Scatter Brained

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helped establish the original Players’ Club (the one for people 
in the arts, not the one for polyamorous pimp daddies).
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Incidentally, Edwin’s father, Junius Booth, was one of the most 
famous actors of his generation as well. After Junius died, 
Walt Whitman wrote, “Th
  ere went the most noble Roman of 
them  all.”  But  Walt  didn’t  have  to  live  with  Junius,  who  was 
(like many noble Romans) a mean drunk. His sons bore much 
of their father’s alcoholic wrath, and Edwin drank, too. And 
while Edwin’s brother, John, did  abstain from booze, he wasn’t 
exactly a saint. Less talented than either his father or brother, 
John found a way to be famous nonetheless—John, of course, 
murdered Abraham Lincoln on Good Friday, 1865. Speaking of 
dead  presidents . . .

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