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Good immigrant, bad immigrant

Bookworm on Feb 04 2008 | Filed under: Hollywood, Immigration

I’ve been re-reading a wonderful book that I first read when it was published a little more than a decade ago: As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, by Laurence Bergreen. As anyone who enjoys popular music knows, Irving Berlin was one of the most extraordinary composers on the popular music [...]

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Irving Berlin and Churchill

Bookworm on Dec 06 2007 | Filed under: Hollywood, Media matters, World War II

Did you hear the story about Irving Berlin’s lunch with Winston Churchill during WWII? It’s a very funny story, it’s true, and it’s part of the larger and very wonderful story of Irving Berlin’s musical This is the Army. Berlin wrote This is the Army both to boost American morale and to raise [...]

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