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DIED. DON ADAMS, 82, former stand-up comic who achieved pop culture fame and three Emmys as the bumbling yet vain secret agent Maxwell Smart ("Sorry about that, Chief") on TV's 1960s spy spoof Get Smart; in Los Angeles. Unlike James Bond, Adams' unsuave Agent 86 ate classified messages before remembering to read them, dialed calls on a phone hidden in a pair of high-tech but often malfunctioning shoes, and insisted that his partner, 99 (Barbara Feldon), let him handle the delicate jobs?which he promptly botched. Adams' later roles included the voice of Inspector Gadget...
Bernard Berkman is an uncertain egotist. The author of several novels that beguiled the literati once upon a time, he now has no agent--so he feels he has to promote himself, even to his own family. (He refers to Kafka as "one of my predecessors.") The rest of his life is getting away from him too. His tennis game isn't what it used to be. His wife, restless in his shadow, has turned to writing and got a story in the New Yorker. She has also called off their marriage, leaving their two sons shuffling back and forth...
DIED. DON ADAMS, 82, ex-stand-up comic who achieved eternal pop-culture fame, and three Emmys, as the bumbling yet vain secret agent Maxwell Smart ("Sorry about that, Chief") on TV's 1960s spy spoof Get Smart; in Los Angeles. Unlike James Bond, Adams' hilariously unsuave Agent 86 ate classified messages before remembering to read them, dialed calls on a phone hidden in a pair of high-tech but often malfunctioning shoes and insisted that his partner, 99 (Barbara Feldon), let him handle the delicate jobs--which he promptly botched. Adams' later roles included the voice of Inspector Gadget...
...bear to see it maladapted, I just mean that listening to the soft, faux-baton crooning of the song, and then seeing this same Joanna Newsom-esque popadry set before a backdrop of shape-shifting, color-altering starscapes and dream sequences, feels sort of like seeing Agent Smith muttering Elvish in a fever-dream to Frodo Baggins. Only sort of, but weird is weird...
...goofiest of the trio yet occasionally the most entertaining. It has quirky humor but turns into CSI: The Fourth Dimension as the team chases sailors cum aliens. More disturbing is how blithely it notes that the team members are draftees, serving on pain of jail. Later, a government agent, bringing in a man suspected of being an alien, casually conks the guy's head against a car hood as he demands his rights. With friends like these, who needs aliens...