Ode To A Bottomless Bathtub
August, 1972
Television has been made manageable in the past ten years or so. What we're fed from the box are rarely live events, only yards of tape with all the true, imperfect moments clinically eliminated. But before TV was given over to marketers and technicians, it aroused in us a sense of wonder. It was this sense that fed the imagination of the first, and still the only, comic genius of the medium, Ernie Kovacs. His recognition of television's limitless potential to fool, compel--even unnerve--an audi...
