The GET SMART comic books!

 On September 18 in 1965, TV comedy GET SMART created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and starring Don Adams as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief premiered.Get Smart immediately won over audiences with its witty satire of the secret agent genre. Starring Don Adams as bumbling spy Maxwell Smart, aka Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as his brilliant partner Agent 99, Get Smart followed their laugh-out-loud misadventures as they battled the evil forces of KAOS. Created by comedy legends Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, Get Smart was an instant hit thanks to its slapstick humor, clever spy parodies, catchphrases like “Missed it by that much!”, and gadgets like the famous shoe phone. For 5 seasons, Get Smart kept viewers in hysterics every week with Agent 86’s hilarious attempts at espionage, close calls with danger, and comical interactions with The Chief (Edward Platt). Now over 50 years later, Get Smart remains one of the most beloved and iconic sitcoms of all time. Its legacy lives on through syndicated reruns and an enduring comedic influence still felt today. 

In 1966, GET SMART was published as a comic book by Dell Publishing Co. 

These are the covers plus an ad for Aurora Model Motoring cars 

which appeared on the back cover of several other issues as well.

The Late, Late, Late, Late Show!

Has this ever happened to you? You are laying in bed, ready to watch a movie when suddenly, without you knowing why, the end credits appear rolling before your eyes...and you didn't see anything before that.

Was the movie too short?  Was this some sort of avant garde, experimental auteur kind of thing? Or was this the first time in the history of films that some studio just released the title and end credits without any footage in between?

No, stupid. You just dozed off as the film began!

A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody!

 A SALUTE TO THE SEXY GIRLS OF ENTERTAINMENT!

Someone said : "If we all had the same taste in women, we'd all be married to the same girl!"

Whether that's true or even possible, it is a fact that we all have different tastes in almost everything, including women. 

And as years roll along, I find myself reminiscing about all those beautiful girls of films and television that captured my imagination and became the subject of many a daydream, not only during my youth but well into my autumn years.

So here's a toast to some of those magnificent women and the wonderful dreams they provided me over the years...

(There were a lot more but I won't go into that right now.)

Jean Harlow

                                                                                                                                   Thelma Todd

                                                                        Jane Russell

Lauren Bacall  Rita Hayworth

Ann Sheridan

 Ava Gardner    

 Yvonne de Carlo

Marilyn Monroe

Anne Francis

 

Sophia Loren

Anita Ekberg

 

Kim Novak

Virna Lisi

                                                                           Elke Sommer

Ursula Andress

Daniela Bianchi

 Stella Stevens

Honor Blackman

Claudine Auger

Barbara Feldon

Natalie Wood

                                                                                                                          Suzanne Pleshette

Catherine Deneuve

Raquel Welch

Jacqueline Bisset

Jill St. John

Farrah Fawcett

Lynda Carter

Michelle Pfeiffer                                            Barbara Bach 

Caroline Munro

Diane Lane

Bo Derek

Charlize Theron

Angelina Jolie

Sharon Stone

Kim Cattrall

Christina Applegate                                                             Kate Upton

Amy Adams                                                                Brooklyn Decker

Catherine Zeta Jones                                                                     Uma Thurman

Margot Robbie

Jennifer Lopez