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...whom are attracted to the music's fusion of styles, a large number of country fans take it upon themselves to enforce a vague (and deluded) notion of genre purity. Acts that other listeners take for granted as part of the twangy firmament, from Willie Nelson to Shania Twain, are often disparaged for their perceived experimental perversions--not enough fiddle, too much navel--with a prim cruelty that would not be out of place in an Edith Wharton novel. "One of the subjects of debate on our message boards is always, 'Is it country?'" says Calvin Gilbert, managing editor...
Silvera now works as a scout for the Cubs, and can sympathize with an organization whose last World Series title came when Mark Twain was still alive...
...Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "I hate magicians," noted Sherrill Luke, a judge 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...
...Yorker who wrote so memorably of rural Maine. This is high company, but one additional comparison is beginning to be made. Keillor has sometimes performed in a white suit, perhaps with comparison aforethought, and so, of course, did that illustrious Midwestern yarn spinner and lecture-hall tiger Mark Twain. What some say now is that another major humorist is loose in the nation's ticklish midsection and that Keillor's storytelling approaches the quality of Twain...
...speech, reacting to reports that his seat might soon be vacant, he said with a twinkle, "I can't know, of course, what the good Lord may have in mind for me. But I can say that insofar as the suggestions contemplate my voluntary departure, like Mark Twain's reported death, the rumor is grossly exaggerated." After restoring himself on a European tour this summer, which included a stop in England last week to help rededicate the Magna Carta, Brennan expects to be back in his regular seat at the court on the first Monday in October, ready...