num_pages: 560
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 &amp; 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.
language: English
title: Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf