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...MARK TWAIN TONIGHT (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Another gift, this time Hal Holbrook re-creating Samuel Clemens with the same warmth and understanding as he did on Broadway...
...lucid views on everything from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's love life to the inner tensions of Mark Twain, from the perils of superpatriotism in the Age of Lyndon Johnson to the paucity of privacy in the Moment of William Manchester. His articles appear in magazines ranging from the Ladies' Home Journal to TV Guide, and his features flicker on the tube from Today to Tonight, expressing, all in one, the horn-rimmed wisdom of the scholar, the sophistication of balding middle age-and the omniscient satisfaction of the eternal Quiz Kid. By this time, in short, the average...
...events in a small Indiana town just before a twister hits. As a slice of life, the book is thin indeed, and coming from Morris (The Field of Vision, Love Among the Cannibals), it is exasperating. The familiar elements are there: the pointless plot, the Twain tone of Midwest innocence and irony, the fey and the freak who get caught up in the drama. Morris has used them all before, often to great comic effect. This time he has barely bothered to construct more than the outline of a story, leaning on the kitschy existential slogan: "Things just happen...
...Mark Twain may have enthused that "the Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo," but at least one Italian figures that the country's history-choked metropolitan mélange is not at all the thing for a modern industrial nation. Importing the "new towns" concept from other European countries and the U.S., Milanese Financier Renxo Zingone, 58, is pushing a somewhat heretical "desire to build cities in a rational, non-chaotic fashion"-and at a profit...
Married. Hal Holbrook, 41, the virtuoso one-man show in Off-Broadway's long-running (174 performances) Mark Twain Tonight!; and Carol Rossen, 28, aspiring actress, daughter of Hollywood's late Producer-Director Robert Rossen (The Hustler); he for the second time; in Manhattan...