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DIED. Frank Fontaine, 56, comedian known as "Crazy Guggenham"; of a heart attack; in Spokane, Wash. A zany second banana to Jackie Gleason on TV during the '60s. Fontaine had just completed a benefit show and accepted a check for $25,000, which he planned to donate for heart research, when he collapsed...
...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Frank Fontaine returns for a guest stint as Crazy Guggenham. Among Gleason's other guests: Louis Armstrong, Kate Smith, Milton Berle...
Thomas Patrick Robinson, Ph.D., a sometime college professor who grew up with Jackie (and was later-as Bookshelf Robinson-given frequent mention on Gleason's TV shows, along with such other neighborhood immortals as Duddy Duddelson, Crazy Guggenham, and Fatso Fogarty), remembers Jackie as "a big hero in the neighborhood-because of the pool, and also because he was so funny. He had a slouchy mannerism, a duck-waddling walk." Gleason's mother worked in a subway change booth and had small regard for her son's comic talents, and when Jackie brought down the house with...
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