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INSANITY[edit]

I have tried to include Jackie Gleason's nickname "The Great One" for reference and it keeps getting reverted by other users. Unlike these admins, I am old enough to have actually seen Jackie Gleason live. He called himself "The Great One" and there are books written about him as such: https://www.amazon.com/Great-One-Legend-Jackie-Gleason/dp/0385415338 Grow up people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:CC00:FF30:5D13:4F27:654B:3211 (talk) 03:50, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Musician[edit]

The lede mentions he is a musician and there is a section devoted to this yet there is no mention of playing any instrument. I seem to recall seeing him play the piano on television but it was from the front of the piano, never showing his hands.

IMDB lists him as a composer and conductor and I will change the lede to reflect this. Arbalest Mike (talk) 15:10, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Urantia reference was removed. (?) I'm looking for source[edit]

Websites quote an older version of this Wikipedia page where it mentions that Gleason read The Urantia Book. I am trying to find the source of that information (or was there no source - that that's why it was removed?) "Gleason was a voracious reader of books on the paranormal, including The Urantia Book, parapsychology and UFOs. He even had a house built in the shape of a UFO which he named The Mothership. During the 1950s, he was a semi-regular guest on the paranormal-themed overnight radio show hosted by Long John Nebel, and he wrote the introduction to Donald Bain's biography of Nebel. According to Gleason's second wife, Beverly McKittrick, he told her that U.S. President Richard Nixon took him on a secret visit to Homestead Air Force Base. There, Gleason allegedly saw an alien spaceship and dead extraterrestrials. After his death, his large book collection was donated to the library of the University of Miami." (from Wikipedia). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.10.225.248 (talk) 13:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]