I asked you not to tell me that!
Gone to the eternal Cone of Silence. RIP!
Not Craw! Craw!
He gave me a lot of laughs.
I thought he was 86.
Missed it by that much.
Yeah, I know that one’s been driven into the ground; but if only he could have lived another four years…
Before I left L.A. I was driving home north on the 405. There was a red Sunbeam Tiger (in need of restoration, but complete) with this license plate: GETSMRT.
Does anybody else remember Don Adams’ Screen Test? (mid-70s) It was a game show, sort of, in which contestants would team up with celebrities (usually Don’s pals; Don Rickles was a frequent guest) to recreate famous movie scenes. Don would “direct” the scenes amidst much tomfoolery and shenanigans. It wasn’t bad.
Well, he’s 86ed anyway.
WHAT?
Yeah, I saw that. Syndicated, so a lot of people may not have seen it.
The one I remember most, for some reason, is the beach scene from From Here To Eternity. They kept dumping water on the two actors over and over again.
Get Smart (2006)
Steve Carell … Maxwell Smart
Production Notes/Status:
Status: Announced
Comments: In active development
I am expecting it to be painfully bad.
I remember Screen test vaguely.
Get Smart was my second favorite show after Star Trek as a kid. I still enjoy seeing it on the occasions it shows up on TV Land.
In the AP article it mentions three different years of birth having been listed at different times.
Link please, and if that is the case, we should just decide he was 86 then. It just seems right. I hope Ms. Feldon gets to make it to 99.
I bet Ziegfried was behind this. Who’s going to talk to Agent 13 now?
The “WHAT?” was a follow-up joke to your “Cone of Silence” remark. The first two times I almost posted it, I removed the bit about the remake, but of course when I finally got around to doing it, I forgot. The other two years in the New York Times obit - it’s all the same AP story, but much longer than what you’d find on CNN - were 1926 and 1927.
I also got to know Get Smart on Nick at Nite, although I saw many more episodes of Inspector Gadget. The phrase “hop to it, Hymie” has been in circulation in my house for many years.
:smack: oops I get it, I thought you were shocked by the remake remark. Sorry. 
Actually I should have said:
Would you believe, I thought you were shocked by the remake remark. 
Ahh yes, the old ‘shocked by the remake remark’ ploy.
“And loving it!”
Sorry.
Get Smart is one of my favorite shows, and the only thing I was looking forward to regarding the upcoming movie was the possibility of Don Adams making a cameo. At least now that I don’t even have that, I can spare myself from seeing it.
Don’t be sorry, its actually appropriate. We should celibrate his life by celibrating his humor. (At this point Mary Richards would break out crying).
I have to admit, this is probably the most appropriate celeb tribute thread I’ve ever seen on this board.