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Hunt said "The Room" is just one in a series of Pinter plays that will be produced for prime-time televison and directed by Robert Altman "for NBC or ABC, I can't keep them straight...
Hunt said Altman was interesting to work with because he allowed his actors freedom. "Bob is best at just making room for you to play, to do whatever," she said. "It's like entering a playpen with...
Even Aaron Altman, the hapless network correspondent in Broadcast News, could not have imagined a worse nightmare than the one that befell CBS on Sept. 11. The news division had already weathered a truly awful year of layoffs, dissension and drooping ratings. Then, on that memorable Friday, network technicians switched to a studio in Miami for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, only to find an anchor chair without Dan Rather. He had left the set minutes before, miffed that coverage of a U.S. Open tennis match was running over. The result was an unprecedented six minutes of empty...
...other competitors cannot match -- CBS's news prowess. "We just can't think of every program in terms of dollars and cents," says Tisch. "Hit programs come and go, but CBS News is an institution that I hope is going to be here for the next 100 years." Aaron Altman -- or Edward R. Murrow -- could hardly quarrel with that...
...movie star, though, Williams was on Call Waiting for the worse part of this decade. Fresh from Mork & Mindy, he starred in Robert Altman's Popeye. "It was a painful experience," he recalls. "We were on location for six months, the weather was awful, we were running out of money, and the sets were underwater. It was Apocalypse Now in Malta." Subsequent films were a little like Stardom When? The World According to Garp domesticated John Irving's novel and neutered Williams' wild talent. The Survivors set him up as the butt of a gun-crazy satire. Moscow...