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One of the monthly 30 minute specials that Ernie produced for the ABC Network around 1962.
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Although it is posted all over YT, no tribute site would be complete without Kovacs' signature comedy sketch. Of course, it's The Nairobi Trio's syncopated rendition of Robert Maxwell's "Solfeggio". As if you didn't already know, the costumed gorilla with the cigar in his mouth is Ernie. The pianist's has been self identified as Ernie's co-star Jolene Brand. The timpanist has never been identified but, in this particular performance, his apparent small stature suggests it is Kovacs' sidekick the late Bobby Lauher. At other times, the role was reported to have been played by Ernie's best friend Jack Lemmon, Milton Berle, and the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra.
- published: 06 Feb 2010
- views: 224026
Chef Miklos Molnar shows us how to prepare Chicken Molnar. Or a really complicated way to get drunk.
- published: 20 Nov 2008
- views: 76393
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As Meryl Streep’s new film “Florence Foster Jenkins” hits theaters August 12, Shout! Factory celebrates the the 60th anniversary of the Ernie Kovacs spoof where he reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins singing played by Edie Adams.
In the infancy of any medium, there will be some who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet and created a "language" that is now taken for granted.
You can get Ernie Kovacs on DVD at www.shoutfactory.com or watch Ernie Kovacs on Shout! Factory TV (http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/the-ernie-kovacs-collection).
SHOUT! FACTORY has devoted itself to the higher pursuit of pop culture for the past 10 years. During that time, we've released some of TV's most beloved gems, such as Freaks And Geeks, My So-Called Life, Sports Night, MadTV and Mystery Science Theater. We've also reintroduced some of television's most adored personalities with collections featuring Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Mel Brooks, Groucho Marx and Elvira, Mistress of the Night..
- published: 12 Aug 2016
- views: 1434
Ernie goes from a radio personality in Trenton, where he broke chicken bones into the mic while broadcasting wrestling, to a 3 hour live morning show in Philadelphia where he created 'Percy Dovetonsils,' the Alfred E. Newman of the gay set!
- published: 28 Aug 2015
- views: 1392
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Here is one of Ernie's most famous, and bizarre, characters. Percy Dovetonsils was a take off on a particular genre of television show found in the early fifties (at least in the New York City area). Usually airing during the early to mid afternoons, this type of show was intended to appeal to the harried little housewife during her break between finishing the laundry and starting dinner (the SNL sketch "The Continental", with the great comedic performance by Christopher Walken, was in fact based on such a show by the same name). So Percy would wax poetry...very bad poetry...in an effort to entertain housewives. Tell me that I might be wrong, but I somehow feel his personal attraction was directed more to their working husbands! BTW, Percy indicates that he is offering "a cluuuue". This sequence apparently had been created as one of the "clue" seqments of his game show "Take a Good Look".
- published: 18 Feb 2009
- views: 45840
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - One more rendition of one of Ernie's most remembered video "blackout" sequences involving the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht song "Mack the Knife" (or "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"). The late German comedian and actor Wolfgang Neuss is singing.
- published: 29 Aug 2009
- views: 29797
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Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919 -- January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Kovacs' uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident. Many iconic and diverse shows have been influenced by Kovacs, such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, The Uncle Floyd Show, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and TV hosts such as David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson. Chevy Chase acknowledged Kovacs' influence and thanked him during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live. Chase appeared in the 1982 documentary called Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius, speaking again of the impact Kovacs had on his work.
On or off screen, Kovacs could be counted on for the unexpected, from having marmosets as pets to wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show. When working at WABC (AM) as a morning-drive radio personality and doing a mid-morning television show for NBC, Kovacs disliked eating breakfast alone while his wife was sleeping in after her Broadway performances. His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and whose job was to make breakfast for them both, then take him to the WABC studios.
While Kovacs and his wife Edie Adams received Emmy nominations for best performances in a comedy series in 1957, his talent was not formally recognized until after his death. The 1962 Emmy for outstanding electronic camera work and the Directors' Guild award came a short time after his fatal accident. A quarter century later, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Kovacs also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television. In 1986, the Museum of Television & Radio (now the Paley Center for Media) presented an exhibit of Kovacs' work, called The Vision of Ernie Kovacs.
- published: 07 Jun 2014
- views: 8640
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - This video is the teaser and opening credits from one of the episodes the PBS Series "The Best of Ernie Kovacs". Ernie's good friend, the late Jack Lemmon, offers the opening narration describing Kovacs' love of music and the special comedic qualities with which he could associate with their performance. The main sketch marries medicine with music; specifically, Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite".
- published: 10 Oct 2009
- views: 3129
Ernie Kovacs
Ernest Edward "Ernie" Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Kovacs' uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident. Many shows, such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, Monty Python, The Uncle Floyd Show, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street and The Electric Company are credited with having been influenced by Kovacs.Chevy Chase acknowledged Kovacs' influence and thanked him during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live.
On or off screen, Kovacs could be counted on for the unexpected, from having marmosets as pets to wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show.
