Social Security would provide a lump sum benefit for the two years of benefits between 66 and 68 while future benefits would be calculated based on an age 66 filing date. Without the âclaim and suspendâ strategy, the rules allow only up to 6 months for one to receive retroactive benefits.
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. As the first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score, but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and the decline of the silent film era.
DW Griffithâs landmark film was one of the most influential in early cinema, but as well as sophisticated cinematic techniques it was also drenched in racism. DW Griffithâs The Birth of a Nation â which premiered in New York 100 years ago this week â has a just reputation as one of cinemaâs greatest problem pictures. Based on Thomas Dixonâs novel The Clansman, it chronicles the relationship of two families in Civil War- and Reconstruction-era America over several years.