Josh and I took a ride out to Michigan City, Indiana today to remember Patrick Owsley's Dad Jim at a nice memorial at FAITH CITY ASSEMBLY OF GOD Church. It was GREAT seeing PATRICK, LESLIE and Patrick's Mom again! I remember his dad as being a very nice, happy guy and we are all sorry to have lost him.
Josh, Myself and Patrick
Patrick and Leslie Owsley
Found this in an ANTIQUE MALL in Michigan City, Indiana today! Love the art of MEL CRAWFORD! He did the art in two other ROOTIE KAZOOTIE books I have and many HANNA-BARBERA GOLDEN BOOKS. GREAT stuff!
Actually the NEW film missed it by ALOT! I don't like to say anything bad about a creative work BUT in my opinion, I would advise anyone that was going to spend money to see the film...to spend it on either the TIME-LIFE box set of the original series OR season one of GET SMART (which will be released soon on DVD). My son JOSH and I love DON ADAMS and the original series! We were hopeful that the new film would at least be funny BUT we did not laugh one single time during it. Some people did...people that like to see MAX SMART dancing with an over weight woman or Max shooting himself in the face with darts or barfing in a bag on a jet or even seeing his naked behind. The original series developed the characters and made you like them. Don Adams had talent and personality. My son and I could not even remember what the plot was about in this film. There were lots of flashing computer screens, Russian type villians and a really bad backing score that was noisy and sounded like techno music from the 1990's. The Makers of this film decided to try to blend the TOM CRUISE verion of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE with comedy and should have focused on comedy. The action scenes were pointless and the plot was weak at best. HOLLYWOOD needs to quit trying to remake something that was/is already GREAT and come up with some NEW and FRESH ideas.
The classic RANKIN/BASS series will be on DVD October 14th.