When working at WABC (AM) as a morning-drive radio personality and doing a mid-morning television show for NBC, Kovacs disliked eating breakfast alone while his wife, Edie Adams, was sleeping in after her Broadway performances. His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and make breakfast for them both, then take Ernie to the WABC studios.
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Ernie
Ernie may refer to:
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The Nairobi Trio
The Nairobi Trio was a skit Ernie Kovacs performed several times for his TV shows. It combined many existing concepts and visuals in a novel and creative way.
People in gorilla suits have always been a comedy staple. The notion of well-known or predictable music pieces gone awry has long been practiced by artists as diverse as Stan Freberg, Spike Jones or P. D. Q. Bach. The "slow burn" of one character being annoyed by another, resulting in eventual retaliation, was not new. But the combination of all those ingredients, combined with impeccable timing, produced a unique and memorable result.
Origins
It was a live-action version of a child's animatronic wind-up music box, and performed to the tune "Solfeggio" by Robert Maxwell. According to an interview with Edie Adams contained in John Barbour's 1982 documentary Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius, when Kovacs first heard a recording of the Maxwell's composition, he immediately came up with a mental image of what would become The Nairobi Trio: Barry Shear, Kovacs' director at DuMont Television Network, brought the tune to Kovacs' attention in 1954.
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Percy Dovetonsils
Percy Dovetonsils is a fictional character created and played by television comedian Ernie Kovacs. It is probably the best remembered of Kovacs' many TV incarnations. Percy was always introduced with a sweeping flourish of harp music as a "poet laureate" who appeared onscreen as a bizarre effeminate "artiste" with weirdly slicked hair (including two carefully placed spit-curls on his forehead) and extraordinarily thick eyeglasses that appeared to have eyes painted on the backsides of the lenses. He would appear seated in a chair wearing a zebra-patterned smoking jacket, and reading from an oversize book lying open in his lap. Percy would address the audience in a syrupy lisp and read his poems out of the book while sipping from a martini glass (which often had a daisy for a swizzle stick) and/or smoking through a long cigarette holder.
The poems themselves were corny or silly, with titles like "Leslie the Mean Animal Trainer" and "Ode to a Housefly (Philosophical Ruminations on a Beastie in the Booze)." While clever, the real humor of the poems lay in the delivery, Percy's appearance and mannerisms, and his obvious self-satisfaction with his creations (as evidenced by a pursed-lip smile and a quiver of the head at the end of significant stanzas).
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Florence Foster Jenkins
Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur operatic soprano who was known and ridiculed for her lack of rhythm, pitch, and tone; her aberrant pronunciation; and her generally poor singing ability.
Personal life
Born Nascina Florence Foster in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Mary Jane (née Hoagland 1851–1930) and Charles Dorrance Foster (1836–1909). She had one sibling, a sister named Lillian, who died at age 8 in 1883. She dropped her first name and went by her middle name, Florence, during her formative years. Her father was a lawyer, and his family was wealthy and owned land near Back Mountain, Pennsylvania.
Jenkins received piano lessons as a child and, after becoming a child prodigy pianist, performed all over the state of Pennsylvania, appearing in Sängerfests and even at the White House during the administration of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Upon graduating from high school, she expressed a desire to go abroad to study music, but her wealthy father refused to pay the bill, so she retaliated and eloped with Dr. Frank Thornton Jenkins (1852–1917) and they moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were married around 1885. Shortly after their marriage, Jenkins contracted syphilis from her husband and Dr. Jenkins was never mentioned again. It is not known whether they obtained a divorce or separated, but she kept his family name as her own.
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29:10"The Ernie Kovacs Show" (Full Episode)
"The Ernie Kovacs Show" (Full Episode)"The Ernie Kovacs Show" (Full Episode)
One of the monthly 30 minute specials that Ernie produced for the ABC Network around 1962. -
2:32Ernie Kovacs - The Nairobi Trio "Solfeggio" - ABC Television Network Videotaped Version
Ernie Kovacs - The Nairobi Trio "Solfeggio" - ABC Television Network Videotaped VersionErnie Kovacs - The Nairobi Trio "Solfeggio" - ABC Television Network Videotaped Version
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Although it is posted all over YT, no tribute site would be complete without Kovacs' signature comedy sketch. Of course, it's The Nairobi Trio's syncopated rendition of Robert Maxwell's "Solfeggio". As if you didn't already know, the costumed gorilla with the cigar in his mouth is Ernie. The pianist's has been self identified as Ernie's co-star Jolene Brand. The timpanist has never been identified but, in this particular performance, his apparent small stature suggests it is Kovacs' sidekick the late Bobby Lauher. At other times, the role was reported to have been played by Ernie's best friend Jack Lemmon, Milton Berle, and the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra. -
