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		<title>&#8220;The Jolson Story&#8221; opening review</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty, October 19, 1946
A perfect tribute to Al Jolson, this movie is as schmaltzy, spirited, and unforgettable as the singer himself. It affectionately traces Jolson’s tune-packed, knee-bending fifty years in show business.
With Larry Parks catching the Mammy singer’s eye-rolling exuberance in a bang-up impersonation, the film highlights in Technicolor such Jolson lore as his bouncy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=852&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Jazz Singer&#8221; Opening review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jolson at Warners' Theatre made his screen début in the movie of Samson Raphaelson's play "The Jazz Singer," and the first feature "talking" using the Vitaphone system.  The audience had the rare opportunity of hearing Mr. Jolson sing several of his own songs and also render most effectively the Jewish hymn "Kol Nidre."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=455&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The spirit of Larry Parks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Taken from Monthly Review online magazine, &#8220;MRZine&#8221;  Feb. 19, 2010
Parks was called to testify before HUAC on March 21, 1951, not long after attaining stardom in two biopics about Al Jolson.  Parks told the congressional Committee: &#8220;Being a member of the Communist Party fulfilled certain needs of a young man who was . . . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=836&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Came to Write “The Jazz Singer”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had never seen Jolson before. I had heard of him. I shall never forget the first five minutes of Jolson—his velocity, the amazing fluidity with which he shifted from a tremendous absorption in his song. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=823&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Benny dedicates Jolson&#8217;s memorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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from Jack Benny, , by Mary Livingstone Benny, 1978
On September 23, 1951, when, according to Jewish tradition, the monument&#8211;a magnificent statue of Al, bending on one knee, exactly the way he performed when he sang &#8220;Mammy&#8221;&#8211;was formally unveiled, it was Jack who delivered the memorial address:

Today there is something new under the sun . . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=806&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie Cantor meets Jolson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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from &#8220;Take My Life&#8221;, by Eddie Cantor (1957)
While I was still a stooge for Bedini and Arthur, still rushing around backstage at Hammerstein&#8217;s taking suits out to be pressed or seeing that Jean Bedini&#8217;s laundry was back on time- a fellow in blackface wandered onto the stage one day. He was from Lew Dockstader&#8217;s Minstrels. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=797&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judy Garland sings Al Jolson</title>
		<link>http://jolsonville.com/2009/09/04/a-star-is-born-judy-garlands-comeback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music and the Racial Imagination 
By Ronald Michael Radano, Philip Vilas Bohlman (2000)
The film A Star Is Born further complicates the issue of impersonation by having Judy &#8220;do&#8221; Al Jolson. . . .  But the key moment in the number is Garland&#8217;s version of Al Jolson&#8217;s &#8220;Swanee.&#8221; By the early 1950s, Jolson&#8217;s blackface was a central [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=732&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Star is Born: Larry Parks as Al Jolson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jolson's current personification of the "'Star Is Born" motif, is Larry Parks. In setting about to make "The Jolson Story" two years ago, Columbia Pictures put on the traditional search for the man who would play the name role.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=710&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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A New Jewy? America since the Second World War
 By Peter Y. Medding, Oxford University Press, 1992
While Einstein was based in Zurich, formulating in abstract mathematical terms the notion that energy consisted of mc², he might have easily discovered its most ebullient embodiment dominating the vaudeville circuit across the Atlantic. Perhaps no white entertainer in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=681&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Jolson, other names want to work in Korea
Billboard, August 12th 1950.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5. &#8212; With the intensification of the Korean crisis, showbiz here is girding for battle. Names and various orgs devoted to entertaining the troops during the last war are either resuming their previous operations or are ready to go into action on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolsonville.com&blog=3646457&post=661&subd=aljolson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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