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...went, all through the day and into the night. Groucho Marx showed up, and so did Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, Hugh O'Brian, Hugh Downs, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Phil Silvers, Hal March, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano. Kyle Rote. Charley Conerly. Frank Gifford, James A. Farley. Jackie Gleason could not make it, but he sent a mass of fall flowers and a pal's salutation, which began: "Dear Clam Head...
...Hustler. A morality play in a poolroom, brilliantly directed by Robert Rossen, vigorously played by Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason...
...Gleason had married Genevieve Halford, a dancer. Over the years. Gleason was home-again-gone-again. They got a legal separation in 1954. He takes all the blame. His two daughters are now adults (one is married and the other is finishing college at Washington's Catholic University), and there is no chance that their parents will reunite. Nor is there any chance of a divorce. Although Jackie does not practice Roman Catholicism, as his friend Jack Haley says, "he believes...
Question of Faith. He not only believes in it, he thinks about it to a degree that would amaze all the people whose impression of Gleason goes no deeper than what they read in the work of Broadway columnists. "Whenever I hear someone say that religion is their own personal affair, I'm irritated," he says. ''Religion can't be called personal. The health of your religion determines the compassion, sympathy, forgiveness, and tolerance you give to your fellow man. I have studied different religions to see if there was one more attractive...
...HUSTLER. Director Robert Rossen, in a formidable, expert and exciting commercial movie, promulgates a slangy, sexy saga of the pool halls, a remodeled myth in which the old king of the cuestick (Jackie Gleason) yields his laurels to the new (Paul Newman), but only after an enormously exciting trial by combat...