I'd forgotten that Hollywood hunk Jason Patric is the grandson of Jackie Gleason. Speaking of interesting characters, Gleason, (a Brooklyn guy) was a voracious reader of books on the paranormal, and even had a house built in the shape of a UFO which he named "The Mothership".

According to Gleason's second wife, he told her that President Richard Nixon took him on a secret visit to Homestead Air Force Base. There, Gleason allegedly saw an alien spaceship and dead extraterrestrials