Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Nameless Coffee House, 3 Church St., begins its second year today with the film "Requiem for a Heavyweight." It will be open from 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays throughout the year with entertainment and refreshments. Everything is absolutely free...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:15-3:45 p.m.). Floyd Patterson challenges Jimmy Ellis for the World Boxing Association's version of the heavyweight championship. Live from Stockholm via satellite. Taped events from the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials round out the program...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, with James Earl Jones. Loosely based on the life of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson...
Besides its television work, Talent As sociates has also engaged in a limited way in feature-film production (Requi em for a Heavyweight, A Raisin in the Sun). Referring to Norton Simon...