Talking With Sid Caesar

Posted on May 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

 
May 9, 1980, Sid Caesar

May 9, 1980, Sid Caesar

May 9, 1980: Times’ Pulitzer winner Howard Rosenberg, in top form, interviews Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Caesar talks about Mel Brooks … and “Saturday Night Live.”

May 9, 1980, Long Riders

Sneak preview of “The Long Riders” … I didn’t realize Ry Cooder did the music.

May 9, 1980, Sid Caesar

May 9, 1980, Sid Caesar

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1 Response to Talking With Sid Caesar

  1. Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender's avatar Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender says:
    May 9, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    Live TV was perfect for the incomparable, Sid Ceasar. He was an untreated manic/depressive. Nothing could be more manic than performing a new, ninety-minute show, live before forty million people 39 weeks a year.
    And no one could do it funnier.

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