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...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...
COLUMBIA 35, BUCKNELL 3--You know there isn't a whole lot happening on the Columbia football scene when the big press release of the week is "John Witkowski vs. Columbia--quarterbacking greats." Betcha didn't know he, already completed more passes than Sid Luckman did in his years as the Lion signal caller...
HOLY CROSS 73, BROWN 0--The Bruins will score during their first drive, but the touchdown will be called back because of a holding penalty. And Bruno will never see the end zone again. This one's for you, Sid Luckman...
...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...
...that of an Errol Flynn-like movie star named Alan Swann whose swash has buckled to the point where the IRS is forcing him to choose between deportation and a back-tax-paying appearance on a TV comedy program. This show bears a more than coincidental resemblance to Sid Caesar's old Your Show of Shows. The perils it presents to a man whose joints have been vulcanized by excesses of meaningful booze and meaningless sex are substantial: an erratically egomaniacal star (Joseph Bologna); an aggrieved hoodlum (Cameron Mitchell), convinced he is being satirized in one of the regular...