Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant French mime, Marcel Marceau, is "the art of expressing feelings by attitudes and not a means of expressing words through gestures." When Skelton this week shut his mouth for half an hour, he demonstrated Marceau's point better than any of the other U.S. performers-Caesar. Gleason Kovacs-who have tinkered fitfully with the unspoken attitude. Skelton shuffled through the pathetic attempts of Freddie the Freeloader to cadge a Thanksgiving dinner from the Elite Restaurant. His kindness in returning a rich matron's purse was rewarded with no reward: a policeman rapped a lone apple from...
...Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Sid Caesar fans must be fast afoot and nimble in the dialing finger if they are to catch him these days, but he can be seen briefly here. Color...
...play, Britain's Angry Young Success John Osborne looked back with pleasure on his previous record with U.S. critics. "I've actually been more respected here," said the 28-year-old playwright of The Entertainer and Look Back in Anger. "At home I feel like Julius Caesar going into the Forum . . . In this American century-because it has the American look and the American accent-the cry at home now is that I've sold out to the Yankee dollar...
...after his election-so much so that some Romans fondly recall the story told of Sixtus V (1585-1590), who in conclave seemed decrepit and ailing but, as soon as elected, threw away his cane, rose to his full height and announced in a vigorous voice: "Now I am Caesar...
Party Girl (Euterpe; MGM) is a caricature of an old-fashioned gangster picture, done in a clever but vulgar style. All the usual features are there, but all are comically exaggerated. The Little Caesar (Lee J. Cobb) is a sentimental old sweetie-pie with a heart almost as big as his sneer, who passes out diamond-crusted cigarette cases as if they were candy bars, gets a schoolboy crush on a studio still of Jean Harlow, and in fact has only one fault. He frequently rubs people the wrong way: out. The Big Mouthpiece (Robert Taylor), with his white-piped...