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sfgate.com - 10/18/2009
Excerpts from 'Robert Altman'
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Altman's remarks are among the many surprising and revealing comments that Zuckoff has assembled in his fittingly rambling book - a collection of loosely organized and overlapping voices - yes, just as in an Altman film - that pay tribute to the singular director, who died in 2006. Like the ...
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theauteurs.com - 10/20/2009
The Auteurs Daily: Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
— theauteurs.com — Reading Robert Altman: The Oral Biography , David Thomson , writing in the New Republic , can... see that Mitchell Zuckoff "grasps the way in which Altman was always inclined to make a battleground of his own projects - the earnest but passionate ... The Auteurs Daily: Robert Altman: The Oral Biography

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The Auteurs Daily: Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
The Auteurs Notebook — Reading Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, David Thomson, writing in the New Republic, can see that Mitchell Zuckoff "grasps the way in which Altman was always inclined to make a battleground of his own projects - the earnest but passionate misunderstandings between Altman and Warren Beatty on McCabe & Mrs Miller are so beautifully rendered that we begin to see how the actor's notion of John McCabe and the director's had to be at odds for that film to be so funny and so poignant. This is a smart, amusing, lively book, full of anecdotes and a generous step toward perceiving the ...

Now the World Knows the Story of How Robert Altman Tattooed Harry Truman's Dog
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide — ... Appropriately, reviews of Mitchell Zuckoff's new Robert Altman: The Oral Biography are accruing into an overlapping portrait of the ornery bastard; in times like this, we turn to reviews of new biographies for anecdotes and quotes suitable for bloggy excerpt. It's touching that Shelley Duvall used to call Altman "Pirate", and weedy, boozy testimonials from coconspirators Tim Robbins and Michael Murphy are fun but hardly surprising (neither are their unpleasant, ugly flipsides); and Altman's alluded-to affair with Faye Dunaway has ...

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