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Here you can find up-to-date information about Andrea's & Jens' film work, including their upcoming documentary ON THE ROAD TO AL JOLSON. You will also be able to see preview clips, outtakes, trailers and unused material you will find nowhere else. So come, check us out.
This is our Film, Literature and Art Podcast (FLAp) page on Facebook. You will find video episodes on different topics here. It also features interviews and gives you talks on material we created as documentary filmmakers.
This is a collaboration of Andrea Oberheiden-Brent, Nigel Dreiner, Andrew Serio and Al "Vlad" Simmons. You will find audio episodes on the world's greatest entertainer and fascinating discussions on that Facebook page.
Young Rudy Wissler loaned his voice to Scotty Beckett who played Al Jolson as a young boy in THE JOLSON STORY (1946). At that time, Rudy's wonderful work remained uncredited as the studio did not want dubbing artists to be recognized - a common practice at the time.
We met Rudy in Philadelphia in 2006, shortly after we had started to work on our upcoming documentary ON THE ROAD TO AL JOLSON.
Rudy was a sweet man with a wonderful voice as you can hear in our short trailer.If you'd like a copy of the film, please visit our website.
Check out our brand new FLAp Podcast INTRO while waiting for the completion of our third episode which will come with a very special guest from ROBIN WILLIAMS' final dramatic film BOULEVARD starring Kathy Baker, Roberto Aguire and Bob Odenkirk, directed by Dito Montiel.
I discuss further aspects of ROBIN WILLIAMS' last dramatic film BOULEVARD together with co-host Jens. This episode led to inspiring discussions behind-the-scenes with many different people including DOUGLAS SOESBE, the writer of Boulevard. Stay tuned for another interesting episode.
I created FLAp Podcast, a film, literature and art podcast, in September of 2015. We will publish discussions on various topics of these fields as video podcast episodes and invite all of you to be part of it. Is there anything you are interested in, anything you would like to talk about with someone? Then get in touch with us. The only "rule" is that the topic must fit in the categories of film, literature or art.
In October 2015 we published our first FLAp Podcast episode. I discussed ROBIN WILLIAMS' performance in his last dramatic film BOULEVARD, as well as the performance of the rest of the main cast; I also focused on the story and the cinematography. Enjoy the review and the film clips. Make sure to also check out the second FLAp Podcast episode, in which co-host Jens and I take a look at further aspects of the movie.
We have been working on a JOLSON DOCUMENTARY for pretty much a decade now. Do you know who AL JOLSON was?
AL JOLSON (born 1886 as Asa Yoelson
in Seredzius, Lithuania),
was one of the most successful entertainers in the first half of the
twentieth century. Today, he is mainly known for his role in the first
talking picture THE JAZZ SINGER, produced by Warner
Bros. in 1927. Before that film was made, Jolson had already "owned"
Broadway for more than two decades. His song SONNY BOY, the theme song of the talkie THE SINGING FOOL (1928), could very well be the first song of a movie to sell over a million copies.
Jolson remained a world icon until he passed away in 1950, shortly
before the invention of TV.
For his contributions to American soldiers during WWII and the Korean
War, a trip that eventually cost him his life, George Marshall,
Secretary of State, awarded him with
the Medal of Merit, the greatest American award for civilians. Being the
star of stage, screen, and radio, he shaped the American popular
culture as well as the music industry as we know it today.
Jolson influenced numerous later artists including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, and Rod Stewart. Of course, there is much more to discover about Jolson and his career; we will continue to publish interesting bits & pieces on our blog. For more information, we highly recommend the website of the INTERNATIONAL AL JOLSON SOCIETY.
Whether you have known Jolson's name for a long time or you just now read something about him, you might like to check out the first episode of Nigel Dreiners WILD ABOUT JOLSON PODCAST I participate(d) in.
