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New book to honour legendary comedian Ernie Kovacs
On a rainy night in Beverly Hills in January , comedian Ernie Kovacs left a Hollywood party full of celebrities to drive home. Giving his wife, Edie Adams, the keys to his latest luxury car so that she could join him later, Kovacs took her Chevrolet Corvair station wagon. Skidding on the wet road, he lost control of the vehicle, crashing into a telegraph pole. In his hand was his trademark cigar, flung from the bil unlit, his arm outstretched towards it, a haunting image captured by the photographer who was first to arrive on the scene.
At his funeral, attended by Groucho Marx, Edward G Robinson and Buster Keaton, as well as his pallbearers Frank Sinatra, Jack Lemmon and Dean Martin, the pastor read a eulogy in Kovacs’ own words: “I was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in , to a Hungarian couple. I’ve been smoking cigars ever since”.
Nothing in moderation
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Kovacsland: Biography of Ernie Kovacs
Comedian, actor, writer
Born: January 23, , in Trenton, New Jersey
Died: January 13, , in Los Angeles
New Jersey Hall of Fame, Class of Performing Arts