On Oct 16, 4:40 pm, "Kevin M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I find I didn't watch enough of the show when it reran late at night
> on Nick-At-Night and PBS, so I can't place her.
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/16/entertainment/main4526492.s...
You may've seen the Muriel Cigar ads, since cigars were allowed to
advertise before the industry voluntarily pulled TV ads in the 80s.
The public TV and Comedy Central Kovacs packages were primarily from
the half-hour specials that he did over the last year of his life that
ran one Thursday a month on ABC instead of the game show he hosted,
"Take a Good Look" (and after that show tanked, a cut-down of silent
films called "Silents, Please," where he acted as narrator). If she
appeared in those specials, it was behind an ape mask as a Nairobi
Trio member or in a very brief cameo. Consolidated Cigar, who made
both Muriel and Dutch Masters, didn't care what Kovacs did as long as
he smoked their products on camera (it was ABC that wanted him to do
the game show), so Kovacs lavishly spent his sponsor's money on some
of the most radical experimentation in videotaped television known at
the time--a lot of it shot in the middle of the night, where Kovacs
would impetuously call a stop tape and start a poker game, with the
union engineers heading into double overtime. George Schlatter's
future wife Jolene Brand was on the company members on the specials,
which only cemented Schlatter's love of Kovacs (when he redid Kovacs'
bathtub blackouts for "Laugh-In," Rowan and Martin were shown on
camera emphasizing that they originated with Kovacs).
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