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...Store Santas have their own problems. As Debbie Bennett of Western Temporaries put it, "The work is hard.... Children are apt to pull his beard or heckle him.... They might take a fit or wet on Santa." Many suffer and sweat inside the heavy suit and padding--the B. Altman's Santa lamented going through "numerous T-shirts" and stinking all the way home to Long IsLand. A women once brought her chihuahua to be photographed with the Jordan Marsh Santa. "It was terrible," he said. 'To get that picture it took close to twenty minutes. All that...
...first thing that strikes you about Robert Altman are his eyes--vivid blue sapphires set deep in a large, slightly ruddy face. Altman looks different in person than he does in photographs; the face is less mephistophelian and more delicate--gentle, almost vulnerable. "I don't have anything to say," he begins, "but I'll answer any questions." His voice is higher than one would expect, viscous and slighly drawly, the vocal equivalent of the corn syrup produced in his native Kansas. For over an hour Altman answers questions from the 30-odd reporters sitting in front...
...Institute of Contemporary Art continues its retrospective series on Robert Altman this week, showing two of his lesser-known films--California Split and Thieves Like Us.Small businessman WARREN BEATTY and his partner, JULIE CHRISTIE, plan great things for the town of Presbyterian Church, in this scene from "McCabe and Mrs. Miller...
...those who missed Robert Altman's ICA presentation/disintegration last week, tough luck--it was almost worth the $4.50. Actually, Altman was delightful at his press conference in the afternoon, (SEE SCRUTINY, page one) but appeared flustered by a) the technical problems (the projector belt broke) and b) the obnoxious boneheads in the audience, who asked every conceivable sort of stupid question. ("I'm Joe Blow from B.U., and I'm getting my M.F.A. in theater this year, and I want to know if you'll be needing any apprentices..." Altman: "I won't be needing...
...Wedding. Robert Altman's long-awaited black comedy is an annoyingly shallow disappointment, but it's not, as you might expect, all bad. The company began with Nashville's loose, polyphonic structure, and crammed 48 characters into it, without, it seems, thinking much about who all those people were, and why we needed to meet them. You get the feeling that the improvisatory style which worked so well in Nashville just never got off the ground this time. The characters are awkward stereotypes, and the little vignettes are often cruel and crude. But the film gets better as it goes...