What inspired Netflix’s new crime series "The Waterfront"? The hit show is based on shocking real events. Here’s the true story behind the Buckleys.

THE DODLESTON MESSAGES In December 1984, Ken Webster, a high-school teacher, was living with his friend Nic and girlfriend ...

Trump’s attacks on Springsteen and Oprah aren't legally sound. That’s not the point.

“Jolson’s story is the American immigration story at its best, the escape from a place where a rise to fame and fortune like this would have been impossible to a place where such a rise ...

In that way, the film is not unlike Jolson’s entire life, which, to Berstein, “is the American immigration story at its best, the escape from a place where a rise to fame and fortune like his ...

The Jolson Story emerges as an American success story in song. The yearning to sing to give generously of himself, cued by the still famed-in showbiz catchphrase, ‘You ain’t heard nothin ...

He starred in THE JAZZ SINGER (1927), the first talking movie ever made, and his legend was assured in 1946 with the release of the successful biography of his life called THE JOLSON STORY.

Harding, Jolson and the Cubs While Reagan’s attempt to woo 1980s rock fans is one of the best-known attempts to campaign on a mantra of popular culture, it was far from the first.

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Jolson, born Asa Yoelson in a shtetl in Lithuania ... His brother offered up a different story, saying the suggestion to “black up” came from an Irish comedian who played in blackface.

The Jolson Story (Columbia) is a fine, noisy celebration of Hollywood’s two decades of talking movies. To the embarrassment of Warner Bros., currently whooping up the 20th anniversary of sound ...

Why should he bother? The Technicolor movie based on his life (Columbia’s The Jolson Story) was wowing the box office. His records were selling better than they had at the height of his first ...