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There is a wonderful scene in “Being the Ricardos” — Aaron Sorkin’s wrenching chronicle of the pioneering TV comedy series “I Love Lucy” — in which Lucy drags two of her co-stars to the studio at 2 a.m., during a thunderstorm, to re-block a comic moment in a dinner scene that hadn’t gone well in rehearsal. It wasn’t even her bit — it was between her two fellow actors — but she knew it wasn’t good enough, funny enough. And so we watch Lucy push them to rehearse it — position them, instruct them — and they comply, even though their expressions reveal that they think she’s gone mad.

But Lucille Ball knew where the funny was. She could envision it. She could hear it. And she knew what to add to it to make it better.

And making it better haunted her.

Sorkin knows the drive it takes to make things better, and he soon shows us just how much better — and how much funnier — Lucy makes the scene when it is finally filmed the next day. I dare you not to laugh at it.

Sorkin didn’t have the chance to talk with Lucy about what drove her that night, but that didn’t keep him from writing exactly what she must have felt.

”I am the biggest asset of CBS, the biggest asset of Phillip Morris and Westinghouse,” Lucy tells her impatient co-stars, “and I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing…and

all I have to do to keep it is kill every week for 36 weeks in a row… Kill. So let’s do it again.”

It’s a breathtaking moment...

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