We have confirmed that Art Carney did at least one production of The Odd Couple in the role of Oscar. Intriguingly, Felix in that production was played by Don Knotts. Wouldn't you have loved to have seen that? The fine artist Drew Friedman has a whole page of ads and playbills and photos from various mountings of The Odd Couple — including Carney/Knotts — and a lot of them sound like fun. Ernest Borgnine as Oscar and Don Rickles as Felix? Tom Poston as Oscar and Tim Conway as Felix?
I have a lot of e-mails about that. I also have way too many about the Groo animation project that was announced Friday — some asking me what channel it will be airing on; others, wanting to work on the show or do the voice of Groo or something. Please. If this happens, it won't happen for a while.