Culture Monster
Meeting of the Twains
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Hal Holbrook
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Val Kilmer
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87
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52
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South Weymouth, Mass.
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Los Angeles
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1954 (as a solo performer)
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2011
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2,241 and counting
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Fewer than 10
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The actor takes excerpts of Twain’s writings and edits them together to form a comic monologue.
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The actor combines his own writing with snippets from Twain’s published work to form a stream-of-consciousness reverie that Twain delivers from the great beyond.
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Abraham Lincoln, “Lincoln” and “North and South” (both TV miniseries); Deep Throat, “All the President’s Men”; John Adams, “George Washington” (TV miniseries)
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Jim Morrison, “The Doors”; Doc Holliday, “Tombstone”; Willem de Kooning, “Pollock”; Moses, “The Prince of Egypt” and “The Ten Commandments: The Musical”
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“Lincoln,” directed by Steven Spielberg
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“Twixt,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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