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...half-assed singer, so the mistakes were ok,” Streep says at a press conference at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, hours before receiving the Coolidge award. “That’s how I rationalized it, anyway.” According to Altman, those off-key imperfections color the film: “I was looking for mistakes to improve the script,” he explains. The climax of a month-long Streep celebration, Streep joined fellow actors John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline, and director Robert Altman after a preview screening...
This spring Lily Tomlin appears in the 25th anniversary DVD of Nine to Five, the West Wing finale and Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion...
...Meryl Streep seemed to enjoy giving Altman his Oscar. All we wanted to do was not humiliate ourselves. And to make Bob laugh. My partner, Jane, wrote most of that text...
...Lindsay Lohan fit in with you and Meryl on the Prairie Home Companion set? Meryl mothered her. If she came late, Meryl told her, "This is Bob Altman. You have to give him the respect he deserves." When Meryl and I would walk to the set, there would be teenagers prostrate on the sidewalk chanting "Lindsay! Lindsay!" We would have to kick them to the side. I'd point to Meryl and say, "Do you know who this...
...brethren were hand-crafting films, had begun to forge a distinctive adult American cinema. Few thought in terms of box office megamillions. The idea was to earn enough to entice someone into financing your next picture. (Jean-Luc Godard had done this successfully in France in the 60s; Robert Altman adopted that model for his pioneering 70s works.) Most films by the most gifted Americans were present-day dramas that picked at some social scab until, in the last reel, it burst...