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five-minute interview spot
called Tune In With Lucie.

>From 1967 to 1972 she was a regular on her mother's TV show,
_Here's Lucy_. She has made countless guest appearances on other
shows, and performed lead roles in numerous musicals. Her parents,
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Sr., were divorced more than a decade ago
and have both remarried.
"My mother was here for opening night, then she stayed a couple of
days in New York. But she gets too lonely when my brother Desi and I
go away for too long. He was here for most of the summer. He was
doing a movie called How To Pick Up Girls. He played the guy who
supposedly knew all about it -- one of the two stars. He said, "It's funny,
I meet girls on the street, and New York has the most beautiful girls in
the world, and when they ask me what I'm doing here and I tell them
the name of the movie, they walk away and say, 'You dirty toad!'" Desi
also plays the groom in the new Robert Altman film, A Wedding.
"My father is now putting an album together of the music that was
recorded for the old Lucy Show. Salsa music is coming back now, so
he's been asked to make an album of those tapes."
Speaking of her hobbies, Lucie noted that "recently I started to build a
darkroom in my house. The key word is started. It's hard to get the
time. ... And I have been writing songs for the last couple of years. I'm
a lyricist. I've sung them on things like Mike Douglas and Dinah."
She enjoys all of New York, though at one time "the East Side gave me
the ooga boogas. Then I found a couple of places there that were nice."
On the West Side, she likes to dine at La Cantina, Victor's Cafe, and
Ying, all on Columbus Avenue near 71st and 72nd Streets.
When the five-minute warning sounded in her dressing room, Lucie
had to turn me out, but not before she divulged her philosophy about
show business. "Am I ambitious?" she echoed. "I don't know. There are
people who are willing to really knock the doors down and do just
about anything to get there. I'm not like that. Even now, when I go to
the market, people come up to me and say, 'Aren't you. ... ?' So I can
imagine what it would be like to be a superstar. No, I'm not really
looking forward to that."

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EASTSIDER ADRIEN ARPEL America's best-selling beauty author
3-29-80
As a young girl in Englewood, New Jersey, Adrien Arpel was
determined that one day she would transform herself into a beautiful
woman. After having her nose bobbed, she began to pester the ladies
behind every cosmetic counter she could reach, and by the time she
graduated from high school at 17, she knew more than they did. That
same year she opened a small cosmetics shop in her hometown with
$400 earned from baby-sitting. Today, at 38, she is the president of a
$12 million-a-year company selling more than 100 beauty products
throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Not content with mere business success, she recently turned her talent
to writing her first book, Adrien Arpel's Three-Week Crash
Makeover/Shapeover Beauty Program (1977). It was on the _New
York Times'_ best-seller list for six months, and is still selling briskly
in paperback. Miss Arpel received $275,000 from Pocket Books for the
reprint rights -- the most ever for a beauty book.
"I have always been a rebel," she proclaims regally, dressed in a stylish
Edwardian outfit with padded shoulders at her midtown office. Quite
heavily made up, with hot pink lipstick and a Cleopatra hairdo, she
looks considerably younger than her age. The strident quality of her
voice is reminiscent of a Broadway chorus girl's, yet is delivered in a
crisp, businesslike manner. During the interview she rarely smiles or
strays from the question being asked. For some reason, she declines to
say much about her new book, How to Look 10 Years Younger, which
is scheduled for publication in April. Instead, she stresses the simple,
common-sense rules about beauty that have guided her career from the
beginning.
Probably her two most important innovations are her exclusive use of
nature-based, chemical-free products (chosen from leading European
health spas) and her policy of try-before-you-buy makeup.

Complimentary makeup is offered every time a customer gets a facial
at one of the hundreds of Adrien Arpel salons, such as those on the first
floor of Bloomingdale's and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Whenever she opens a new salon, Adrien spends the entire day on her
feet, doing upwards of 35 facials with her own pale, delicate hands.
Upon being complimented for her attire, Miss