TV legend Jackie Gleason owned a UFO-shaped house, called the “Round House”, built in Westchester County, New York, in 1959. The Smokey and the Bandit star, who had a fascination with UFOs ...

Gleason’s mother worked in a subway change booth and had small regard for her son’s comic talents, and when Jackie brought down the house with his clowning in the P.S. 73 eighth-grade ...