TV
It’s SHOWTIME for this Cantor
By Tom Teicholz at 16 October, 2008, 12:25 pm
At the dawn of Hollywood talkies, “The Jazz Singer” told the story of a young Jewish man’s conflict between a career in the entertainment industry and being a cantor. The sacred and the profane seemed two poles whose opposing magnetic draws tore the protagonist apart. But that was 1927.
Today, more than 90 years later, I [...]
ELVIS AT THE CROSSROADS
By Tom Teicholz at 14 March, 2008, 10:56 am
Elvis is back in the building.
On March 14 at the Cinerama Dome,
Elvis will return, one more time, in a special 40th anniversary screening
of the “Singer Presents Elvis” special from 1968, or “The Comeback Special” as
it is more popularly known, as the kickoff event of the Paley
Center for Media’s PaleyFest 2008.
A panel discussion afterwards [...]