Film Homage Extras The Great White Hope 1970 leaving set Globe Arizona 1969
by David Lee Guss
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Film Homage Extras The Great White Hope 1970 leaving set Globe Arizona 1969
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David Lee Guss
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Globe, Arizona was dressed to replicate Reno, Nevada on July 4th, 1910 for the filming of "The Great White Hope." After standing around for hours all day I imagine the extras are happy to turn in their period costumes.
While James Earl Jones has had an amazing run as an actor, the same cannot be said for Jack Johnson.
He peaked on that sweltering July 4th day under the Reno, Nevada sun when he humiliated the hope of the white race.
Johnson became enamored of the trappings of fame, the money, the glory, the women, the booze and the compulsive gambling.
Nor did he have the discipline to continue the regimen of monastic training.
Jack Johnson lost his belt, in the 26th round, to the "Pottawatomie Giant" Jess Willard on April 5, 1915 in Havana, Cuba.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhumAxChVa4&NR=1
Johnson was 37. He continued to box until 1938, age 60, having lost seven of his last nine bouts.
At the end he "impersonated himself in a cellar sideshow off Times Square called Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus."
It cost a quarter to have the smartly dressed Johnson answer questions while sipping wine through a straw. The cellar was dimly lit as Johnson shared the bill with a dog act, a sword swallower and a half-man-half woman.
Johnson died at 68 in 1946, speeding at 70, in an auto accident at the wheel of his Lincoln Zephyr, after having been refused service in a diner.
Both Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier agree that Johnson and Joe Louis were the finest boxers in the history of prize fighting.
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June 8th, 2013
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