Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason Presents Riff Jazz This original mono LP record album was released as Capitol Records W 1020 in 1959...the record has the Capitol gray label with silver print. jackie Gleason adds to his brass and strings featuring Hank Jones (piano), Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Charlie Ventura (tenor sax/alto sax/baritone sax) and Jimmy Cleveland (trombone). The track listing is as follows: Tollgate Treat ? Sawmill Slide ? Hawthorne Circle Hop ? Route "9A" Romp ? Briarcliff Beat ? Harum Hum ? Croton Craze ? Mary's Pizza Mart ? Cortlandt Clipper ? Furnace Dock Flip ? Rock Round Riff ? Buchanon Bustout ? Peekskill Peek ? Bear Mountain Blast ? Bird 'n Bottle ? Safe Home Swing The album cover shows a minor wear with a bent corner and is graded "VG+" ? the vinyl is clean and is graded "M-". All Grading is visual unless otherwise indicated ? Grading is as follows: ?NEW: Still factory sealed...brand new product ?M-: Mint minus...used product in near new condition ?EX: Excellent...used product with minor flaws not affecting play ? VG: Very Good...used product with some damage possibly audible ?G: Good...used product that will play, but not with passable quality

This is the kind of kitchen gadget that causes the folks at the Egg Marketing Board to crack big, broad grins. And if the egg slicer's clean lines and durable, elegant cast-iron construction don't send you excitedly perusing back issues of Cobb Salad Monthly looking for old recipes, any recipes, that will allow you to use more sliced eggs--well, congratulations on your cholesterol level. It's the same old low-tech slicer: shell your hard-poached or hard-boiled egg, place it in the holding well, and garrote it into perfect 1/8-inch ovum ovals. But this cast-iron slicer, made in Germany, comes with a five-year guarantee--a better "best before" date than you're apt to find on even the freshest free-range Grade As. --Tony Mason

Jackie Gleason was a hell of a man, a Honeymooner, a pool shark, dumb southern sheriff, orchestra conductor and all round class act. Enjoy his aura every time you go to the fridge for a soda.

It's easy to assume this is just another dumb redneck comedy from Burt Reynolds's years of underachievement. But it's not bad as a dumb redneck comedy at all. Directed by career stuntman Hal Needham, Smokey and the Bandit is just a goofy chase starring a bunch of Reynolds's Hollywood cronies. New to the job as film boss, Needham brings a silly but energized sensibility to the production and an action man's need to see things moving. But he also has a distinctive feeling for relationships, and he's good with a joke. Put all that together, and Smokey is, at the very least (and unlike its sequels), a simple and original pleasure. --Tom Keogh

Contains 6 episodes B&W: Tonsils; Babs and Simon Step Out; Egbert's Chemistry set; The French Professor; Nervous Breakdown and Assistant Manager. Jackie Gleason is on the cover of the VHS box.

Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/17/2011 Run time: 135 minutes Rating: Nr

Paul Newman shines as cocky poolroom hustler "Fast" Eddie Felson in Robert Rossen's atmospheric adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel. Newman's Felson is a swaggering pool shark punk who takes on the king of the poolroom, Minnesota Fats (a cool, assured Jackie Gleason in his most understated performance). After losing big and crashing into a void of self-pity, Eddie meets down-and-out Sarah (Piper Laurie in a delicate performance), an alcoholic blue blood who's dropped into Eddie's world of dingy bars and seedy poolrooms. Eddie regains his confidence and attracts the attention of a shifty, calculating promoter, Bert Gordon (George C. Scott at his most heartless), who offers to bring Eddie into the big money--but at what cost? Rossen brings his film to life with the easy pace of a pool game, giving his actors room to explore their characters and develop into a razor-sharp ensemble. Eugen Schüfftan earned an Academy Award for his shadowing black-and-white cinematography, as did art directors Harry Horner and Gene Callahan for their deceivingly simple set designs. Even in the daylight this film seems to be smothered by night, lit by the dim glow of a bar lamp or the overhead glare of a pool-table light, an appropriate environment for this tale of one man's struggle with his soul and his self-esteem. Newman returned as an older, wiser, cagier Felson 25 years later in Martin Scorsese's Color of Money. --Sean Axmaker

For the 1955-56 TV season, Jackie Gleason interrupted the 18-year run of his CBS variety show (1952-70) to turn the popular "Honeymooners" sketches into a half-hour series. Gleason plays Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden, Art Carney is sewer worker pal Ed Norton, and Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph are their respective housewife spouses. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; bonus TV special; original opening and closing. 39 episodes on 5 discs. 17 hrs.

