Richard Bernstein tackles difficult topics in his short study of an extraordinary entertainer, Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson in ...

WHEN I WAS A PRETEEN, I LOVED GOING TO MOVIES, sitting in the flickering dark of the old Medford theater in the late 1940s, ...

Al Jolson promoted himself as “the Blackface ... “It enabled people who wanted to sing in a different manner to come to the fore,” said the audio restorer Mark Obert-Thorn, who produced ...

Guess there’s some joy in the House of Adams to have survived 19 traditional Presidential Inaugurations, two extraordinary ...

He sings: “Waddles into the afternoon/ Look into its eyes ... Punching a donkey Sang in a full-chested voice that feels earnest, the protagonists of ‘Jolson And Jones’ both claim: “I’ll punch a donkey ...

Its main concern is music and mimesis: to showcase Chalamet performing the Dylan songbook with a fidelity to the original beyond the vocal range of the lip-synching Larry Parks in The Jolson Story ...

Her most famous novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, are massive dramatizations of Objectivism, her self-spun Oscar-the-Grouch philosophy for success. Objectivism champions ego and ...

George Gershwin has written 48 shows including Half-Past Eight (Composer), La, La, Lucille (Composer), La-La-Lucille! (Composer), Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Composer), George White's Scandals ...