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Sorrowfully, Jackie Gleason heaved himself upright and looked at Gene Kelly. The two are in Paris trying to film a movie called Gigot, about a lovable deaf-mute bum whose best friend is an alley cat. In the first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost...
...testing is the kind of nonsense that directors' assistants have assistants deal with in the U.S. But Gleason, who dreamed up Gigot because "I got fed up with seeing those psychological deals where Tab Hunter falls in love with a goat." wanted to do the film on location in Paris with French actors and crew...
...Bottle Man. French film making is traditionally chaotic, and Gleason is a compulsively active mattress who walks like a man. Their collision has resulted in a good deal of confusion and. somewhat surprisingly, a respectable amount of progress. During a typical day Gleason may record a song (he has also written the film's music), chat with Ambassador James Gavin, get his three-day bum's beard trimmed with special three-day-beard scissors, and audition little girls to play opposite Gigot (the female "lead must speak English with a slight French accent and be five to eight...
...Million Dollar Incident (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). A comedy special, with Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan and George Jessel as themselves, plus Actors Everett Sloane, Peter Falk, William Redfield. The incident: Jackie Gleason is kidnaped. The question: Who in the world will pay the million dollar ransom...
...Khrushchev drew critical scorn. As Susskind's hair began to thin and his pockets bulged, his image as TV's angry young rebel became less convincing, but his influence still pervaded the industry, and his Open End consistently demonstrated that conversation, if intelligent, can be entertaining. Jackie Gleason was miserably miscast as the M.C. of an ill-fated (one performance) panel show, You're in the Picture, and Milton Berle was relegated to narrating Jackpot Bowling. The networks-which billed some 400 shows as "specials" in 1959-60-had considerably fewer than that this year, and with...