Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain on Lies and Slavery

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[niyad]

1. Thank you so much for posting this.

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2. This was such a pleasure when I saw this on TV when I was a kid.

[Harker]

3. I rode Amtrak from Denver to Chicago with a steward

on board who dressed (with the limitations of his uniform) and looked just like that, down to the pocket watch chain.

He said they called him Mark Train.

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4. --- guess it was around 20 years ago. (Memory doesn't work good when ya get old.)

Anyway, I was walking out of Central Park when I caught up behind two guys who were also walking toward 5th Avenue. One was Hal Holbrook, talking to his friend about how he was going to the White House the following week.

Naturally, I slowed down to eavesdrop.,

I din't get if he was performing our receiving an award.

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5. Great story!

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6. My trips to Central Park over the years, I've encountered

Mary Tyler Moore,

Michael Moore,

Kofi Annan (Former Sec. Gen. of the U.N. I was sitting at a bench at the Model Boat Pond when he walked by. Quite a few people stood and applauded him).

Kitty Carlisle (Marx Brothers - A night at the Opera.)

Sean Connery. (Famous for "Bond. James Bond."

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7. I got to meet Jesse Jackson, just me and him, in the kitchen at the Rainbow Coalition house ...

... in Chicago, and ate breakfast with Eric Burdon at the Sheraton in Cleveland with his stage manager and Belkin rep. See Chuck Woolery pretty frequently at the donut shop in town; while he's actually a nice enough guy, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.