My father grew up with Jackie in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Jackie, and also my aunt and uncle, once lived on Chauncey Street. Jackie was briefly the "hook man" in one of the local Vaudeville theatres, and he would pay my dad and his buddies a dollar apiece to be the claque (applause generators) when he hooked an act off the stage.
My dad also played pool with Jackie, who even then, was quite a hustler. He did most of his own shots in the movie by the same name.
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