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The Auteurs Daily: Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
theauteurs.com - 10/20/2009
The Auteurs Daily: Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
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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 ...
sfgate.com - 10/18/2009
Excerpts from 'Robert Altman'
— sfgate.com — 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 ... Excerpts from 'Robert Altman'

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The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide:  Now the World Knows the Story of How Robert Altman Tattooed Harry Truman's Dog

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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. ...

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