4:20Ernie Kovacs - Chef Miklos Molnar
Ernie Kovacs - Chef Miklos MolnarErnie Kovacs - Chef Miklos Molnar
Chef Miklos Molnar shows us how to prepare Chicken Molnar. Or a really complicated way to get drunk. -
3:03The Ernie Kovacs Collection: Ernie Kovacs Reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins - Clip
The Ernie Kovacs Collection: Ernie Kovacs Reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins - ClipThe Ernie Kovacs Collection: Ernie Kovacs Reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins - Clip
Subscribe to SHOUTFACTORY: http://bit.ly/1nm0dKP Follow us on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/shoutfactory Like us on FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/1nEYhOx As Meryl Streep’s new film “Florence Foster Jenkins” hits theaters August 12, Shout! Factory celebrates the the 60th anniversary of the Ernie Kovacs spoof where he reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins singing played by Edie Adams. In the infancy of any medium, there will be some who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet and created a "language" that is now taken for granted. You can get Ernie Kovacs on DVD at www.shoutfactory.com or watch Ernie Kovacs on Shout! Factory TV (http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/the-ernie-kovacs-collection). SHOUT! FACTORY has devoted itself to the higher pursuit of pop culture for the past 10 years. During that time, we've released some of TV's most beloved gems, such as Freaks And Geeks, My So-Called Life, Sports Night, MadTV and Mystery Science Theater. We've also reintroduced some of television's most adored personalities with collections featuring Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Mel Brooks, Groucho Marx and Elvira, Mistress of the Night.. -
10:00John Barbour's documentary of the legendary Ernie Kovacs; part 1
John Barbour's documentary of the legendary Ernie Kovacs; part 1John Barbour's documentary of the legendary Ernie Kovacs; part 1
Ernie goes from a radio personality in Trenton, where he broke chicken bones into the mic while broadcasting wrestling, to a 3 hour live morning show in Philadelphia where he created 'Percy Dovetonsils,' the Alfred E. Newman of the gay set! -
2:11Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate, reciting "Leslie the Mean Animal Trainer"
Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate, reciting "Leslie the Mean Animal Trainer"Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate, reciting "Leslie the Mean Animal Trainer"
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Here is one of Ernie's most famous, and bizarre, characters. Percy Dovetonsils was a take off on a particular genre of television show found in the early fifties (at least in the New York City area). Usually airing during the early to mid afternoons, this type of show was intended to appeal to the harried little housewife during her break between finishing the laundry and starting dinner (the SNL sketch "The Continental", with the great comedic performance by Christopher Walken, was in fact based on such a show by the same name). So Percy would wax poetry...very bad poetry...in an effort to entertain housewives. Tell me that I might be wrong, but I somehow feel his personal attraction was directed more to their working husbands! BTW, Percy indicates that he is offering "a cluuuue". This sequence apparently had been created as one of the "clue" seqments of his game show "Take a Good Look". -
4:15Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" Take 4, includes car dropping through floor.
Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" Take 4, includes car dropping through floor.Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" Take 4, includes car dropping through floor.
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - One more rendition of one of Ernie's most remembered video "blackout" sequences involving the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht song "Mack the Knife" (or "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"). The late German comedian and actor Wolfgang Neuss is singing. -
1:29ERNIE KOVACS - 1961 - "The Nairobi Trio"
ERNIE KOVACS - 1961 - "The Nairobi Trio"ERNIE KOVACS - 1961 - "The Nairobi Trio"
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4:00Ernie Kovacs - Kitchen Symphony
Ernie Kovacs - Kitchen Symphony -
5:40Ernie Kovacs on Music with intro by Jack Lemmon / Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" / Operating Room
Ernie Kovacs on Music with intro by Jack Lemmon / Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" / Operating RoomErnie Kovacs on Music with intro by Jack Lemmon / Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" / Operating Room
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - This video is the teaser and opening credits from one of the episodes the PBS Series "The Best of Ernie Kovacs". Ernie's good friend, the late Jack Lemmon, offers the opening narration describing Kovacs' love of music and the special comedic qualities with which he could associate with their performance. The main sketch marries medicine with music; specifically, Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite".
