Hal Holbrook, actor who channelled Mark Twain, is dead at 95
“George Washington.” “If you know more about me than I do, what do you ask me for?” The patients stared straight ahead — “No one was looking at us,” Hal Holbrook wrote — and guffawed at the laugh lines, proving that “the guys in the ward were saner than they looked” and that the material had legs. The Twain piece became their most popular sketch over the next four years, as the couple crisscrossed the country performing for schoolchildren, ladies’ clubs, college students and Rotarians. Hal Holbrook began developing his one-man show in 1952, the year Ruby Holbrook gave bi...
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