And Robert D. McFadden packed a smorgasbord of savory detail into the first sentence of a renowned and beloved actor’s obituary: “James Earl Jones, a stuttering farm child who became a voice of rolling thunder as one of America’s most versatile actors in a stage, film and television career that plumbed race relations, Shakespeare’s rhapsodic tragedies and the faceless menace of Darth Vader, died on Monday at his home in Dutchess County, N.Y.”
And Robert D. McFadden packed a smorgasbord of savory detail into the first sentence of a renowned and beloved actor’s obituary: “James Earl Jones, a stuttering farm child who became a voice of rolling thunder as one of America’s most versatile actors in a stage, film and television career that plumbed race relations, Shakespeare’s rhapsodic tragedies and the faceless menace of Darth Vader, died on Monday at his home in Dutchess County, N.Y.”