America Has Rolled By Like an Army of Steamrollers
A break from politics, and a brief word for the IOBC graduate James Earl Jones, who died yesterday.
He was a kind of actor we don’t seem to have anymore, making movies of a type that we don’t seem to have anymore. The emptiness of the current mainstream culture is more clear in the light of an interesting past, and the loss of Admiral Greer is a reminder.
An extraordinary life. By the way, here’s one of his most highly rated credits at IMDB:
Probably not a coincidence that there’s so much baseball in his history as an actor.
One of the all time great stage and screen performers, with perhaps the best voice in the history of cinema.
He will be missed.
Field of Dreams is still one of my all-time favorite movies. RIP James Earl Jones
"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past...." -Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones' character) -IMDB