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...miscast Mr. Preston, we are reminded with his every movement what a great musical comedy performer he is. Unfortunately, the depressing influence of the Literary has dimmed the euphoria with which he used to light into all those trombones. Nowadays, he resembled no one so much as Tiberius Caesar of whom Suetonius said, "he habitually wore the expression of an man straining on the stood...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). TV tries hard to forget its former favorites, but here's a cup of kindness for Auld Prime Timers Arthur Godfrey and Sid Caesar...
...Eternal City has always had an eternal problem: traffic. In Julius Caesar's day it was chariots and wagons jammed axle-to-axle on the cobblestones. Today it is Fiats and Alfa-Romeos bumper-to-bumper in a jam that reaches maximum autosclerosis in Rome's downtown arteries during the holiday shopping season. Caesar solved the problem in his day by imperial edict, banning carts, wagons, coaches and elephants during daylight hours. Last week Rome was trying the same thing on a smaller scale-and ruefully discovering banning Fiats by fiat to be hardly a Caesarian triumph...
...Ghiaurov. The Met also launched its new national touring company, whose performances ranged from a fine Cinderella to a terrible Carmen. Opera companies in other cities tirelessly found out-of-the-way things to do, for instance, the Kansas City production of Handel's 241-year-old Julius Caesar and the Boston premiere of Italian Composer Luigi Nono s starkly modern Intolleranza...
...though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria I, Moreau drolly helps the cause by improvising bits of the funeral oration from Julius Caesar, although most of the time she plays second banana to Maria II. A tomboyish Mata Hari who spent her childhood in Ireland as a mad bomber, Bardot gets the flashier jobs, manning a machine gun, planting high explosives, swinging from tree to tree like Tarzan...