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JAMES EARL JONES PASSES

TiborTibor Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭✭✭

What a tragic loss. STAR WARS and FIELD OF DREAMS two of his best. RIP

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  • pointfivezeropointfivezero Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 9, 2024 2:45PM

    Lest we forget The Hunt for Red October. RIP Admiral Greer.

    Tim

    (Edited for grammar)

  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,633 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP...

    Donato

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  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Miss him we will.

    Coins are Neato!

    "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,117 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He was fantastic in all the roles he played.

    RIP James Earl Jones.

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Coming to America. With Eddie Murphy. Good stuff.

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,117 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Also very funny on the Big Bang Theory spending a night out on the town with Sheldon Cooper (having ice cream, playing Ding, Dong Ditch at Carrie Fischer's house, riding a Ferris Wheel at the Santa Monica Pier and taking a sauna together).

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,576 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 9, 2024 5:41PM

    @JeffersonFrog said:
    I posted a version of this many moons ago, but I cannot seem to find it via the PCGS search tools.

    Back in the 90s when the kids were young, I used to take one of them to Doug's Coin shop in Birmingham, AL on Saturday mornings. One Saturday morning in 1998, my 8-year-old daughter and I were in Doug's when he got a phone call (on an old-fashioned stationary landline). After a couple of uh-huh's, he hung up, turned around to us, and said, "James Earl Jones is on his way." The Alabama Theatre was renovated in 1998 and he was in town for the grand opening. Sure enough, about 10 minutes later he and a young lady walked into the shop. Doug had some nice baseball memorabilia and Jones was interested. He settled in on an old, crumpled, but authenticated, black and white picture of Ty Cobb sliding into home plate. My recollection was it was a crappy print of a great picture. Doug wanted $1,200 for it, which back in the day was a couple of mortgage payments. James Earl said, "I'll take it." He pulled out one of those old, folding checkbooks with a cheap plastic cover and a snap. Doug looked him square in the eye, and asked, "You wouldn't happen to have cash would you?"

    After Jones politely told Doug he didn't have $1,200 on him, we all talked baseball cards. We bemoaned the days when we took the cards and clothespinned them to our bicycle spokes, wondered how many personal collections were "accidentally" thrown away by our mothers, and how many more resided in attics. He was so pleasant and personable. The young lady was a local publicist, and she asked if we wanted our pictures taken with James Earl Jones. We of course said, "sure!" The young lady took our addresses and promised to mail us the pictures (this was way before cell phones and cell phone cameras). Sure enough, about 2-3 weeks later, the picture of James Earl Jones and my daughter arrived in the mail. She still has the picture. Doug's picture came too, and for the longest time (we left Birmingham in 2008) he displayed the picture in his store on a back shelf behind the main counter.

    93 was a good run. RIP

    Well, did he take the check after all? :)

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP, as he disappears into the cornfield.

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  • JeffersonFrogJeffersonFrog Posts: 876 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:

    Well, did he take the check after all? :)

    He did.

    If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.

    Tommy

  • DocBenjaminDocBenjamin Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JeffersonFrog said:

    @JBK said:

    Well, did he take the check after all? :)

    He did.

    Smart move. Even if was returned, the signed bounced paper would be worth some gelt.

  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,567 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't forget Lt. Lothar Zogg in Dr. Strangelove.

    One could tell the large companies that screwed up and lost the public's trust because they'd hire James Earl Jones to be their spokesman in commercials to rehab their image.

    3 rim nicks away from Good
  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 9,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So sad. A true favorite of ours. RIP
    Jim


    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

    Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The most iconic voice I can think of.
    (No offense to Morgan Freeman.)
    🙏 RIP, James Earl Jones

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  • Cranium_Basher73Cranium_Basher73 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't forget his role as Thulsa Doom, high priest of Set from Conan the Barbarian.

    Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.

  • ShaunBC5ShaunBC5 Posts: 1,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I used to love listening to his rendition of Casey At The Bat (with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra?…can’t remember precisely).
    He’ll be missed.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,330 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP Mr Jones and thank you

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't forget Mufasa in the original Lion King!!!! "Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope."

  • M4MadnessM4Madness Posts: 327 ✭✭✭✭

    @Cranium_Basher73 said:
    Can't forget his role as Thulsa Doom, high priest of Set from Conan the Barbarian.

    That was my favorite role of his.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,189 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sad to hear. :s

  • NeophyteNumismatistNeophyteNumismatist Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 10, 2024 1:27PM

    RIP King. :'( . No one else could have played this role as well. His voice brought power.

    I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,175 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP Mr. Jones - a great Michigan Wolverine!

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

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  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He was a good actor RIP

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