Kovacs, Ernie Filmography
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2001, role: actor
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1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1962, role: actor , character name: Dr. P. Crookshank
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1961, role: editor
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1961, role: actor , character name: Aldo Bondi
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1961, role: actor , character name: Bugsy G. Foglemeyer aka The Captain
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1960, role: actor , character name: Capt. Charlie Stark
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1960, role: actor , character name: Roger Altar
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1960, role: actor , character name: Frankie Canon
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1960, role: actor , character name: Immigration Inspector
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1959, role: actor , character name: Himself - Co-Presenter: Costume Design Awards
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1959, role: actor , character name: Capt. Segura
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1959, role: actor , character name: Harry Foster Malone
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1958, role: actor , character name: Sidney Redlitch
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1957, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1957, role: actor , character name: Eugene
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1957, role: writer
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1957, role: director
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1957, role: editor
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1957, role: actor , character name: Capt. Paul Lock
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1956, role: actor , character name: Cameo appearance
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1954, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1954, role: actor , character name: Emcee
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1954, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1954, role: actor , character name: panelst
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1953, role: actor , character name: panelist
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1953, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1951, role: actor , character name: Host
Ernie Kovacs
ALBUMS
- Percy Dovetonsils... Thpeaks released: 2012
- The Ernie Kovacs Album released: 1976
Percy Dovetonsils... Thpeaks
Released 2012- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Intro
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to Stanley’s Pussycat
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to Mona Lisa
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Lament From a Germ’s Eye Viewpoint
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to the Happier Days of the Roman Coliseum
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to Whistler’s Mother
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Thoughts While Falling Off the Empire State Building
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Side One Closing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Some Pertinent Thoughts of Julius Caesar While He Was Being Assassinated
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to Sam, the Taller of the Two Monkeys
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to a House Fly
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to an Emotional Italian Knight
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Happy Birthday to a Bookworm
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen The Night Before Christmas on New York’s Fashionable East Side
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Cowboy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Side Two Closing
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen "Roughing It" Interview
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen A Day at the Races
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to a Worm’s Eye View
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Ode to a Hangman’s Noose
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen At Home
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Poem for Edith Adams
The Ernie Kovacs Album
Released 1976- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Tom Swift
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen J. Walter Puppybreath; Albert Gridley
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen World's Strongest Man; Man's Best Friend
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Droongo; "John"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Percy Dovetonsils: (a) Ode To Stanley's Pussycat (b) Ode To An Emotional Italian Knight
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Mack The Knife (Theme From "The Threepenny Opera") Percy Dovetonsils: (a) Happy Birthday To A Bookworm (b) Cowboy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Strangely Believe Its
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Perry Ragout
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Mr. Question Man
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Uncle Buddy
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Oddities In The News; Closing "I've Had It... Arrivederci"
Born: 1919-01-23
Died: 1962-01-13
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"The Ernie Kovacs Show" (Full Episode)
One of the monthly 30 minute specials that Ernie produced for the ABC Network around 1962.
published: 03 May 2012 -
Ernie Kovacs - The Nairobi Trio "Solfeggio" - ABC Television Network Videotaped Version
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Although it is posted all over YT, no tribute site would be complete without Kovacs' signature comedy sketch. Of course, it's The Nairobi Trio's syncopated rendition of Robert Maxwell's "Solfeggio". As if you didn't already know, the costumed gorilla with the cigar in his mouth is Ernie. The pianist's has been self identified as Ernie's co-star Jolene Brand. The timpanist has never been identified but, in this particular performance, his apparent small stature suggests it is Kovacs' sidekick the late Bobby Lauher. At other times, the role was reported to have been played by Ernie's best friend Jack Lemmon, Milton Berle, and the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra.
published: 06 Feb 2010 -
Ernie Kovacs - Chef Miklos Molnar
Chef Miklos Molnar shows us how to prepare Chicken Molnar. Or a really complicated way to get drunk.
published: 20 Nov 2008 -
The Ernie Kovacs Collection: Ernie Kovacs Reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins - Clip
Subscribe to SHOUTFACTORY: http://bit.ly/1nm0dKP Follow us on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/shoutfactory Like us on FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/1nEYhOx As Meryl Streep’s new film “Florence Foster Jenkins” hits theaters August 12, Shout! Factory celebrates the the 60th anniversary of the Ernie Kovacs spoof where he reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins singing played by Edie Adams. In the infancy of any medium, there will be some who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet and created a "language" that is now taken for granted. You can get Ernie Kovacs on DVD at www.shoutfactory.com or watch Ernie Kovacs on Shout! Factory TV (http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/the-ernie-kovacs...
published: 12 Aug 2016 -
John Barbour's documentary of the legendary Ernie Kovacs; part 1
Ernie goes from a radio personality in Trenton, where he broke chicken bones into the mic while broadcasting wrestling, to a 3 hour live morning show in Philadelphia where he created 'Percy Dovetonsils,' the Alfred E. Newman of the gay set!
published: 28 Aug 2015 -
Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate, reciting "Leslie the Mean Animal Trainer"
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Here is one of Ernie's most famous, and bizarre, characters. Percy Dovetonsils was a take off on a particular genre of television show found in the early fifties (at least in the New York City area). Usually airing during the early to mid afternoons, this type of show was intended to appeal to the harried little housewife during her break between finishing the laundry and starting dinner (the SNL sketch "The Continental", with the great comedic performance by Christopher Walken, was in fact based on such a show by the same name). So Percy would wax poetry...very bad poetry...in an effort to entertain housewives. Tell me that I might be wrong, but I somehow feel his personal attraction was directed more to their working husbands! BTW, Percy indicates...
published: 18 Feb 2009 -
Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" Take 4, includes car dropping through floor.
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - One more rendition of one of Ernie's most remembered video "blackout" sequences involving the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht song "Mack the Knife" (or "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"). The late German comedian and actor Wolfgang Neuss is singing.
published: 29 Aug 2009 -
ERNIE KOVACS - 1961 - "The Nairobi Trio"
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Ernie Kovacs on Music with intro by Jack Lemmon / Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" / Operating Room
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - This video is the teaser and opening credits from one of the episodes the PBS Series "The Best of Ernie Kovacs". Ernie's good friend, the late Jack Lemmon, offers the opening narration describing Kovacs' love of music and the special comedic qualities with which he could associate with their performance. The main sketch marries medicine with music; specifically, Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite".
published: 10 Oct 2009
"The Ernie Kovacs Show" (Full Episode)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:10
- Updated: 03 May 2012
- views: 34617
One of the monthly 30 minute specials that Ernie produced for the ABC Network around 1962.
