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Sail a Crooked Ship (Columbia). A very funny man was the late Ernie Kovacs (TIME, Jan. 19), and never funnier than when he was playing a shtunk. Big, broad-shouldered and vulgarly handsome, he had a way of swaggering up to some pitiful little twerp and sneering down at him...
In Ship, the last movie he made. Comedian Kovacs plays Bugsy F. Foglemayer, a might-have-been menace who has plenty of big ideas but unfortunately keeps them in an itsy-bitsy brain. "I'm a unsussessful crinimal," Bugsy sighs, "because I had a unhappy childhood. My parents didn...
Died. Ernie Kovacs, 42, mustachioed, cigar-frazzling master of madcap nihilistic humor; of a fractured skull and a ruptured aorta suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer...
It was soon clear that no one was really interested in Sinatra et al. Comedian Ernie Kovacs and Lenore Lemmon began talking Hungarian. "I think this program is all outer space," sloshed Joe E. Lewis at one point. Queried Host David: "What's outer space?" Reply: "Outer space is...
Ernie Kovacs Special (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). More sight-and-sound gags by an entertainer who has not heard that TV comedy is dead.