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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...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, with James Earl Jones. Loosely based on the life of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson...
...bearing strange, barely discernible characters and drawings looked like nothing more than a slimy piece of grave refuse. For three decades, it passed from buyer to buyer, largely unknown to archaeologists or art scholars. Then in 1965, the manuscript was bought by New York Psychiatrist and Art Collector Arthur Sackler. Last week, at a Columbia University symposium, the Ch'u Silk Manuscript, as it is now called, was examined and discussed by 40 of the free world's leading sinologists, anthropologists, archaeologists and art experts...
...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...
...since become one of the nation's most literate comedians, Mike Nichols-was eventually succeeded by a team that includes one of the best recording engineers in the field: Peter Bartok, the composer's son. The company's dramatic director is Poet-Playwright Howard Sackler, who says of his bosses: "They let you do just about anything you set your heart on, even if it won't pay its way for years." One of the rare exceptions: Lolita, which Marianne vetoed...