Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition. said Stephanie A. Altman '90, executive producer of CityStep, "a few others had problems" from drinking too much at the Memorial Hall event...
TANNER '88: THE REALITY CHECK (HBO, debuting Aug. 22, 10 p.m. EDT). Dukakis has won the nomination, but Tanner, TV's alternative candidate, is pondering a third-party run in the final cable installment of Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau's ingenious political satire...
...Peter Sellers movie," jokes one Dukakis supporter. Giddily he pursued his comic notion. "He'd be looking in from the door. Look again, and his head is poking through the window. The staff would order drinks, and he'd be the waiter bringing in the tray of martinis." Roger Altman, investment banker and Dukakis fund raiser, who understands the etiquette of job placement, warns, "Those who are qualified for the senior positions don't have to ask for them...
...only way out of the fact-vs.-fiction morass may be satire, and that is why Tanner '88 is a unique pleasure. The twice-monthly HBO series, directed by Robert Altman and written by Garry Trudeau, follows the campaign of one Jack Tanner, a fictional presidential candidate played by Michael Murphy. He has stumped on location in New Hampshire, spoken at fund raisers and debated strategy with campaign aides, exactly paralleling -- and sometimes commenting on -- the actual presidential race...
Tanner '88 has had fun trying to confuse the line between the real and the bogus: Tanner has crossed paths on the campaign trail, for instance, with | legitimate candidates like Bob Dole and Pat Robertson. But Altman and Trudeau have gone beyond such gimmicks and turned their parallel world into a sly fun- house mirror. The show skewers a host of familiar political types, from the tough-as-nails campaign manager (Pamela Reed), who fends off late-night calls from Joe Kennedy Jr., to the overzealous staff cameraman, who dogs Tanner's every step with his whirring minicam. The candidate...