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...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, a film based on Caesar and his court of writers, including Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. There is also his autobiography, Where Have I Been? (Crown; $12.95). In the book, Caesar, 60, portrays himself as a guilt-ridden obsessive who even at the peak of his success was on an alcoholic slide fueled by two fifths of Scotch a day. Says Caesar...
...Bowl winners of the '70s did have Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Lynn Swana gathering bunches of touchdowns during their Sunday walks down the football field. But the Steelers also had DEFENSE, as in Mean Joe Green, L.C. Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, Dwight White, Jack Lambert, Jack Ham, Andy Russell, Mel Blount, J.T. Thomas and on and on and on It was defense that filled Steeler fingers with Super Bowl rings...
Arkansas G.O.P. Chairman Bob Cohee sees it differently: "I don't think 10% is any magic number." In Michigan, which has had double-digit unemployment since 1980 and is now first in the nation at 15.9%, State G.O.P. Chairman Mel Larsen predicts, "I don't think it's going to have that big an impact here. The rest of the country is just catching up to us." But Yale University Political Scientist Edward Tufte suggests that the issue could cost Republicans as many as 40 congressional seats next month. Says he: "Local factors like personality are Important...
...actor. Richard Benjamin turns out to be quite skillful behind the camera. He doesn't overwhelm with individual touches, but he does keep things moving deftly along, and he has had the good sense to let O'Toole follow his own course. My Favorite Year was produced by Mel Brooks' production company and the old hand's influence on some of the more slapstick movements is evident...
...most powerful petitioner was Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas. Gabler and her husband Mel, a retired clerk for Exxon, have spent some 20 years scrutinizing text books for political bias, moral lapses and erosion of traditional values. The Gablers have regularly influenced the Texas board of education to drop texts that they consider too liberal, and in doing so have won the public admiration of such New Right leaders as the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Phyllis Schlafly. But at this year's hearings, a new organization took on the Gablers: People for the American Way, a group founded...