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DVD Review: Ernie Kovacs: The ABC Specials - Inside Pulse


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DVD Review: Ernie Kovacs: The ABC Specials
Inside Pulse
by Joe Corey on May 20, 2012 Ernie Kovacs was a video magician decades before Criss Angel. Instead of merely fooling TV viewers with digital effects, Ernie tricked people into laughing at the strangest of jokes and most bizarre of images.

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Ernie Kovacs/Edie Adams retrospective opens at Museum of the Moving Image - Examiner.com

Ernie Kovacs/Edie Adams retrospective opens at Museum of the Moving Image
Examiner.com
His tombstone reads, “Nothing in moderation,” yet TV pioneer Ernie Kovacs'over-the-top creativity paved the way for everything from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In to Saturday Night Live and David Letterman. His innovative career, which was tragically cut ...

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You Can't Do That on Television: The Legacy of Ernie Kovacs - The L Magazine


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You Can't Do That on Television: The Legacy of Ernie Kovacs
The L Magazine
Even if you've never heard the name "Ernie Kovacs" (much less "Edie Adams"), you life's media diet has felt the sweaty, mustachioed comedian's touch. Kovacs was a pioneer in broadcast TV, but without a conventional career history in standup, ...
The prescient, avant-garde comedy of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams, recovered ... Capital New York

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Spare Times for May 18-24 - New York Times

Spare Times for May 18-24
New York Times
Museum of the Moving Image: Kovacs/Adams Retrospective and Documentary Screening (Friday through Sunday, Tuesday through Thursday) To viewers of early television, the husband-and-wife team of the comedian Ernie Kovacs and the entertainer Edie Adams was ...

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Previously Unreleased Ernie Kovacs Album Coming (Recap) - antiMUSIC.com

Previously Unreleased Ernie Kovacs Album Coming (Recap)
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On Friday Previously Unreleased Ernie Kovacs Album Coming was a top story. Here is the recap: On June 19th Omnivore Recordings are set to release (42 years after it was recorded in 1960) the previously lost "Ernie Kovacs: Percy Dovetonsils....Thpeaks"!

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'Engines of Change' by Paul Ingrassia - Boston Globe

'Engines of Change' by Paul Ingrassia
Boston Globe
During the next four years, GM made improvements to the Corvair's suspension, but not before several high profile accidents, one involving the death of television comedian Ernie Kovacs. In 1965, Nader's book “Unsafe at Any Speed'' was published.

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Spare Times for May 11-17 - New York Times

Spare Times for May 11-17
New York Times
Museum of the Moving Image: Kovacs/Adams Retrospective and Documentary Screening (Friday through Sunday, Tuesday through Thursday) To viewers of early television, the husband-and-wife team of the comedian Ernie Kovacs and the entertainer Edie Adams was ...

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Spare Times for May 4-10 - New York Times

Spare Times for May 4-10
New York Times
Museum of the Moving Image: Kovacs/Adams Retrospective and Documentary Screening (Friday through Sunday, Tuesday through Thursday) To viewers of early television, the husband-and-wife team of the comedian Ernie Kovacs and the entertainer Edie Adams was ...

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Spare Times for April 27 — May 3 - New York Times

Spare Times for April 27 — May 3
New York Times
... 7 to 9 pm Museum of the Moving Image: 'Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams' (Friday) To viewers of early television, the husband-and-wife team of the comedian Ernie Kovacs and the entertainer Edie Adams was as familiar as Burns and Allen or Lucy and Ricky.

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How the Corvair's rise and fall changed America forever - Reuters Blogs (blog)


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How the Corvair's rise and fall changed America forever
Reuters Blogs (blog)
On January 12, 1962, at around 1:30 am in Los Angeles, television comedian Ernie Kovacs was driving his new Corvair station wagon home after a party. Kovacs was following his wife, singer Edie Adams, who was driving home in the couple's Rolls-Royce.

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