Mark Twain (film)
[2] Other voice work was provided by actors Philip Bosco, Carolyn McCormick, Amy Madigan, Cynthia Nixon, and Tim Clark.The film also includes interviews with playwright Arthur Miller,[2] novelist and Twain biographer Ron Powers,[3] writer William Styron,[4] poet Russell Banks,[4] historian John Boyer (executive director of the Mark Twain House),[5] Harvard University professor Jocelyn Chadwick,[6] Stanford University English literature professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory,[4] actor Hal Holbrook,[1] animator and actor Chuck Jones,[4] and Mark Twain scholar Laura Skandera Trombley.[7] Mark Twain Legacy Scholar Barbara Schmidt asserts on her website twainquotes.com that some artistic license was taken, resulting in some historical inaccuracies and misrepresentations.Film critic Caryn James wrote the following in her review in The New York Times: "No writer was ever more sardonic about American culture than Twain, and no filmmaker is more earnest than Ken Burns.Twain is forced into the Burns cookie cutter here, complete with the unironic sound of Sweet Betsy from Pike, fiddled relentlessly in the background.