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...ignored the Armed Services Committees of both houses when it comes to making crucial military decisions. As House Minority Whip Leslie Arends protested last week: "Secretary McNamara seldom asks advice, and listens only when he asks. I am constrained to ask: 'Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed that he is grown so great...
Moment to Moment. For his 75th movie, Director Mervyn LeRoy (Little Women, Little Caesar) takes on a case of adultery in France and loses it. While Heroine Jean Seberg languishes around Cannes in St. Laurent originals, her Psychiatrist Husband Arthur Hill leaves her and goes traipsing through Europe on behalf of mental health. Of course, Jean meets a smooth young Navy ensign (Sean Garrison) who seems uncertain whether he is supposed to be wearing his uniform or modeling...
...subway straphangers, is so worried about falling attendance that it has shelled out $150,000 to restore the old allure. Where Murder Inc. once made lethal lead pay big dividends, the two-bit Gallo and Profaci mobs cannot even afford to fix the cops. Tough Tony Anastasio, the stevedore Caesar who ruled the waterfront for a generation before he died in 1963, has been succeeded by a Ciceronic son-in-law, Brooklyn College Graduate Anthony-never Tony-Scotto...
Television, the disseminator of most current American comedy, has abdicated originality in favor of the safe and same. As recently as ten years ago, such comedians as Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs were savagely satirizing everything from fatherhood to French movies. Today on TV, comedy is rarely allowed to lumber into view unless preceded by its keeper-situation. Perhaps, too, it was inevitable that once man found a way to can the stuff of life he would some day find a way to can the stuff of the soul-laughter. Canned laughter is everywhere; TV has become a robot talking...
...Sahl, once a master of the form, is as hard fo find as an old Will Rogers routine; his last television show lasted two weeks. Monologuist Bob Newhart, one of a line of snipers who picked off American postures and pretensions, is rarely seen on TV nowadays, and Sid Caesar has not been seen regularly since 1964. Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who took the Ins and made them Out to be a group of phonies, seldom appear together any more...