The late Ernie Kovacs is one of my creative heroes -- in fact, a painting of Ernie lighting a stick of dynamite like a cigar hangs on the wall over my workstation.
Last week, Ernie's beloved "favorite wife" Edie Adams died at the age of 81. I'm not sure how I missed that news, but yeah.
For several years, I was working on a feature film adaptation of David Walley's Kovacs biography Nothing in Moderation -- that is, until Walley, who became a really good friend, died suddenly of a heart attack back in 2006. I hope to eventually pick up where Walley and I left off. Kovacs was, without a doubt, one of the most underrated and underappreciated minds of the 20th Century.
Here's Edie, Ernie and Jack Lemmon as the Nairobi Trio.