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...long time by any measurement. But his voice still sounded like an overloaded station wagon lumbering up a gravel road, her wisecracks could still break open a Brink's vault, and they projected the same vitality they did when they were feuding, fussing and making up on Chauncey Street in Brooklyn. Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, otherwise known as Ralph and Alice Kramden, the Honeymooners, were back together in Miami last week, taping an NBC special to be aired next Monday. As Gleason used to say, "How sweet...
Most of the shows from the vault actually predate those now being seen; they were originally aired between 1952 and 1957, when The Honeymooners was a continuing segment on Gleason's one-hour variety show for CBS. Ralph and Alice lived in that dingy two-room apartment on Chauncey Street even then, and their best friends were already their upstairs neighbors, Ed and Trixie Norton (Art Carney and Joyce Randolph). Unlike most other sitcom couples of the '50s, the Honeymooners were not middle class, but the working poor. Ralph earned $62 a week driving a bus; Norton worked...
Director Steven Spielberg has remarked that "if E.T. hadn't come to Elliott, he would have come to Michael's house." He reflects that Jackson is like a hybrid of outer space's most famous tourist and of Chauncey Gardiner, the video-bedazzled innocent whom Peter Sellers portrayed in Being There. "I think Michael can be hurt very easily," Spielberg says. "He's sort of like a fawn in a burning forest." Jones watched Michael break down several times while recording She's Out of My Life for Off the Wall, and eventually just left the crying on the track...
...have an amazing set of true Lincoln documents?the most extraordinary that have come to us in many, many years." After publication of the Atlantic's first installment, however, a storm of criticism erupted. "You are putting over one of the crudest forgeries I have known," protested Worthington Chauncey Ford, 72, editor of the Massachusetts Historical Society, in a letter to Sedgwick. Even Barton sadly wrote to Minor, "I have come to the conviction that the letters which you are sending to the Atlantic are not genuine. And, my dear, I am afraid you know...
History will make a big fuss over Being There, because it was Sellers' last--and perhaps best--film. But for him, it was simply the closest he could come to perfection, to playing the self he didn't think existed. Chauncey Gardiner was just a man who loved a gadget...