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Ernie
Kovacs:
Serious-Minded
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His zany humor has made
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is convince people
he's not really that crazy
GN THE HOLLYWOOD SET of
"Sail a Crooked Ship," a
starlet was asked if she enjoyed
the far-out humor of one of the
film's costars, Ernie Kovacs.
"No," she said poutingly. "I always
know just what to expect from him the
unexpected. I like comedy where I know
what's going to happen."
Happily for Ernie Kovacs, the starlet
represents a minority report on his brand
of humor. At 42, the mustachioed madcap
has achieved a rare position in formula
happy America: he has become a star by
doing the different, and he'll be the first
to tell you the harrowing battle has
changed a foot-loose young man into a
homebody of serious and reflective mien.
Kovacs' humor nowadays is largely
visual. A man at a shooting gallery
knocks down moving ducks with monot
onous regularity until one duck stops,
pivots, and produces a six-gun from un
der his wing. BANG no sharpshooter.
He once showed close-ups of tense scenes
the soft treading of nurses' shoes, the
wheels of an operating table, the swinging
doors typical of a surgery room, the
masked faces of perspiring attendants.
When the camera first rolled back and the
music swelled to a climax, the full scene
appeared : a family carving a turkey.
"People expect me to be the same off
camera as I am on," Ernie says resent
fully. A $2 cigar acts as a barometer for
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Kovacs' blood pressure: at this point it
probes straight from his mouth like the
lance of a knight ready for battle. "They
expect me to run around wearing a
chamber pot on my head I'm a grown
man! Sure, my family and I have lots of
kicks we listen to Bartok recordings,
read, play some poker that's fun !
"I suppose wild humor is something
you inherit just by being Hungarian," he
says, his cigar dropping in a philosophic
arc. "My family could put on some kookie
shows back in Trenton (N. J.) in the
old days. Mom could put on a show just
raising the shade. We'd all be sitting at
the dinner table, soup spoons half up to
our mouths, and Mom would decide to
pull the shade up would she let it go
with a bang or would it slide up softly?
Lord," Kovacs says appreciatively, "how
she could milk that gag!"
SI
Kovacs" parents were immigrants who
became moderately wealthy in the
restaurant business and provided their
two boys, Ernie and Tom, with clothes,
spending money, and autos. "We had
it soft," Ernie says, "and it probably
brought out the buffoon in us."
The Depression and his parents' di
vorce threw Ernie into a harsher world,
but his flair for the theatrical won several
drama-school scholarships and, next, six
years of steady work in traveling stock
companies. Acting was serious business
to the off-stage clown so serious Kovacs
overworked himself, fell victim to pneu
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