Posted
3:19 PM
by Gene
I am sorry to hear
the comedian Don Adams has died.
In 1941, he dropped out of school to join the Marines, lying about his age. In Guadalcanal he survived the deadly blackwater fever and was returned to the States to become a drill instructor, acquiring the clipped delivery that served him well as a comedian.Indeed. I remember
Get Smart, and we are all growing old.
P. S. That show was produced by one
David Susskind, who moonlighted as a faux-highbrow interviewer. (He also produced
Supermarket Sweep.) "It is ironic, yet somehow fitting, that the grand impresario who introduced millions of television viewers to Willy Loman would, himself, suffer the death of a traveling salesman. Susskind died alone in a hotel room of a heart attack at age 66 in 1987." Er -- David who?