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...songs. Nor was the story, about a cantor's son who goes into show business, at all modern. But Jolson's hip-swiveling salesmanship (he was in many ways the Elvis of his day) put over the novelty of talking pictures. The film, an immediate sensation, cued a frantic rush to convert all studios and movie theaters to sound, and signaled the end of a pristine, vigorous silent-film art. By 1930 virtually every U.S. film was a talkie, and movies haven't shut up since. Jolson's slangy cry was truly the shout heard 'round the world. --By Richard...
When he was introduced before headliner Benny Goodman in late 1942, the ensuing roar prompted Goodman, offstage, to ask, "What the hell was that?" The first superstar, baby. Two years later a crowd of 30,000 teenage girls swamped the Paramount Theater in a morning ticket rush dubbed the Columbus Day Riot. The bobby-soxers had reached battalion strength. And when they heard Frank sing, they fell, as they would for decades, for Swoonatra...
...reporting in Baghdad from Nic Robertson, barking out a blow-by-blow even as an armed Iraqi remonstrated with him for giving the locations of explosions. (Robertson and his crew were kicked out of Iraq late in the week.) CNN's tag team of anchors sifted smoothly through the rush of developments, but star Aaron Brown continued to sing his grating song of himself, rattling on about his thought processes and feelings...
...bringing about the destruction of the enemy. "We want to turn the Iraqi military into a chicken with its head cut off," a senior Navy official says. Saddam "might be able to strike back, but it will be uncoordinated and ultimately fruitless." Defense sources say that U.S. forces will rush to Baghdad as quickly as possible to try to corner Saddam and flush him out into the open; if a coup or assassination fails to dislodge him, U.S. air and ground forces plan to launch more strikes against critical targets inside the capital in an effort to kill...
...move into Iraq until Friday morning, and Thursday was marked by frequent gas-attack alarms, always false but each of them requiring us to rush into our chemical suits. All through Thursday night, bedded down in sleeping bags on the desert floor, we could hear the huge rumble of U.S. artillery pounding Safwan Hill, just over the border. Sometime around 1 a.m., we were awakened and began to pull...