"I especially love the darker Twain. I'm still working on building up enough of a reputation so people will hire me to do that," he says. "I've got a show called 'Notes on the Damned Human Race,' which is not as funny but it's pure Twain. It's...

On his trek from high school at Tidewater Academy (class of 1990) to college at Longwood University (class of 1994), the former Dinwiddie director of student activities was met with some unique challenges in his life and encountered some life-changing...

He was telling us about this High School Musical thing he did for Disney. We were like, 'Oh, isn't that cute?' Abigail Breslin came on and did a turn as a blind girl and Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet played a funny police officer. Then we've had...

58 years, Hal Holbrook has been bringing his fine-tuned portrayal of Mark Twain to stages all over the world. The 86-year-old actor has logged more than 2,200 performances he's had a longer run playing the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn author than the...

Our Nature" by Steven Pinker "Blood Feud" by Kathleen Sharp "Columbus" by Laurence Bergreen "Confidence Men" by Ron Suskind "Dear Cary" by Dyan Cannon "Deer In The Headlights" by Levi Johnston "Don't Shoot" by David Kennedy "Drama" by John Lithgow "Floor...

That scene when he asks Emile Hirsch's character if he can adopt him still brings a tear to my eye. But long before he was making grown men cry as a movie actor, Holbrook has portrayed Mark Twain on stage in his riveting one-man show, , which he'll be...