Music Made Him Hard

"And yet, most of the songs are a bit off lyrically; as with 'Life Without You,' they are simply lies; in 'Let's Duet,' they are overstuffed with raunchy double-entendres. In his professional debut in an all-black nightclub, Cox performs a bluesy number called 'Mama, You Gots to Love Your Negro Man.'
"At the same time, there are more than a few "Airplane!"-style teases. Having noticed that record-label executives in other music biographies are clearly Semitic, Kasdan takes the stereotype one step further: His executives--L'chaim, Mazeltov and Schmendrick--are Hassidic Jews who occasionally speak Yiddish."

In the Los Angeles Times, John Horn checks in with the producer and director of the upcoming movie Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.