The 1930 movie musical “Mammy” is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson’s career. “Mammy” stars “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” ...

MINSTREL shows have never been my favorite form of entertainment. The elaborate ritual of this species of amusement, the very bigness of them, and the traditional pronouncement of their jests would ...

Saw the ad for the Chicago International Film Festival in the Reader [October 11], and while I agree the Lewis Milestone-Al Jolson movie is a classic, the picture you published is not from Hallelujah, ...

With a cry for his "Mammy" and a Jolson-like rasp agitating his Adam's apple to the tune of "You Made Me Love You," Edward M. Lamont '48 tossed his Hasty Pudding and Eliot House inhibitions to the ...

The late Al Jolson – who often sang “Mammy” while wearing blackface – was dragged yesterday into the debate over a move to name a street after a rabble-rousing black activist. City Councilman Charles ...

At Century Center, 111 E. 15th St. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. HOT on the heels of last week’s “George M. Cohan” comes “Jolson & Company,” yet another reverent showbiz bio that faces a few unpleasant ...

The 1930 movie musical “Mammy" is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson's career. “Mammy" stars “The World's Greatest Entertainer" ...