It's Legacy for Fans is a Betrayal, and Casual Entertainment Fans a Not-too-Pleasant Look at a Deeply Flawed Off-Stage Bully that Throws His Weight Around Anyone Around.
Driven Mostly by Egotistical Self Assurance, "The Great One'' Succeeds, Despite Being an Unlikeable Cad, that Always Clears Away those who Dare Occupy the Same Space, with Insults, Demeaning Put-Downs, and His "Don Rickles" Act Wears Mighty Thin as Things Proceed.
The TV-Movie is Powered by a Commanding In-Skin Performance from Brad Garrett.
But the Screenplay Shows Little Regard for any Layers of Complexity that Made Up the Many-Sides of Jackie Gleason. The Star of Stage, Screen, and TV.
Those who Worked With and those who Claimed to Know Him and His Personality, Say, He Had a More Tender and Sensitive Side to Balance the Domineering Demands and Control that Permeated His Perfectionist Professional Work.
Not a Hint is Made to Offer-Up Anything to Counter-Point the Movie's Point that He was a Very Unpleasant Man to Be Around.
This Behind-the-Scenes Portrayal of Jackie Gleason's Show-Biz Careers is One-Note and that Note is a Sour One Despite His Success and Accomplishments.
Because Little Seems to Exist, in the Periphery, Included in the Public Domain.
About the Inner-Workings of a Performer and Technician of the Arts that Orson Welles Coined "The Great One", and it Stuck, Because it's True.
But it's Sad that this TV-Movie Chose the Melodramatic Method to Sell this to the Public.
With Emphasis on the Most Controversial Traits that Dominate Here and are Very Unflattering.
Things that are Disputed by Many.
Driven Mostly by Egotistical Self Assurance, "The Great One'' Succeeds, Despite Being an Unlikeable Cad, that Always Clears Away those who Dare Occupy the Same Space, with Insults, Demeaning Put-Downs, and His "Don Rickles" Act Wears Mighty Thin as Things Proceed.
The TV-Movie is Powered by a Commanding In-Skin Performance from Brad Garrett.
But the Screenplay Shows Little Regard for any Layers of Complexity that Made Up the Many-Sides of Jackie Gleason. The Star of Stage, Screen, and TV.
Those who Worked With and those who Claimed to Know Him and His Personality, Say, He Had a More Tender and Sensitive Side to Balance the Domineering Demands and Control that Permeated His Perfectionist Professional Work.
Not a Hint is Made to Offer-Up Anything to Counter-Point the Movie's Point that He was a Very Unpleasant Man to Be Around.
This Behind-the-Scenes Portrayal of Jackie Gleason's Show-Biz Careers is One-Note and that Note is a Sour One Despite His Success and Accomplishments.
Because Little Seems to Exist, in the Periphery, Included in the Public Domain.
About the Inner-Workings of a Performer and Technician of the Arts that Orson Welles Coined "The Great One", and it Stuck, Because it's True.
But it's Sad that this TV-Movie Chose the Melodramatic Method to Sell this to the Public.
With Emphasis on the Most Controversial Traits that Dominate Here and are Very Unflattering.
Things that are Disputed by Many.