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...Spirit is Willing, a rare opportunity to see the great Sid Caesar in a vehicle that warrants his presence. William Castle produced this spoof of horror films, including his own "Rosemary's Baby." Channel...
Directed by SID LEVIN a nd BOB ABEL
...word, quixotic. Generous of mind and deed, Sid Benson tries to be reconciled with his wife, visits his aging mother at her candy store, and unsuccessfully attempts to comfort a divorcee whom he picked up at a middle-aged singles dance. Benson's is a life lived at half-staff. The flags are high and snapping only in his imagination, a quaint attic of '30s and '40s swing tunes, names and faces from old copies of Photoplay, World War II stories and oddments of history...
...action against middle age with Blake's daring adventures during the Boxer Rebellion. "Fictionally oriented history" is what Benson calls his Blake novel. Like Faust's own Willy Remembers (1971), in which a 93-year-old veteran re-creates an addled version of the Spanish American War, Sid Benson tries to recapture a simpler, more dashing time...
...only reconfirm the warmest memories, but they revive the kind of deep, continuous and ultimately helpless laughter that is too rarely heard, the kind that makes the eyes water and the mouth slack at the edges from strain. It is laughter that for a time was always within Sid Caesar's power to give...