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...what I yam," shrugs Popeye the Sailor, which may be easy for him to say. But just try being Popeye for a while, as Robin Williams did while making a Robert Altman film about the old gob, set for release in December. Not only did the actor have to master a vocabulary of malapropisms far more complex than the nano-nanos of Mork from Ork. He had to cavort under the fierce Malta sun, wearing thick rubber arm pads to simulate the cartoon sailor's anvil forearms. He had to squint perpetually out of his left eye, speak...
...additional footage. Still, Coppola and Lucas are hardly the only directors to have joined the emerging slice-and-splice school: Stanley Kubrick cut 19 minutes from 2001: A Space Odyssey a week after its release in 1968, and three minutes from The Shining after its opening this May. Robert Altman planned an eight-hour Nashville saga for ABC, and Martin Scorsese hoped to restore many of the sequences cut from New York, New York for telecast on NBC; so far, neither dream has been fulfilled. Bernardo Bertolucci is a compulsive tinkerer. After the release of Last Tango in Paris, Critic...
...lacerating black comedy about Army surgeons in the Korean War by Robert Altman...
Nashville (1975). In this style-setting comedy, Robert Altman captures the good times, cultural confusions and tragedies of contemporary America...
...Lured from Broadway to Hollywood in 1928, he directed Tom Sawyer, Of Human Bondage and Algiers. A founder of the Screen Directors' Guild, Cromwell was hounded out of Hollywood in the early '50s for his pro-labor leanings. Last year he reappeared on the screen in Robert Altman's A Wedding...