Showing posts with label Milton Berle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milton Berle. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
In anticipation of the 1963 launch of Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad Mad Mad World, United Artists spent close to four hundred thousand dollars in promotion, flying international media to Hollywood, putting them up at the Beverly Hilton, and tossing them a lavish party with comedians mingling about. Among the international media was a film crew from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In the States, Mad World's free infomercial came in the form of a cast appearance on the two-hour Jerry Lewis Show, a notorious and disastrous, short-lived ABC talk program. Dick Shawn, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman and plenty of others cavorted on Jerry's stage for the full 120 minutes. Back in Canada, the CBC's stark, black and white, cinema verite style documentary aired once and then vanished forever. If the eight minute selection below is any indication... it must be pretty amazing - and overripe for rediscovery.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Ignore the hokey credit crawl, this special is excellent. Not the nonsense you'd expect from a 1970s Milton Berle special, this is a fascinating series of interviews. This is surely the only time you'll ever see Milton Berle interview Mort Sahl about Lenny Bruce. This is a surprisingly exceptional special.
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