaz+%25+prejudice+%25&source=bl&ots=pGHn6u-Edm&sig=_q4dqB9fcjU5LldNOtDjZrLnUNU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=q9qTUufFK8TUoASiioHwAQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%25%20Desi%20Arnaz%20%25%20prejudice%20%25&f=false
198.188.134.45 (talk) 23:21, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The talk section is not a forum, the following conversation has been collapsed due to its unproductive content. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 00:26, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prejudice/Discrimination 

message: Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball only had 2 children
Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill
Desi Arnaz Jr
Fact they only have 5 grandchildren
Julia Arnaz Desi jrs daughter
Haley Arnaz Desi jrs adopted daughter through marriage
Simon Luckinbill Joe Luckinbill, Kate Luckinbill, Lucie Arna's children.
Fact Lucille and Desi only have 1 greatgrandchild, Desiree Anzalone, Julia's only child and Desi's only grandchild.........
Their was and is NO other proven children, EVER!
The far fetched story told by a women, Cassandria Carlson keeps changing.
She says she has proof that her mother was given up for adoption from Lucy and Desi Sr. Cassandria can never show anyone these ducuments, because she simply does not have them, or she would show and prove this crazy untrue story.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.124.222.197 (talk) 15:46, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Sources? -Xcuref1endx (talk) 21:24, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  fact's About my family" Arnaz's/ Ball 

message: The "does not cite ANY references" warning was no longer true, there are references in that section, so I removed the alert box from the top of that section.  Feel free to replace it with a "needs additional citations" box if someone feels this is necessary, but the "does not cite ANY references" box really is for sections void of references, which is not the case at the time of making this edit. 2A02:C7D:864B:3A00:A1B8:589A:11F9:B0E0 (talk) 16:23, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  desilu productions 

message: The 'I love Lucy was never just a title" line is directly from Desi's book and should be cited as such. It is on the last page and is the last line98.114.52.240 (talk) 00:17, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 'I love Lucy was never just a title" line  

message: Most people would understand :Category:Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in the United States as referring to the 1959 Castro revolution (not 1933), and that's what it seems to be for... AnonMoos (talk) 23:47, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No reply after more than a week, removing category... AnonMoos (talk) 01:53, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in the United States 

message: There was no mention in the article about Star Trek, DesiLu Production’s most famous show.
Personally I feel that Desi Arnés continues to face discrimination when his achievements are overlooked in favor of Lucille Ball. Lucy herself had praised Desi for his accomplishments. 
Finally, bringing up unnecessary gossip that Arnés performed a sexual act on another Latino actor smacks of racism. Latino men of that era were very much into the machismo ethic, womanizing, drinking, sometimes having a secret family on the side). I’m not saying that homosexuality didn’t exist, but considering the times (homosexual acts were considered a crime, possible exposure and loss of social standing, stigma), how did this person know that such an act took place? It’s ugly hearsay to blemish these men, and it should be eradicated. These men are no longer alive to defend themselves. It hurts their families as well.
68.129.104.82 (talk) 21:47, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Star Trek