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Blessings in Disguise is Sir Alec's title, but the blessings in this all- too-short autobiography (Knopf; $17.95) wear no masks. Along with an engaging picture of Guinness himself, there are candid and almost always hilarious portraits of some of those he has met along the way to his...
One afternoon during the filming of Our Man in Havana, in which Kovacs played a corrupt police chief, Sir Alec passed the comedian's hotel room. The door was open, and Kovacs was sitting at a desk and typing furiously, surrounded by half a dozen naked girls reading magazines. "Shall...
The swagger and flippancy of that remark were qualities, shared and multiplied among a staff of intrepid writers, that made the show into a certifiable cultural phenomenon. S.N.L. was the first network program to cut off a slice of the energy, irreverence and scapegrace spirit of rock culture. It was...
The program may not have broken as much new ground as Kovacs did, and wonderful characters like the Coneheads or Belushi's demented samurai may not have been any funnier, finally, than anyone on Your Show of Shows, but this book gives full measure to the size and the weight...
No wonder they call television a medium, Comedian Ernie Kovacs once observed, since it is neither rare nor well done. Moreover, no matter how it is cooked, television often seems to consist of leftovers. Never more so than in the past few weeks, when a persistent recipe served up by...