ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) - April 21, 2010
His 56 years of one-man shows called "Mark Twain Tonight!" reached a milestone in Elmira, N.Y., on Wednesday, the centenary of the author's death.
The upstate city is where Twain wrote most of his best-known works, from his "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" masterpiece to "Life on the Mississippi," a memoir of his days as a steamboat pilot.
The Emmy Award-winning Holbrook has been gluing on a bushy mustache and pontificating in a gravelly twang since his first full-fledged Twain impersonation in 1954. The 85-year-old actor didn't need to pencil in wrinkles before the curtain went up Wednesday at a renovated vaudeville theater bearing the humorist's real name, Samuel L. Clemens.
