James Earl Jones, Actor Whose Voice Could Menace or Melt, Dies at 93

James Earl Jones, a stuttering farm child who became a voice of rolling thunder as one of America’s most versatile actors in a stage, film and television career that plumbed race relations, Shakespeare’s rhapsodic tragedies and the faceless menace of Darth Vader, died Monday at his home in Dutchess County, New York. He was 93.

Disney, DirecTV battle to reshape TV bundling

What began as routine haggling over the rates satellite TV provider DirecTV would pay to distribute Walt Disney’s television networks is turning into a referendum on the future of bundled programming, executives and experts said.