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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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"My preferred method of food storage has a tendency to completely overfill the fridge… If something can go in the fridge, why wouldn’t you put it in the fridge?" PAUL DORIN has some confessions when it comes to clearing the table...
"In Tasmania the game of 'cover up' is played with more intensity than in Canberra – publishers get calls threatening ruinous defamation and journalists get fed error-ridden press releases," writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN says he draws with AI – that is, "arty intelligence".
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