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pantomime; he also showed his penchant for experimenting with the medium, including doing visual effects. These type of<br />
"electronic" effects by Kovacs and other early TV pioneers in many ways anticipated today’s digital effects.<br />
Anyway, as The Ernie Kovacs Website describes notes:<br />
The 30-minute show Ernie did was devoid of any dialogue, and featured the silent character Ernie had been<br />
developing, Eugene, as well as the Nairobi Trio. The show’s centerpiece was an extended series of surreal<br />
sight gags following Eugene, a mute, meek character as a fish out of water in a stuffy men’s club. The<br />
sketch included the famous gag involving the gravity-defying olives and thermos of coffee.<br />
"Comic Ernie Kovacs pasting black patch on forehead of Barbra Loden before posing her against black background which will<br />
create the illusion of a hole in Loden’s head for sight gag to air on his TV special."<br />
Harvey Deneroff (in his own words):
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