Get the bag. As The Honeymooners continues to get bumped from late-night TV schedules across the nation--by laughably unfunny shows such as Friends and Murphy Brown no less--legions of Honeymoonies will need to get their fix in other ways. This set--the Honeymoonie's Holy Grail--contains all 39 episodes from the legendary 1955-1956 season. There's no commentary from some "expert" who compares Ralph to gods from Greek mythology or memories from some assistant producer--it's just the meat, and that's enough to make any fan salivate. This was the only season that The Honeymooners had a life of its own apart from the Jackie Gleason Show, and as much as we tried to welcome the "Lost Episodes" into our family, they very rarely matched the high quality of the classic 39. Rather than sequence them in order, the producers have decided to group them by eight different themes including Ralph's jealous nature, his life at the Gotham Bus Company, his friendship with Norton, domestic troubles, and financial woes. Sometimes this approach is a bit forced, but it does illustrate why The Honeymooners is the ultimate situation comedy: You can show them out of order. No matter what happens to the Bensonhurst foursome, Ralph will still work for the bus company, Norton in the sewer. They'll be struggling to get by, passing the time bowling, shooting pool, arguing with the wives, and dreaming of a better day. And it's in the mundanity of everyday life that The Honeymooners finds boundless humor. Even when the events were anything but mundane--bank robbers, counterfeiters, TV commercials, game shows, golf dates with The Boss--the real story and the best jokes were about the reality of their lives and the realization that, because of marriage and friendship, they didn't really have it so bad after all. The chemistry between Jackie Gleason and Art Carney still amazes after all these years. Audrey Meadows's Alice is the perfect foil for Ralph, stern but sympathetic. And Joyce Randolph's Trixie? Well, let's just call her "earnest." Still, for all of Norton's frenetic energy and Alice's wisdom, the show belongs to Ralph Kramden. Somehow, Gleason took a chauvinistic, paranoid, insensitive, scheming, bitter, loudmouth, underachieving bus driver and made him a hero to millions. --Marc Greilsamer

Get ready to tear up the highway with the Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker who takes on his craziest haul yet - delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol' boy, Cledus (Jerry Reed) and runaway bride Carrie (Sally Field). Gear up for huge laughs, pedal-to-the-metal action, and some of the wildest car crashes ever filmed! Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick Directed by: Hal Needham

It's easy to assume this is just another dumb redneck comedy from Burt Reynolds's years of underachievement. But it's not bad as a dumb redneck comedy at all. Directed by career stuntman Hal Needham, Smokey and the Bandit is just a goofy chase starring a bunch of Reynolds's Hollywood cronies. New to the job as film boss, Needham brings a silly but energized sensibility to the production and an action man's need to see things moving. But he also has a distinctive feeling for relationships, and he's good with a joke. Put all that together, and Smokey is, at the very least (and unlike its sequels), a simple and original pleasure. --Tom Keogh

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"Underworld" is a magnificent book by an American master - Salman Rushdie, from the blurb.

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand. "It's all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria. Through fragments and interlaced stories--including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others--DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled.

Will you walk into my parlor, said the Spider to the Fly...is easily one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse. But do you have any idea how the age-old tale of the Spider and the Fly ends? Join artist Tony DiTerlizzi as he shines a spotlight on Mary Howitt s warning, written to her own children about those who use sweet words to hide their not-so-sweet intentions. Author: Mary Howitt, Illustrated by Tony DiTerlizziReading Level: Ages 4-8Format: 40 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Simon Schuster Children s Publishing 1st edition (October 1, 2002) ISBN: 978-0689852893

Moonlit Moment - Created by its star Jackie Gleason in 1951, The Honeymooners is one of television's all-time favorite sitcoms. This classic ornament features Ralph Kramden and his lovely wife Alice holding hands in the Brooklyn moonlight. Press the button and Ralph tells Alice, "Baby, you're the greatest." Perfect for Honeymoners fans everywhere.

Lillian Muller on the cover and inside. Playmate of the Month is Ava Fabian. Features include interviews of Jackie Gleason and Sigourney Weaver, and a nude pictorial of Brigitte Nielson.