Word: sackler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, attempts to re-create the fight world that existed in the 1900s, using the dramaturgy of the 1930s and drawing dubious parallels with events of the 1960s. James Earl Jones exudes vitality and ego energy as the first Negro heavyweight champion...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, a sprawling semidocumentary, by Howard Sackler traces the career of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. The play is a drama of contrition spiked by the adrenaline of newspaper headlines, but James Earl Jones, as the brooding boxer, commands the stage like an avenging giant...
...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...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, with James Earl Jones. Loosely based on the life of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson...
...Communist Chinese, who have mounted massive searches to unearth a manuscript to match it, the Ch'u silk is as important and remote as Taiwan. But Sackler, who paid more for it than the combined cost of his 10,000-piece collection of early Asiatic paintings, sculptures and other artifacts, intends to make infra-red photographs of the priceless manuscript available to scholars everywhere. Including Red China...