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- The Hollywood Museum blinks up a new exhibit honoring screen legend Barbara Eden that features the original costume that the actress wore on her iconic TV series, I Dream of Jeannie. The latest addition to the Museum’s popular Lobby Series, the Jeannie exhibit is now open to the public and includes the original bottle from the I Dream of Jeannie pilot, plus five screen accurate bottles by Mario Della Cassa
- via VisitWallaWalla.org: Walla Walla, Washington will honor its favorite son, Adam West, on Saturday 9/21 with its third annual Adam West Day celebration. This year’s festivities will include the Batmobile, the Batcycle, the Batcopter, a screening of the documentary Starring Adam West, the world premiere performance of the tribute song Adam West Blues, and more
- Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Gilligan’s Island star Dawn Wells on her recent road trip to Provo, Utah with Kathy Garver; filming the classic Western movie Winterhawk on location in Montana, and the appeal of Westerns in general; and why the simple values embodied by Mary Ann are as timely today as ever. The Hollywood Museum will honor Dawn Wells in September with a new lobby tribute that will also commemorate the fifty-fifth anniversary of the premiere of Gilligan’s Island. Meanwhile, Dawn’s book WHAT WOULD MARY ANN DO? A Guide to Life has been re-issued by Bear Manor Media and is now available both in paperback and as an eBook. WHAT WOULD MARY ANN DO? takes a look at the various changes in today’s culture that face single women and single mothers, while also showing that Good Girls Do Finish First
- via National Comedy Center and Jonas PR: TIME magazine names the National Comedy Center as one of the World’s Greatest Places, selecting it as one of only nine U.S. attractions to experience and visit right now
- Hi, Bob! DECADES television network will celebrate the 90th birthday of comedy legend Bob Newhart with a weekend binge featuring eighty-two episodes of The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart, and Bob, plus interviews from The Dick Cavett Show featuring Bob Newhart. The Bob Newhart Weekend Binge starts Saturday 9/7 at 1pm ET 10am PT and continues until Monday 9/9 at 7am ET 4am PT
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via It’s Alive Media: Omnivore Recordings to reissue The Ernie Kovacs Album, the Grammy-nominated album from 1977, this summer with six bonus tracks
On Friday, July 5, Omnivore Recordings will reissue the 1977 Grammy-nominated The Ernie Kovacs Album as The Ernie Kovacs Album: Centennial Edition with six bonus tracks! Available on CD and digitally for the first time. To learn more about on this upcoming reissue, visit … Continue reading
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via It’s Alive Media: Attention, Kovacs Fans on the East Coast: May 2019 will bring three more events to celebrate Ernie’s centennial birthday, including a program honoring Ernie and Edie at the Library of Congress on Friday 5/10 and Saturday 5/11, and an Ernie Kovacs tribute at the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission on Wednesday 5/22
Announced today, Tuesday 4/16 (Edie Adams’ birthday) — May 2019 will be a big month for the Ernie Kovacs centennial (and for Edie Adams fans, too) as the estates for Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams have confirmed the following three … Continue reading
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Tagged AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Alec Guinness, Algernon Gerard, American Cinematheque, Baseball Film, Bell Book and Candle, Ben Model, Burl Ives, Buster Keaton of television, Charlie Clod In Brazil, Chevy Chase, Clues, Coloratura Mimi Cosnowski, David Letterman, doodles, Dutch Masters, Dutch Masters Commercials, Edie Adams, Ernie in Kovacsland, Ernie Kovacs, Ernie Kovacs Centennial, ERNIE KOVACS CENTENNIAL EDITION, Eugene, film and television commission, Fingers Under Weskit, Five Golden Hours, George Schlatter, Golden Age of TV, Golf With Edie And Ernie, Here's Edie!, Howard, Illustrated Profuselies, Irving Wong, It Happened To Ernie, J. Burlington Gearshift, John Magee, Jolene Brand, Josh Mills, Kovacsland, Kovacsland Forever, Library of Congress, Long Beach Museum of Art, Mack the Knife, Martin Krutch, Matzoh