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2012/05/22 17:04
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David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway
... N-word this, N-word that," says actor David Alan Grier. "[And] there's a very famous story: Al Jolson really wanted to play Porgy, in blackface." Grier, who plays Sporting Life in the new...
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2012/05/18 14:47
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Share the Music performs Saturday to raise funds ...
... and performers from that era, including George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter and Al Jolson; dance standards such as the Charleston and Back Bay Polka; inspirational songs tied often...
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2012/05/15 22:39
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The Dictator: Baron Cohen’s despot disappoints
... brown face and talking “funny.” And there’s nothing terribly new or funny about that. Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson) did a variation on it 85 years ago in The Jazz Singer. Canadian Victor...
Sacha Baron Cohen The Dictator Borat and Bruno Bruno The Great Dictator
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2012/05/04 15:46
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A Gershwin Biopic That 'Ain't Necessarily So' True
... Gershwin wrote many of his early hits. And making a guest appearance is no less a star than Al Jolson. It was his original rendition of "Swanee" that made Gershwin famous. Among the film's...
George Gershwin Max Dreyfus Oscar Levant George White Rhapsody in Blue
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2012/04/24 01:44
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Derry war time history buffs wanted
Derry and Donegal and home to some 300,000 US servicemen passing through from 1940-45. Bob Hope, Al Jolson and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt all visited the servicemen based there. The US Navy and...
Derry Londonderry United States Naval Base Donegal Eleanor Roosevelt
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