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Jackson and Bassett’s good beginning fails to deliver in ‘Mountaintop’

Jackson and Bassett’s good beginning fails to deliver in ‘Mountaintop’

One of the eventualities of a storied life is that by virtue of perseverance and sacrifice, the great person winds up — on Broadway. The latest such case of sanctified Tony eligibility belongs to none other than the leader and conscience of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., portrayed on his last night on Earth by Samuel L. Jackson in “The Mountaintop.”

 

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