{"id":413688,"date":"2022-03-09T03:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T00:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T03:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T00:52:59","slug":"cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cherishing dear friend, Broadway legend James Earl Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2553e7203f0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2553e7203f0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones\/#%E2%80%9CCherishing_dear_friend_Broadway_legend_James_Earl_Jones%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Cherishing dear friend, Broadway legend James Earl Jones&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones\/#%E2%80%9CDriving%E2%80%9D_Jones_to_the_Cort\" >\u201cDriving\u201d Jones to the Cort<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones\/#Roiled_in_royal_confusion\" >Roiled in royal confusion<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones\/#A_ladys_charms\" >A lady\u2019s charms<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones\/#Food_thoughts\" >Food &amp; thoughts<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cherishing-dear-friend-broadway-legend-james-earl-jones\/#Florida_smarties\" >Florida smarties<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCherishing_dear_friend_Broadway_legend_James_Earl_Jones%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Cherishing dear friend, Broadway legend James Earl Jones&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Cindy Adams\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDriving%E2%80%9D_Jones_to_the_Cort\"><\/span>\u201cDriving\u201d Jones to the Cort<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Broadway\u2019s Cort Theatre was just renamed for my longtime friend\u00a0James Earl Jones.<\/p>\n<p>I maybe know James Earl a week or two under forever. I\u2019ve been backstage in his dressing room. The play was \u201cYou Can\u2019t Take It With You,\u201d and he was sitting just in his drawers. I knew his wife. I know his son.<\/p>\n<p>I was there when son\u00a0Flynn<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>zipped him up and adjusted his suspenders before he met the public. I recall Jimmy and wife Cece in my kitchen. I can\u2019t forget calling him when the Tony winner with assorted Emmy noms said: \u201cWrite me. I can\u2019t hear well on the phone.\u201d And Christmas I remember him reading Lincoln\u2019s 1848 manu<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> aloud.<\/p>\n<p>When he was in Broadway\u2019s \u201cDriving Miss Daisy,\u201d he said, through a cookie in my apartment: \u201cThe play\u2019s structure is really simple. No makeup. If I get shiny, they powder me. The show\u2019s only 90 minutes. No intermission.\u201d And then this incredible onetime great voice for CNN added: \u201cSo if you have to pee, you\u2019ll have to crawl over someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Earl Jones, I love you.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Roiled_in_royal_confusion\"><\/span>Roiled in royal confusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Princess Diana I met. I understood.\u00a0Kristen Stewart, Oscar nom for playing her, I don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p>Kristen: \u201cI had to learn everything objectively. We haven\u2019t objective experiences with people we don\u2019t know. It\u2019s always through some funnel or lens. She had unstoppable energy \u2014 but was stopped. Losing her made her character ghost-like. She was remote, but liked people \u2014 sort of. Unknowable, she helped people connect with fellow humans. Everyone should have a different experience with the movie. To be able to hold her energy again.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Kristen-Stewart.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"SPENCER, Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana\" class=\"wp-image-21461206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Kristen-Stewart.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Kristen-Stewart.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Kristen-Stewart.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Having met Princess Diana myself, Kristen Stewart did not so well convey how she played her.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Pablo Larrain \/ \u00a9 Neon \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And, \u201cWe are all Lady Di when we watch \u2018Spencer.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Movie, good. Explanation, not.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_ladys_charms\"><\/span>A lady\u2019s charms<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0Bernie<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Sid<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>show, WABC radio\u2019s enormously successful program \u2014 770 on the AM dial 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. \u2014 celebrated International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>On their air, I said women today are executives, pilots, bus drivers, carpenters. But our widely advanced position on race and sex hasn\u2019t reached everyone.<\/p>\n<p>An attorney I know got on an elevator. One other passenger. A young girl. Both got off at the same floor. This senior gentleman stepped back to politely allow her to exit first. She screamed at him. Railing how old hat and stupid he was.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we need to work on training gents besides teaching them basic toilet habits.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Food_thoughts\"><\/span>Food &amp; thoughts<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s Post wrote about Carmine Street\u2019s Ukrainian restaurant Sveta. Outside, Ukrainian flags fly. Inside, knowing her family\u2019s suffering devastation in Kharkiv,\u00a0Svetlana Savchitz<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>cries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Sveta.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Alan Aguichev, owner of Sveta, a West Village restaurant named after her mother, Svetlana Savchitz.\" class=\"wp-image-21461265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Sveta.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Sveta.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Sveta.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Alan Aguichev, owner of Sveta, a West Village restaurant named after her mother, Svetlana Savchitz.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Kevin C. Downs<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boris Kleyman, my Russian born\/American citizen techie and friend 20 years: \u201cMother and son run NYC\u2019s Sveta restaurant. It\u2019s where I wanted to go with you. We were planning to go there for dinner. I know her and her son very well. Now her family is being bombed.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Florida_smarties\"><\/span>Florida smarties<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Florida deficiency flourishes. Its governor wants to be president. Its former governor,\u00a0Rick Scott, now a junior GOP senator, is another major brain. On Zoom with Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0Zelensky<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>he went mute. He was also admonished. Non-techie and probably preferring crayons to send a message, this wizard also voted against post office upgrades. So for something from Florida \u2014 try oranges.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>What pols love more than bashing NYC is to visit it.\u00a0Kevin McCarthy, California congressman\/minority leader of the House of Representatives, was at the St. Regis. Cartographers list that a really large schlep from downtown Palo Alto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only in New York, kids, only in New York.<\/strong>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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