A Twain of Twains

Last night I met the actor Hal Holbrook. Which is less impressive than it sounds: he met a lot of people last night, at a meet-and-greet backstage after one of his performances as Mark Twain.
Holbrook is 89 years old. He first came to Albuquerque in 1941. He’s been doing Mark Twain longer than I’ve been alive.
I’ve seen Holbrook’s Twain three times, the first time on television, the other times live in concert. He chooses different material for each concert, so in the concerts I’ve seen he only...