But how hard has the journey been, and has amerIca really left the Race Issue behInd . James earljones, welcome to hardtalk. Welcome to our theatre. Well, thank you very much. The wyndhams. The wyndhams theatre, where you, for weeks, have been treadIng the boards In a pretty exactIng role In the Play DrIvIng mIss daIsy. A lovely role and a great pleasure to be In hIm. Well, Ijust Wonder whether It Is any harder these days to get up for all of the rehearsIng, all of the preparatIon, all of the gruellIng physIcal endurance you have to have for a daIly play . Everybody works, you know. Even the PrIme MInIster works, the presIdent works. Everybody works or plays eIther one and then sleeps. So thats all, thats all we do. And Its not hard to go to work wIth thIs play. Its really such a pleasure doIng It, and wIth Vanessa Redgrave and Boyd GaInes especIally. I just wonder If thIs play partIcularly resonates wIth you, because Its set In atlanta, In the south, durIng the era of segregatIon. And
Whether it is any harder these days to get up for all of the rehearsing, all of the preparation, all of the gruelling physical endurance you have to have for a daily play? everybody works, you know. Even the prime minister works, the president works. Everybody works, or plays either one and then sleeps. So that s all, that s all we do. And it s not hard to go to work with this play. It s really such a pleasure doing it, and with vanessa redgrave and boyd gaines especially. I just wonder if this play particularly resonates with you, because it s set in atlanta, in the south, during the era of segregation. And, of course, you were born and raised in your very earliest years in mississippi during the era of segregation. Does this particularly have meaning for you? mm hm. Yeah, i. . . I can say, honestly, i know a lot about it, and i wish others knew about it and that s partly why it s important to do plays like this. And, luckily, we have a play here. . . . . Which is not about polemi
Talking about the murder of disabled jewish new yorker leon klinghofer by Palestinian Militants in 1985. Thank you very much for coming. The usual reminders to silence your cell phones, restrain from flash photography and plan to join us afterwords for the book signing. Welcome, my name is andy kahan, director of author events. Tonight we look back more than 30 years to the brutal murder of a disabled jewish new yorker at the hands of the palestinian terrorists, an incident that shocked the world and continues to reverberate through the culture at large and the lives of families affected. The initial murder, an innocent bystander, the killing of leon klinghofer, in an innocent bystander the killing of leon klinghofer Julie Salamon offers a view of the neverending cycle of the murder of innocents. Initially a long time banking reporter and film critic for the wall street journal, then a tv critic and our reporters at the New York Times, Julie Salamon has written notable nonfiction books
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