Word: caesares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Capone (Burrows-Ackerman; Allied Artists) is amusing proof of the old saw that each generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
...Mithridates, he died old," sang A. E. Housman in A Shropshire Lad-leaving it largely up to his readers to know who Mithradates was and why his longevity was worthy of note. In this book, able and highly readable, Historian Alfred (Julius Caesar) Duggan writes the first full-dress account of Mithradates' amazing life. Deftly stitched together from sundry classical sources (Plutarch, Appian, Strabo), King of Pontus is not only an excellent piece of history but a first-rate tale of war and adventure whose hero is never more heroic than in the closing years of a long...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). First act of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, with Maurice Evans and Piper Laurie...
...pours. To a very few show folk-Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Thalberg, Variety Founder Sime Silverman-has gone an uninterrupted outpouring of vocal, tearful affection. This week a new name was added to the roll of comradely love when a clutch of top entertainers, including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb and Betty Grable, performed at union minimum rates ($265 each) in a 90-minute NBC telecast in honor of the late Manie Sacks. The show's title: Some of Manie's Friends...
Born. To Janet Blair (real name: Martha Janet Lafferty), 38, actress (Sid Caesar's third TV wife, Eileen in the first ilm version of My Sister Eileen), and STick Mayo, 37, producer: their first child...