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This song, so identified with California, was co-written by Buddy De Sylva, a USC graduate. Jolson’s name comes first not because he had any hand in writing it but because he introduced it in the play Bombo, in which he plays a black servant with past lives going back to the time of Columbus.
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| Leo Braudy discusses his forthcoming book about the Hollywood Sign. |
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| Leo Braudy and Princeton University’s David Thomson discuss the film Citizen Kane in a series of short videos. May 31, 2008, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Courtesy of San Simeon Films and FORA.tv at Britannica.com. |
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| Leo Braudy on the politics of celebrity in the 2008 presidential election. Reuters, September 29, 2008. |
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| Leo Braudy moderates the panel A History of Violence, featuring David A. Bell, Mark Kurlansky, Scott Martelle, and Andrew Nagorski at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Saturday, April 29, 2008. Flash video provided by C-SPAN’s BookTV at the link above. |
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| Leo Braudy and Richard Schickel respond to Steven J. Ross, USC professor of history in a discussion titled “Hollywood Left and Right” at the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. Dr. Harold I. Lee Lecture Series, March 21, 2007. |
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| Leo Braudy discusses From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity with host Connie Martinson on Connie Martinson Talks Books, June 15, 2005. |
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| Jennifer L. Geddes, The Hedgehog Review, “An Interview with Leo Braudy,” 2005. (PDF) |
