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...Thieves are non-professionals. These include the producer's wife, and star Shelley Duvall, who plays Bowie's girlfriend Keechie. Duvall is a gentle-looking woman with large eyes, large teeth and a peculiar beauty in her homeliness. Altman met her at a party in Houston while shooting Brewster McCloud and cast her in the film. She has never had any professional training, but it was not the simple story it appears at first glance. "We worked with her a long time and shot a lot of film on it before putting her in Brewster. And then she worked...
...tried and true formula. Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch. The good guys come in wondrous array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Lawyer Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets of San Francisco, Faraday and Company, McMillan & Wife), and in precision-movement teams (Chase, Hawaii Five...
Denver has no such worries today. His last four LPs have been million-dollar sellers. Within the past year he has made six specials for BBC, lined up guest-acting stints in the U.S. on both the Owen Marshall and McCloud series, and has two specials in the works for ABC. Last week he taped a Bob Hope special for November airing...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Robert Altman (M.A.S.H., Brewster McCloud, Images, The Long Goodbye) directs this gruff hearted Western story and turns the tables on who's who as hero--this time it is a tough talking opium smoking prostitute (Julie Christie) who has a business sense shrewd enough to muddle the head of the small time gambler (Warren Beatty) by teasing the needs of his gullible ego. Altman has done something radical with the use of sound--the voices mingle indiscernibly to effect a new sort of realism. Brattle Theatre...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Robert Altman (M.A.S.H., Brewster McCloud, Images, The Long Goodbye) directs this gruff hearted Western story and turns the tables on who's who as hero--this time it is a tough talking opium smoking prostitute (Julie Andrews) who has a business sense shrewd enough to muddle the head of the small time gambler (Warren Beatty) by teasing the needs of his gullible ego. Altman has done something radical with the use of sound--the voices mingle indiscernibly to effect a new sort of realism. Brattle Theatre...