Word: gleason
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Behind the ring, a banner bears his name, and when he enters Gleason's Gym--a slight figure in baggy jeans and red leather jacket--the fighters pounding the bags stop to pay their respects. Here, under the Brooklyn Bridge, where so many legends trained, Zab Judah reigns as a local hero. Since turning pro at 18, he is 25-0. In his last bout, on the Mike Tyson undercard in October, he devastated his opponent with rapid-fire reflexes and a withering overhand left. He fights next in January; and before he gets too heavy for his weight class...
...Divine Miss M, the blowsy, flighty, attention-craving alter ego Midler created in her stage shows. "Bette" blitzes her way through the series, to the bemusement and exhaustion of her family and support group: her professor husband (Kevin Dunn), her teenage daughter (Marina Malota), her manager (Joanna Gleason) and her fussy British accompanist (James Dreyfus). "You can't have Bette Midler on television playing a housewife," says Lane. "It would have been hard to separate the character from the entertainer we all know. It would also have been tough to find an excuse for the character to sing...
...Even more heady was the physical workout she endured. Already lean and mean from rollerblading, biking and hiking, she engaged in a full boxing regimen at Gleason's Gym, began running two miles a day, and packed on more than 10 pounds to bulk up her frame. Undergoing rigorous training for five hours a day, six days a week, Rodriguez transformed herself from a reasonably fit woman into a muscular Amazon. "My whole body began to change," she says, taking a deep drag off an American Spirit cigarette. "I morphed into a powerful being...
...Jack Gleason...
...film, but it was one of the favorite films of my young manhood and it was a delightful film when it came out. This film was influenced really by two things - first, the Lubic kind of film because he's my favorite comic film director and also by Jackie Gleason. I'm such a great fan of the Honeymooners...