Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie director said he did not have any plans to do anything on Broadway, but he will be making a "musical in Hollywood"called "At Long Last Love" with Shepherd, Burt Reynolds and Cloris Leachman...
Altman is something of a maverick among Hollywood directors. Since his first widespread recognition with M*A*S*H, he has found himself too often making movies which threaten to have to wait ten or twenty years for recognition because of ineffectual studio backing. When I talked to him earlier this week he was at his office at "Lionsgate Productions," a studio he started simply "to make my own films, in my own little studio." He is determined "to keep away from the atmosphere of studios and keep the people I work with away from them. Because all that stuff...
...thing about Hollywood, in Altman's view, is that it can only sell films according to category. And most of his films, from McCabe's special version of the Western to The Long Goodbye's innovations in the Chandler tradition, seek to break out of or enlarge genres. Thieves, with all its similarities to Bonnie and Clyde--robbers enjoying their descriptions in the papers, the shoot out at the motor court--cuts a new trail as well. Altman hopes it will do better when he takes it to the Cannes Festival, where M*A*S*H was a grand prize...
...Altman says, he much prefers the professional actor or actress if available. Rarely have Hollywood or the acting schools appreciated someone of Shelley Duvall's gentle, engaging plainness and authenticity. And yet a more conventional star, Julie Christie, whom Altman used to brilliant advantage in McCabe, would normally be beyond the budgets he now has to work with. In planning his latest feature, Nashville, to be shot beginning in July, Altman recognized that one of the parts "is really...
MOST HOPEFUL SIGN: The cinematography prize for Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's great cameraman. Hollywood can occasionally recognize production merit that is not ingrown...