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From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Date: 20050522
Author:ROBERT FELDBERG

ROBERT FELDBERG
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-22-2005

Possessed by the spirit of Mark Twain -- Hal Holbrook's half-century in a role
ROBERT FELDBERG
Date: 05-22-2005, Sunday
Section: ENTERTAINMENT
Edtion: All Editions
Column: ONSTAGE

As we talked on the phone - I listened, really - there was the odd sense that Hal Holbrook, having played the skeptical, despairing Mark Twain for more than 50 years, had become him.

The actor's subject was the press, and as he spoke, he got louder and louder, his fury rising.

"What do we know about what's going on in Iraq? We hear that people are getting killed, ...

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