Critic's notebook
The real world of Robert Altman
His films showed how everyday people behaved
The cliche was that Robert Altman was a maverick, swimming upstream against Hollywood's usual way of doing business. And the filmmaker was happy to live up to that image, inasmuch as he cared at all about public perception, industry reputation -- anything other than the movies. (Full article: 1004 words)
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