Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been gradually winning U.S. audiences away from other forms of TV comedy. My Favorite Husband (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS), a happy-family newcomer, last week boasted a Trendex rating of 25-compared to only 21.5 for its top competitor, the gaudy Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. The fact that Husband was able to equal, and then surpass, the rating of one of the best and oldest of the expensive variety shows may have played an important part in the decision to break up the team of Caesar and Coca next season (TIME, March...
After four years as a top-rated TV program, Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC) last week came in sight of the end of the road. In his Manhattan office, Producer Max Liebman and his two stars, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, broke the news to reporters. Next fall each goes his own way: Caesar, who has signed a ten-year contract with NBC, will star in his own show; Liebman is working on the format of a new Show of Shows with a new cast; and Imogene thinks she will have a show...
...goodbyes were said with many tears by $10,000-a-week Imogene ("It's a sad event−I'm sorry it's happened"), a few tears by Liebman ("These things are natural developments in show business"), and none at all by $25,000-a-week Caesar, who observed: "To me, it's a really heartbreaking thing. But when a star starts to grow, there comes a time when a star must go on by itself." Producer Liebman, looking at the photographers, said to both of his stars: "Let's all smile...
Most fantastic item: a collection of letters (among the correspondents: Plato, Socrates, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne) for which an incredibly gullible French scientist had paid 150,000 gold francs ($30,000) in the 18605 to a forger named Vrain-Lucas. One of the letters, written in French on old parchment, was from Lazarus to Jesus in thanks for having been raised from the dead. Barely discernible were the words: "See you in Rome, dear Lord...
...Rico in Little Caesar, Robinson's character is less fragrant. But he is not devoid of a certain fatuous charm: his sentimental inability to knock off a stool pegeon of long acquaintance proves his undoing, thus leaving us a foul moral lesson that somehow cluded the censors...