James Earl Jones

[voyager]

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Culture/legendary-actor-james-earl-jones-dies-93/story?id=44811603

[small h]

I didn't know he was the voice of the CNN...sound logo? Not sure what that's called. But it's so obvious now.

[StephanieL]

I saw him on Broadway in You Can't Take it With You in 2014.  It made me wish I'd gotten a chance to see him onstage in his prime.

[Sneakeater]

You kind of wondered if he was going to make it to the end of that performance.

His Othello of three decades previous -- with Christopher Plummer contributing a life-list Iago -- was more assured.

Edited September 10, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Sneakeater]

And how about that incredibly sly performance in Gore Vidal's The Best Man a few years before You Can't Take it With You?

[Sneakeater]

And of course "No, I am your father" is a line reading that will live for a very long time.

[Wilfrid]

Oh, oh, I was thinking of course I respected this guy but don’t have any particularly personal memories to share.

Fool.

He ate dinner at a nearby table to me in Chez Josephine. 🙂

Don’t ask me when.

[Sneakeater]

In some cultures there’s a name for that relationship. 

[relbbaddoof]

On 9/11/2024 at 4:04 PM, Sneakeater said:

In some cultures there’s a name for that relationship. 

Fatherhood? As in,

Wilfrid: "I am your father Darth."