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Robert Altman Free read ✓ 0 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 d. A very good book in terms of getting even insight into Altman the man Incidentally or not he was a serious weed smoker but now I know he toked into his old age Pot brownies at the Oscars

Robert Altman Free read ✓ 0 Og tattoo entrepreneur to television director Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with MASH 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 Alt. I have a fondness for episodic backstories when it comes to film biographies I count among my favorites King Cohn by Bob Thomas and The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood by Max Wilk This work has the same feel using interviews from family friends actors actresses and Altman himself to give us a glimpse of his journey

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Robert Altman Free read ✓ 0 Man 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. A very good book written through the many voices of people who lived and worked with Altman The chronological approach works well the portrait that emerges is that of a conflicted man with the temperament of a rascal and the ability to direct actors in a new and generous way The choice of creating a complex multifaceted portrait through many sometimes contradictory points of view is great and does Altman justiceThe many details about Altman s approach to filmmaking are fascinating and will likely be of interest to filmmakers photographers and even writersBEWARE despite its positioning as an oral biography this book is best READ not listened to in the audio version which I did but it was a mistake The book may be based on recorded interviews BUT these interviews are not what you ll hear in most cases you ll hear actors not the original interviewees READING the transcripts of the interviews sometimes with wholly unconvincing British of French accents depending on who is meant to be speaking This creates a very disturbing feeling as you listen on while the grammar is oral the words are clearly read not spoken It s a disaster Presumably retrieving and using the original interviews was not possible but the result is that you should probably READ this book as the experience of listening to it may be as it was for me unnerving