![]() ![]() (Fun fact, Daniels’ handwritten lyrics are now in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.) “Effortless takes a lot of work,” notes Daniels, who then talks about integrity and honor and then performs his song about Kaline. And on the way there, I give myself the freedom as a writer to kind of explore and go down a side street.”Įpisode Three opens surreally with Daniels being interviewed by Harry Dune, his clueless character in the movie “Dumb and Dumber.” Daniels, of course, also voices Dune, who wants to know what state Michigan is in, if an IQ of 8 is “good” and who stuffs a dangerous amount of Twinkies in his mouth at one time.ĭaniels in the third episode recalls revering Al Kaline, who played right field for the Detroit Tigers and made everything look easy. ![]() I just don’t know how I’m going to get there. Daniels said he wanted to mix it up to keep listeners’ attention. There’s an unpredictability to each episode and that’s intentional. Highlights include a song about a crazed Canadian pedestrian who Daniels almost hit with his car one day in Toronto - “Your eyes were wild/Your teeth were bared/Anatomical references filled the air” - and a story about his family renting a 28-foot RV and neglectfully leaving his wife behind at a truck stop. “It just became this kind of perfect platform to kind of do all the things I do.” “I said, ‘Don’t expect Chapter One to be the day I was born and then move through my teen years and all that.’ I’m going to jump all over the place, which is kind of like a set list,” the multiple Emmy-winner said in an interview. The Eastwood story leads to a fantasy sequence in which Daniels dreams up an Oscars telecast punctuated by a stream of all the actors shot on film by Eastwood, and then he sings the song “Dirty Harry Blues,” with the lyrics: “Well, if I had to guess/Off the top of my head/When all’s said and done/One of us is gonna be dead.”ĭaniels, who has performed close to 600 small gigs with his guitar, was never interested in linear storytelling, preferring instead to use his songs to wrap stories around. We learn that writer Aaron Sorkin gave Daniels a chance at career rebirth with “The Newsroom,” we hear Daniels’ curtain speech on Broadway after his run ended in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and about the time he played golf with Clint Eastwood. Frankly, I want to know what’s under there, too,” he says in the first episode. “Over the course of these episodic excursions, I’m going to let you peek under my hood. In the 12-episode season of “Alive and Well Enough,” the actor, musician and playwright explores his influences and opinions, offering thoughts on everything from fedoras to folk star Arlo Guthrie. ![]() Jeff Daniels tackles his life and career in an absorbing, unconventional way this month with a music- and skit-filled audio memoir from Audible that he calls “a little bit like a one-man musical.” “As a kid Dave Prowse couldn’t be more famous to me stalking along corridors as evil incarnate in the part of Darth Vader & stopping a whole generation of kiddies from being mown down in street as the Green Cross Code man,” he wrote. “Ant-Man” director Edgar Wright paid tribute to Prowse on Twitter. Prowse was also known to a generation of British children as the Green Cross Code Man, a superhero in a series of road safety advertisements His lilting English West Country accent was considered less ideal, and his lines were dubbed by James Earl Jones. Physically, Prowse was perfect for the part. Prowse later told the BBC he chose Darth Vader because “you always remember the bad guys.” ![]() Prowse died Saturday after a short illness, his agent Thomas Bowington said Sunday.īorn in Bristol, southwest England, in 1935, Prowse represented England in weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games in the 1950s before breaking into movies with roles that emphasized his commanding size, including Frankenstein’s monster in a pair of horror films.ĭirector George Lucas saw Prowse in a small part in “A Clockwork Orange” and asked the 6-foot-6-inch (2-meter) actor to audition for the villainous Vader or the wookie Chewbacca in “Star Wars.” Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who played Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. ![]()
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