Download or read book The Golden Ham written by Jim Bishop and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his foreword, Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the Fust time “he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered. And yet there were parts of this biography that made him wince.” For The Golden Ham is candid biography. To it Mr. Bishop brought his painstaking interest in detail, his reporter’s curiosity, his layman’s interest in the world of the theater, and his detachment. And most important, he began and ended his job with Jackie Gleason’s guarantee that nothing Bishop wrote would be censored. The result is a kind of theatrical biography that is entirely new and, like Gleason himself, is made up of a great deal of a great many things. As Bishop says: “There are several Jackie Gleasons. I know some of them. There is Gleason the comedian. Millions know him, and he’s a great talent. Then there is Gleason the producer and Gleason the writer. Some people know these....Gleason the businessman—second-rate, but he thinks he’s good at it—and then there is Gleason the thinker (apt and fast) and Gleason the man (fat, out of shape, but light on his feet) and Gleason the tenement-house kid from Brooklyn (nervy and not a bit surprised that he’s on top) and Gleason the lover, Gleason the musician, Gleason the moody, and Gleason the lonely, tormented soul.” This is a book about Jackie Gleason. If you like him, it may make you like him more, or less, depending on the kind of person you are. If you never liked him, it may change your mind a little. If you never had any special attitude toward Jackie Gleason, you will have one by the time you have finished this book.
Download or read book Jackie Gleason written by William J. Weatherby and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the comedian based on the author's personal interviews.
Download or read book How Sweet it is written by James Bacon and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great One written by William A. Henry and published by Chivers Audio Books. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strips beneath the glitz, glamour, fame, and power of jackie Gleason's life to reveal an enormously talented, yet deeply private and angry man who was often lonely and depressed. (Biography).
Download or read book The Great One written by William A. Henry and published by New York : Doubleday. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of comedian and entertainer Jackie Gleason examining his dual personalities.
Download or read book How Sweet It Is written by James Bacon and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed television and motion picture comedian sums up his rags to riches life in this intimate hilarious and poignant biography written three years before his death.
Download or read book Close up Jackie Gleason written by Jackie Gleason and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Legends written by Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures. *Includes Gleason's own quotes. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "One of these days... One of these days... POW! Right in the kisser!" - Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. If Lon Chaney will forever be recognized as The Man with a Thousand Faces, Jackie Gleason holds a legitimate claim to being The Man with a Thousand Personas. Indeed, during his time hosting The Jackie Gleason Show on television, he developed numerous alter egos, including tough guy Rudy the Repairman, the energetic Joe the Bartender, and the alcoholic Rum Dum. Physically, there was no mistaking Jackie Gleason (the way one certainly could with Lon Chaney), but Gleason also possessed an uncanny ability to alternate between personas. In the years before the Rat Pack made the nightclub lifestyle chic and glamorous on a national scale, Jackie Gleason presided as perhaps the foremost nightclub figure in America, and nobody excelled at situation comedy as well as he. Paradoxically, the iconic element of Jackie Gleason's persona was that he was able to maintain so many personas simultaneously, and in a sense, each of these characters bears traces of the "real" Jackie Gleason, but the fact remains that the many personas of Jackie Gleason make it difficult to figure out exactly who Jackie Gleason actually was beneath his show business facades. Perhaps just as ironically, today Gleason is best remembered for The Honeymooners, which began as a sketch within other shows like The Jackie Gleason Show before becoming its own spinoff. Though it lasted just 39 episodes on its own, Gleason continued using The Honeymooners as sketches in other shows, and he is most closely associated with the character Ralph Kramden today, especially his recurring threat to send his wife Alice to the moon. Gleason's lifestyle reveals not only the glamorous perks of spending one's life in show business but also the physical and emotional tolls that accompany needing to please an audience on a nightly basis. Moreover, even before becoming a professional, Gleason experienced great adversity, having lost his mother at a young age and having been abandoned by his father, traumatic events that heavily shaped his later career. Jackie Gleason was both an exuberant figure and a very sad one as well, and looking at his upbringing, personal life, and career demonstrate both his many achievements and the underlying drama and anguish behind it all. American Legends: The Life of Jackie Gleason looks at both the life and career of Jackie Gleason, which were in many respects inseparable throughout much of his adult life. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Jackie Gleason like never before, in no time at all.
Download or read book When Variety Was King written by Frank Peppiatt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Peppiatt was the most popular producer of his time - a time when variety television was king. He created Hee Haw, the number-one show on TV. He wrote and produced shows for Jackie Gleason, Andy Williams, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Sonny and Cher and Perry Como. He even invented the rock TV show Hullabaloo. Peppiatt, a man who spent his life behind the scenes writing comedy and turning entertainers into household names, now recounts his own remarkable life story: a humble Canadian boy who grew up to create iconic American TV shows amid a cast of Hollywood celebs.
Download or read book How Sweet It Is written by James Bacon and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Honeymooners Lost Episodes written by Donna McCrohan and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1985, Jackie Gleason announced that the original Honeymooner sketches, assumed lost forever, had been found. These lost epsiodes virtually triple the number of show available to fans. National syndication of these episodes in fall 1986. Photographs throughout.
Download or read book The Forgotten Network written by David Weinstein and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The heart of David Weinstein's book examines DuMont's programs and personalities, including Dennis James, Captain Video, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners, Ernie Kovacs, and Rocky King, Detective. Weinstein uses rare kinescopes, archival photographs, exclusive interviews, trade journal articles, and corporate documents to tell the story of a "forgotten network" that helped invent the very business of network television."--Jacket.
Download or read book Art Carney written by Michael Seth Starr and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). "A clear and well-written portrait of a superb performer and a wonderful human being, with emphasis on the word 'human.'" - The New York Times Book Review He was one of the most beloved stars of television's golden age. Together with his legendary partner Jackie Gleason, Art Carney helped create some of the most dazzling and unforgettable comedy ever presented on the small screen. Carney was an agile, rubber-limbed dancer and comedian whose sweetness and unassuming nature concealed the passion and power of a brilliant, often underappreciated, actor. The partnership formed by Carney and Gleason, as Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden and his dim-witted pal, sewer worker Norton, remains to this day the most powerful and memoriable comedic union ever conceived for television. How this song-and-dance man and show business recluse began his career, as well as the detours, lucky breaks, triumphs and heartbreaks Carney encountered along the way, is the subject of this fascinating, in-depth biography by author and New York Post editor Michael Seth Starr. ART CARNEY tells the story of a complex man and an enduring television legend who gave the world the most extraordinary gift of all: the gift of laughter.
Download or read book The Boy Who Saw True written by and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anonymous account of a boy who grew up as a clairvoyant in Victorian England.
Download or read book Jackie Gleason s Music written by James Spencer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at Jackie Gleason's recording career at Capitol Records with full discography, sessionography and biographical information on session players, ghost writers and the unique individuals that contributed to the lush, romantic, easy-listening and sophisticated sound we contribute to Jackie Gleason and his orchestra.
Download or read book Jackie Gleason written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dust Grooves written by Eilon Paz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
