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...Williams -- and it seemed only to certify his career death. During the '80s Altman lived mainly in Paris, returning to the States to direct small movies (Streamers, Beyond Therapy) that did little to rekindle the passion of his erstwhile devotees. Not many people saw Tanner '88, Altman and Garry Trudeau's highly original cinema verite series for HBO about the 1988 presidential campaign, but it did get the cultural mandarins buzzing positively again...
...Player is both very good and a quintessential Altman movie -- meaning smart, hip, satirical, charming, ironic but not callow, rich with telling offhand incident. "What's unique about The Player," says Trudeau, "is that he brings all this signature observational detail to a picture that Hollywood completely understands. In many ways it's a very traditional Hollywood movie, but he's given up nothing. That's why people are so astonished." It is, in a word, crypto-conventional, self-consciously including all the obligatory elements of commercial moviemaking -- stars, violence, unclothed women, lockstep plotting -- but messing with them. The really...
...film's clean, hard edge and people-playing-themselves verisimilitude come, Altman says, from his collaboration with Trudeau. Without Tanner, Altman says, "I don't think I could have made this film." It probably also helped that he stopped drinking, though Altman bridles at the suggestion. "I stopped drinking for health reasons. I've never jeopardized anything by either the drinking or the gambling" -- he plays poker, backgammon and the horses -- "or the pot smoking. I do smoke pot. I sit on the front porch like a grandpa and try to enjoy the weather...
English Canadians feel they have taken the role of the masochist in a bad marriage, making concessions in the vain hope of peace. The most irritating concession they went along with was the policy of bilingualism, established by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the '60s and '70s. Pols and bureaucrats were required to learn both tongues, and it was hoped that over time their fluency would trickle down. Quebec paid no attention, enacting a series of French-only laws. For the first time, English Canadians began to wish that Quebec would clear...
...GARRY TRUDEAU brilliantly sums up this depressing state of affairs in the "Doonesbury" episode in which a man asks if singers are tired of having their reputations tarnished by suggestions of having affairs with politicians...