Hepplewhite, Maureen O’Hara, Miklos Molnar, Monty Python, motion picture commission, Muriel Cigars Commercials, Museum of the Moving Image, Nairobi Trio, New Jersey State Museum Auditorium, Ode To A Housefly, Ode To Electricity, Ode To Stanley's Pussycat, Olivia Scilloscope, Operation Mad Ball, Our Man In Havana, Packard Campus Theatre, Paley Center for Media, Percy Dovetonsils, Profuselies, Rock Mississippi, Sales Film, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Silents Please, sketch artist, Skodney Silsky, Solfeggio, Strangely Believe It, Superclod Test, Susan King, Take a Good Look, TCM, Television's Original Genius, Television's Orignal Genius, The Edie Adams Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, The Kapusta Kid, the Kovacs ABC specials, The Mysterious Knockwurst, the National Gallery, The Tonight Show, The World At Your Doorstep, The World's Strongest Ant, Turner Classic Movies, visual improv, Wake Me When It's Over, Writers To Blame
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Josh Mills, son of Edie Adams and the director of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, on some of the many events on tap for 2019 to celebrate the 100th birthday of Ernie Kovacs, including the upcoming two-day celebration at the Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Film and Television Archive on Friday 1/18 and Saturday 1/19. ERNIE KOVACS: The Centennial Edition, a newly released DVD configuration featuring the very best of Television’s Original Genius, is now available through Shout! Factory
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Tagged Algernon Gerard, Baseball Film, Ben Model, Buster Keaton of television, Charlie Clod In Brazil, Chevy Chase, Clues, Coloratura Mimi Cosnowski, David Letterman, Dutch Masters, Dutch Masters Commercials, Edie Adams, Ernie Kovacs, Ernie Kovacs Centennial, ERNIE KOVACS CENTENNIAL EDITION, Eugene, Fingers Under Weskit, Five Golden Hours, George Schlatter, Golden Age of TV, Golf With Edie And Ernie, Howard, Irving Wong, It Happened To Ernie, J. Burlington Gearshift, Jolene Brand, Josh Mills, Kovacsland, Mack the Knife, Martin Krutch, Matzoh Hepplewhite, Miklos Molnar, Monty Python, Muriel Cigars Commercials, Nairobi Trio, Ode To A Housefly, Ode To Electricity, Ode To Stanley's Pussycat, Olivia Scilloscope, Operation Mad Ball, Our Man In Havana, Percy Dovetonsils, Rock Mississippi, Sales Film, Saturday Night Live, Silents Please, Skodney Silsky, Solfeggio, Strangely Believe It, Superclod Test, Take a Good Look, Television's Orignal Genius, The Kapusta Kid, The Mysterious Knockwurst, The Tonight Show, The World At Your Doorstep, The World's Strongest Ant, Wake Me When It's Over, Writers To Blame
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via Shout! Factory: Just in Time for The Holiday Season: Limited Edition sets of Never-Before-Available-or-Seen Lithographs by Ernie Kovacs, starting at $250
Considered by many to be Television’s Original Genius because of his groundbreaking work in the early days of the medium, Ernie Kovacs was also a gifted sketch artist. Rarely without a pen and paper, the chronic insomniac often worked well into … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Gerard, Baseball Film, Charlie Clod In Brazil, Clues, Coloratura Mimi Cosnowski, doodles, Dutch Masters, Dutch Masters Commercials, Edie Adams, Ernie Kovacs, Ernie Kovacs Centennial, ERNIE KOVACS CENTENNIAL EDITION, Eugene, Fingers Under Weskit, Five Golden Hours, George Schlatter, Golden Age of TV, Golf With Edie And Ernie, Howard, Illustrated Profuselies, Irving Wong, It Happened To Ernie, J. Burlington Gearshift, Jolene Brand, Josh Mills, Kovacsland, Mack the Knife, Martin Krutch, Matzoh Hepplewhite, Miklos Molnar, Muriel Cigars Commercials, Nairobi Trio, Ode To A Housefly, Ode To Electricity, Ode To Stanley's Pussycat, Olivia Scilloscope, Operation Mad Ball, Our Man In Havana, Percy Dovetonsils, Profuselies, Rock Mississippi, Sales Film, Shout! Factory, Silents Please, sketch artist, Skodney Silsky, Solfeggio, Strangely Believe It, Superclod Test, Take a Good Look, Television's Orignal Genius, The Kapusta Kid, The Mysterious Knockwurst, The Tonight Show, The World At Your Doorstep, The World's Strongest Ant, visual improv, Wake Me When It's Over, Writers To Blame
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