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Dennis Quaid = Mark Twain
Happy Birthday, Sam!
@CarolineLawrenc

> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:49:42 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Birthday
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Kilmer has been working on it for about four years. There is a clip =
> available online.
> 
> On Nov 30, 2012, at 4:43 PM, John H. Muller wrote:
> 
> > I get Twain google alerts. It looks like Val Kilmer has been doing =
> some
> > Twain performances and making chatter about a possible movie role.
> >=20
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Harold Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >=20
> >> speaking of the Lincoln Of Our Lit.:
> >>=20
> >> I was seriously blown away by the look and feel, and portrayal of =
> Lincoln
> >> by Daniel Day Lewis.  it was just short of uncanny.  I am not sure if =
> an
> >> American icon has ever been portrayed as effectively/ acted out so
> >> convincingly -- simply, just "looked" like the person, or at least =
> how I'd
> >> imagine him.  WOW.  just give him the Oscar right now, it was =
> awesome...
> >>=20
> >> I'd be interested if anyone had the same feelings.  I think the bar =
> has
> >> been set so high with this performance, I cannot see even trying to =
> get
> >> someone to act Mark Twain in a film of such magnitude.  Thoughts??
> >>=20
> >> -hb
> >>=20
> >> --
> >> Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
> >> Professor of English
> >> Saint Louis University
> >> St. Louis, MO  63108
> >> 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h)
> >> <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>
> >>=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > --=20
> > John Muller
> > 202.236.3413
> > [log in to unmask]
> > Capital Community News
> > Greater Greater Washington
> > *Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C: The Lion of
> > =
> Anacostia<http://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Douglass-Washington-D-c-Anacosti=
> a/dp/1609495772/ref=3Dwl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=3DUTF8&colid=3DH42HP4SBZ8OA&c=
> oliid=3DI34OMAR1SV8L9G>
> > *
> > Published by The History Press, October 2012
> > http://thelionofanacostia.wordpress.com/
> > Facebook: http://on.fb.me/uca9za
> 
> Alan Kitty
> 609-219-9339
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