Get Smart ! "And Loving It"!

Opinion
Barry Artiste, now Public Contributor

In the 1960's with a Cold War, Worldwide Nuclear Armageddon, Cuban Missile Crisis, Space Race and a spate of Spy movies, everything from Man from Uncle to James Bond, fear mongering was everywhere, complete with cities keeping their old World War II air raid sirens in case of Nuclear Attack.

Mel Brooks on the other hand, may have seen the folly of what never came and spawned what would become comedic genius  in a bumbling American Spy called "Get Smart" played by comedic actor Don Adams, complete with his ever suffering sidekick Agent 99, played by straight woman Barbara Feldon.  

The spy gadgets were innovative, though useless and at times laughable, especially the Cone of Silence, Shoe Phone and other insanely complicated devices, which believe it or not the "Cone of Silence" actually existed according to a story by an ex CIA agent told in an interview in the 70's.

Though Get Smart as a series ran only a few seasons, it left an impression on me as a child in that  the  "World of KAOS" was indeed a farce,  tempered by  Maxwell Smarts daring do and incompetence  solving the unsolvable through trial and countless errors.

I eagerly await this remake, as Steve Carell, I feel,  fills Maxwell Smart's  "Shoe Phone" nicely.