Culture For The Non-Cultured

They say truly beautiful women can look beautiful even if they are wearing a garbage bag.

Well, James Earl Jones’s voice and presence is the oral and theatrical equivalent. He is fantastic even when saying the alphabet really … really … slowly, as he does in this classic tape from Sesame Street.  

The clip is at the end of this post.  Hit play clicking the middle of the screen.

Pretend you are a child learning the alphabet.  It’s AMAZING.

(I first heard about this clip from The Tipping Point, one of my favorite books EVER.  Basically, it uses examples from fashion, public health, history, children’s TV, sociology, crime, and more to explain how fads and trends spread quickly and seemingly without explanation).