Thanks for the ping. I didn't know. I never would've guessed that he was a Marine drill sergeant.
Posted on 09/26/2005 11:12:18 AM PDT by Borges
Thanks for the ping. I didn't know. I never would've guessed that he was a Marine drill sergeant.
"The Odd Couple"
Ohmigosh I love that show. The greatest NY sitcom of all time.
Yes, I love that series. Only a few shows keep me laughing over and over no matter how many times I watch them. Get Smart. The Odd Couple. The Honeymooners (ties for 'greatest nyc sitcom of all time'). Batman (not a sitcom exactly). A few others.
Modern sitcoms pale in comparison.
"Only a few shows keep me laughing over and over no matter how many times I watch them."
The movie of the odd couple is great too. I can laugh until I cry watching that and I've seen it many times. The Honeymooners is truly classic, it is often the best show on TV, even in this day and age of scores of channels to chose from.
http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/
http://www.usmchangout.com/famous_marines_from_a_z.htm
One of my all-time favorite shows - I still use some of those lines. Great sense of timing.
Oh, and I always had a crush on 99.
RIP, Max, Tennessee, Inspector, Don Adams, and Marine DI Donald James Yarmy.
I went through Marine boot camp and infantry training with his son in 1970. There were at least a couple of old senior NCOs who knew his father from WWII.
As far as his age and birthdate, the obit I saw on TV this afternoon said he was born in 1926. It also says in some of these obits that he had to lie about his age when he enlisted -- which your article said was in 1941.
Makes you wonder if he was really 79, not 82.
At any rate, it certainly doesn't matter--he didn't make 86, but we'll excuse him for that.
I was one of the people recently using the "cone of silence" because all of us hurricane near-victims and students of caneology have been quoting the "cone of uncertainty" for the strike zone -- which always leads some of us "older" FReepers to invoke the "cone of silence," a la Maxwell.
And would you believe I use "would you believe" probably on a daily basis? What a classic!
RIP, Agent 86.
"Tennesee Tuxedo will not fail!!!" Wonder what poor Chumley (the Walrus) will do? B-( RIP Don Adams.
:-(
Good news! thanks.
Please ping me if you hear back. I will Tivo it!
Sad but 86 is a good age to go.
See post #50
They don't make actors like that anymore.
Good bye Don, have fun with the rest of the greats up there.
May he rest in peace.
He'll always live on as Maxwell Smart. 'Would you believe' I bought the whole Get Smart series from ebay and have been watching one or two episodes a day to relax? Some of the episodes are so classic - with Harry Hoo, Hymie the robot, and Seigfried. Some are so politically incorrect too, but so funny. And it's amazing to see 'Max' light up a cigarette in almost every episode!
I was looking up the obits on Cecily Adams (on a memorial website) from last year when she died. She was a talent too, as an actress and casting director. She played 'Moogie', Quark's mother, on Deep Space Nine. She passed on at only 46 years of age from lung cancer. She left a two-year-old daughter Maddie. Don Adams declined a lot in health after that. I wonder if they weren't that close before her illness. In his eulogy at her funeral, he talks about his last visit with her, and that "he didn't know her the way that some of the people there knew her". Very, very sad.
RIP Don Adams and Cecily Adams. "Max" and "Moogie"
The website I am talking about is:
http://www.cecilyadams.com/menu1.htm
And loving it.
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