After college, Lear was selected by the Philadelphia Warriors with the eighth pick of the 1956 NBA Draft. His NBA career was brief, however: he appeared in just three games during the 1956-57 NBA season and scored four points.
He was an eccentric Fool to Michael Gambon’s Lear and was magnetically malevolent as the eponymous hero of Molière’s Tartuffe... when Sher dismissed his ragged recruits as “food for powder, they’ll fill a pit as well as better”, Alex Hassell’s Prince Hal reacted with a look of appalled horror.
A new book released in April, “Boxed Out of the NBA. Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League,” sparked a lot of memories for me. Even though I never saw a game I was aware of the great history and stories surrounding the league ... In “Boxed Out of the NBA ... “Not counting my early days when I played against Hal Lear and others ... ....
Two such fans were Scranton natives Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein, whose recently published 216-page book, “Boxed out of the NBA... For fans who remember the EPBL, particularly in its heyday with guys named Sherman White, Bill Spivey, Swish McKinney, WallyChoice, Julius McCoy, “King” Hal Lear, Hawthorne Wingo and many more, it’s a must-read ... ....
Those arguments now take place only in the presence of the most fatuous bores ... Not really ... With all this in mind, it should not ask much of contemporary audiences to imagine Hamlet as a woman, KingLear as an Asian person or Prince Hal as a septuagenarian ... More recently, Simon Russell Beale managed Hamlet and King Lear within 14 years of one another ... .
Those arguments now take place only in the presence of the most fatuous bores ... Not really ... With all this in mind, it should not ask much of contemporary audiences to imagine Hamlet as a woman, KingLear as an Asian person or Prince Hal as a septuagenarian ... More recently, Simon Russell Beale managed Hamlet and King Lear within 14 years of one another ... .
Jay Norman, an all-time great Temple University basketball player and assistant coach, died on Saturday Feb. 6, 2021. He was 87 ... Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time.” ... He played with Naismith BasketballMemorial Hall of Fame guard Guy Rodgers and Temple great Hal Lear during is career ... Norman worked mostly with Temple's big men.