Hal Holbrook

The fourth story, The Crate, involves a mysterious creature hidden beneath the steps of a college.

Hal Holbrook plays a professor who sees the creature as a solution to his marital woes with his overbearing wife, played by Adrienne Barbeau.

This segment is a masterclass in suspense and dark humour, with Barbeau delivering a delightfully wicked performance.

The final tale, They're Creeping Up On You, features E.G. Marshall as a germophobic businessman who finds himself overrun by cockroaches.

See, the difference is my story is your story.

My story is about what you need to know so that when the narrative junkies, when Hal Holbrook walks out on stage, what? He's an actor.

I think he's very old if he hasn't passed already.

Played the storyteller on Our Town.

Come on, Joe, talk rent.

Okay, rent is sort of like Our Town, only not.

But like Hal Holbrook, I walk out here and our friends in the press want out and they want to tell you what's going on on stage, even if you're watching it.

That's what we should do, a modern version of our town.

Twain.

Yeah, Mark Twain.

Yeah,

Mark Twain.

Yes, Hal Needham did Do Rad and a whole bunch of other really good movies.

Very

quickly.

Hal Holbrook.

...

Hal Holbrook, Brian Dennehy, Wendell Pierce, and I've seen very different productions of the same words.

The last production I saw on Broadway before this, my friend Wendell Pierce did the first Loman Black family, and it was very different than the Jewish family that Arthur Miller was writing about in 1949.

And so anyway, what I now think is I am so open to whatever the interpretation is, and I have stopped thinking.

And you know what is so incredible about the book is how you discovered how each one of us came together and all of the surrounding circumstances about the first auditions, the first interviews, and the first rejections.

I had no idea that Hal Holbrook had been hired.

I meant to apologize to him.

Right.

I don't know if you guys mentioned movies like Deranged and Death Dream over the last few shows.

and over on Everything Went Black and stuff, uh, maybe think of that Hal Holbrook movie, um, Rituals, uh, about the doctors that go camping, it's kind of a good backwards, like, you know, horror film, you know, camping, you know, unseen, uh, perpetrators and stuff like that, definitely worth checking out, just wondering what you guys thought about that, and, uh, I also wanted to say, Mike, very cool to be able to hang out with you for a bit, man, and shoot the shit.

It was a good time.

Tombs, kicked ass.

But yeah, it was good to

hang with Tavis.

I got this really cool hoodie that he gifted me, as well as the Carl Edward Wagner... um why not you and i uh novel uh collection of short stories which i transferred that over to carl because i already had a copy of that but thanks and yeah dude hal holbrook rituals that's a i've seen it i have actually i own a copy of that on dvd

really i yeah this one escapes me i don't think i've I don't think I've seen this.

One of the very few movies to make me cry.

Seeing Hal Holbrook cry absolutely got me.

Precious.

It's so devastating because you know that right now there's someone on Earth living that kind of life.

Oh

... married to the actor Hal Holbrook for many, many years.

Oh, okay.

I thought there were multiple Dixies in that show.

"Hey, there's a rumor that-

"It didn't happen"

... uh, Richard Gere had a..." For those of you not old enough to remember, Richard Gere, who's an actor, uh, in the '80s, like in the '80s-

Yeah