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...bring the cast together. He put objects in drawers that would never be opened to heighten the actors' sense of authenticity. He has used a similar care in the choice of his actors: many of those in 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...
...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...
...getaway sequences, but Altman concentrates on portraying the glowering emptiness that daily confronts the robbers. He is especially good at rendering the sort of foggy existential desperation that surrounds his characters and lies at the core of the doomed affair between Bowie and a rather vacant girl called Keechie (Shelley Duvall...
...Think of Shelley, who died by drowning and whose heart was snatched from the funeral pyre by his fellow romantic, Trelawney. Or of Dylan Thomas, a sacrificial votary of drink (Olympian draughts, of course). Since the winter day in 1963 when Sylvia Plath turned on the gas and laid her head in her kitchen oven, she has become a goddess of the thanatophiliacs...
...Richard Kimball, a disc jockey for radio station KMET, is trying to correct that by broadcasting "streaker alerts" for Angelenos; when a racing nudist is spotted, listeners phone in their reports. Why do streakers streak? "By being unashamed of his body, a streaker can be unashamed of himself," says Shelley Duval, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. But if an arrest occurs, "the guilt over nudity returns...