"The Bensonhurst Bomber"(1956)

[Brutu]

Here is one of the episodes of the TV show The Honeymooners,
"The Bensonhurst Bomber"
it originally aired 8. September.1956.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb8ulccRP_E

[Brutu]

here is a clip from 1961 of Jackie Gleason recounting to Rocky Marciano on how he first
met Two-Ton Tony Galento.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq9MNX0nZQw

[Seamus]

Ironically, despite the occasional mention of Bensonhurst on the Honeymooners, nearly all the street references made in the show were actually located in Bushwick, which as I'm sure a few people already knew, is a good deal NE of Bensonhurst.

[Brutu]

And who could forget Jackie Gleason as "Maish"in this 1962 film?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPtudkGA14w

[Caractacus]

Man,that is classic TV.
Jackie Gleason was also good friends with'Slapsie'Maxie Rosenbloom.
I remember reading a pretty funny story about a joke that he had done on Rosenbloom
in a biography of Jackie Gleason .
I post it later on when I find the book.

[Caractacus]

okay I found the stories that Jackie Gleason(who was pals with Rosenbloom) in a book called
HOW SWEET IT IS.
One of them is back around 1941 when Gleason was a stage comedian
he appeared at the famous SLAPSIES Hollywood nightclub.
He did a comic skit with Maxie while on stage,but one night Rosenbloom strayed away from the script.
Part of it was like this:

Maxie Rosenbloom... "I know Im ugly, Ive had over 289 fights.Whats your excuse?

Jackie Gleason:... "I bet on you!

after which Rosenbloom then chases Gleason on the stage and then off into the audience.

[Caractacus]

Anyone seen the movie GANGSTER SQUAD were they made a recreation of SLAPSY MAXIE'S Nighclub back in the 1940's.
It use to be located on Wilshire BLVD in Los Angles but was demolished around 1950.
Reportedly the real owner of the club was gangster Mickey Cohen
Its a pretty good reconstrcution considering .They had re-vamped an original J.C Penny building from that era to look like the club.
(scroll down to see the club as it appeared in 1947.)


http://www.laconservancy.org/locations/ ... demolished

[Caractacus]

Here is a new link to the episode of the HONEYMOONERS
"TV OR NOT TV"(originally aired October.1. 1955
(60 years ago this month!)
which contains the reference to the TV show "Fights of the World"
Max Rosenbloom vrs King Levinsky bout at about 18:30 of this clip here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMgIH9t62OI

[BoxBuzz]

Yep....no real clue there, the sound was purely canned. Probably just part of a script. I do remember when this was solved last time....but I love it that I can't remember things.

It made the whole discovery process all new again. lol.

[Caractacus]

I curious as to if there ever was a television show in the mid-fifties called
FIGHTS OF THE WORLD ?
Where they showed filmed of classic fights on primetime television?
Bill Cayton's FIGHTS OF THE CENTURY didnt debut until 1960 on TV if I remember correctly.
But I think one show on Dumont use to show old fights along with live fights,the old fights being time filler.

[Caractacus]

Here is another Jackie Gleason and Maxie Rosenbloom story from the book How Sweet It Is(pp 61-62).
Jackie Gleason,Maxie Rosenbloom and "Colorado".

"One night,Maxie got drunk and showed up in the suite with a 10 dollar hooker.
He passed out out cold and the hooker left,fortunately having gotten her 10 dollars in advance.
Gleason hurried down to the hotel drugstore and bought a bottle of Mercurochrome.
He then painted the C*ock of the sleeping Rosenbloom a vivid red.
A gew hours later,Maxie woke up with a blood curdling scream.
He showed his flaming-red monster to Gleason,who calmly told him that the hooker had given him a bad case of Colorado.
Now,of course,there is no such disease,but Maxie was on the phone to the doctor,explaining for half an hout that he had a case of Colorado.
The doctor didnt know what the hell he was talking about.

[Caractacus]

another story I remember reading in that book was that another time Jackie Gleason laced one of
Max Rosenbloom's suppositories with Tabasco sauce,
because he knew that the champ suffered from a bad case of the hemorroids.
That blood curddling scream that was heard after that practical joke was said to have even been worse then the one we Maxie Rosenbloom had thought he had contracted "Colorado Red".

[Caractacus]

"The Bensonhurst Bomber"
it originally aired 8. September.1956.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb8ulccRP_E

[Tony1244]

Here is one of the episodes of the TV show The Honeymooners,
"The Bensonhurst Bomber"
it originally aired 8. September.1956.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb8ulccRP_E

Classic and Fantastic episode. I'm happy to have it on DVD.

But uh, it should probably be in the off topic section. Hate to break it to you but the Bensonhurst Bomber wasn't real.

Just mess' with you, it's great to see that again anywhere.

[Tony1244]

another story I remember reading in that book was that another time Jackie Gleason laced one of
Max Rosenbloom's suppositories with Tabasco sauce,
because he knew that the champ suffered from a bad case of the hemorroids.
That blood curddling scream that was heard after that practical joke was said to have even been worse then the one we Maxie Rosenbloom had thought he had contracted "Colorado Red".

Wow if true. Don't mess with a man's bumhole.