June 06, 1986 • Page Image 29
…29 those who knew him from Your Show of Shows." Caesar's puta- tive power stemmed not just from the ratings — Sid Caesar was a physically powerful 'man, who once held writer Mel Brooks upside down outside a window, threatening to dump him on the pavement stories be- low. There were other stores — of Caesar bellowing, yelling, rip- ping out pipes in the urinal. "I was kind of crazy," he says now. "It took that kind of craziness to create such ...…

















































