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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caryscott" data-source="post: 407227" data-attributes="member: 57460"><p>I doubt Lucy was perfect. Control is usually the issue for a lot of women of that era. Even when they had it they didn’t. So aggressively asserting it often became the only way they could exercise their power. Historical accounts often filtered through the recollection of men are notoriously unreliable. There is that great television interview where the male host  is out in the audience and Lucy keeps telling to him to stop pawing the female audience members. She’s insistent but not mean. I’m sure she got it wrong sometimes, we all do, but she seems pretty authentic to me. Ahistorical one dimensional portraits of female stars whether a white wash or hatchet job are the dullest.</p></blockquote><p></p>