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April 4, 2014 Screens Post by Robert Faires
Cantinflas
Mexico's most beloved comedy film star gets the biopic treatment.
"...me of nobody so much as Joseph Bologna doing Sid Caesar in My Favorite Year...."
Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Neuroses aren't so sexy after all
"...Eddie Deezen in 1941. Finally, Mel Brooks worked with Sid Caesar in Silent Movie, and Sid Caesar worked with..."
July 14, 2006 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
The Summer Revival Spirit
Can I Get a Witness?
"...D: Sidney Lumet; with Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman...."
June 12, 1998 Screens Feature
Home Entertainment for the Holidays
Best bets for DVD and Blu-ray
"...with Mike Wallace, with the staggeringly brilliant staff of Sid Caesar's 1950s TV shows (Larry Gelbart, Neil Simon, Carl..."
Dec. 14, 2012 Screens Feature by Robert Faires
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
A cast that knows funny lands the laughs in Neil Simon's comedy about comedy
"...a fond eye on his mid-1950s stint writing for Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour...."
March 18, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
A strong acting ensemble plays this Neil Simon comedy like there's no tomorrow
"...Mad TVs. We're talking Milton Berle here; we're talking Sid Caesar, Jack Benny, Henny Youngman. It's a milieu Simon..."
Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Review by Barry Pineo
The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History
What once was old – very old – is new again
"...Brooks and Carl Reiner, then both mining laughs for Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour,..."
Nov. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Robert Faires
The Good Doctor: Chekhovian Longing
The State Theater Company production of The Good Doctor
"...pieces, his in the form of TV sketches for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows and episodes for a..."
Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
"...Mel Brooks once witnessed Sid Caesar punching a horse, which inspired the gag in..."
March 18, 2022 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
We Learned It by Watching Movies
A film primer for the best in wicked entertainment
"...on executive producer Mel Brooks meeting Errol Flynn on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, there may be no..."
Jan. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki
Chronicle Recommends: Foolish Films
They're no geniuses, but these fools make for fun films
"...silent era (Buster Keaton) to golden-age icons Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Ethel Merman. Seemingly the only..."
April 1, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff
A Tall Drink of Water
Stars we love at the Paramount Summer Classic Film series
"...Some film actors work from the outside in: They wear a prosthetic, adopt a mannerism, speak..."
May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Steve Davis
LipSchtick Traces
When Cindy Wood scores the big laughs at Esther's Follies, she's channeling comedy's funniest femmes
"...guys she adores: Jonathan Winters, Milton Berle, Tim Conway, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart. And it was Charlie Chaplin who..."
April 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Esther's Follies
Laughmeister Kerry Awn retires from the Follies – and is twice as busy as before
"...Slide Show, Buck Husky routines ("Dammit, I'm mad"), and side-splitting impersonations of Gov. Goodhair and his goober-natorial predecessor-gone-president, Shrub,..."
March 18, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Let Him Entertain You
Why producer Charles Duggan is staging the biggest holiday spectacular Austin's ever seen
"...the Long Center, he plans to make it snow inside Dell Hall. And not just on the stage, but..."
Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Carol Burnett
The great comedienne explains what made her show work and why recent attempts don't
"...second banana – this was like Carl Reiner to Sid Caesar and Art Carney to Jackie Gleason – I..."
Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
A Few Issues
"...Wire when I say that The Wire offers an inside view of an entire working (or, rather, not-working) American..."
Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Queen Victoria's burial booty, and catching up with the Oyls
"...Sid Caesar doesn't like getting haircuts.The average American household expends..."
Jan. 12, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
DVD Watch: Potential-Gift Edition
'SNL,' 'Robin Hood,' 'Symbiopsychotaxiplasm,' and more
"...national television hadn't been attempted since the days of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, let alone put into the..."
Dec. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Uhler
Martin & Lewis
'What we had,' said Jerry Lewis, 'was lightning in a bottle.' And now we have it in public domain.
"...television, and the affection between the two is palpable. Sid Caesar had the genius; Dean and Jerry crashed the..."
July 1, 2005 Screens Review by Steve Uhler
Standing by Stanley
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad interview with actor Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of the iconoclastic director.
"...of thumbing through the textbook. Kramer's canon developed right alongside several benchmark events in American history, and Mrs. Kramer's..."
Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald
Putting a Name to a Face
Dallas' USA Film Festival definitively answers the question, "Who is that guy?" with its tribute to Texan character actor Stephen Tobolowsky.
"...when the USA Film Festival saluted its first honorees: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. "And I remember the idea..."
May 2, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola
Book Review
"Between its title and proximate April Fools' Day release, the casual observer might assume Gerald Nachman's Seriously Funny is some sort of joke book," writes Ken Lieck. "However, its subtitle and subject offer the advanced student of dry humor the opportunity to quip that no, it is the anti-joke book!"
"...underlying affection is clear, Nachman doesn't whitewash the dark sides of his subjects, from Winters' trip to the looney..."
April 18, 2003 Books Feature by Ken Lieck
Pride of the Yankees?
Evan Smith translates a New York pedigree into the editorship of Texas Monthly.
"..."My management style is a cross between Hitler and Sid Caesar." Says TM writer/editor Michael Hall: "Evan is a..."
July 20, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Something Completely Different
Comedy writers Bob Odenkirk and David Cross took everything they’d learned from past comic masters and made their Mr. Show variety show into something completely different.
"...the world changed. There was now television. Two men, Sid Caesar and Milton Berle, took, borrowed, and stole from..."
Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Ron Deutsch
Tv-eye
Emmy-Meeny-Miney-Moe
"...absolutely brilliant turn, but it'll probably go to either Sid Caesar or Mel Brooks as Paul's wacky relatives on..."
Sept. 5, 1997 Screens Column by Christopher Gray
Tributes
"...posthumous epitaph, "In My Hour of Darkness" -- ill-fated. Considering Emmylou is this tribute's executive producer, it's probably no..."
