The movie is a remake, of course, of Al Jolson’s 1927 “The Jazz Singer,” which was the first commercially successful talking picture. The remake has played with time in an interesting way: It sets the story in the present, but it places the characters in some kind of time warp. ...
A remake of the 1927 Al JolsonThe Jazz Singeris a mess from top to bottom. Honestly, it’s embarrassing. Neil Diamond is an immensely talented musician, but he is not an actor. He was also in his late 30s in this movie which would have clearly worked better for someone ...
Released in December 1980 "The Jazz Singer", starring Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz, just squeaks into our consideration of popular songs from '70s movies. Based on the 1925 play of the same name by Samson Raphaelson, it is the fourth screen adaptation of that work. First...
it will be just short of 50 years to the day whenMean Streets,the director’s breakthrough movie, opened in his hometown of New York City and announced a major new talent. Back then, he was part of a wave of young, movie-mad kids who wanted to turn Hollywood inside out and ...
Named After: 'Hello Again' by Neil Diamond A plastic surgeon's (Corbin Bernsen) wife (Shelley Long) chokes to death; a year later her occultist sister (Judith Ivey) brings her back. Released: 1987 Directed by: Frank Perry 65 Across the Universe Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderso...
Like countless singers before him, Elvis Presley made the jump to the movies shortly after achieving national stardom. His third film, 'Jailhouse Rock,' is widely considered to be his best. Presley starred as Vince Everett, a prisoner whose cellmate, an ex-country singer, mentors him as a ...
Best known for "The Jazz Singer", "Casablanca", "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Arsenic and Old Lace", "To Have and Have Not", "Christmas in Connecticut", "The Big Sleep", "A Star Is Born", "My Fair Lady", "Camelot" and "1776". One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion ...
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Away from scoring movies and TV projects you have worked with many popular recording artists Neil Diamond among them, what are the main differences between working as a film composer and collaborating with vocalists etc.? Vocalists are very demanding each in their own way. They have their unique...
When you think of the song “Mona Lisa,” 40s jazz bandleader Charlie Spivak is probably not the first singer’s name that comes to mind. But it was the Ukrainian trumpeter who first performed Ray Evans’s lyrics – which started with the title “Prima Donna” – in the little-known 19...