Article: Magnificent impersonator: Whitmore's likeness to his big men.(Saturday)

It's not far off to compare the lined, jowly face of James Whitmore to Mount Rushmore. He has played rock-solid Americans such as Will Rogers, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and, at Ford's Theatre until March 10, the crusty Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Mr. Whitmore might not dig the big-cliff comparison, though. After all, he bounds about the stage in "The Magnificent Yankee," hardly suggesting a stationary crag in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The 74-year-old actor's Justice Holmes is bombastic, quivering from the tips of his long handlebar mustache all the way down to his bouncing, stamping feet.

"It's all over town!" his Holmes hollers ...

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