Repeat performance post....



.[[1]">.[[2]">.[[2].0">.[[2].0.[">Years ago I went to school with Jackie Gleason comedy writer Marvin Marx's son. They took me to the Jackie Gleason variety show in New York City and I got to hang backstage with my hero, Sid Fields who was a bit player on the show.No need to tell you this was one of the high points of my life...The guy was a sweetheart and though I was very young I knew who Mr. Fields was from the TV show...

.[[2]">.[[2].0">.[[2].0.[">.[[2].0.[.[">..And Gleason....He was another sweetheart.He gave me a 8x10 glossy signed to my pal Skelly and my evil step mother threw it out!!! Ahhhh...If this show ever turns up on DVD or TV He was dressed as Regi.[[2].0.[3]">.[[2].0.[3].0">.[[2].0.[3].0.[">nald Van Gleason, came down the audience aisle and hit me and another kid over our heads with his cane. All caught as part of the show.I might have be 7 or 8 years old at the time.I met Frankie Fontaine too, a pretty cool guy too.And Away We Go girl Elizabeth Allen kissed me on the cheek calling me cute. It wasn't until years later I realized this was the gal in 2 of my favorite Thriller episodes...It was all wonderfully surreal...

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