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Blowing Away Cobwebs. Even the Beatles' nonmusical utterances tend to take on the tone and weight of social prophecy. "Only Hitler ever duplicated their power over crowds," says Sid Bernstein, who organized their three New York concerts. "I'm convinced they could
Happy Bluebirds. Such adulation, says her third husband Sid Luft, father of Lorna and Joey and producer of her current tour, "is greater than she ever had before." Judging from the full houses at the Palace, he must be right. Curiously, a disproportionate part of her nightly claque seems to be homosexual. The boys in the tight trousers roll their eyes, tear at their hair and practically levitate from their seats, particularly when Judy sings: If happy little bluebirds...
...Busy Body comes not to praise Sid Caesar but to bury him. In Chicago, the syndicate's head hood (Robert Ryan) elects Delicatessen Delivery Boy Caesar to his board of directors because he likes the cut of his jib. Caesar, in turn, likes the cut of his job, but though he may act like a big deal, deep down he is a little schlemiel who can't even rob a grave without losing the body. Chased by cops and robbers, Caesar is saved at the final fade-out only by dumb luck and a dumber script...
Wednesday, April 5 SID CAESAR, IMOGENE COCA, CARL REINER, HOWARD MORRIS SPECIAL (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* Stars of the oldtimer "Your Show of Shows" come back to spoof rock 'n' roll groups, the Paris tourist and Italian opera. The Billy Williams Quartet comes with them...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby hosts George Burns, Sid Caesar, the Mamas and the Papas, and Soprano Jane Marsh, winner of the recent Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...