One of the monthly 30 minute specials that Ernie produced for the ABC Network around 1962.
https://wn.com/The_Ernie_Kovacs_Show_(Full_Episode)
One of the monthly 30 minute specials that Ernie produced for the ABC Network around 1962.
- published: 03 May 2012
- views: 34617
Ernie Kovacs - The Nairobi Trio "Solfeggio" - ABC Television Network Videotaped Version
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 06 Feb 2010
- views: 224026
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Although it is posted all over YT, no tribute site would be complete without Kovacs' signature comedy sketch. Of course,...
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Although it is posted all over YT, no tribute site would be complete without Kovacs' signature comedy sketch. Of course, it's The Nairobi Trio's syncopated rendition of Robert Maxwell's "Solfeggio". As if you didn't already know, the costumed gorilla with the cigar in his mouth is Ernie. The pianist's has been self identified as Ernie's co-star Jolene Brand. The timpanist has never been identified but, in this particular performance, his apparent small stature suggests it is Kovacs' sidekick the late Bobby Lauher. At other times, the role was reported to have been played by Ernie's best friend Jack Lemmon, Milton Berle, and the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra.
https://wn.com/Ernie_Kovacs_The_Nairobi_Trio_Solfeggio_Abc_Television_Network_Videotaped_Version
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Although it is posted all over YT, no tribute site would be complete without Kovacs' signature comedy sketch. Of course, it's The Nairobi Trio's syncopated rendition of Robert Maxwell's "Solfeggio". As if you didn't already know, the costumed gorilla with the cigar in his mouth is Ernie. The pianist's has been self identified as Ernie's co-star Jolene Brand. The timpanist has never been identified but, in this particular performance, his apparent small stature suggests it is Kovacs' sidekick the late Bobby Lauher. At other times, the role was reported to have been played by Ernie's best friend Jack Lemmon, Milton Berle, and the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra.
- published: 06 Feb 2010
- views: 224026
Ernie Kovacs - Chef Miklos Molnar
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 20 Nov 2008
- views: 76393
Chef Miklos Molnar shows us how to prepare Chicken Molnar. Or a really complicated way to get drunk.
Chef Miklos Molnar shows us how to prepare Chicken Molnar. Or a really complicated way to get drunk.
https://wn.com/Ernie_Kovacs_Chef_Miklos_Molnar
Chef Miklos Molnar shows us how to prepare Chicken Molnar. Or a really complicated way to get drunk.
- published: 20 Nov 2008
- views: 76393
The Ernie Kovacs Collection: Ernie Kovacs Reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins - Clip
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:03
- Updated: 12 Aug 2016
- views: 1434
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As Meryl Streep’s new film “Florence Foster Jenkins” hits theaters August 12, Shout! Factory celebrates the the 60th anniversary of the Ernie Kovacs spoof where he reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins singing played by Edie Adams.
In the infancy of any medium, there will be some who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet and created a "language" that is now taken for granted.
You can get Ernie Kovacs on DVD at www.shoutfactory.com or watch Ernie Kovacs on Shout! Factory TV (http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/the-ernie-kovacs-collection).
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As Meryl Streep’s new film “Florence Foster Jenkins” hits theaters August 12, Shout! Factory celebrates the the 60th anniversary of the Ernie Kovacs spoof where he reacts to Florence Foster Jenkins singing played by Edie Adams.
In the infancy of any medium, there will be some who realize its potential well before anyone else. Ernie Kovacs was such a visionary, and between 1951 and 1962 he broke rules that hadn't even been made yet and created a "language" that is now taken for granted.
You can get Ernie Kovacs on DVD at www.shoutfactory.com or watch Ernie Kovacs on Shout! Factory TV (http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/the-ernie-kovacs-collection).
SHOUT! FACTORY has devoted itself to the higher pursuit of pop culture for the past 10 years. During that time, we've released some of TV's most beloved gems, such as Freaks And Geeks, My So-Called Life, Sports Night, MadTV and Mystery Science Theater. We've also reintroduced some of television's most adored personalities with collections featuring Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Mel Brooks, Groucho Marx and Elvira, Mistress of the Night..
- published: 12 Aug 2016
- views: 1434
John Barbour's documentary of the legendary Ernie Kovacs; part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 28 Aug 2015
- views: 1392
Ernie goes from a radio personality in Trenton, where he broke chicken bones into the mic while broadcasting wrestling, to a 3 hour live morning show in Philade...
Ernie goes from a radio personality in Trenton, where he broke chicken bones into the mic while broadcasting wrestling, to a 3 hour live morning show in Philadelphia where he created 'Percy Dovetonsils,' the Alfred E. Newman of the gay set!
https://wn.com/John_Barbour's_Documentary_Of_The_Legendary_Ernie_Kovacs_Part_1
Ernie goes from a radio personality in Trenton, where he broke chicken bones into the mic while broadcasting wrestling, to a 3 hour live morning show in Philadelphia where he created 'Percy Dovetonsils,' the Alfred E. Newman of the gay set!
