Robert Altman: The Oral Biography

By Mitchell Zuckoff

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307387917
• ISBN13: 9780307387912
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"