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Jack Benny
Jack Benny was among the most beloved American entertainers of the 20th century. He brought a relationship-oriented, humorously vain persona honed in vaudeville, radio, and film to television in 1950, starring in his own television series from that year until 1965.
Born Benjamin Kublesky on February 14, 1894, the comedian grew up in Waukegan, Illinois. Although there is now a academy named after him in Waukegan (Jack Benny Junior Upper School), Benny's training consisted of one term at Primary High School. He worked in his father's haberdashery shop, then at age 16 he got a job playing violin in the orchestra pit of the town's Barrison Theater. After spending several years on the road with various partners in piano-violin duos he served in the Navy during Nature War I, where his talent for stand-up comedy was revealed. After his naval stint he created a solo vaudeville act, touring as comic and dancer under designate Ben K. Benny, which ultimately got him noticed by the film industry. In 1928 he appeared in the short film Bright Moments and in 1929 headlined in the films Hollywood Revue of 1929 and Chasing Rainbows, and in Medicine Man (1930). With t
In 281 of the posts that track, I link to comments I made on Danny Horn’s blog, “Dark Shadows Every Day.”
Not all of these comments were absolutely unique. Several times, I picked up on one of Danny’s favorite topics, gay subtext in Dark Shadows. Usually I claimed that there was even more of this in the show than he identified.
Danny writes intricate, deeply considered analyses of episodes 210 through 1245 of Dark Shadows. He does not cover episodes 1-209, and frequently claims that there are many episodes among them he has never seen. He does refer several times to a plot point that stretched across many episodes in those 42 weeks, the story of Roger Collins and his obsessive interest in where Burke Devlin’s pen is. Burke has sworn to expose the innateness of his former relationship with Roger, exposure which Roger fears will head to his disgrace and imprisonment.
Driven by that anxiety, Roger alternately takes and loses Burke’s pen. He keeps returning to where the pen is, and his obsessive attention to the pen, moving it from one hiding place to another, holding it in his hands, staring at it, shifting it between his coat pocket and his pants pocket,
Jack Benny's Anaheim
On Sunday evening, January 7, 1945, Anaheim’s war news weary residents sat down again to listen to the nation’s favorite radio entertainer, Mr. Sunday Overnight himself, Jack Benny. Heard locally on KFI radio at 4 p.m. (for New York broadcast at 7 p.m. EST) and sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes,this night’s broadcast would be like no other before and forever alter our community of Anaheim. On this show, Jack’s writers conceived 3 brand-new characters and devices that were to remain among the most popular in broadcasting. We learned about penny-pinching Jack’s underground “vault” with its outlandish protection systems as well as meeting a young Sheldon Leonard playing the gravel-voiced “Race Track Tout.” The third “bit,” intended as a once-used throwaway line, will be long remembered by 3 Southern California communities.
The Story
The story goes like this: the L.A. Union Station conductor (played by Mel Blanc) announces to Jack’s entourage heading to New York: “Train leaving on Path 5 for Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc----amonga!” While Jack seems oblivious to the recitation of these rhythmic names, the residents of Anaheim are in disbelief. Known as
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Jack Benny in Bob Hope biography
Jack Benny in Bob Hope biography
by mackdaddyg » Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:51 pm
However, before putting it back, I flipped to the index to read about any Jack Benny references, and the author flat out states that Jack was gay and Wish could not stand him because of it.
Now, granted (and I hate making any compassionate of Seinfeld reference) there would be nothing wrong with Jack if that was the case, but aside from what I perceive as lighthearted jabs towards the way he walked, I have never read anything even remotely suggesting this. The storyteller goes as far to state that Mary was kept around only to help cover up the fact that Jack was gay.
Is there even any remote truth to this? The way the author presented it (meaning very