Word: jolson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the opening credits, Jessica (Bergen) has kicked hubby Phil Potter out of their New York apartment and begun to sing. She sings like a gelded Al Jolson. Potter, a writer, ("my stuff is in those airplane magazines right behind the barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable, if wimpy, when he sits in the shadows of his bachelor pad and listens to "The Way We Were." At his brother's urging, he joins a divorced-men's therapy group where one ex-husband plans to marry the same woman for the fourth time and another dreams...
...minutes of exercises. At 10 he drives to his office in Hollywood and sits down with his four writers to work on new material. By 12:30 he is having lunch at the Hillcrest Country Club where he sits with other show business gentry. Groucho Marx and Al Jolson used to be regulars. Says Burns: "There was a time when not much sturgeon could be brought into California. But Jolson always had some in the kitchen anyway. So when he sat down, I would compliment him on what a great man he was and how the world was waiting...
...Helsel 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Fleming 3-7 3-4 1 4 9 Masterson 2-4 0-0 0 2 4 Daaleman 5-8 1-2 1 3 11 O'Keefe 6-18 0-0 1 2 12 Zigerelli 5-9 0-0 7 5 10 Jolson 3-7 2-3 2 2 8 Licwinke 4-7 0-0 1 5 8 Curry...
...Zigerelli 2-8 2-3 3 2 13 6 Maturo 9-17 1-2 2 3 0 19 Helsel 1-1 0-0 1 0 0 2 Fleming 2-6 1-2 3 1 1 5 Curry 4-7 0-2 7 2 0 8 Jolson 3-7 0-4 5 4 0 6 Masterson 0-1 0-0 1 0 0 0 Daaleman 3-8 3-4 4 4 0 9 Licwinko 3-3 0-0 3 1 0 6 Totals...
There have always been film biographies, of course. Al Jolson's story was done twice while he was still alive, and there have been movies about famous folk like Madame Curie and Benjamin Disraeli. But the voracious appetite for real subjects, particularly on TV, is new, and so is the tendency to tell all without waiting until what was once considered a decent interval has elapsed. "It has to do with people's fascination with public figures," reasons William McCutchen, producer of ABC's Eisenhower TV-movie. "Despite all the tremendously creative ideas that come...