Ernie Kovacs: The Centennial Edition

 

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For what would have been Ernie Kovacs’ 100th birthday, Shout Factory repackages the two previous Ernie Kovacs Collections into this 9-disc set. It can’t be said enough how much of a pioneer Kovacs was in the early years of TV, having fun with and exploiting its capabilities in ways nobody else had thought of- first twisting the conventions of the talk show format (which inspired David Letterman in the 1980s) and then making the first of what could truly be called video art before his untimely death in 1962. The discs in this set are identical to those previously released in the two Ernie Kovacs Collection sets.

Each disc is given its own title, the first of which is “The Early Years” and con…Read the entire review

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