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...always was and always will be. Thus Olivier was the embodiment of a calypso Othello, with a Caribbean accent and swagger. The highly stylized, slightly exotic Othello of Moses Gunn might have been a Cotton Club dandy. In the current revival at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, James Earl Jones makes of Othello a wounded animal, a Jack Johnson in agonized decline...
...career of James Earl Jones, the evening is a sad disappointment. The brute force and self-assured cockiness that he brought to The Great White Hope are of no use in Othello. Another of Jones' traits, his warm, winning deep-down, irrepressible mirth, is similarly irrelevant, and actually damages some lines and scenes. His aspiration may be applauded, but his performance must be deplored. T.E.K
...Daily is now planning a legal challenge to the Palo Alto police - and one of the lawyers working with them is Anthony Amsterdam, a civil liberties lawyer who was one of the attorneys defending Earl Caldwell, a reporter for the New York Times, in his successful fight to keep notes on his interviews with members of the Black Panther Party out of the hands of a Federal Grand Jury...
...press has never been interpreted by the Supreme Court the way some journalists would like to have it-a blanket protection against any judicial inquiry into a newsman's activity, sources and unpublished materials. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last November that New York Times Reporter Earl Caldwell was right in refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the Black Panthers because the jury was on a "fishing expedition"; for Caldwell to talk, the court held, would have turned him into an investigative agent for the Government. Though an important precedent, the ruling has no binding...
Thus the law on obscenity is bewildering, even to many lawyers, though some are gamer than others in defending it. "The landmark case of Roth," wrote Earl Warren Jr. recently, "is still valuable, and in fact has gained viability with each succeeding interpretation, even though it now bears little resemblance to what we originally thought...