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Fellow editor Kate Holbrook, who was a teaching fellow for Religion 1529, said she fears that people will not read the book because they have already read works by the speakers or because they feel they will disagree with the content...
...Holbrook said that the format of the book should interest any reader...
AFTER THE MOVIE VERSION CAME OUT: "I was tempted to call Felt and see what he thought ... Perhaps being played by [actor Hal] Holbrook in a dramatically heroic role would melt the iceberg that had risen between us. Or was the iceberg still growing? But I was basically gutless. I did nothing...
...parking garage to consult with Deep Throat that the movie briefly becomes a real noirish melodrama. The filmmakers made Deep Throat a smoker, which some say he was not, to give him a Robert Mitchum air, which was surely not something we would now impute to Felt. But Hal Holbrook gives a gnomic, cranky performance as Deep Throat. (Shouldn't there be an Oscar for best performance by an actor you can barely see?) And director Alan Pakula added menacing off-camera sound effects to Holbrook's scenes--a mysterious bump, the sudden squeal of tires as a car departs...
...Blackstone, who beat out the bigger names like Dick Cavett, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "I hate magicians," noted Sherrill Luke, a judge from Los Angeles, "but this man was very amusing." Forty-three hopefuls entered the amateur contest, fondly known as the Hal Holbrook Speaking Ladder because the actor who makes $20,000 each time he impersonates Mark Twain was discovered there. Nine contestants made it to the finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech, a whimsical look at aging, delivered partly in light verse...