Topic: Al Jolson
My favorite documentaries are the ones that start by asking a weird question or uncovering an unknown subculture, then keep digging and digging as...
Brian Conley invites Graham Young backstage to discuss his record-breaking Christmas show.. . Birmingham Hippodrome panto star Brian Conley has...
Silence is golden and in the case of Michel Hazanavicius's gorgeous black and white silent film, the gold will be a clutch of Oscars, probably...
The first act of To Life begins with the song of that name, from Fiddler on the Roof, and the second ends with it. Despite this symmetry, anyone...
Last Friday I wrote a short response to Huffington Post contributor John Eskow's article "Christina Aguilera and the Hideous Cult of Oversouling,"...
The Singing Fool in a 1928 musical drama Part-Talkie motion picture which was released by Warner Brothers . Al Jolson's first all-talking feature, Say It With Songs , would appear in 1929.After years of hopeful struggle, Al Stone (Jolson) is on his ...
I like it in old movies where they show an awful play or concert, and the people throw tomatoes and other fruits. I would think that somewhere along the line some budding genius would have come up with a cheap, yet effective ...
It was the Swing Era and greats like Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald saw us through. Television was introduced, bringing us such characters as Red Skelton, Jack Benny, and Bob Hope. It was the era of the crooners - Bing Crosby, Frank ...
by PaulaReprinted from Dance News 2008THE PASADINA ROOF ORCHESTRA PRESENT THE ROARING TWENTIESSurely that is where it all started - a new style of music which slipped smoothly across the local dance floor and caught the ear (and the feet) of the young ...
Some celebrities changed their names before entering show business because they were worried they might sound too ethnic or be too hard to...
