Cathy Seipp has an amusing… what would you call it, Cathy – show-bit?… for the recently passed Don Adams of Get Smart fame. La Seipp has the ability to look through the television rather than at it and often comes up with unpredictable observations. (For me TV is a flat-screen Ambien replacement.) What I learned from her this time: The great Buck Henry was a co-creator of “Get Smart.” (He undoubtedly earned more from that than his legendary “The Graduate” script.) And Adams himself wrote one of those silly bathroom pamphlets for LA publisher Price Stern Sloan. I can remember pitching to them as well years ago – to no avail. Maybe I needed a TV series.
Damn I’m old.
Me to my husband: Don Adams died today.
His response: I told you not to tell me that.
what a terrific show that was.
thanks,Don.
Sorry about that.
I always enjoyed the show. In fact the entire family enjoyed the show. Part of the enjoyment was watching my mom laugh herself to tears.
For whatever reason the “Not Craw, you foo, Craw!” unfailingly hit her right in the funny bone. I had the good fortune once of witnessing a very real life “Not Craw, you foo, Craw!” episode when I was one of three people at a table while one, a Chinese woman, tried to explain to the third person at the table (an American) that he needed to go talk to a Mr. “Reeds” whose actual name was “Leeds”. No kidding. It was all I could do not to allow it to play out. I knew Mr. Leeds, so I felt compelled to end the episode before it could fully ripen to its comic potential. RIP.