When the Music Outlived the Movie: The Troubled Production of The Jazz Singer (1980)  vocal.media Mon, 13th October 2025

Neil Diamond rose to fame at a time when Jewish identity was visible in culture, but a new film loosely inspired by a real-life Diamond tribute act omits his heritage. The writer Mireille Silcoff calls it a pattern: "The stories are about us, but we're not in them." https:  Facebook Tue, 6th January 2026

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson do Diamond in the ‘Song Sung Blue’ trailer  Vanyaland Tue, 4th November 2025

You ain’t heard nothin’ yet: the moment Al Jolson sounded the birth of the talkies  The Guardian Sat, 7th October 2017

The "offensively narcissistic" movie Roger Ebert despised  Far Out Magazine Wed, 2nd July 2025

Masked man: Al Jolson and the politics of performance  America Magazine Thu, 13th March 2025