Found inside – Page 186Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ( MTV 1984 ) ** 1/2 Jeff Goldblum , Melody Anderson , Cloris Leachman , Edie Adams , Madolyn Smith . The brilliant TV comic Ernie Kovacs suffered a traumatic personal crisis at the time he was building ... Revolution of the Eye uncovers the cultural history of a medium whose powerful influence on our lives remains pervasive. Found inside – Page 1946In 1984 she portrayed Mae West in the TV biography 'Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter.' FILMS INCLUDE: The Apartment 1960; Lover Come Back 1961; Call Me Bwana, lt's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Under the Yum Yum Tree 1963; The ... Broadway and TV star Edie Adams remembers life before and after Ernie Kovacs, whose untimely death cut short their marriage and the groundbreaking comedic collaborations they created Found inside – Page 193He played a detective in the short - lived series Tenspeed and Brownshoe ( 1979 ) , and also had leading parts in the made - for - TV movies Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ( 1984 ) , Framed ( 1990 ) , and Lush Life ( 1996 ) . For at least ... Found inside – Page 3... Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ; 1987 : Adventures Beyond Belief / Neat and Tidy ; Shooting Stars ; 1989 : Jake Spanner : Private Eye ... There are generations that have never seen Sid Caesar become an automobile tire or Red Skelton stick his thumbs in his armpits and intone, "Two theagulls...," never journeyed with Ernie Kovacs to a surrealistic world of his warped ... Found inside – Page 386Harrison is excellent ing a villainous troll from its tomb . Pretty as the cerebral hero of this John Galsworlame ; Kitt is wasted as a witch . ( PG ] VO thy story ( which was filmed before in Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter 1930 ) . Shot on ... Found inside – Page iBrings together forty original essays from today's leading scholars on television culture, writing about the programs they care (and think) the most about. Found inside – Page 311Ernie ' s attempts to break down the traditional barriers between TV viewers and practitioners anticipated Wolf Vostell ' s ... as has the ABC Television movie Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ( 1984 ) , which starred Jeff Goldblum as Ernie ... Found inside – Page 241Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ( MTV 1984 ) ** Y2 Jeff Goldblum , Melody Anderson , Cloris Leachman , Edie Adams , Madolyn Smith . The brilliant TV comic Ernie Kovacs suffered a traumatic personal crisis at the time he was building ... Found inside – Page 113... 9:00 0 One Day At A Time O Special: 1 9th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards 0 Merv Griffin O Movie: Ernie Kovacs: Between The Laughter (1984). Found inside – Page 443... ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS John Cherry FILM ERNEST SCARED STUPID John Cherry DIRECTORS ERNIE & ROSE ......... John W. Huckert ERNIE GAME , THE Don Owen GUIDE ERNIE KOVACS : BETWEEN THE LAUGHTER ( TF ) . Found inside – Page 285Concentrating on telefilms based on actual events, Johnson received Emmy nominations for Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter with Jeff Goldblum as the ... Gerald Nachman presents the stories of the groundbreaking comedy stars of those years, each one a cultural harbinger: • Mort Sahl, of a new political cynicism • Lenny Bruce, of the sexual, drug, and language revolution • Dick Gregory, ... Found inside"Movies-Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter" on March 17, 2011. Retrieved July 11, 2010. ^ Hastings, Julianne (May 14, 1984). "When the Laughter Stopped". Found inside – Page 98... Golden Gate (1981), The Phantom of the Opera (1983), Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984), After the Promise (1987) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1989). Found inside – Page 1287(1980), Showtime Cable's Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius (1982), and ABC's Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984). Found inside – Page 3In 1984 Adams served as a consultant for Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter , an ABC - TV movie starring Jeff Goldblum as Kovacs and Adams as Mae West . She released her autobiography in 1990 , and in 1993 appeared in the public TV ... Found inside – Page 14Then the laughter comes as we “get” that surrealism is about connecting ... Thus, the gap between thinking of people changing lightbulbs and . . . fish! Found inside – Page 3Is there a built - in conflict between the network and such creative forces ? Lamont Johnson , the director of " Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter " ( ABC ) and ' Wallenberg " ( ABC ) complains in the Los Angeles Times ( 4 / 5 / 85 ) about ... The Legendary Laughter Series highlights classic comedy from the silent era to the television age, engagingly written, revealing the stories behind the laughs ? by a lifelong student of the great laughmakers and a fellow practitioner of ... Found insideIn this book, Andrew Horton offers the first sustained look at Ernie Kovacs’s wide-ranging and lasting contributions to the development of TV comedy. Found inside – Page 893Some of the visual material has been reissued in compilations for home video , including The Best of Ernie Kovacs . Most of his ten films have been released on video cassette , as has Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter , the TV ... Found inside – Page 20491984: Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (tV), The Cowboy and the Ballerina (tV), What Waits Below. 1986: Free Ride, Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story ... Found insideThe book ends with the mass layoffs and resulting decline that ushered in the "digital-first" age. Found inside – Page 394... Hatch Award , for radio campaign “ Dial an Oxford Pickle Joke ” ; Emmy nomination and Writers Guild Award nomination , both for teleplay Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ; two other Emmy nominations ; one other Writers Guild Award ... Found inside – Page 4She also toured as a guest speaker , showing highlights of the Kovacs show ; in 1984 she was a consultant for the television movie Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter . From the 1990s Adams continued to tour in cabarets and musicals ... Found inside... Fear on Trial (1975), Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984), Unnatural Causes (1986), the miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990), ... Found inside – Page 238In 1977 excerpts from several of Kovacs ' s shows were packaged for educational television under the title The Best of Ernie Kovacs . On 14 May 1984 ABC aired a made - for - TV movie , “ Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter , ” which ... Found inside – Page 173... guests include Brooke Shields , Bruce Boxleitner , Elizabeth Ashley , Dorothy Hamill and Norm Crosby ) ( 5/14 ) Special 9-11 : 00 The ABC Monday Night Movie Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ( biographical drama of the innovative but ... Found inside – Page 44... He Might Hear You (¡983) and Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (¡984). The latter real-life story dealt with Kovacs' e›orts to retrieve his two ... This history of Shock Theatre focuses on the series and its creator, Marvin himself--in real life, the multi-talented Terry Bennett, whose wife Joy played "Dear. Found insideShe played Edie Adams in a TV-movie on Ernie Kovacs (Between the Laughter) and Marilyn Monroe in a TVmovie on Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn and Bobby: Her Final ... Found inside – Page 23In ABC's made - fortelevision biographical drama Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ( elecast May 14 ) , comedian Kovacs ( Jeff Goldblum ) , interrupts a conversation during a 1953 party scene . Kovacs does this by holding a copy of Mad ... Found inside – Page 363[ PG ] Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel Ernie Kovacs : Between the Laughter ( 1981 - British ) C - 62m . * 1 / 2 D : Rex Pyke . ( 1984 ) C - 100m . TVM D : Lamont JohnEric Clapton , Muddy Waters , George Har- son . Jeff Goldblum , Melody ... With a reporter's eye for detail, Wallace mingles laughter, tragedy, and revelatory insight in a memoir unlike any other. For anyone who's ever wondered what it's like to make history for a living, this is a must-read. 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