Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of James Caesar Petrillo, trumpeter-boss of the American Federation of Musicians, musicians are simply workmen who make more or less pleasant noises for a living. "What's the difference," he once cried, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Last week Petrillo set up a little ceremony to pound home his point of view. Before him came Pianist Oscar Levant, penalized with suspension from the union last April for temperamentally failing to honor concert contracts, thus depriving supporting musicians of work. Levant's humiliation reminded Petrillo of another time when art bowed to business. "There...
...that one-the splendid dark incorrigible one, who possessed the arrogance and pride to demand with, and the temerity to object with, and the ambition to substitute with ... So God even used the ambition. He already presaw the long roster of the ambition's ruthless avatars-Genghis and Caesar . . . and Stalin and Bonaparte and Huey Long...
...Julius Caesar. Hollywood's best Shakespeare to date; with Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud (TIME, June...
...from the formal to the folksy. In his Hollywood debut, veteran Shakespearean Actor John Gielgud gives the part of Cassius, leader of the conspirators, his meticulous diction, classic profile, and a lean and hungry look. Less traditional in their delivery are Louis Calhern, as a rather tired-looking Caesar, and Edmond O'Brien, in a departure from his usual cops & robbers roles, as Casca, the conspiracy's hatchet man. In the vital role of Brutus, James Mason gives an intense, brooding performance that effectively combines the poetic and the prosaic. Greer Garson and Deborah Kerr, as Caesar...
...long. It's like saying: 'Pass the salad, pass the salad, pass the salad,' until it gets as dull to your ear as water dripping from a faucet." He also dislikes some of the character-diluting cutting that moviemakers do. One final unkind cut in Caesar: "During the battle-I've forgotten the lines-where Octavius says something like 'Man, what's happening?' and I say 'Cool, Dick...