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Tuesday Jul 7 | New Urban Legends

Smokey Screen

Claim: The third Smokey and the Bandit film was originally shot with Jackie Gleason playing both the Sheriff and the Bandit.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

On This Day in History: June 24Requiem for a Brooklynite

You are not logged in. Register now . June 24, 2009 by Brooklyn Eagle , published online 06-24-2009 On June 24, 1987, the American actor and Brooklyn icon Jackie Gleason passed away from cancer at the age of 71.

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Related Topix: Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, The Honeymooners, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Sport Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Drama Movies, Action Movies

Tue Jun 16, 2009

Child of Television

This week in Television History:June 09 Part II

Forgive me Trekkers I did not include June 3, 1969 when the final episode of Star Trek aired Turnabout Intruder is a third season, as well as the final first-run episode of .

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Honeymooners, Comedy, The David Letterman Show, David Letterman

Fri Jun 12, 2009

DVD Verdict

Soldier In The Rain

Two highly irregulars, in the very regular army! And this is the story of the million-dollar schemes they dared, the fabulous dolls and dates, they shared.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Soldier in the Rain, Steve McQueen, Sport Movies, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Action Movies, Peyton Place, Soap Opera, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Ed Nelson

Tue Jun 09, 2009

The Cincinnati Enquirer

The message transcends the medium

WASHINGTON - I was watching Conan O'Brien's debut on 'The Tonight Show' with my 20- and 24-year-old millennial-generation sons when actor Will Ferrell joked that he had forsaken Twitter for the CB.

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Wed Jun 03, 2009

Lower Township Gazette

The biggest stars once called at The Gateway

By TOM WILLIAMS There was a time when some of the top stars from Broadway and Hollywood visited the Ocean City-Somers Point area on a regular basis to perform some of the finest plays and musicals ever created.

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Related Topix: Somers Point, NJ, Ocean City, NJ, Animation Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Family, The Wizard of Oz, Adventure, Musical Movies, Margaret Hamilton, Theater, Arts

Mon Jun 01, 2009

Music-News.com

RT Radio invites you to the Live Lounge

Starting on 12 June the RTE Radio 1 Music Collection launches a brand new eight part weekly series, Shay Byrne's Friday Lounge.

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Related Topix: Frank Sinatra, Jazz, Easy-Listening, Louis Prima, Jamie Cullum, Michael Buble, Swing

Mon May 04, 2009

Buffalo News

End of the road for Pontiac

It could crash through burning buildings, make a fool of any number of small-town Southern sheriffs, help save the world from giant robots, even take criminals off to jail while engaging in witty repartee with its driver.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Action Movies, Smokey and the Bandit, Comedy Movies, Hooper, Burt Reynolds, Nashville Metro

Sun May 03, 2009

Freerepublic.com

Pontiac, Pop Culture Icon, Hits End of the Road

It could crash through burning buildings, make a fool of any number of small-town Southern sheriffs, help save the world from giant robots, even take criminals off to jail while engaging in witty repartee with its driver.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Action Movies, Smokey and the Bandit, Comedy Movies, Hooper, Burt Reynolds

Thu Apr 16, 2009

Desert Sun

Why they call him Cedric the Entertainer

It takes a big man to fill Jackie Gleason's shoes. At the very least, it takes a man with impeccable comic timing to even try.

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Related Topix: The Steve Harvey Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Black Entertainment, Cedric the Entertainer, The Honeymooners

Fri Apr 10, 2009

BIO

Frankie Avalon

Born Francis Thomas Avallone on September 18, 1940 in South Philadelphia. He broke into show business as a child prodigy trumpet player, earning an appearance on the Jackie Gleason Show and making records for RCA Victor's subsidiary, 'X' Records.

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Related Topix: Beach Party, Back to the Beach, Comedy Movies, Music!, Musical Movies, Grease, Frankie Avalon, Philadelphia, PA, Easy-Listening

Tue Apr 07, 2009

High Performance Pontiac

Burt Reynold Bandit Trans Am to be Auctioned in Houston on May 2

Worldwide Auctioneers, responsible for the sale of some of the world's greatest collector cars, has confirmed today that a 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 'Bandit' Sports Coupe, currently the property of Mr.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Action Movies, Smokey and the Bandit, Comedy Movies, Burt Reynolds

Fri Mar 13, 2009

The Wire

Skidoo

Sigma Productions, 1968 starring: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Alexandra Hay and Groucho Marx directed by: Otto Preminger the plot: Members of the mob are being dragged before Congress, and it looks like ...

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Related Topix: Skidoo, Comedy Movies, Carol Channing, Groucho Marx, Mickey Rooney, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Feb 26, 2009

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

On This Day in History: February 26 - The Great One' - Immeasurable Talent

On Feb. 26, 1916, Herbert John Gleason was born in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

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Sat Feb 21, 2009

The Sandspur

Can't beat the classics pt. 2

Hopefully everyone enjoyed last week's preliminary introduction to what are, in my opinion, some of the finest classic films that everyone should see.

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Related Topix: Sport, Short, Comedy Movies, Drama, Paul Newman, Indie, George C. Scott

Sun Feb 08, 2009

Flathead Beacon

Inspector Gadget

If you've ever seen the classic television show, "The Honeymooners," you may remember an episode where Ralph and Ed are convinced they'll become millionaires with a kitchen gadget that they'll sell on ...

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Related Topix: Gadgets, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, The Honeymooners, Art Carney

Thu Jan 22, 2009

Comedy Central Insider

George Carlin's Greatest Hits Fail to Make His FBI File

January 22, 2009 AT 05:49PM Like many other American heroes, George Carlin had the distinction of piquing the attention of the FBI.

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Related Topix: US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News

Tue Jan 20, 2009

KQED-TV San Francisco

Jackie Gleason: Genius at Work

Duration: 55:48 CC Stereo TVG In the golden era of television, Jackie Gleason was king.

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Related Topix: Television

Fri Jan 16, 2009

StarTribune

McGoohan really had our number

In the summer of 1968, the most important TV series of my life premiered on CBS as a summer replacement for "The Jackie Gleason Show." A British import about a spy who, having resigned his position, is drugged ...

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Related Topix: The Prisoner, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Action, Silver Streak, Patrick McGoohan

Tue Jan 13, 2009

Hollywood Reporter

Craig Brewer set to roll on 'Trucker' film

Craig Brewer Craig Brewer is double-shifting. The "Hustle & Flow" writer-director has signed a development deal with New Regency to write and direct "Mother Trucker," based on a Maxim article written by Steven ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Action, Smokey and the Bandit, Comedy Movies, Burt Reynolds, Movies, Entertainment

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