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Sting II does adapt from the original and central characters of the criminal hero. Jake Hooker (Mac Davis), and his has-been mentor, Fargo Gondorff (Jackie Gleason). The first gag sets the tone of the movie, when Hooker rushes down to visit Gondorff in what had been described as "a big house with a yard," but is actually a state prison, It never improves...
...Corporation, of course, has consistently dismissed arguments for divestiture--on the grounds that it is backed only by extremists and that it could foreclose University leverage on the company in question. In this case, it would do well to listen to ACSR alumni member Herbert P. Gleason '50. Gleason, no extremist, recently said that there is "no possible justification for making money out of tobacco." The Corporation should also realize that its chances of persuading Morris to abandon cigarette production are about as slim as the chances that its cigarettes will be found to be good for the lungs. Unless...
Fast Eddie, the pool shooter who told Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats, "I'm the best you've ever seen, Fats, I'm the best there is," is all speed and charm and thin-ice cockiness. Hud Bannon, the surly cowboy womanizer who is the turbulence at the center of Martin Ritt's 1963 film Hud, seems twice the size of Fast Eddie. He is a brawler with the looks of a fallen angel, and he sneers at emotion: "My mother loved me but she died." Hud is rotten. He is trying to have...
Harvard Math Professor Andrew M. Gleason, who as an undergraduate at Yale finished in the top five for three consecutive years, said yesterday that "you can dubble around, but [studying for the test] won't do a great deal...
King has interviewed just about everyone famous in America over his long career as a radio broadcaster in Miami and on his current show. In his book, he discusses friendships with Jackie Gleason, Lenny Bruce, Don Rickles, and Nixon. He recalls interviews with the likes of Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, and Milton Friedman...