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...from Los Angeles, "but this man was very amusing." Forty-three hopefuls entered the amateur contest, fondly known as the Hal Holbrook Speaking Ladder because the actor who makes $20,000 each time he impersonates Mark Twain was discovered there. Nine contestants made it to the finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech, a whimsical look at aging, delivered partly in light verse. Given little chance to win, Bregnard outdid the likes of Erik Burro, a New Jersey video producer who impersonates a bewigged William Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions of Lecture Lucre | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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