• [NEWS] James Earl Jones to receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Award

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 28 09:02:30 2017
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    From NYTimes.com ...

    James Earl Jones to Receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
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    James Earl Jones is to be honored at this year's Tony Awards
    with a special prize for lifetime achievement in theater.

    The awards administration committee announced Thursday that
    Mr. Jones, a renowned stage, film and television actor with
    an unforgettably deep voice, would be given the recognition
    at the awards ceremony June 11.

    Mr. Jones, 86, is a theater regular who has appeared in 20
    Broadway plays, starting with "Sunrise at Campobello" in 1
    958. He most recently appeared in a revival of "The Gin Game"
    in 2015. He has won two Tonys, in 1969 for "The Great White
    Hope" (when Clive Barnes, a New York Times critic, wrote,
    "If anyone deserves to become that occasional thing, a star
    overnight, then Mr. Jones deserves no less") and in 1987 for
    "Fences." About that performance, Frank Rich, a critic for
    The Times, wrote, "A black man, a free man, a descendant of
    slaves, a menial laborer, a father, a husband, a lover - Mr.
    Jones's Troy embraces all the contradictions of being black
    and male and American in his time."

    He has performed in multiple television shows, like "The
    Guiding Light" and "Roots," and many films, like "Dr.
    Strangelove" and "The Lion King." But he is best known as
    the voice of Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" films.

    The Tony Awards previously announced two other honorary
    prizes: Baayork Lee, an actress, choreographer and director
    who founded the National Asian Artists Project and is best
    known as a member of the original cast of "A Chorus Line,"
    will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, which
    recognizes volunteerism, while two longtime general managers,
    Nina Lannan and Alan Wasser, will receive Tony Honors for
    Excellence in the Theater.

    The Tony Awards, presented by the Broadway League and the
    American Theater Wing, honor plays and musicals that are
    staged on Broadway each season. This year's award nominees
    will be announced next Tuesday, May 2.

    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/theater/james-earl-jones-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-tony-award.htm>

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@21:1/5 to Your Name on Sun Apr 30 00:55:30 2017
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    On 28/4/2017 5:02 AM, Your Name wrote:
    He has performed in multiple television shows, like "The
    Guiding Light" and "Roots," and many films, like "Dr.
    Strangelove" and "The Lion King." But he is best known as
    the voice of Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" films.

    Used a voice changer? :)

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