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Every headline and the substance of most reports on the passing of James Earl Jones goes on and on with this obsession of “the voice of Darth Vader”. Can we get some perspective here please? The man made 84 movies as an actor – not just a voice, from 1964 to 2021. He also appeared in 34 stage plays from 1958 to 2016, in lead roles including The Merchant of Venice (as Prince of Morocco), Othello (as Othello), Hamlet (as Claudius), King Lear (as Lear), Of Mice and Men (as Lennie), On Golden Pond (as Norman), Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (as Big Daddy), and Driving Miss Daisy (as driver, Hoke Colburn), the latter opposite Angela Lansbury. The two of them toured Australia with this production in 2013 to sold out houses and rave reviews in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
ReplyI don’t think JEJ would have wanted or needed anyone to go into bat for him and would have been quite amused by the cartoon.
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"The selection of our judiciary is quaint. The community might reasonably expect that applicants demonstrate a capacity to write a decision prior to appointment. That doesn’t happen." HUGH SELBY has some ideas to speed up slow judgments.
"After weeks or months in orbit, astronauts experience dramatic but short-lived symptoms. Many describe an overwhelming heaviness, as if their arms and legs are made of lead." Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS looks at weightlessness.
"Disappointingly, the latest data reveals, again, that the ACT is not a high-performing jurisdiction when it comes to closing the gap," writes indigenous advocate JULIE TONGS.
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