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Kaplan's narratives, like William Manchester's in his monumental, novelistic American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur (1978), are logical, not chronological. Kaplan does not, for example, begin his recent Walt Whitman: A Life, with the poet's birth. Instead, the bard is introduced at age 65, broken and disabled by a stroke, buying his first house in seedy Camden, N.J. His brother George is angered by those "whorehouse" poems. Whitman responds, "I just did what I did because I did it-that's the whole secret." "You're as stubborn as hell," George says...
...television's sympathetic shrink. His weekly half-hour talk show, Tom Cottle: Up Close, is syndicated on 50 stations around the country, usually in the daytime hours when the schedule is awash in soap operas. Typical guests include such stars as Liv Ullmann, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Sid Caesar, Phyllis Diller and Milton Berle. But a Merv Griffin he is not; no idle chitchat for Cottle, who oozes edge-of-the-chair empathy as he delves into his guests' hurts, histories, loves and divorces. Their upholstered chair might as well be a couch...
...Soldier's Play. Charles Fuller's drama of tensile strength about a World War II black outfit stationed in Louisiana that gets involved in a racial whodunit. The central character, brilliantly portrayed by Adolph Caesar, is a black Regular Army noncom who is as tough as bully beef...
...frenetic days of live TV in the mid-'50s, Sid Caesar was the king of comedy, a round-faced, neovaudevillian who was earning a million dollars a year by the time he was 30. For the quarter-century since, little has been heard from the no longer reigning Caesar. But three recent events have set off a minirevival. One is a retrospective of the best from Your Show of Shows and its successor, Caesar's Hour which opens this week at the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan. Another is the release last month of My Favorite Year...
...show's host is "King" Kaiser (Joseph Bologna), a brash, somewhat arrogant comedian with an entourage of aggressively obsequious writers and producers. Any resemblance to Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows is, of course, purely intentional, and in many other ways the film strives to capture the innocent heyday of live TV. My Favorite Year succeeds in this respect, but except for O'Toole's manic star turn, remains at heart a tepid movie...