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There's an electricity about Jackie, on stage or out of doors. He's always doing something to cheer others, and appreciates it so much when others do something for him — ■ like that birthday party while he was still on crutches.
Why everyone loves Jackie Gleason
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and who have put and kept him at the top. And all the little people he has helped, because he is too l-ind ever to turn his back on anyone in trouble.
I have a theory that Jackie's greatest fault is the result of one of his nicest and most lovable qualities — the quality of being unusually sensitive to other people and their moods. It makes him want to please everyone, and to be liked by everyone. And it leaves him wide open for people to take advantage of him. Some of them do. I suspect he often knows this and lets it go on, rather than admit to himself that he has been imposed on. Or face up to doing something drastic about it.
Jackie's quick, keen mind is hardly a fault, but it does make him get out of patience with those who think more slowly — or, worse still, execute ideas slowly. People who aren't used to the way he follows through on an idea, in a flash, don't always realize that he hasn't the time to spend on the slowpokes. They don't understand that this is a man who wants to accomplish so much that he has no time to tarry along the way. This is a man who, in only about five years of television, has proved himself a master performer and showman, and an instinctive musician with some gorgeous recordings to prove it. A man so full of energy and know-how that he didn't hesitate last winter to take on a two-week engagement at New York's huge Paramount Theater (doing as many as six performances a day) , along (Continued on page 86)
The Jackie Gleason Show is seen over CBS-TV, each Saturday, from 8 to 9 P.M. EDT. The program is sponsored by Schick Electric Shavers, Nescafe Instant Coffee, Gleem and Prell.
Ray Turk, of the Cleveland Transit System, presents "bus driver" Jackie with a special cap and gold badge.