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...Stage, radio and film: all were canap?s for the voracious man-child. Consider these three triumphs. In 1937, at 22, Welles and his Mer-cury Theatre had vitalized the New York stage with a "voodoo" " Macbeth," a "fascist" "Julius Caesar" and the agit-prop musical "The Cradle With Rock" - the last a sensation when the sponsoring WPA denied it a venue and Welles marched his company and the first-nighters to another theater, where the actors per-formed the show from the audience. In 1938, he elevated radio drama by bringing the Mercury Theatre to the air and, on October...
...which produced the program, put Welles on its cover the week of his 23rd birthday, predicting he would be no "flash in the Pantheon." The year before, Clare Boothe, soon to marry TIME?s boss Henry Luce, had put up crucial backing for the Mercury?s production of "Julius Caesar.") The story goes that he was hired when the series was airing a piece on the newly-born Dionne quintuplets - Welles played all five babies. He impersonated kings and plutocrats, all the newsmakers of the period. And one new newsmaker. As he recalled for Peter Bogdanovich in "This Is Orson...
...beginning to feel as comfortable with the past as Heaney is with his dead-poets society. We spend a great deal of time with the dear and departed as it is. On a given day, I can read a Hemingway story, watch a Bette Davis movie, chomp on a Caesar salad in the Carnegie Deli and listen to a Cole Porter tune sung by Frank Sinatra as I take the F.D.R. Drive to La Guardia Airport, where I board a plane to Washington...
France's favorite comic-book character is Astérix, a diminutive Gaul who gets loaded on magic potion before beating the daylights out of Caesar's invading legions. In real life, Rome gave France the grape, whose sophisticated cultivation the French now claim as one of their crowning contributions to civilization. Recently, anti-globalization maestro José Bové has adopted Astérix's moustache along with his approach to foreign policy - with U.S. multinationals taking the place of the Roman army. That comic-book reading of 21st century economics prevailed last month in southern France, when Robert...
DIED. IMOGENE COCA, 92, wide-eyed, winsome comedian and Sid Caesar's co-star in the 1950s television classic Your Show of Shows; in Westport, Conn. Petite in stature but possessed of outsize energy, Coca won an Emmy in 1952 for her subtly satirical performance on the show, which aired live for 90 minutes on Saturday nights and during which Coca and Caesar, without the aid of cue cards, acted out skits lampooning marriage, everyday life and popular culture...