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...record. A Broadway album is, after all, a portable archive of good music. And original- cast producers are ingenious curators. "On the Crazy for You album you're hearing a bed of strings that is three to four times as large as in the show," says Thomas Z. Shepard, an independent producer with more than 60 original cast albums to his credit. Shepard's tour de force is the 7 1/2-min. I Got Rhythm, a furious fugue of corrugated tin, metal plates, pickaxes and flying feet. The song took Shepard a whole day to record -- as long as many entire...
...effect, they put Levoi in touch with his Indian heritage. And with the truth about the murder he is there to investigate. It turns out to be similar to the situation projected in the documentary: there is an attempt to frame AIM members, with Levoi's FBI boss (Sam Shepard) both faking and ignoring evidence in order to get a quick conviction...
...certain Hollywood big shots is also something to behold. Earlier this year, when The Player was being shown to prospective distributors, Altman got in a public spat with two top studio executives over what he considered their disrespectful attitude. Ask Altman innocently about his 1985 movie that Sam Shepard wrote and starred in, and he cannot stop himself. "Fool for Love . . . I mean, I can't abide Sam Shepard." As an actor? "As a person. I just had it up to here with him. But I think that's a really good film -- a really good film...
Still, better to be accused of being a sellout than a has-been. And while Altman gleefully nurses some particular grudges -- against certain producers, certain executives, certain critics, Sam Shepard -- he seems free of general bitterness. Sure, he feels a little gypped out of M*A*S*H money ("I never got paid anything ((from the TV series)) -- anything"), but for all his visceral mistrust of Hollywood, he doesn't seem sour about his decade of reputation shrinkage and quasi-exile. After all, every few years he has been lucky enough to turn out something great. So what...
Learning From Performers, Acting and Movement Workshop--by Judith Jackson, playwright and performance artist. Cabot House, Bertram Living Room, 53 Shepard...