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...representing, at one time or another, every major figure of the 1950s-and-'60s folk-music revival, including Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. A producer of Alice's Restaurant and other movies, he was the inspiration for the central character of Irving Steinbloom in the 2003 film spoof A Mighty Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

...representing, at one time or another, every major figure of the 1950s-and-'60s folk-music revival, including Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. A producer of Alice's Restaurant and other movies, he was the inspiration for the central character of Irving Steinbloom in the 2003 film spoof A Mighty Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 17, 2005 | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

Even before the main ceremony began, audience members had already begun throwing paper airplanes onto the stage in the grand tradition of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, a spoof on the annual Nobel Prizes...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ig Nobels Honor Off-Beat Science | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 10, 2005 | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

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