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...NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:20-7:20 p.m.). David Brinkley is "Our Man on the Mississippi," taking a camera cruise from Lake Itasca, Minn., to Pilottown, La., and never the Twain shall meet. Repeat...
...good nominee," the whacky Mame wept happily. Some of the other winners: Richard Kiley, 44, judged the best musical actor for his Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha; Rosemary Harris, 38, best dramatic actress, in The Lion in Winter; Hal Holbrook, 41, best dramatic actor, for Mark Twain Tonight; and sardonic Producer David Merriclc, 54, and German Playwright Peter Weiss, 49, for Marat/Sade...
...CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN by Justin Kaplan. 424 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Mark Twain was as conscious of posterity as any other writer who ever anticipated its judgment. He saved the thousands of letters that came his way and expected his correspondents to do the same (they did). Before his death at 74 in 1910, he commissioned an official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. A large portion of Twain's estate-the fragments, stories, notes and autobiography unpublished during his lifetime-has since been paid into print by his literary executors. Yet none of it takes the full measure of the man himself...
...MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! invites the literate mind to a banquet with a consistently ironic, sometimes macabre American wit. So thoroughly does Hal Holbrook immerse himself in the psyche of Clemens that his performance seems like an uncanny transmigration of souls...