This ad will close in  Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball  The Geniuses
Who Shaped The Future Of Television  Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball
Co-founders of Desilu Productions Founded: 1950  "Instead of
divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we thought we'd
profit from them."-Lucille Ball  When the creators of such mega-
hits as "Friends," "Seinfeld" and "ER" cash their hefty
syndication residual checks, they should take a moment to pay
homage to Desi Arnaz¬ and Lucille Ball-two of the savviest and
most innovative entrepreneurs ever to grace the star-studded
streets of Tinseltown. In addition to laying the groundwork for
the multibillion-dollar television syndication industry, they
introduced many of the production techniques that would become
standard television practice and almost single-handedly made
Hollywood the television capital of the world.  The couple met
in 1940 on the set of the RKO Studios musical "Too Many Girls."
It was a classic case of love at first sight, and they married
later that same year. But the