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  1. The 7 Dirtiest Jobs

    Mon, 3 Sep 2012

    internally toasted. Then you hammer the wood, beat it to pieces, and there's smoke everywhere, and you look like Al Jolson ." Renderer This rather unpleasant process essentially recycles dead animals into products like chicken feed and biodiesel

  2. Betty Garrett, Blacklisted Musical Actress, Dead at 91

    Sun, 13 Feb 2011

    testify about earlier involvement with the Communist Party. Park, who had earned an Oscar nod for his portrayal of singer Al Jolson in the 1946 biopic "The Jolson Story," was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951, where

  3. Pete Peterson's 'The Education of an American Dreamer'

    Tue, 9 Jun 2009

    was only two and don't remember the trip. One of my first memories is of attending a movie with my mother. It was Al Jolson 's The Singing Fool, the tale of a singer who broke the hearts of those early talking-picture audiences as he sang "Sonny

  4. Sinatra 10 years Later: To Young Stars, Ol' Blue Eyes Is an 'All-Timer'

    Wed, 11 Feb 2009

    artist in 2008, "he would have been influenced by whomever came along today, just as he was shaped by Bing Crosby and Al Jolson and Louis Armstrong and other influences he heard as a kid," Feinstein says. "And he would have taken these new influences

  5. London's fabled Savoy Hotel slated for renovation

    Tue, 18 Dec 2007

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  6. Duston Hoffman on Film 'Moonlight Mile'

    Thu, 3 Oct 2002

    in seventh grade in junior high school. And there was this girl who was in blackface because she was going to imitate Al Jolson . And we were both sitting backstage in a corner. And we liked each other and we started to make out. And it was the

News

  1. For Hotels, Scandals Add to Lodging's Allure

    Wed, 10 Apr 2002

    William Randolph Hearst's yellow press and inflammatory coverage of his trials. In 1950, the 64-year-old entertainer Al Jolson died during a card game in a penthouse suite. According to Mark Gordon of "The Great Frisco Crime Tour," Jolson said

  2. Controversial Cartoons Won't Be Viewed

    Fri, 4 May 2001

    Bugs distracts a black rabbit hunter by rattling a pair of dice. In another episode, Bugs imitates a blackfaced Al Jolson . In another, he calls an oafish, bucktoothed Eskimo a "big baboon." The controversial episodes, dating back to

  3. Racially Charges Bugs Bunny 'Tunes Pulled

    Fri, 4 May 2001

    too racially charged. In one episode, the wisecracking, carrot-chomping Bugs is featured parodying a black-faced Al Jolson ; in another he calls an oafish, bucktoothed Eskimo a "big baboon"; and in yet another he distracts a black rabbit

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  1. Playlist: Rod Stewart

    Fri, 12 Nov 2010

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    Fri, 12 Nov 2010

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  3. Diane Sawyer: My Time on 'GMA'

    Fri, 11 Dec 2009

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  4. Race in the Obama Era

    Thu, 19 Feb 2009

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