PASADENA, Calif. -- Mark Twain once said, "I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead, and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier."
Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns -- the guy behind such documentary epics as The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz -- has attempted to craft an honest portrait of Twain, the 19th century American wit who penned such classics as Tom Sawyer and The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.
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