Word: altmans
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...play takes ten years and three writers to make it to the stage, you can bet that it shouldn't have made it there at all. But such ominous artistic omens didn't prevent Producing Director Peter Altman of the Huntington Theatre Company from adapting Nobel-prize winning author Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel, The Last Hurrah, into a theatrical event. Speckled with scheming politicos, snooty aristocrats and down-to-earth Irish-American folk, O'Connor's novel, a sweeping panorama of '50s Boston political scene, seemed a perfect recipe for dramatic success, right? Wrong...
...against her. This kid will steal anything--a boyfriend, clothes, jewels--to get to the top. And don't bet against Sugar Town either. It's the kind of movie Robert Altman might make if he ODed on Elavil--a multicharacter comedy about the Los Angeles rock scene. Make that the trashed rock scene. For it's mostly about people who once had it, then lost it, but would like to find it again...
...Directed by Leah Altman '99 Produced by Adam Hickey '99 At the Adams House Pool Theater April...
Easter weekend in the Mississippi town of Holly Springs. Old Cookie Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is fixin' to die--and does--while her niece Camille (Glenn Close) is staging a Salome pageant at the First Presbyterian Church. Complications, of the sort Altman has been perping for decades, ensue. And though Neal, Charles S. Dutton (as Neal's best friend) and Liv Tyler (as the town's wild child) have charm to burn, the film mostly simmers. Like Camille's theatricals, the Anne Rapp script dawdles through predictable Southern Gothic plot twists that a real writer like Beth Henley would...
...year's release. And all that frantic buzz! The worst aspects of Hollywood are collected up there, as in an appendix, inflamed and waiting to burst," he says, quick to add that "that's true of most festivals, not just Sundance." This year the buzz is swarming around Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune," starring Glenn Close, which opens the festival Thursday evening, as well as Allison Anders' new feature, "Sugar Town," in which former Duran Duran member John Taylor portrays a washed-up rock star. No word yet on whether any of the entries involves two guys...