The Golden Ham, first published in 1956, recounts the career of entertainer and comedian Jackie Gleason (19161987) from his beginnings in showbusiness to the mid1950s when he was at the peak of his early success with The Honeymooners. In his foreword, author Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the first time "he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered. And yet there were parts of this biography that made him wince." For The Golden Ham is candid biography. To it Mr. Bishop brought his painstaking interest in detail, his reporters curiosity, his laymans interest in the world of the theater, and his detachment. And most important, he began and ended his job with Jackie Gleasons guarantee that nothing Bishop wrote would be censored. The result is a kind of theatrical biography that is entirely new and, like Gleason himself, is made up of a great deal of a great many things. As Bishop says "There are several Jackie Gleasons. I know some of them. There is Gleason the comedian. Millions know him, and hes a great talent. Then there is Gleason the producer and Gleason the writer. Some people know these...Gleason the businessmansecondrate, but he thinks hes good at it and then there is Gleason the thinker (apt and fast) and Gleason the man (fat, out of shape, but light on his feet) and Gleason the tenementhouse kid from Brooklyn (nervy and not a bit surprised that hes on top) and Gleason the lover, Gleason the musician,...

Binding: Paperback;318 pages; Publisher: Pathfinder Books; Classification: N/A; Weight: 491.04 g; Dimensions: N/A

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