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...Jackie Gleason is the one overt performer in Take Me Along, but he displays more of a vaudeville than a video air as he and Walter Pidgeon do a delightful soft-shoe dance, or as he says: "There are 14 saloons in this town, and I've never set foot in one of them-the one on 4th Street." But Actor Pidgeon, with his plaintive middle-aged joke in Staying Young, and Robert Morse, with his just-right teen-age theatrics in I Would Die, and Eileen Herlie, hilariously spinsterish about the facts of life in I Get Embarrassed...
...Bells. Entrepreneur Caccienti is rarely aware of the kind of music being played in his sewer: he is a bit hard of hearing and besides, he knows little about jazz. This has its advantages. Explains the San Francisco Chronicle's Jazz Columnist Ralph Gleason: "It's the club musicians like best. First, the owners don't tell them what to do. They can't-they can't communicate. Second, the audience is best. Why else except to listen would anyone endure these conditions...
...fear she would miss a joke. (Now the cash registers have no bells.) They recall the night a trombonist lost his pants in the middle of a solo, and the time Drummer Art Blakey belted a cymbal so hard that it bounced onto a ringside table where (according to Gleason) "two worshipers were sitting with eyes closed. They went six feet in the air, straight...
Died. James Gleason, 72, wispy, slang-spouting cinemactor who inevitably turned up as the prizefight manager, the private eye, the top sergeant or the political crony in scores of films, from Here Comes Mr. Jordan to The Last Hurrah, onetime Broadway playwright who hit the big time in 1925 with Is Zat So? (618 performances), later wrote plays with fat cast lists in order to provide work for actors; of chronic asthma; in Hollywood...
...dodderers. It is no surprise that convent TV sets glow for Como, that he was rated America's ideal husband in a poll of 20-year-old girls, or that three years ago he made Saturday night the loneliest night in the week for brilliant but irascible Jackie Gleason. Says a Kraftman: "Out in Arkansas, he's the type they want on a family program. Nobody else could do the trick...