The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope1970

Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a film of the same name. The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in October 1968, directed b… more »



Smith aka Smitty, Evening Mirror Reporter:
[about Brady] You still think you can take him?

Jack Jefferson:
Well, I ain't saying I can take him straight off, and anyway, that'd be kinda mean. Big holiday fight. Can't send all them people right back home again.

Smith aka Smitty, Evening Mirror Reporter:
You're only worry is picking the round?

Jack Jefferson:
Yeah, and that takes some thinkin', man. You see, if I lets it go on too long and, you know, just sorta block and keeping him off, then they'll say "well ain't that one shiftless n*gger? Why are they all so lazy?" But if I chop him down *too* quick, you know, the third or fourth round, and get to him all at once, "No, it ain't fair, the poor man's up there fighting a gorilla." But I'm gonna work it out.

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