Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0307387917
- ISBN-13
- 9780307387912
- Series
- Robert Altman
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 578
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-12-07
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- MItchell Zuckoff
Description
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking oral biography. After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog tattoo entrepreneur to television director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with M*A*S*H. He reinvented American filmmaking, and went on to produce such masterpieces as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park. In Robert Altman, Mitchell Zuckoff has woven together Altman’s final interviews; an incredible cast of voices including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Paul Newman, among scores of others; and contemporary reviews and news accounts into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life.
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