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His last movie, if memory serves, was “Nothing in Common”, which was one of the first of Tom Hanks’ movies; overall, it was immaculately cast.

By the way, Jackie Gleason’s brilliant, restless mind led him to acquire what was and probably still is the largest collection of fringe literature ever assembled.

Jackie Gleason’s occult library on exhibit in Miami / Boing Boing
Xeni Jardin / 9:36 pm Wed Sep 12, 2007
https://boingboing.net/2007/09/12/jackie-gleasons-mass.html


3 posted on 07/10/2020 3:16:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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That’s interesting, never knew that. Used to come across an occasional “Fate” magazine sitting around at the house growing up back in the day.


5 posted on 07/10/2020 3:31:33 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: SunkenCiv

The link to the collection in that article is stale, but it’s there at the Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110719031356/http://scholar.library.miami.edu/gleason/


9 posted on 07/10/2020 4:46:25 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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