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Review: "Robert Altman - The Oral Biography"
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Nov 9, 2009, 9:53:49 AM11/9/09
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(NY Times) - It takes more than 150 pages for Mitchell Zuckoff�s oral
biography of Robert Altman (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/Altman ) to get
to �M*A*S*H,� the 1970 movie that transformed its director from a
workaday toiler into a one-man film movement, gave us the adjective
�Altmanesque� and jump-started a career that would encompass 36 more
years and 31 more movies � follies, comebacks, muddles and
masterworks. In almost any other account of a Hollywood life, such
delayed gratification would seem unconscionable. But the long windup
to Altman�s arrival proves essential to understanding the filmmaker he
became...
biography of Robert Altman (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/Altman ) to get
to �M*A*S*H,� the 1970 movie that transformed its director from a
workaday toiler into a one-man film movement, gave us the adjective
�Altmanesque� and jump-started a career that would encompass 36 more
years and 31 more movies � follies, comebacks, muddles and
masterworks. In almost any other account of a Hollywood life, such
delayed gratification would seem unconscionable. But the long windup
to Altman�s arrival proves essential to understanding the filmmaker he
became...
Continued: http://xrl.us/AltmanReview
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