Shawn emamjomeh biography

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After 23 years, the (imagined and not literal) 1948 Oldsmobile of Driving Miss Daisy made its first Broadway stop Oct. 25 — at the Golden Theatre. Unseen, but purring, it glittered like a solid gold Cadillac, with James Earl Jones in the driver's seat, Vanessa Redgrave as the self-designated driver in the back seat and Boyd Gaines as her son and occasional referee. Road travel doesn't get any better.

This character-driven vehicle, which logs up a near quarter-century (Nov. 10, 1948-Nov. 23, 1972) in 90 minutes flat, comes largely from the sentimentally remembered Atlanta childhood of Alfred Uhry, its author. In its travels, the play has accumulated the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play as well as the Pulitzer Prize, both in 1988, and two years later struck Oscar gold for Best Picture, screenwriter Uhry and the driven Miss Daisy of Jessica Tandy (at 81, Oscar's oldest winner). The inestimable Morgan Freeman chauffeured both of these runs: the original one Off-Broadway with Dana Ivey, and the film one with Tandy.

Clearly, at this late dat

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