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MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! When Hal Holbrook shuffles off the stage at the end of his one-man show, it is as if one were bidding good night to the incorrigible Clemens himself. An extraordinary physical impersonation and uncanny dramatic recreation of one of Americana's keenest humorists...
April being the cruelest month, Actor Hal Holbrook, 41, rummaged through the collected wit of Samuel Clemens and inserted an apt crack into his one-man virtuoso performance, Mark Twain Tonight!, at Manhattan's Longacre Theater. "What's the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?" mused Holbrook-Twain. "The taxidermist takes only your skin...
...what is a wry commentary on the flagging pace of Paris painting, the most sensational artist at the moment is Jean Dubuffet, who frankly prefers a drawing by a lunatic to one by Leonardo, patterns his painting on the world of children, wall scratchers, psychopaths, the self-taught and simpletons. Already past 40 when he had his first one-man show 21 years ago, he has since turned out close to 2,000 oils plus countless gouaches, drawings, collages and assemblages that incorporate every material from butterfly wings to actual dirt...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! Hal Holbrook takes three hours putting on his Mark Twain makeup, and he has spent more than 13 years getting into Mark Twain's psyche. The result is a one-man show that is wise and witty...
...this activity is Walt's brother Roy, 72, who is president and board chairman of Disney Productions. Walt calls himself the executive producer, "the little bee who goes from one area to another, gathering pollen and sort of stimulating everybody." Obviously he is the head bee. One ex-Disney executive notes that, for all its 3,300 employees, the corporation is still a one-man show. "Everything in that plant goes through Walt and with his blessing. The king is king, as far as he's concerned. He okays ideas, and he's used the ideas...