- published: 28 Aug 2015
- views: 1392
Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate, reciting "Leslie the Mean Animal Trainer"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:11
- Updated: 18 Feb 2009
- views: 45840
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Here is one of Ernie's most famous, and bizarre, characters. Percy Dovetonsils was a take off on a particular genre of t...
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Here is one of Ernie's most famous, and bizarre, characters. Percy Dovetonsils was a take off on a particular genre of television show found in the early fifties (at least in the New York City area). Usually airing during the early to mid afternoons, this type of show was intended to appeal to the harried little housewife during her break between finishing the laundry and starting dinner (the SNL sketch "The Continental", with the great comedic performance by Christopher Walken, was in fact based on such a show by the same name). So Percy would wax poetry...very bad poetry...in an effort to entertain housewives. Tell me that I might be wrong, but I somehow feel his personal attraction was directed more to their working husbands! BTW, Percy indicates that he is offering "a cluuuue". This sequence apparently had been created as one of the "clue" seqments of his game show "Take a Good Look".
https://wn.com/Ernie_Kovacs_As_Percy_Dovetonsils,_Poet_Laureate,_Reciting_Leslie_The_Mean_Animal_Trainer
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Here is one of Ernie's most famous, and bizarre, characters. Percy Dovetonsils was a take off on a particular genre of television show found in the early fifties (at least in the New York City area). Usually airing during the early to mid afternoons, this type of show was intended to appeal to the harried little housewife during her break between finishing the laundry and starting dinner (the SNL sketch "The Continental", with the great comedic performance by Christopher Walken, was in fact based on such a show by the same name). So Percy would wax poetry...very bad poetry...in an effort to entertain housewives. Tell me that I might be wrong, but I somehow feel his personal attraction was directed more to their working husbands! BTW, Percy indicates that he is offering "a cluuuue". This sequence apparently had been created as one of the "clue" seqments of his game show "Take a Good Look".
- published: 18 Feb 2009
- views: 45840
Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" Take 4, includes car dropping through floor.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:15
- Updated: 29 Aug 2009
- views: 29797
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - One more rendition of one of Ernie's most remembered video "blackout" sequences involving the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht ...
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - One more rendition of one of Ernie's most remembered video "blackout" sequences involving the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht song "Mack the Knife" (or "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"). The late German comedian and actor Wolfgang Neuss is singing.
https://wn.com/Ernie_Kovacs_Mack_The_Knife_Take_4,_Includes_Car_Dropping_Through_Floor.
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - One more rendition of one of Ernie's most remembered video "blackout" sequences involving the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht song "Mack the Knife" (or "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"). The late German comedian and actor Wolfgang Neuss is singing.
- published: 29 Aug 2009
- views: 29797
ERNIE KOVACS - 1961 - "The Nairobi Trio"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:29
- Updated: 07 Jun 2014
- views: 8640
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Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919 -- January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Kovacs' uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident. Many iconic and diverse shows have been influenced by Kovacs, such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, The Uncle Floyd Show, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and TV hosts such as David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson. Chevy Chase acknowledged Kovacs' influence and thanked him during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live. Chase appeared in the 1982 documentary called Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius, speaking again of the impact Kovacs had on his work.
On or off screen, Kovacs could be counted on for the unexpected, from having marmosets as pets to wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show. When working at WABC (AM) as a morning-drive radio personality and doing a mid-morning television show for NBC, Kovacs disliked eating breakfast alone while his wife was sleeping in after her Broadway performances. His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and whose job was to make breakfast for them both, then take him to the WABC studios.
While Kovacs and his wife Edie Adams received Emmy nominations for best performances in a comedy series in 1957, his talent was not formally recognized until after his death. The 1962 Emmy for outstanding electronic camera work and the Directors' Guild award came a short time after his fatal accident. A quarter century later, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Kovacs also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television. In 1986, the Museum of Television & Radio (now the Paley Center for Media) presented an exhibit of Kovacs' work, called The Vision of Ernie Kovacs.
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Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919 -- January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Kovacs' uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident. Many iconic and diverse shows have been influenced by Kovacs, such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, The Uncle Floyd Show, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and TV hosts such as David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson. Chevy Chase acknowledged Kovacs' influence and thanked him during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live. Chase appeared in the 1982 documentary called Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius, speaking again of the impact Kovacs had on his work.
On or off screen, Kovacs could be counted on for the unexpected, from having marmosets as pets to wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show. When working at WABC (AM) as a morning-drive radio personality and doing a mid-morning television show for NBC, Kovacs disliked eating breakfast alone while his wife was sleeping in after her Broadway performances. His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and whose job was to make breakfast for them both, then take him to the WABC studios.
