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GleasonDecember 8, 2008 I've never seen that good of acting in a long time. He was great at portaying Jacky Gleason. I looked for a long while in video/music stores and even asked if they could find this CD for me and order it. But none of the stores seemed to be able to find it to order. So I thought I would try myself and there it was! On Amazon.com just as big as you please. It was really easy to find and easy to order. Those people working in the video/music stores have no clue. If the word gets out that it is this easy (and probubly cheaper) they could loose alot of business.
gotta love GleasonSeptember 10, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this movie was well done. it was in prestine condition and I got excellent service!
Brad Garrett is Great, but "Sanitized" is correctJuly 2, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The reviewer who said Gleason's life was sanitized was correct. I saw the entire miniseries on TV and it glossed over Gleason's hard drinking and his mean side.
Also, iirc, it glossed over Gleason's huge interest in UFOs. Gleason actually had a house built upstate that looked like a UFO. And Gleason swears that he was taken to Area 51 by Ike and saw aliens in a deep freeze.
A UFO house wasn't the only unusual thing Gleason built. Gleason was a notoriously heavy drinker - but could still quote Shakespeare when blotto - and hung out at Toots Shor's bar in NYC. When he started broadcasting from Miami Beach, he had the entire Toots Shor's bar dismantled, shipped to FL and rebuilt backstage at his set. He even had Toots Shor himself flown down to mix his drinks.
Gleason was quite a guy and Brad Garrett captures him well. But this show WAS definitely sanitized. The Great One would not be amused.
The Great OneFebruary 9, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this movie and it captured the time period perfectly. Brad Garrett is in top form as Gleason and you truly get the essence of the man. My one complaint is that this movie really sanitized his life making the portrait incomplete. Gleason was known to be exceptionally generous and also could be unbelievably cruel, neither of which this movie conveyed in full form. But there is no gripe about the acting, which is five stars all the way around. But this film only scratches the surface of the life and complexity of the man who was known and loved as "The Great One"
Obvious "labor of Love" for BradOctober 29, 2006 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Brad Garrett's portrayal of Jackie Gleason is so convincing that for most of this TV movie we forget it's a "TV movie", which tend to play a little superficially. My only criticism of his acting is that it lacked energy. He seemed to have paid serious attention to the Great One's mannerisms and expressions but once the cameras started to roll, he apparently forget to inject real bouyant Life into the mix. I do not agree that Kristen Dalton's Alice is impressive. Audrey Meadows was a great actress who was also funny. Dalton's take is purely "feminist"-aggressive in the modern sense [not that there's anything wrong with that] but Meadows tempered it with the underlying, inescapable truth that she deeply loved this man. To use an over-used noun, Meadows' decidely ahead-of-her-time feminism was "nuanced" and filled with pathos. For the historians, it appears that her 1952 audition is not exactly scripted accurately here. The movie ends with a 1980s interview, apparently based on the "60 Minutes" telecast. Garrett's Gleason says he wishes that he did another Honeymooners season. Although it's been written that Jackie did consider doing new episodes in 1959, most evidence I've read is that he was secure in closing down the spin-off (39) filmed shows: the ratings were disappointing *and* the quality was so remarkable that he knew another season could only bring disappointment. Perhaps some mention should have been made of Gleason's *versatility*: his composing and conducting; drammatic acting, etc. If the producers wanted to focus in on the The Honeymooners first go-'round in the '50s, may I point out another omission: I feel that many fans do not know that Jackie did not win an Emmy for those "Classic 39" - it went to Phil Silvers.
