LOS ANGELES (AP) — Daniel Melnick, the producer who brought gutsy, smart movies like "Straw Dogs," ''Network" and "Midnight Express" to the big screen, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 77.
Filed under: Video , Celebrities , Reality-Free There are very few recurring television moments that instantly grab my undivided attention: seeing an undead Billy Mays still pitching Oxy-Clean, Twilight Zone episodes that pwn Nazis, late night Skinemax. Now you can add Don Rickles to that list. He's become a staple of late night during the early Tonight Show because he's engaging, colorful and damn...
Ech. I hate early October. Always get sick in early October. On the plus side, I got myself a new keyboard (cheap too!) and Nyquil. Amusingly, the self-scan decided I should be carded for buying the crap. (Is Nyquil the drug of choice for kids these days') Depressingly, the checkout girl just waved me through rather than look at my ID. Crap. No more carding. I officially look old. Oh well. On the plus...
I'm watching C-Span, this is unbelievable. Fifty billion dollars up in smoke, and these gentlemen are saying we didn't ask anybody but Bernie. This would be comedy, if it wasn't so devastating for those swindled. Markopolos discovered it, but nobody checked. They did not even ask anybody but the burglar! Markopolos looks as clueless and smart at the same time as Don Adams, aka Maxwell Smart. I got...
For Christmas I bought my dad the complete collection of "Get Smart", the '60s sitcom featuring Don Adams as the bumbling CONTROL Agent 86 constantly fighting against the forces of KAOS. We've been watching the episodes from time-to-time and one of them featured a $400,000 robotic spy fly that, of course, Smart swats with a newspaper. According to some in the wacky antiwar left, the '60s...
Get Smart With Your Portfolio Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team Many of us are familiar with the 1960s TV show “Get Smart” which starred Don Adams as bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart – Agent 86. Perhaps the most famous gadget used by Maxwell Smart was his shoe phone. Today we don’t have to take [...]
Wowsers! One of the leaders in the fight against crime on kids TV is 'Inspector Gadget'. The original animated show is a co-production by DIC Entertainment in France and Nelvana in Canada. Gadget is a bionically-enhanced detective, using the various gadgets built into his anatomy to fight crime. Unfortunately, he is clumsy and absent-minded. Fortunately, his niece Penny and her dog Brain are always...
Upcoming Spy DVDs: Double Dose Of Don Adams Good news for all the Don Adams fans out there! Would you believe... two new DVD releases on the horizon... on the same day? First, for all those who didn't shell out for the giant TimeLife Get Smart set, HBO Home Video continue their releases of individual seasons with Get Smart: Season 4 on September 4. According to TV Shows On DVD , the four-disc set (containing...
New Spy DVDs Out This Week: International , Smart Today sees the release of Tom Tykwer's The International on DVD and Blu-Ray courtesy of Sony. The International is a very different sort of entry in the current neo-Eurospy wave than Taken and The Transporter . Rather than focusing on wall-to-wall action or sexy Russian party girls, it instead plays up another side of the genre: the fabulous locations....
Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) will co-star in Fox’s 24 next season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sackhoff won the role after a couple of weeks of on-and-off negotiations, the trade paper reported. Sackhoff will play Dana Walsh, a smart and competent expert data analyst at CTU with a secret past who is involved with CTU [...] Related posts: Katee Sackhoff Gets...
What a delightful surprise the modernized, updated Get Smart proved to be. As someone who worshipped the original series as a kid, and was utterly disappointed by the tone-deaf, unfunny The Nude Bomb when I saw it in the theater, I was all ready to hate this one. But I've been really impressed by Anne Hathaway for a long time (she may well become a latter-day Audrey Hepburn), think Steve Carrell is...
By David Lambert - Maxwell Smart is back...and loving it! And so is Agent 99, The Chief, Fang and the rest of the fearless Get Smart gang. Now it's easier than ever to out-smart the world's least-secret... (more)
By David Lambert - Over a year ago, in March 2008, we reported that the rights to DiC's Inspector Gadget animated series, starring the voice of Don Adams (Get Smart), had apparently moved from Shout!... (more)