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Showbiz

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2014, 12:57 PM Feb 2014

Sid Caesar has died at 91.

His "Show of Shows" on NBC T.V. wrote the book on variety comedy in 1951. When our family got our first t.v., he was a mainstay of comedy. He overcame a horrendous alcoholism problem, and lived a long life. This guy was funny and smart.