"I Haff No Son" - The Jazz Singer

It doesn't get any more dramatic than this! Maudlin-crap-o-rama!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• the
• jazz
• singer
• 1980
• neil
• diamond
• laurence
• olivier
• haff
• no
• son
• jewish
• rabinowitz

[bobparis]

Where's the part where he sings "Mammy"?

[stevenson52]

Sir Laurence WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

[MsGbergh]

Did you watch the film, hillybilly? Rivka (Neil's wife or should I say Jess's wife suggested the split , because she preferred being a Cantor's wife - to the wife of a "jazz singer." The only relationship between Jess and Molly before that was professional.

[ImNotAlone100]

@hillibillycat56 -- Actually, his WIFE was the one with the bad morals. She was just a house wife. HE was the one with jobs and a career. You can be a housewife anywhere. But if you truly LOVE you husband, than you will support his dreams, and follow him wherever he may go. And on that note-- She obviously wasn't paying attention. If she would have been COMMUNICATING with him all those years, then maybe she would have known what was truly in his heart, and that he wasn't happy back home.

[MKUltra3]

@kentamitchell - SCTV gets pulled regularly - search for 'sctv, jazz singer, al jarreau'

Here's Mr. Dithers with a public health announcement - watch?v=_Sk-YHHoB2g

[kentamitchell]

@MKUltra3 Where? Please.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

For me, the highlight of this movie was when Neil blacks up and puts on an Afro wig to sing with his group in an all black club. After singing along to the less than soulful 'You, baby, baby,' the patrons look a little closer and notice that the man behind Cracklin' Rosie is well....a cracker. A riot breaks out (That 'aint no brotha, that's a white boy!) and Rabbi Larry has to bail the boy out, shaking his head and asking....Eeet's not tuff enuff...beink a chew?

[dyinglikeflies]

What can be funnier or hammier than this?

[whitelilihusband]

I really did enjoy this movie and Sir Lawrence Oliver played an amazing role in this film. The Jewish faith takes marriage very seriously. Its a sin for a husband to be apart from his wife for any length of time, and more so to divorce is unforgivable.

[MKUltra3]

With all due respect, SCTV's Sid Dithers creams Olivier in his interpretation of this classic scene - now available on Youtube! (for now)

[baldtruth71]

Put it on the board!