January 23, 2019 is the centenary of Ernie Kovacs' birth.
And boy, do we miss him! At least Ernie has a prominent place in The Ernie Kovacs Centennial Exhibit that will begin later this year, in August, at the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY.
There's also a new Ernie Kovacs Centennial Edition DVD for those who have not bought the previous Kovacs collections.
Our favorite examples of the exceedingly vivid imagination of Ernie Kovacs at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog remain the "sound-to-sight" pieces, mini-musicals staged for television which explored video technology in a highly creative and witty way. The first, based on Béla Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra" is evocative and lyrical, as well as a prime showcase for Ernie Kovacs the filmmaker, a man with a video camera and cinematic aspirations.
Thanks, Ernie - and a big time thanks to Edie Adams for her outstanding onscreen contributions to The Ernie Kovacs Show and equally outstanding (and tireless) efforts she made decades later to preserve Ernie's pioneering work in television.
One wonders just how many Ernie Kovacs Show and Here's Edie videotapes she personally rescued from being taped over or tossed in the East River!
We raise our mugs, tumblers and Percy Dovetonsils approved champagne flutes to Ernie and Edie!
For more, check out the following interview with Josh Mills, Edie's son and a historian/archivist, among the prime movers responsible for preserving Ernie's work and making it available on DVD, on The Bob Cesca Show.
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