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...recorded with such disparate stylists as Louis Armstrong, Earl "Fatha" Hynes, Howlin Wolf (Rodgers is credited with giving Chester Burnett the name Howlin Wolf), and the usual repertoire of hillbilly musicians whose musical styles defy categorization...
...part of the language. Even plebeian beer has long since acquired its own stout band of connoisseurs. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the fine points of enjoying America's own proud indigenous beverage-ubiquitous, multi-flavored, effervescent soda pop. To remedy that omission, California Novelist Earl Shorris (Boots of the Virgin) has set down some obiter dicta in San Francisco's Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Tongue firmly in cheek, he sounds a clarion call to those who prefer pop to other drinks but feel that it is socially unacceptable. "Drink what you like," he advises...
...very title betrays the facile irony: The Great White Hope is a walk-on; the film, based on Howard Sackler's Pulitzer-prizewinning play, concerns the Doomed Black Hope. He is Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones), a full-throated paraphrase of Jack Johnson, World Heavyweight Champion from 1908 to 1915. The last five supersaturated years of his reign form the basis for Sackler's fictionalized crisis in black and white...
...Watt Grin. Given such raw dramaturgy, such dim insights, who could possibly have thought The Great White Hope worthwhile? James Earl Jones, for one. And in fact he proves that the role of Jefferson is an actor's dream. Though he played it 429 times onstage, Jones has, if anything, grown fresher. He does not act the part so much as consume it, then let it shine out of his eyes and resound in his mouth: "If I lets it go too long, then everybody say, now ain't dat one shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop...
Oriole manager Earl Weaver will counter with his ace southpaw, Dave McNally, a 24-game winner for the American League champions, as they try to avenge last year's upset loss to the New York Mets...