so, how’s my favorite white man?
There is no Jazz in The Jazz Singer , and Neil Diamond is far too old for this. This up-and-coming musician story should 1) be about someone younger or 2) take a notably different angle on the usual story, because certainly, older musicians can break into the business but that experience has got to be significantly different--either because of the years of struggling in obscurity, or the dropping out of their usual job a la Johnny Baxter or Jerry Maguire to try something new. <-- that is a different story than La Bamba or The Buddy Holly Story or even Straight Outta Compton . The Jazz Singer at least has its own angle with Jess' (Diamond) relationship with his father (Laurence Olivier), his expectations as a Jewish Cantor; these are different concerns than, say, Ritchie Valens' young love in La Bamba , Johnny Cash's drug problems in Walk the Line , race in Straight Outta Compton . The opening sequence of various types of people walking the city streets, Diamond...