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...They’ve been inspiration for a Seinfeld episode and their own Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor. Now the O’Keefe brothers—Mark, Danny and Larry—will bring their family saga to a new semi-autobiographical show on Warner Brothers...
...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...
...seemingly an impossible dream. A year earlier Warner Bros. had released the first (partial) talkie, The Jazz Singer, and the movie biz was in a tizzy. The Al Jolson movie was awful, but the man sang and spoke. A long-sought miracle had arrived. Unfortunately, the camera, heavily blimped to prevent its whirrings from being recorded, was immobilized. Movies could talk but could no longer move gracefully...
Entries will be accepted until May 15, and the award recipients will be notified in August. An AOL Time Warner spokesperson said the company has not yet decided whether the grant will be awarded annually...
...expect to encourage new talent in the documentary field. There’s no easy way to get started in the programming business, and documentaries can be especially difficult,” an AOL Time Warner spokesperson wrote in an e-mail. “We believe this grant program will make it a little less difficult and, in the process, uncover some talented young makers of documentary films...