Lemmon and Kovacs became close friends and appeared together in two subsequent films-Bell, Book and Candle.

" Bob and Ray, Kovacs and Freberg all became contributors to Mad.

Kovacs helped develop camera tricks still common almost 50 years after his death, one of which became one of his signature gags.

In July 1951, at the age of 10, Kovacs became involved in a violent fight with two older bullies, in which he partly blinded one with a cigarette and took a large bite out of the other's cheek in a blind rage.

Ashamed by what he read about the unresponsiveness of her neighbors, Kovacs became disillusioned with the underlying apathy that he saw as inherent in most people.

Dutch Masters became well known in the late 1950s and early 1960s for its sponsorship of various television projects of the comedian Ernie Kovacs.

Actress Edie Adams, the wife of comedian Ernie Kovacs ( both regular performers on early television ) testified in 1996 before a panel of the Library of Congress on the preservation of television and video.

Besides being the host of Fractured Flickers, Conried was a regular panelist on CBS's Stump the Stars, and a semi-regular guest on the Ernie Kovacs inspired game show Take A Good Look.

He was a regular on the 1955-1956 version of The Ernie Kovacs Show, serving as the show's announcer, as well as a participant in sketches such as " Mr. Question Man " ( a parody of The Answer Man ).

Another of his songs, " Solfeggio ", performed by Maxwell's orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers, gained unexpected fame as the theme for Ernie Kovacs ' regular comedy skit called The Nairobi Trio.

In Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels human colonies on distant planets maintain contact with earth and each other via hyperspatial needlecast, a technology which moves information "... so close to instantaneously that scientists are still arguing about the terminology ...".

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

In some very specific cases, the detection of the phosphorylation as a shift in the protein's electrophoretic mobility is possible on simple 1-dimensional SDS-PAGE gels, as it's described for instance for a transcriptional coactivator by Kovacs et al.

In 2004, a college student named Rob Kovacs gave the first solo performance of the piece where he played both piano parts at the same time on two different pianos.

During different times as comedian, writer, and performer Kovacs had programs on all four major television networks ( ABC, CBS, DuMont, and NBC ).

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.

Kovacs also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television.

When Kovacs began drama school, all he could afford was a fifth floor walk-up apartment on West 74th Street in New York City.

When Kovacs ' guest chef did not show up in time to go on the air, Ernie offered a recipe for " Eggs Scavok " ( Kovacs spelled backward ).

Kovacs and Gertrude on 3 To Get Ready, 1951.

When rain was in the weather forecast, Kovacs would get on a ladder and pour water down on the staff member reading the report.

" Swap Time " was one of them ; viewers could bring their unwanted items to the WPTZ studios to trade them live on the air with Kovacs.

Creative control was wrested from Kovacs soon after the show's debut ; beginning on January 4, 1952, it ended on March 28, 1952 — the same day as Three to Get Ready.

Kovacs then moved on to WCBS-TV with a local morning show and a later network one.

One of Kovacs ' Philadelphia broadcasts was " enlivened " by a homeless man who sought shelter inside the TV studio ; Kovacs invited him onto the set, where he slept for the duration of the telecast, but nonetheless was introduced on camera to the audience as " Sleeping Schwartz.

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.

During one of his NBC shows, Kovacs was appearing as the inept magician Matzoh Heppelwhite.

Kovacs reportedly disliked working in front of a live audience, as was the case with the shows he did for NBC in the 1950s.

In 1956, both Ace and NBC thought seriously enough about another try for the television series to announce Ernie Kovacs and his wife Edie Adams would play the Aces in a pilot for the show ; it is unknown whether the pilot took place.

Moore has said that the character's real name, Walter Kovacs, was inspired by Ditko's tendency to give his characters names beginning with the letter K. In an interview for the BBC's Comics Britannia, Moore stated that Rorschach was created as a way of exploring what an archetypical Batman-type character — a driven, vengeance-fueled vigilante — would be like in the real world.

In early 1952, Kovacs was also doing a late morning show for WPTZ called Kovacs On the Corner.

The show had a Sesame Street feel, as Kovacs would walk through an imaginary neighborhood, talking with various characters such as Pete the Cop ( played by Pete Boyle, father of the late actor Peter Boyle ) and Luigi the Barber.

Film critic Leonard Maltin said that, without Kovacs and fellow cinematographer Zsigmond, " the American New Wave of the late 1960s and early ‘ 70s wouldn ’ t have flowered as it did.

Adams was to play Daisy Mae in the film version of Li ' l Abner, but was unable, due to the late arrival of her daughter, Mia Susan Kovacs.

He also got involved in the promotional side of the business when he joined forces with Sandor Kovacs and Portland promoter Don Owen to acquire the Vancouver territory in the late 1960s ; that, combined with Kiniski's NWA World title reign at the time, helped make Vancouver a wrestling hotbed for several years, until Kovacs sold his share in the promotion to Al Tomko in 1977.

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.

) Kovacs also had a short stint as a celebrity panelist on What's My Line ?, but took his responsibilities less than seriously, often eschewing a legitimate question for the sake of a laugh.

A series of monthly half-hour specials for ABC in 1961 – 62, also called The Ernie Kovacs Show, is often considered Kovacs ' best television work.

At WPTZ, Kovacs began using the ad-libbed and experimental style that would become his reputation, including video effects, superimpositions, reverse polarities and scanning, and quick blackouts.

A popular New Zealand jazz group adopted the name, and writer Jim Knipfel wrote an account of his six-month stay in a psychiatric ward entitled Quitting the Nairobi Trio, using a picture of Kovacs in simian drag on the cover.