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'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
by George Kanzler
Jackie Paris 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris Reinvent the Wheel-Outsider Pictures 2009
Before Jackie Paris won the Downbeat new star male vocalist award in 1953, he'd already made his mark with a Nat King" Cole-style trio (he played guitar) on 52nd Street and toured with Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton's big band. By 1959 Downbeat was running a story titled Downbeat Boy Hits Upbeat" and declaring that Paris was washed ...
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by Victor L. Schermer
Jackie Paris'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie ParisOutsider PicturesWritten and Directed by Raymond De FelittaProducer: David Zellerford 2009
You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody."--Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront
There are three quintessential types of American biographies: The Success"; The Tragedy"; and The Faded Glory" (a variation being The Anti-Hero"). Jackie Paris ...
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