Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front row center, with a cigar and red pocket handkerchief) are: (top row) Milton Berle, 73, Don Rickles, 55, Steve Landesberg (partially hidden), 36, Bob Newhart, 52, Morey Amsterdam, 67, Bob Hope, 78, Art Linkletter, 69, Jack Carter, 58, Joey Bishop, 63, Phyllis Diller, 64, Carl Reiner, 59, Sid Caesar, 59;(front row) Jan Murray, 64, George Burns, 85, Danny, Red Buttons, 62, Steve Lawrence, 46, and Buddy Hackett, 57. One longtime Hollywood hand telephoned Thomas. "I'm calling to congratulate you on your 39th birthday," said Ronald Reagan, 70. Replied Thomas: "You never did get your lines right...
This is the opening scene of A Soldier's Play, which inaugurates the Negro Ensemble Company's 15th season. It is a drama of tensile strength that almost deflects attention from its flaws. The dead man is Technical Sergeant Vernon C. Waters (Adolph Caesar), a regular Army, "all Army" noncom who fought in World War I. The time is 1944; the place Fort Neal, La. Apart from its white officers, this is a black outfit consigned to menial and, sometimes, degrading tasks...
...taut, forceful direction, Douglas Turner Ward elicits splendid performances from his cast. Adolph Caesar's portrayal of Waters merits an acting medal of honor. - By T.E. Kalem
...will be as if we ourselves were able to witness great Caesar's shock as he reels before the daggers inside the Roman Senate, Columbus' triumphant smile as he spies the dim outline of the New World, Washington's hope and anxiety as he crosses the icy Delaware to surprise the Hessians in their Christmas celebrations. "Can you imagine having had thousands of candid and honest pictures of Charlemagne, Kublai Khan or Abraham Lincoln?" asks Yoichi Okamoto, who was official photographer to Lyndon Johnson. Okamoto's excitement is catching. Photojournalism has known many great days since...
...This hedgehogness beats at my brain," he says. "I'm sick of feeling the same goddam thrill--I sort of want to fox it, just go out. I'd just like to be a doctor--I'd love to be a politician. Great politicians are great actors, I think: Caesar, Goethe, Gandhi--they're acting, but in the stuff of life...