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COVER STORY
Robert Altman
Kurt Andersen talks to movie director Robert Altman
about art that challenges the audience.
  Mark
Lombardi
Artist Mark Lombardi was obsessed with political intrigues
at the highest levels, and he wrote out over 14,000 index cards to keep
track of his research. Then he created elegant drawings that seem to diagram
his obsessions. The drawings look straightforward and literal, but they
are nearly impossible to follow. Produced by Ilya Marritz.
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 Descent
Many performances have been created for unusual
locations, and choreographer Noemie LaFrance has found one of the least
likely. She created her dance "Descent" to take place in the
dingy, faded grandeur of a city court building in Lower Manhattan. While
the dancers wrap and sway around a 250 foot stairwell, the audience peers
over the railing and makes twelve-story trek down, through, and around
the dancers. Produced by Sarah Lilley.
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 Drama
King
Ask director Robert Altman who his greatest
influence is, and the answer may surprise you. Altman tells Studio 360
that he wouldn't be making pictures if it wasn't for the legendary radio
dramatist Norman Corwin, whose poetic plays and documentaries transfixed
listeners. Working for CBS Radio, Corwin created a new play, from scratch,
every week, starring actors like Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart, and Charles
Laughton. Corwin's collaborator and friend Mary Beth Kirchner created
this portrait for Studio 360.
Listen to Norman Corwin's "On a Note of Triumph," broadcast
May 8, 1945
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GUEST
Robert Altman
Robert Altman is one of the most respected directors
in American film. A maverick who came to prominence in the 1970s, Altman's
films combine an intense scrutiny of American society with a documentary
sense of detail and place. Altman tells Studio 360 that his filmmaking
style throws out a deliberate challenge to the audience, and he expects
viewers to see his films more than once to really understand them. His
features include Nashville, M*A*S*H, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Popeye, Come
Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Short Cuts, Dr. T &
The Women, and Gosford Park. His new film, The Company, about the Joffrey
Ballet, was released on December 25. It stars Neve Campbell. Altman has
also directed numerous stage plays and television programs, including
Bonanza and Combat!
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Surrender
Karaoke lets would-be show people
feel like part of the music, their amateur voices blending with professional
music. Singers even have the lyrics displayed on a monitor. Sound artist
Jessica McInroy reversed the process: she brought regular people into
a recording studio to belt out a number they thought they knew –
a classic slice of ‘70s rock by Cheap Trick. But she didn’t
give them lyrics, and she also skipped the backing track, to create
this personal tribute to a pop hit.
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