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Directed by Robert Altman...
Screenplay by Robert Altman and Allan Nicholls...
Call it a bran-new genre of film making or the wheat germ of an idea by innovative Director Robert Altman. Filming in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., is Altman's Health, all about a leadership power struggle at a national health-food promotion convention between a vigorous virgin of 83 and a younger opponent. Lauren Bacall, of all sexies, is the maiden, and Glenda Jackson her antagonist; Carol Burnett gets involved as a White House aide dispatched to the convention mainly to get her out of Washington. On the set, there is no concern about life enervating art. Altman...
CRIMSON: What do you think of Robert Altman...
DEWITT: Hey, there's no definitive nothing. Nowhere. I like Kubrick, and he's a cold bastard. I dig Antonioni. They use actors, but they're more concerned with exploring the boundaries of the medium. That's cool. Altman's films are sloppy, but so is true art. Your mother...