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Article: WRITERS IN CAESAR'S STABLE TURNED OUT TO BE THOROUGHBREDS PBS SPECIAL REUNITES NOW FAMOUS COHORTS.(Television)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 17, 1996
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Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. Render unto ``Caesar's Writers,'' an hour of your time tonight (10, KCTS/9).
``That's not Julius Caesar we're talking about,'' as host Billy Crystal says in his introduction, ``not Augustus Caesar, or any of those guys who were a laugh riot back then. We're talking about Sid Caesar.''
And we're talking about his stable of writers for ``Your Show of Shows'' and ``Caesar's Hour'' in the 1950s.
Nine of them got together earlier this year for a colloquy at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., which was distilled into a 63-minute special for PBS.
Some went on to fame: Carl ...