Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is of the moment...
...know when you nauseated me most? Do you know? Not when you were retching all over the house. Not when you'd stagger through the hallway cursing us and threatening Mother. Not when we'd find you lying in the snow by the front step after a four day drunk. Not when the three of us had to carry you to your bad because you couldn't stand on your own two feet. No, none of these times. It was always the following day when you'd sobered up sufficiently enough to feel guilty. When you'd come back...
...place, Juliet busies herself with the rancher's neglected son (Don Galloway), while Vindicator is turned out to the open range, left to face a herd of cows who may or may not prove receptive to his aristocratic airs. All the livestock soon plods away discreetly into the snow. Back at the ranch, the people play their own brand of choose-up partners and struggle valiantly to keep boredom at bay. They just about make...
...look down At the slum backyards frothed over with snow And think of the boy with the octopus brain Floating pale and wavy through The murky waters of Schopenhauer While your mother wheedled by the hour...
...Twain's writings. The casual format is that of one of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures when he was 70. The props are simple: a lectern, a Victorian chair, a pitcher of water, an omnipresent cigar from which Holbrook fires volleys of smoke like a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside his thunderbolts for cheroots...