#sid caesar

Mel Brooks (writer) and Sid Caesar (star) in 1952.

In the golf club bag right next to Jerry you can read "Jer, I love you, Dino" ♡

It’s a simple idea; a group of people learn a secret about where a bunch of money is hidden “underneath a big W” and they all scramble to get there first. Hella hijinx ensue. The story fractures and splits more and more until people are involved who don’t even know what they’re looking for. Columbo is in it. The Three Stooges appear in a silent cameo for less than five seconds in one of the best jokes in the film. It’s ultra-wide screen and shot in super technicolor, it’s as rich as eating a whole wedding cake by yourself. It’s perfect for new years day or any lazy decadent day off. A young Johnathan Winters destroys an entire gas station using Phil Silvers as a weapon. Everyone is competing to see whose character can be the most foolish, venal, arrogant idiot, and there is so much mugging and scene stealing it’s almost too much. There have been attempts to remake it but it’s impossible to match the original. I don’t watch it often, I save it as kind of a special treat and today is a perfect time to watch it. Highly recommended

Marcel Marceau in Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie", 1976

Sid Caesar-Eve Arden "Grease" 1978, de Randal Kleiser.

Sid Caesar for Van de Kamp's Chinese Classics