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Displaying all articles tagged:
Mark Twain
mister americana
May 7, 2020
A Short History of Val Kilmer’s Obsession With Mark Twain
Rumors of his blah, blah have been greatly blah.
By
Rebecca Alter
vulture lists
Nov. 20, 2018
7 New Audiobooks Tailor-made to Help You Survive the Holidays
Feed your brain with Twain, Jack Reacher, and the Beastie Boys while your body endures the tedium of cooking and travel.
By
Jenni Laidman
Oct. 23, 2017
What Happened When David Letterman Was Honored at the Kennedy Center
The Mark Twain Prize ceremony refused to be about how great he is.
By
Jen Chaney
chat room
Mar. 23, 2017
Val Kilmer on Playing Mark Twain, and His Crazy
Song to Song
Cameo
“What and who is God to me? What’s at the core of Twain’s soul? What does it mean to be an American?”
By
Simon Abrams
theater review
Feb. 9, 2017
Theater Review: Encores! Shows Why
Big River
Isn’t Coming Back Anytime Soon
The Encores! performance of
Big River
shows us why it’s never coming back to Broadway.
By
Jesse Green
it’s electric!
Feb. 3, 2017
Nikola Tesla Is All the Rage, Will Be Featured in a New Film With Mark Twain
Tesla is also a main character in the upcoming movie
The
Current War
.
By
Tolly Wright
impressions
Oct. 19, 2015
Eddie Murphy Finally Impersonated Cosby
According to reports from the comedian’s Mark Twain ceremony.
By
Sean Fitz-Gerald
May 5, 2015
Mark Twain’s Early Newspaper Columns Were Basically Made Up
“It’s unclear how Twain acquired that level of detail.”
By
Claire Landsbaum
May 21, 2013
Carol Burnett Will Receive the Mark Twain Humor Prize This Year
The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is going to Carol Burnett this year, the Kennedy Center announced today. The lifetime achievement […]
By
Bradford Evans
i heart huckleberry
Mar. 28, 2012
Val Kilmer Really Getting Into This Mark Twain Stuff
He says Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are Twain’s modern-day equivalents.
By
Margaret Lyons
clickables
Mar. 16, 2012
See Val Kilmer as a Scarily Accurate Mark Twain
He’s playing the author in a one-man play called
Citizen Twain.
By
Zach Dionne
Jan. 27, 2012
How Mark Twain Made Robbery Lemons Into Comedy Lemonade
Man, Mark Twain was holding down the early 20th century comedy scene like a champion. After he was robbed in 1908, Twain wrote a notice for […]
By
Hallie Cantor
Apr. 18, 2011
The Accidental Comedy Masterpiece Mark Twain Called ‘Perfect’
In his introduction to the 1883 American edition of English As She Is Spoke, Mark Twain wrote some of the most glowing praise he’s ever laid on […]
By
Mike Drucker
books
Jan. 4, 2011
New
Huckleberry Finn
Edition Will Omit Racially Sensitive Words
As you would expect, it’s a controversial choice.
By
Kyle Buchanan
tina fey
Nov. 16, 2010
Read the Sarah Palin Jokes Cut From PBS’s Airing of the Mark Twain Prize
Like the joke about Sarah Palin, rape kits, and evolution.
By
Avi Zenilman
huck spin
May 24, 2010
Mark Twain’s 100-Year-Old Autobiography Will Be Half a Million Words of Fun
He talks some smack.
By
Willa Paskin
the industry
Aug. 1, 2007
Ricky Gervais Announces His ‘Retirement’
Plus industry news on Kanye West, Peter Bjorn and John, and Mark Twain.