Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his kitchen-knife physique, sour face and a hairdo resembling a road-kill toupee, Lyle Lovett looks like a serial killer in Southern Baptist preacher's garb. That must be what inspired Robert Altman to cast the singer as a spooky detective in The Player. Anatomy is destiny in modern show biz, so it doesn't hurt Lovett that he looks like his songs. He could be a death-row denizen musing about the ends of life and love...
...fests past, Hollywood on the Mediterranean soon turned into a Basic Bore. Jurors opted for predictable choices. The Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor, went to the Ingmar Bergman-scripted Best Intentions, an elegiac love story produced for Swedish television. Other top awards went to director Robert Altman for his wry Hollywood basher The Player and to actor Tim Robbins for his deft portrayal of an unctuous studio head in that film...
...Robbins captured Hollywood as a baby mogul in Robert Altman's The Player. Now he's skewering politics with Bob Roberts. Possible next role: CEO, the selfless keeper of the bottom line...
Like any hotly contested issue, Chapter 11 has its share of champions. "On balance, Chapter 11 has been positive for the economy," says Edward Altman, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. "It conserves the assets and values of firms that have temporary problems but can be rehabilitated." Altman and doctoral student Edith Hotchkiss conducted a study that found that at least half the 1,096 firms entering Chapter 11 between 1979 and 1991 emerged successfully and have managed to stay out. That study focused exclusively on publicly held companies in Chapter...
Ultimately, the Player belongs to Altman. The touch of the master who made McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, M*A*S*H and last year's Vincent and Theo is felt everywhere. Altman delivers a film so packed with ironies and bitterly funny gags that our heads are reeling when we leave the theater. One can only wonder what sort of impact the movie is causing in Hollywood. The greatest irony is that The player is exactly the kind of incredible film that a producer like Griffin Mill would try to stifle...