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...Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" cried Al Jolson halfway through The Jazz Singer. Jolson's urgent, boastful bray--an ad-libbed intro to his rendition of Toot Toot Tootsie--cut through the opening-night audience at the Warner Theatre near Times Square like an obstetrician's scissors severing the umbilical cord to silent films, for 30 years the dominant screen language. But the movies had to talk. Thomas Edison thought so. He and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had devised a talking-movie machine as early as 1889. In the early '20s short sound...
...Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!" a hatcheck girl says to Mae West, who purrs, "Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie." That line, from West's 1932 Night After Night, embodied the saucy spirit of early talkies. Now that Hollywood could speak, it did so in the tart cadences of fast-talking men and faster women. This freedom created fresh stars (James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Harlow) and a sexual impudence that riled the burghers of propriety...
...Dance all night, play all day. Don't let nothin' get in the way." --The Cars...
...mature TV performer. His hair now dyed jet-black to look better on camera, he wishes a speedy recovery to Sullivan, recently injured in a car accident. He sings ballads, mostly, and behaves himself from the waist down, mostly. For a second he shouts, "You ain't nothin'..." as if to launch into the heretical "Hound Dog," but that's just a goof; he stops and quickly grins. At the end of his final appearance, Elvis offers a prayer for the viewers: "May God bless ya, as He's blessed...
...Waco was nothin' compared to Colorado City," an antipolygamy activist says, while the Branch Davidian compound burns. Independent gubernatorial candidate Richard Mahoney suggests Republican Matt Salmon cannot crack down on the town's polygamist sect because he is Mormon...