Posted on 09/26/2005 11:12:18 AM PDT by Borges
Carson (stealth) stole a lot from this guy.
RIP Don Adams.
Dang it... you almost made me cry.
Great post and I Agree
Semper Fi Marine !
Don Smart RIP ping . .
For those who don't know, "86" was slang for throwing something (usually paper) into the trash. Knowing the dirty minds of Buck Henry and Mel Brooks, I can only assume that the female agent was originally "Agent 69" but the censors probably caught it and made them change it. If you don't know what "69" means, go ask your mother.
I think she is 69 now ......:o)
So sad, isn't it? Those TV shows remind me of youthful innocence.
Aw, I hate to hear that and he had the very first 'cell' phone in his shoe, or shoe phone in his sole.
The world needs another Maxwell Smart about right now.
Actor Don Adams, famed for his role as the bungling secret agent in the hit 1960s TV show Get Smart, was a natural comic, says former co-star Barbara Feldon.
Adams, who played Maxwell Smart in the iconic American television sitcom, died in Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles last night from a lung infection. He was 82.
"It's very sad, it's sad for many, many people," Feldon, who co-starred with Adams as Control's Agent 99, told ABC Radio today.
"His family and of course all the fans somehow feel that those icons like Don will be there forever."
The success of Maxwell Smart was owed to Adams' comic timing, she said.
"People are born with comedy timing, it's very hard to learn and he was just naturally gifted in that regard," Feldon said.
"And that was then buttressed by that tremendous energy that he had and an intelligence that was quite different to Maxwell Smart."
Feldon said she had no idea how 99 put up with Smart, who took the credit for every case solved.
"That was the foundation of her relationship with him ... absolutely undiluted adoration.
"There was a great deal in the character of Maxwell that on one hand they could see themselves in him, on the other hand it's always fun to see someone puff themselves up and have the air taken out of them.
"But also there was something very vulnerable about the character that I think people responded to as well."
Feldon said she had known Adams for close to 40 years but it was only in recent times that she had the chance to know him better.
"In the last three or four years we've done several things together where we've appeared at some commercial venues and I think I got to know him better during these last three or four years than in the preceding 36," she said.
"He had the leisure to really converse.
"It was wonderful discovering his sensitivity and the sentiment that he had.
"Things he did on the outside, like writing poetry."
Adams also wrote a memoir featuring details about how his career began.
"I think he was very very proud of Get Smart, I think he really saw it as the highlight of his career - as he well should have," Feldon said.
Adams even drove a car that had Smart 86 emblazoned on its number plates, she said.
"There were a lot of fun times on the set there were a lot of tense times but always when you were doing a performance it was nothing but pure joy."
- AAP - (The Age, Australia)
Hymee: Hullo door, what was the question again?
True.
"WHAT"
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I'm running to the TIVO now!
And I don't know that Don Adams ever did. Like many others, this is the first I heard about it. Never had a clue during all the years of Adams' public life.
Semi-biographical, third party obituaries don't add up to bragging. Except maybe by your definition.
Tivo is awesome isn't it? I watch very little television but it saves the day for me:
I tivo the O'R Factor/H&C block and by speeding over dull segments and commericals, I get those two hours compressed into about 30 minutes.
I watch a few drama/SF shows (The Shield, Galactica) and Tivo shaves those hour long shows down to 45 mins or so each.
I timeshift everything expect important yankee games!
No word back yet from TV Land. When Randall passed away they wrote me back within 90 minutes.
Exactly so. We've lost a real hero.
86, 82, 86'd
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