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...GREAT WHITE HOPE is a sprawling semi-documentary that traces the career of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. The play itself is a drama of contrition stirred by the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, but James Earl Jones, as the brooding, arrogant boxer, commands the stage like an avenging black giant...
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...Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler, is a sprawling, episodic semi-documentary that traces the rise and fall of Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world. In the play he is called Jack Jefferson, and James Earl Jones roars through the role with the jungle magnetism and pride of a lion. In a concentrated off-Broadway apprenticeship, Jones often played a kind of jolly brown giant; here he plays an avenging black one. Jones is not the kind of actor who buries himself in a part. Instead, he devours the part and then radiates its presence...