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ACTOR BRINGS MARK TWAIN TO LIFE AT OCC; MIKE RANDALL IS A METEOROLOGIST, BUT TAKES HIS ONE-MAN SHOW ON THE ROAD.(Weekend)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20041202
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Byline: Laura T. Ryan Staff writer

Mike Randall was 17 when he first saw legendary stage actor Hal Holbrook perform as Mark Twain on a Toronto stage.

And the Buffalo native was never quite the same.

"I was just absolutely blown away," Randall says from the weather lab at WKBW-TV (Channel 7) in Buffalo, where he works as chief meteorologist. "Like every 17-year-old kid, I thought, "Gee, I want to be onstage and have all those people laughing and applauding, too."'

Soon, he did.

Nearly a third of a century has passed since Randall, now 51, first pulled on ...

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