• Jesse Jackson – a super-charged orator

    Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist who became the US’s first black presidential candidate has died.He played a leading role in virtually every campaign for civil rights, sexual and racial equality, and economic and social justice. One of America’s best known public figures, he was called the “conscience of the nation” and “the great unifier”.He had an astounding talent for publicity and words came easily to him. ‘As an orator he had the power to raise
  • Robert Duvall – a Hollywood titan

    Veteran actor Robert Duvall has died after a long and memorable career where he often played secondary characters but usually was the one remembered for his steely performance.  He had notable roles in To Kill a Mockingbird, M*A*S*H, The Conversation and Network but reached his pinnacle as the self-effacing consigliere in The Godfather, alongside Brando and Pacino, and the surf-crazed Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now riding into attack in Vietnam with speakers blaring Wagner&rsq

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