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Tuesday Dec 8 | Des Moines Register

Hoover's 'Get Smart' is a lot of hard-work humor

Hoover High School drama students are bringing a farce for the family to the stage Thursday through Saturday when they present 'Get Smart,' based on Mel Brooks' 1960s television show.

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Related Topix: Hoover, AL, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, University of Northern Iowa, Theater, Arts

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Northeast Suburban Life

Wyoming High School presents "Smart" comedy

Bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart and his cool partner, Agent 99, come to the stage of Wyoming High Schoola s Pendery Center Dec.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Wyoming, OH, Barbara Feldon

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Evening Sun

Time to get smart financially

To me, there is only one simple and nearly foolproof way to protect yourself in this economy and in the economies to follow - arm yourself with financial literacy.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Mon Nov 16, 2009

USA Today

Today's Pop Five: w_english's favorite game shows

The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Warren E., aka w_english, in Belmont, N.C.: Ever since I was a kid growing up in the mountains of North Carolina, I've loved TV game shows.

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Related Topix: Belmont, NC, Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Bob Barker, Comedy

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Examiner.com

The 'almost right' word

There is a world of difference between a lightning bug and lightning. Photo courtesy Wordpress "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning ." - Mark Twain In the old 1960's sitcom Get Smart , secret agent Maxwell Smart, upon experiencing a ...

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, The Avengers

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Sunday Times

Thursday: SABC3

The View: Talk show. Actress Anne Hathaway talks to the ladies about how she became the sexy Secret Agent 99 in the big screen version of the classic US sitcom Get Smart 12:20 13:00 News 13:30 Africa News Update 14:00 Which Way: Kids' travel show 14:30 The Emperor's New School 15:00 All My Children: Soapie.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Soap Opera, Drama, The Oprah Winfrey Show

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Leader Free Press

Leader Newspapers- This Halloween, chill out at Chiller Theatre

It's that time of year again for northern New Jersey's biannual feast of horror, science fiction and fantasy.

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Related Topix: Richard Dreyfuss, Science Fiction TV, Entertainment, Television, Star Trek the Next Generation, Patrick Stewart, Comedy, The Monkees

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Daniel Melnick

If the talent required to be an exemplary film producer is the ability to instigate, facilitate and delegate, Daniel Melnick, who has died of lung cancer aged 77, qualified on all counts.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Emmy Awards, Drama Movies, Death of a Salesman, New York

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Brattleboro Reformer

Behrens Review

Okay, I admit it. I am old enough to remember watching "Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour" with my children in 1970 and laughing quite a bit.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Don Rickles

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

Note to council: Time to get something done

From Merriam-Webster's online dictionary: Chaos a) a state of things in which chance is supreme; especially: the confused, unorganized state of primordial matter before the creation of distinct forms; the inherent unpredictability in the behaviour of a complex natural system; a state of utter confusion; and, a confused mass or mixture.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Fri Oct 09, 2009

Point of View

Michael Moore's Utopian Nightmare

If only he would use his talent for goodness instead of evil! That is a paraphrased comic statement that Secret Agent Maxwell Smart often used to describe some of the super-villains he faced on the TV spy show GET SMART in the 1960s.

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Related Topix: Capitalism: A Love Story, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Home, Mortgage

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Oshkosh Northwestern

Editorial: Professor makes questionable DVD choice

We will exchange our editorial outrage for wonderment today at the breaking news out of Madison that the University of Wisconsin deemed a professor's use of a state credit card to purchase a DVDs of television situation comedies as appropriate.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, University of Wisconsin Madison, Opinion

Thu Sep 24, 2009

Fox News

He's Baaaaack: Michael Moore Mocks American Capitalism

Michael Moore, the filmmaking darling of the left has made yet another polemical documentary.

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Related Topix: Capitalism: A Love Story, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

Mon Sep 21, 2009

North Jersey Media Group

Main stream media and the 'Cone of Silence'

Some people might remember the old TV comedy show staring Don Adams, called "Get Smart." It was a spoof of spy movies and the covert intelligence trade.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Immigration Reform, US Politics, Barack Obama, George Bush, Opinion

Fri Aug 14, 2009

Arkansas Online

Check your knowledge

4. If something is imminent, what is it? 5. What kind of gifts are appropriate for a second wedding anniversary? 6. Hambletonian harness races are for trotters of what age? 7. What is the source of lanolin? 8. A knot used to secure a rope to a hook is called a Blackwall ...? 9. What is the color of a shipa s port light? 10.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Tax

Fri Jul 31, 2009

WFMY-TV Greensboro

"The New Rockford Files" Is In The Works

Los Angeles, CA -- Steve Carell, who recycled Maxwell Smart for the "Get Smart" movie, is looking at producing a new TV series of "The Rockford Files." Variety says Carell and NBC are working with the guy who created "House" to update it.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Steve Carell, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Offbeat

Wed Jul 29, 2009

411mania.com

Syndication Files 07.29.09: Get Smart

Syndication Files 07.29.09: Get Smart Posted by Porfirio Diaz on 07.29.2009 Before Mel Brooks was well known for his amazing cinematography, he was known for co-creating the brilliantly spy spoofed show, Get Smart .

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Comedy Movies, Spaceballs, Science Fiction Movies, Mel Brooks, Movies

Sun Jul 19, 2009

Fox News

1969 Fast Facts

Sesame Street debuted in 1969. "Sesame Street" debuted as a pioneer in children's educational television.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Pop/Rock, John Lennon, Oscars, Comedy

Thu Jul 16, 2009

Canada.com

Anne Hathaway gets smart

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Anne Hathaway was essentially trapped in a mana s world during the filming of Get Smart last year.

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Related Topix: Bride Wars, Passengers, Drama Movies, Brokeback Mountain, Anne Hathaway, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Steve Carell

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Michelle Obama in Moscow. Sasha the new Agent 99

Remember the tv show "Get Smart" and how Barbara Feldon played Agent 99? In Moscow, President Obama does.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Michelle Obama, Barbara Feldon, Autos

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