Playboy Interview: Jackie Gleason

Playboy Interview: Jackie GleasonNattily bedecked in loafers, dark blue slacks and an eye-searing tomato-red cardigan, the gifted comic-composerconductor-actor-occultist-egotist who calls himself "The Great One" – otherwise known as Jackie Gleason – sat like a beached whale on the lawn outside the clubhouse at the Shawnee Inn in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. Though he had fared poorly that morning in a golf tournament (he generally shoots in the low 80s), Gleason greeted Playboy wit...