I'm reading Holbrook's autobiography now; thus, I differ with that assertion, because Holbrook had years of stage experience before "becoming" Mark Twain.
If anything, Kilmer is a cub in comparison to Mr. H. - B. Clay Shannon

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... or it is an early interpretation of Twain's reported slow drawl delivery=
.
I submit that Holbrook might have had a similar interpretation in 1954. IHe M=
AY NOT HAVE BEEN AS GOOD, since Kilmer's film experience when he started doi=
ng Twain was deep and Holbrook's was not
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> On Dec 2, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> For whatever it's worth, Kilmer was a great Doc Holliday, in an
> otherwise ridiculous movie.  I've seen a couple of clips of Kilmer as
> Twain and they all seemed to represent Twain as a drunkard.