While Kovacs and his wife Edie Adams received Emmy nominations for best performances in a comedy series in 1957, his talent was not formally recognized until after his death. The 1962 Emmy for outstanding electronic camera work and the Directors' Guild award came a short time after his fatal accident. A quarter century later, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Kovacs also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television. In 1986, the Museum of Television & Radio (now the Paley Center for Media) presented an exhibit of Kovacs' work, called The Vision of Ernie Kovacs.
- published: 07 Jun 2014
- views: 8640
Ernie Kovacs - Kitchen Symphony
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 14 Oct 2006
- views: 74375
Ernie Kovacs on Music with intro by Jack Lemmon / Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" / Operating Room
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:40
- Updated: 10 Oct 2009
- views: 3129
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - This video is the teaser and opening credits from one of the episodes the PBS Series "The Best of Ernie Kovacs". Ernie's...
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - This video is the teaser and opening credits from one of the episodes the PBS Series "The Best of Ernie Kovacs". Ernie's good friend, the late Jack Lemmon, offers the opening narration describing Kovacs' love of music and the special comedic qualities with which he could associate with their performance. The main sketch marries medicine with music; specifically, Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite".
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Ernie Kovacs - The Nairobi Trio "Solfeggio" - ABC Television Network Videotaped Version
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John Barbour's documentary of the legendary Ernie Kovacs; part 1
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Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate, reciting "Leslie the Mean Animal Trainer"
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Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate, reciting "Leslie the Mean Animal Trainer"
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Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" Take 4, includes car dropping through floor.
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ERNIE KOVACS - 1961 - "The Nairobi Trio"
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Ernie Kovacs - Kitchen Symphony
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'A gift for the American bastards': North Korea's Kim fires back at Trump
Edit The Guardian 05 Jul 2017
Kim Jong-un saw the opportunity for maximum mischief offered by the most auspicious date in US history to launch a missile, literally and verbally. North Korea. 'A gift for the American bastards'. North Korea's Kim fires back at Trump. Kim Jong-un saw the opportunity for maximum mischief offered by the most auspicious date in US history to launch a missile, literally and verbally ... Read more ... Twitter ... 'Guest workers' ... Read more ... ....
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Ice block the size of Delaware about to break away from Antarctica as global temperatures rise, scientists warn
Edit The Independent 03 Jul 2017
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Qatar responds to Arab nations' demands before crisis meeting
Edit Irish Independent 05 Jul 2017
A quartet of Arab nations have received Qatar's response to their demands for ending a diplomatic crisis gripping the Persian Gulf, just before a planned meeting in Cairo. Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said in a joint statement they would respond "in a timely manner" ... The countries cut ties to the Fifa 2022 World Cup host early last month over its alleged support for extremist groups and ties with Iran ... AP. ....
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Forty-Four States Refuse To Turn Over Voter Data For Trump Commission
Edit WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2017
The list of states that have refused to provide voter information to the Trump administration's election integrity commission reached 44 states on Tuesday, according to CNN. CNN performed an inquiry of all 50 states that revealed many state leaders and voting boards rejected portions of the request for the information ... What are they trying to hide?" ... "The purpose of the commission is to find facts and put them on the table ... ... "Given Sec....
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ISIS will lose Mosul and Raqqa. What happens next?
Edit The Washington Post 05 Jul 2017
Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. The jihadists of the Islamic State are finally being driven out of their two main bastions. The northern Iraqi city of Mosul and the [] ... ....
Summer book club suggests several reads
Edit Arkansas Online 05 Jul 2017
July in Arkansas means unbearable heat at times, meaning outside play is limited ... Here's where The Washington Post's KidsPost Summer Book Club, with the theme of "Challenge Yourself," comes into play ... Arnold ... Brothers Genie and Ernie are forced to leave their New York home to spend part of the summer with their grandparents in rural Virginia ... As he and Ernie reconsider their grandfather's character, they face their own test of bravery....
Carvana Races into the Derby City with Its Kentucky Debut
Edit Market Watch 05 Jul 2017
This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here. http.//www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170705005142/en/. Now, by visiting Carvana.com, Louisville area residents can search through Carvana’s 7,000+ vehicles, purchase, finance and schedule home delivery of their vehicle as soon as the next day ... “Our Louisville launch marks our presence in 31 markets in 15 states,” said Ernie Garcia, founder and CEO of Carvana....
Jordan Spieth aims to build reputation as a good closer
Edit PGA 05 Jul 2017
The club throw. The body bump. Those are the indelible images from Jordan Spieth's victory in the Travelers Championship, where he holed a 60-foot bunker shot in a playoff to defeat Daniel Berger and capture his 10th title on the PGA Tour a month before his 24th birthday ... Winning is winning ... MORE ... What made him curious were the closing marks of other Hall of Fame players, such as Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh ... . ....
Jordan Spieth wants reputation as being a good closer
Edit Denver Post 05 Jul 2017
The club throw. The body bump. Those are the indelible images from Jordan Spieth’s victory in the Traveler’s Championship, where he holed a 60-foot bunker shot in a playoff to defeat Daniel Berger and capture his 10th title on the PGA Tour a month before his 24th birthday ... Winning is winning ... What made him curious were the closing marks of other Hall of Fame players, such as Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh ... ....
