The movie director puts down several performances The tone is optimistic with seemingly endless enthusiasm for life's abundant pleasures and pleasing pleasures of flesh and blood on earth. Many critics attribute this exciting attitude to Sid Caesar's portrayal of Moses on screen. Perhaps too optimistic is another characteristic that defines Caesar's performances in general and Sid Caesar's performances in particular: silence. Sid Caesar gives nothing away about himself but merely announces what he thinks about things with ease and wit. Only sometimes does his passionate enthusiasm reveal itself with speeches or gestures that