The crowd at the Al Jolson Festival in the Oceanside Knights of Columbus Hall ballroom is primed for their sing-a-long. Instead, Babino faithfully re-creates Jolson's soaring baritone to instrumental ...
1 Video: Betty Buckley Gets Ready for a Joe's Pub Return and Weighs In on CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL "I keep bringing back the Long Island Jolson Festival because it helps keep the name of Al Jolson ...
Contained in the article regarding the fundraiser for the police officers involved in the Freddie Gray case is a description of Al Jolson by the Fraternal Order of Police as an “iconic racist figure.” ...
Movie heralded the end of the silent film era and the advent of talkies Story of a young Jewish boy who defies father to sing popular music inspired by star%27s own story New three-disc set comes with ...
Al Jolson-- Complicated indeed is the world of DVD marketing today. For example, Warner Bros. is creating a series of DVDs called Archive Collection. Many films that have never appeared on disc will ...
On the face of it, Jolson and Company, the latest biographical musical presented by the Coconut Grove Playhouse, should be dead on arrival. Its subject, Al Jolson, became a star before World War I, ...
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Don Shirley’s commentary on Al Jolson’s life and career simply flies in the face of facts (“Let Sleeping Eras and Their Stars Lie,” May 15). He left out significant components of Jolson’s successful ...
On the night of 23 October 1950 the lights of Broadway in New York City, USA were turned out and the traffic that normally thunders in and out of Times Square was brought to a halt. The news was that ...