Tuesday’s roundup: Jordan Spieth aims to be a closer
Edit Detroit news 05 Jul 2017
The club throw. The body bump. Those are the indelible images from Jordan Spieth’s victory in the Travelers Championship, where he holed a 60-foot bunker shot in a playoff to defeat Daniel Berger and capture his 10th title on the PGA Tour a month before his 24th birthday ... Winning is winning. Comebacks are cool ... What made him curious were the closing marks of other Hall of Fame players, such as Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh ... Va....
Top 13 Zombie Movie Heroes
Edit Coming Soon 05 Jul 2017
Before The Walking Dead, these 13 heroes bravely faced down zombies in a slew of classic films. In AMC‘s The Walking Dead and its sister show, Fear the Walking Dead, everyone’s a hero. Everyone ... Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth. Let's be honest ... That he is ... Calfa's Ernie and Gulager's Burt are horror's best serio-comic team since Abbot and Costello and their act in this timeless punk zombie staple never gets old ... ....
Maine continues ‘journey’ with Alden
Edit Journal Online 05 Jul 2017
MAINE Mendoza is celebrating her 2nd anniversary in showbiz this month. It was in July of 2015 when she joined “Eat Bulaga” as Yaya Dub, from being a YouTube sensation for her dubsmash hits ... In “Sikreto ng Piso”, a comedy and satire written and directed by Perry Escano, Akihiro is happy to be acting with co-stars Alfred Vargas, Joey Marquez, Wendell Ramos, Lou Veloso, Ernie Garcia, Andoy Ranay, Paul Sy and Beverly Salviejo. ....
Firecracker 5K results
Edit Arkansas Online 05 Jul 2017
Men's overall. RUNNER, HOMETOWN;TIME. Clint Bell, Dallas;15.56.93. Shaun Koehn, N/A;16.28.60. Dylan Douglas, Maumelle;16.30.31. Adam Bradbury, Bryant; 16.32.45. Elija Bennett, College Station, Texas;16.39.19. Christopher Owen, N/A; 16.43.61. Bret O'Meara, Fayetteville; 16.46.08. Christopher Bennett, College Station, Texas; 16.58.02. Ian Kelly, Greenbrier; 17.06.97. Cody Fox, DeWitt; 17.08.07 ... AGE GROUP. 1-10 ... Ernie Butler, Little Rock; 19.49.14....
For old folks at home, remodeling is in order
Edit Herald Tribune 04 Jul 2017
“All the carpets are coming up, so they won’t be a trip hazard,” said Ernie MacNeill, walking through the split-level house in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, that he is remodeling for a client who struggles to walk.The home’s owner, Elliot Goldberg, 71, , a Vietnam veteran with multiple health problems, has lived on this ......
Midwest economic indicator hits its highest level in more than six years
Edit Omaha World-Herald 04 Jul 2017
The survey-generated MidAmerican Business Conditions Index, based on the responses of supply managers in the states, rose to 62.3 in June from 55.5 in May on a 100-point scale, said Creighton University economist Ernie Goss ... ....
Taylor's single leads Mahoning Valley over Auburn in 15 innings
Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 04 Jul 2017
AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) -- Samad Taylor hit an RBI single in the top of the 15th inning to help lead the Mahoning Valley Scrappers to a 2-0 win over the Auburn Doubledays on Monday ... Later in the inning, Mahoning Valley added an insurance run when Ernie Clement scored on a single by Jesse Berardi ... _____ ... _____. Keywords ... ....
Paul McCartney makes comeback
Edit The Daily Tribune 04 Jul 2017
To think Paul penned the hit song “Get Back.” He borrowed its title from a line of “Sour Milk Sea,” “Get back to where you should be,” which George Harrison wrote and produced for Jackie Lomax ... “Yes I am an avid Beatles fan club hooked with The Beatles Booster Club founded by Ernie Santos who joined us in our endeavor but he did not disband his group.” ... “Okay ... But he asked me to work with (registered reps) Margie and Ernie.” ... “640 win ... ....
Wizards Take Different Approach to Free Agency This Time
Edit CBS Sports 04 Jul 2017
A year ago, the Wizards went after big names such as Kevin Durant and Al Horford. They, of course, missed on both of those players. Reacting to those misses, GM Ernie Grunfeld turned around and dished out a 4-year, $64 million deal to Ian Mahinmi and a 4-year, $26 million deal to Andrew Nicholson. Mahinmi barely played in his first season in Washington due to injury while Nicholson was wholly unproductive and struggled to see minutes ... ....
Spieth Wants Reputation As Being Good Closer
Edit CBS Sports 04 Jul 2017
The club throw. The body bump. Those are the indelible images from Jordan Spieth’s victory in the Traveler’s Championship, where he holed a 60-foot bunker shot in a playoff to defeat Daniel Berger and capture his 10th title on the PGA Tour a month before his 24th birthday ... Winning is winning ... What made him curious were the closing marks of other Hall of Fame players, such as Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh ... ....
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