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tip of the hat to http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com Just a year ago America was coming under the throes of a couple of illnesses that were about to rage out of control to make 2020 one of the worst, if not the worst year on record. On February 5th, 2020 Donald Trump was acquitted in his impeachment trial by the US Senate. Senator Susan Collins of Maine said that Trump “Learned a pretty big lesson.” The only lesson that Trump learned was that he could pretty much do whatever he wanted an...

Hal Holbrook movies and shows to stream on Netflix Sat Feb 06, 2021 at 7:30pm ET Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Carrie Nelson American actor and icon Hal Holbrook passed away late-January. Although, the news of his death didn’t become public knowledge until February 2.  Holbrook is a multi-award winning actor, having won multiple Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. Fascinatingly enough, he won the Tony Award for his portrayal of Mark Twain in the one-man play, Mark Twain Tonight! — a s...

Cloris Leachman: Oscar winner whose career spanned seven decades Marcus Williamson © Provided by The Independent Cloris Leachman was the award-winning actor and comedian best known for her roles as Phyllis Lindstrom in The Last Picture Show. Leachman, who has died aged 94, enjoyed a career on small screen and silver screen spanning some seven decades, in a wide variety of memorable roles that defied typecasting. “There was no one like Cloris. With a single look she had the a...

Actors death reminds us of the value of Huckleberry Finn Bill Ellzey Hal, Huck, Jim, and Black History Month; by coincidence, they all crowded in this winter, just as I was running out of things to say about total knee replacement. Actor Hal Holbrook died last week, age 95, after pretending to be Mark Twain on stage for more years than Samuel Langhorne Clemens used the same literary pseudonym. He drew heavily on Twains masterpiece, "Huckleberry Finn," mining the novel for its humor and vernacu...

Stacker compiled a list of the 100 best television shows from the 1960s, according to IMDb viewer rankings.

Knives Out in Taki’s Magazine: Knives Out has a few good things going for it, such as an initial setup that sounds promising. Christopher Plummer plays a genius best-selling mystery author who calls his less talented descendants, all of whom live off his immense royalties, together to celebrate his 85th birthday, where he intends to disinherit each of them. Plummer, who was Captain von Trapp to Julie Andrews’ Maria in 1965, is one of the few actors ever cast to play an 85-year-old when he ...

Stacker compiled a list of the 100 best television shows from the 1960s, according to IMDb viewer rankings.

Canyon News BEVERLY HILLS—On January 23, Ohio native and actor Hal Holbrook died at age 95 in his Beverly Hills home. His death was confirmed by his assistant, Joyce Cohen. Holbrook was best known for his role as Mark Twain in “Mark Twain Tonight!,” a one-man show. The first performance took place in 1954 when Holbrook was 29. The show did so well CBS aired it again on March 6, 1967. An estimated 30 million people watched. Holbrook received acclaim and recognition as he continued to pl...

Print Because it’s awards season, I’ve been knee-deep in historian Mark Cousin’s 15-part doc “The Story of Film: An Odyssey” and it is thoughtful, informative and takes a refreshingly global perspective on cinema. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and Washington dogfluencers: The legacy of Chicano graphics “Mujer de Mucha Enagua, PA’ TI XICANA,” 1999, by Yreina D. Cervántez collages ima...

Remembering Hal Holbrook, Proctors performer and patron | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 Hal Holbrook was not only a performer at Proctors but a patron who helped shine a light on the historic theater.  (It was announced this week that Holbrook, 95, died on Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills.) In 1981, just a few years after the theater had reopened, Holbrook performed “Mark Twain Tonight!” a show that Dennis Madden, former executive director of Proctors, well remembers.  “It took...