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Altman has assembled a dream cast to flesh out his ironic panoply. Besides Tim Robbins, the movie is blessed with the presence of Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Richard E. Grant (in a hilarious virtuoso turn as a writer) and Lyle Lovett (in his film debut...
...course, equanimity comes easier when you're riding a wave of praise like that The Player is provoking. Even jaded actors feel privileged to be part of the film. Cast members Peter Gallagher, Fred Ward, Malcolm McDowell and Whoopi Goldberg saw The Player together at a private screening. After the final credit roll, Gallagher recalls, "we were sitting with our heads down, looking at our feet and just kind of saying, 'It's so cool to be involved with this movie.' " Yet the huzzahs worry Altman a bit -- he remembers that Nashville "got overhyped by the press." And the gush...
...kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near the end of The Player is profoundly pleasurable...
...Quaker's Goldberg and Kim Khourm snatched the fifth and sixth singles against freshmen Agata Passent and Kendra Harris to even up the score...
...Bernstein, 6-0, 6-0; 2. Hyacinthe (P) def. Elmuts (H), 7-6, 6-3; 3. Cooper (H) def. Adelman (P), 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; 4. Parker (H) def. Mos (P), 6-3, 6-1; 5. Khourm (P) def. Passent (H), 6-1, 6-0; 6. Goldberg (P) def. Harris...