Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PLAYER Directed by Robert Altman; Screenplay by Michael Tolkin...
...executive will go to A.A. meetings not because he is an alcoholic but because "that's where all the deals are being made." Michael Tolkin's script abounds in such cynical wisdom, but it never loses an appreciation for the grace with which these snakes consume their victims. Robert Altman, whom Hollywood has both favored (in his M*A*S*H days) and dismissed (over the past decade), directs the bright carnage with an assurance that only a hard-hided survivor can provide. He is like St. Sebastian, plucking the arrows from his body and flinging them back, like gentle...
...speculate on whether Altman's movie will be a hit is to surrender to the players' game: to judge a film's success by its grosses. It is this fascination with the B.O. bull's-eye that strikes timidity in so many directors. In every frame of their work you can smell the fear of failure, the anxiety of losing for even a moment the rooting interest of the moviegoing...
Guitarist and vocalist Dylan Altman and Guitarist Jehu Goder--blues concert Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boylston St., Boston. Friday, March 6, 4 p.m. Free...
...means an industrial policy." Tsongas traces his affinity for government involvement in the private sector to the 1979 Chrysler bailout. He applauds his own leadership on the issue, but the driving force was really Senator Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican. "Tsongas was important to show bipartisan support," says Roger Altman, the former Assistant Treasury Secretary in charge of the Carter Administration's effort to save Chrysler. "But it was Lugar who really made the deal fly by insisting on some fairly impressive union givebacks and other concessions...