Robert Altman

The Other America: Revisiting Lawrence Kasdan’s Grand Canyon

Cher Was Almost a Transsexual!

​In a play! In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But Cher didn't want to go there.

The Company Men Takes Pity on the Emasculated Exec

​In a play! In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But Cher didn't want to go there.

Robert Altman On a Roll with 'Brewster McCloud'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

Secret Honor

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

The Rules of the Game

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

Daryl Glenn & Jo Lynn Burks

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

Short Cuts, the Proto-Crash, at Walter Reade Tonight

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

Night Moves: The Pleasures of Monday Night Football

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

Sex and the City: Full-Frontal Self-Parody

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

Tropic Thunder: Jewface for Suckers?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

The Grand: Worth the Gamble

Forget the mockumentary's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

The Goulden Age

Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

Where is Jamie Foxx?

Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

'Room 314'

Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

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Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

A Critics' Duet on 'Nashville'

From the 'Voice' archives: Remembering Robert Altman through the words of Voice critics past

Robert Altman—A Short Cut

'He never just told the story'

All That and More: Robert Altman, Dead at 81

Farewell to the genius of texture

Territorial Imperatives

A party band fluent whether the language is Count Basie, Don Cherry, or 'Darling Nikki'

The Long Goodbye

Keillor and Altman team up for an elegiac backstage musical

Rack Focus

Keillor and Altman team up for an elegiac backstage musical

Keep A-Goin'

Unpopulist songwriters in heaven and here orbit a bygone Nashville through the sterile static

Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

Unpopulist songwriters in heaven and here orbit a bygone Nashville through the sterile static

What's Stranger Than Paradise?

Or, How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the 'Burbs

Books

Or, How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the 'Burbs

Monsters' Ball

'Fight Club' author goes inside a gothic writers' workshop

Varsity Blues: Gridiron Drama Comes Up a Few Yards Short

'Fight Club' author goes inside a gothic writers' workshop

My Fake Candidate

Robert Altman and Cynthia Nixon talk about Tanner

Events for Dissent

From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC

Horse platitudes: Rings king Viggo returns in colonial epic

From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC

Remembrance of Wacky Political Conventions Past

From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC

Tough Guys Shouldn't Dance: Altman Ballet Sprains Ankle

From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC

Jump Cuts

A dance critic's take on The Company

Mash Notes

A dance critic's take on The Company

Collision Courses

A dance critic's take on The Company

Up the Academy

A dance critic's take on The Company

Replacement Party Tonight!

A dance critic's take on The Company

Operation Infinite Justice

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

Rite What You Know

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

To the Manor Born

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

Flip-Side Stories

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

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A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

Nation

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

Dolorous Haze

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

It's All Relative

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

Your Shows of Shows

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

Spring Fever

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

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On the Academy Awards, I loved the quick cut to Warren and Annette after Whoopi's crack about older men and younger women.