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The House Next Door: Link for the Day (October 27th, 2009): Something Printable
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@aschenker Here, in his review of the recent Altman bio: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-book22-2009oct22,0,2690542.story 10 hours ago |
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@Glinner Reviewer of Altman’s biography writes http://bit.ly/1J2AI9:”They wander about fecklessly, striking solipsistic,..poses” 5 days ago |
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Anyone for a bit of at-once shameless and utterly puzzling character assassination? http://bit.ly/1J2AI9 (link via @JamesUrbaniak) 17 days ago |
Link for the Day (October 27th, 2009): Something Printable
The House Next Door —
... Today's link (hattip N.P. Thompson) takes us to Richard Schickel's LA Times review of the new book, Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, which he finds as lacking as its subject's oeuvre. An excerpt: ...
Altman Forever
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Altman Forever Responding to a fierce putdown of the late Robert Altman by Time 's Richard Schickel in a review of Mitchell Zuckoff 's ...
Richard Schickel Takes On Robert Altman
The Moviezzz Blog —
In an L.A. Times review of the new Robert Altman biography, Richard Schickel went on an attack on Altman and his films. He writes of Altman: "When he was not drinking heavily, he was smoking dope -- often doing both simultaneously" He writes of the author Mitchel Zuckoff, "Zuckoff basically knows nothing about filmmaking and film history" So, it wasn't a positive review. The L.A. Times Hollywood blog has a story on it, and Alan Rudolph's response. I was never the biggest Altman fan. For a "great" director, he made ...
How to diss the dead.
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... notes actor Michael Murphy's anecdote about how "Bob would make the best bloody mary I've ever tasted. Then he would stand up and make a speech, pretty much the same speech every night... 'No one in this room knows what this movie is about except me.' " Reviews have been generally respectful, with exception of a blind haymaker from veteran film writer Richard Schickel at the LA Times , who spends, oh, about a paragraph of his 939-word review actually talking about the book before rambling off about how terrible Altman's movies are, and what a jerk he was to so little end. ...
Reviewing Altman
scanners —
... Richard Schickel wrote a book review of Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff. Except that, rather than review the book, he chose to review Robert Altman's capacity for drinking and dope-smoking: ...
How many Schickels is an Altman worth?
Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog —
... Schickel, however, is clearly not big enough to do that, as he proved in writing this anti-Robert Altman screed disguised as a book review for the Los Angeles Times. You can read ...
BUFFALO BOB AND THE INFIDEL: ALTMAN'S LEGACY vs. SCHICKEL'S POISON PEN
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule —
... Of course among the boisterous cacophony of praise not only for Zuckoff’s book but for Altman’s films and his standing as a great film director one must necessarily make room for opposing views. To Zuckoff, and probably to Harris, Richard Schickel would like to say, “Says you!” Or something like that. Schickel’s nasty and derisive review of the book published in the Los Angeles Times on October 22 surprised Altman fans and just about anyone else interested in good criticism, not because he dared to dislike a book which everyone else seemed to hold in high regard, ...
Friday the Thirteenth, is It?
The Listening Ear —
... have been a ton in the past week or so - I should have plenty... the high point for film writing is probably David Cairn's Vertigo post from last week - actually the culmination of a series of posts on Vertigo, itself the high point of his ongoing Hitchcock series. He's already on to North by Northwest... I would hope everyone is already following along... Dennis Cozzalo is the latest to take issue with Richard Schickel's attack on Robert Altman. I've commented on a couple of the earlier remarks - at Scanners, and at ...
Robert Altman: An Annotated Webliography
Shooting Down Pictures —
... solipsistic, but rarely authentically rebellious, poses and almost never getting into dramatically gripping conflicts.
The portrait of Altman that emerges in this book is of a permissive man — especially with himself. Addled by his addictions, a habitual gambler, disastrously careless with money and with intimate relations, he left us feeling we were trapped in someone else’s not-very-interesting drug haze.
- Richard Schickel, The Los Angeles Times, October 22 2009 ...
