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...early comedy stars like Milton Berle came out of vaudeville. I Love Lucy was unmistakably a television show, and Ball the perfect star for the small screen. "I look like everybody's idea of an actress," she once said, "but I feel like a housewife." Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason were big men with larger-than-life personas; Lucy...
...Blake A. Gleason: A Shakespearean Sonnet...
...something which was almostcertainly obtained for free, including thethoroughly-crooked set of house cues. Theexception is the back wall; this surface iscovered by a custom-made mural which clearly datesfrom an era long past. In the foreground, thepainting crudely depicts a scene from "TheHustler," with vaguely recognizable likenesses ofJackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats and Paul Newman'sEddie Felsin. At the middle table in the painting,three ruddy-faced Irish fellows contemplatesinking the eight-ball in the corner pocket. Themural distinguishes the setting as undeniablySully':, jammed with more spectators than players,in the background, about 30 onlookers take in theaction...
...scene comes out of it. That's classic. It's burlesque." One quickly learns that Seinfeld, like most comedians, can talk about comedy endlessly and with great depth of knowledge of both its history and its craft. He refers almost mystically to "the funny" and cites old masters: "Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the purest element. It can't be improved upon as a substance. It's impervious to style, to time. That's the only significant thing about this show: it's funny...
...play the same 50 records every week," says Mercury Nashville president Luke Lewis. "I call it Prozac radio." The hope never dies for a purer, "alternative" country voice, but that's hard to find on mainstream radio. "A lot of program directors come from the rock format," says Holly Gleason, a premier Nashville publicist who has midwifed the careers of stars Patty Loveless and Collin Raye, "and don't have a feeling for the country tradition. Their allegiance isn't to the roots; it's to the research...