Word: sid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apart from Carson, comics were not doing so well, except perhaps financially. Three of them, Jackie Gleason, Sid Caesar and George Gobel, were keeping their names on TV all summer by producing the replacements for their own comedy hours. In the Gleason spot was CBS's America's Greatest Bands (Sat. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), which presents four different jazz bands each week and thus far has seemed intent on proving how unimaginatively popular music can be presented in a visual medium. In Sid Caesar's NBC spot was Caesar Presents (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), a catastrophically unfunny...
...Rare (The Three Haircuts; Victor). Funnyman Sid Caesar's answer to the inanities of rock 'n' roll records, disk-jockey lingo, and the hyped-up state of pop music in general. With a screaming, honking, socking background, the Haircuts mimic the Crew-Cuts with their howl: "Yew are sooo rare to me! So very rare to me! So if I'm rare to yew, won't yew be rare...
...proxy battles. The Senate subcommittee, headed by Wall Street Alumnus Herbert H. Lehman, wanted Bob Young to explain just how he had managed to win control of the $2 billion New York Central last year, and especially how he made his big deal whereby Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson cast a whopping 800,000 votes in his favor...
When his former stars, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, decided to do their own shows this season, Liebman kept on for the spectaculars the veteran technical staff that had run Your Show of Shows for more than five years: a permanent group of 16 dancers and twelve singers, and such top professionals as Scene Designer Frederick Fox, Costume Designer Paul Du-Pont, Music Director Charles Sanford and Associate Producer Bill Hobin. With this well-coordinated team, Liebman has landed eight of his twelve color spectaculars in the Nielsen top ten TV shows...
This season Liebman imported some of his top stars from abroad, notably Britain's Jean Carson and France's Jacques Tati and Jeanmaire. He hopes to get Imogene Coca back under his wing for a production of Happy Birthday, and is looking for a vehicle for Sid Caesar...