Word: gleason
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fanny he has refined his methods. By cultivating a public character, he has set up a walking advertisement for his shows; by involving that character in a sensational series of front-page fratches, he has kept those shows in the public eye. His first big feud was with Jackie Gleason, who started missing performances of Take Me Along when it was coolly received by the critics. David decided that Gleason was malingering, ordered a private detective to sit detectably in a tree outside Gleason's house. After a few days of that, and a few weeks of verbal ping-pong...
Wendell V. Clausen, professor of Greek and Latin, will head the Classics department. Andrew M. Gleason, professor of Mathematics, will chair the mathematics department, and Juan Mari Professor of Romance Languages features, will direct the department of Romance Languages and Literature...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris in Requiem for a Heavyweight, the story of a prizefighter who is forced to give up the only trade he knows...
Anything Handy. Offstage, Ghiaurov behaves like a kind of Bulgarian Jackie Gleason, mugging, joking, erupting into great rumbling gales of ho-ho-ho laugh ter. At parties, given a few drinks, he will invariably perform on any instrument that is handy - flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, harmonica, violin, all of which he learned to play as a child in Bulgaria. Son of a farm hand, he was raised in Velingrad, a mineral-bath resort high in the Rhodope Mountains. As a teenager, Ghiaurov had no interest in singing, gained fame in local circles as an actor and star athlete with...
What happened was that Davis over exposed himself into one of show business' biggest deals. Last week he signed a 13-to-18-week contract with NBC making him the first Negro to enjoy what the trade covetously calls "the Gleason treatment." Like Jackie Gleason on CBS, Davis will have control of the show's entire budget; as executive producer he will be free to hire and fire whomever he pleases, pay the sal aries, name everyone from the guest stars to the script girl...