Altman
- TV-PG
- Year:
- 2014
- 96 min
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Let's begin again
Let's start over from the start
Let's forget the time that
Everywhere we've been again
Let's begin
Again
Let's begin again
Pay attention to the way we feel inside
Let's give love a spin again
Let's begin
Again
I equate films with sandcastles.
You get a bunch of mates
and you go down and say,
oh, let's build this great sandcastle.
And you build it.
And if the tide comes in in 20
minutes it's just smooth sand
and that structure you made
is in everybody's memory
and that's it.
What does it mean?
Fearless.
I grew up in Kansas City.
When I was 18 I became a ier
and I went overseas to the South Pacific.
and I wrote a letter
to a cousin of mine who was a
woman who I didn't know really,
but she was the secretary
to Myron Selznick.
Who was one of the big agents,
David Selznick's brother.
And I'd written her this kind of funny,
cute letter and she wrote
me back and she said,
oh, Bobby, you wrote such a nice letter
you should be... you're a writer.
And I thought, well, yeah,
that's what I'll do.
When I got out of the air force
my dad was living in California.
Malibu, up in the hills.
And so I move into my father's house.
had the downstairs apartment.
I told him, I said, I'm a writer,
and he said, oh I'm gonna be a director.
We should do something together.
So we wrote a story and we sold it to RKO.
They wouldn't let me write the screenplay.
I said well can I come and
watch the film being made?
No.
So I decided I'd be a playwright.
I wrote a play.
And I got in a car and I
was driving to New York
and I stopped in Kansas
City, which is my hometown.
And I ran in to a guy I had
known slightly in a bar
and he said what are you doing?
I said well I'm a film... film writer.
I'm writing screenplays
and I lied quite a bit.
I said I'm on my way to New York.
I'm doing my [ay-
What are you doing?
And he said I'm directing movies.
I said where?
He said well there's this place
here called the Calvin Company.
It's an industrial film place.
So I went over and I was introduced
and lied about what I had done
some more and they hired me.
Morning, Mr. Jones.
Morning Charlie.
You want me to fill 'er up today?
Yeah, and one more thing,
I'm in kind of a hurry
but I'd like to get an oil
change and a lube job.
My film school was working
in this industrial films.
I mean, I had to shoot, edit the films.
I learned all the tools.
When I was at the Calvin Company
a guy who's father owned a bunch of...
the mid-west, in Roden,
wanted to make a movie.
And, uh, delinquents, a delinquents movie.
And that's what it was
called "The Delinquents".
So I wrote it in about three nights.
I stayed up all night
and wrote this script.
Golly, do we have to go in?
Well let's just go in for a little while.
If we don't like it we
can always leave, okay?
We made it for $65,000 and
it was really terrible.
Ah!
Where you going?
But Hitchcock saw that film,
he was impressed with it.
So he called me in for a meeting
and he offered me a "Hitchcock Presents".
Hello.
Mrs. Gould.
This is...
Hello.
What do you think you're doing?
I'm going to call her and
tell her we're in love
and you're not going to stop me.
Hello.
Hello?
Hello?
What number are you calling?
I did two of those.
So then I got an agent and they
got me this job on Whirlybirds.
Two boys robbed the store
and slit the owner.
Could be the same ones
who killed the old man
at the garage.
Killed!
Could you intercept? Over.
We'll try, Greendale.
We shot them in two and a half days.
Every five days we would
shoot two episodes.
Tommy Thomson, who was my AD,
would pick me up in the morning
and I'd get in the car
and I'd drive out to...
way out in the valley in California
where we were shooting those things.
I'd say what are we doing today?
He'd say oh this is the thing,
and the two guys are doing this,
and there's a woman who's
cheating on her husband
and she's shot this guy, and
there's some baby chickens,
and they have all these
eggs that are gonna die
unless the helicopter gets
them and there's a dilemma.
Do they take the chickens?
Do they solve the murder?
And I'd say okay, I got it.
I was born and raised in California
and spent a lot of time at the beach.
One day a movie company put out a
call for girls who could swim.
So I tried out and ended
up getting the part.
and one day I got a call to
play a nurse on Whirlybirds.
The director was Robert Altman.
When we were introduced
he didn't say hello,
he just said how are your morals?
And I said a little shaky, how are yours?
That was the beginning.
We went right into a fulltime relationship.
I never worked again after Whirlybirds.
He had already been married twice,
but those marriages didn't last very long
and he had three kids...
Christine, Michael, and Steven
And I had Konni from mine.
When they got married we moved
and my new school was having
this big father daughter dance
and I was so new and completely terrified.
Even though Bob and I didn't
know each other that well,
he came with me as my father.
He just wanted me to be happy.
Soon after we were married we had Bobby.
We bought a house, it was a great house
and we had lots and lots of parties.
I started in "Bonanza"
and "The Roaring 20's"
and a lot of those series.
And I became one of the
top television directors.
The more television he did
the more he realized all these
TV scripts he was given
were just the same old
thing over, and over.
A'.
By the time he was doing "Combat"
he tried to use his own
experience in the war
to make the show more true to life.
Morrow was shell-shocked,
but that got him into trouble.
Joey?
Medic!
That's my brother, my brother Joey.
And he's, he's dead.
It's all my fault.
Geeze is this guy out of it.
Walking down the road
carrying a dead German
and thinking it's his brother.
produced that series
and he forbade me to make that.
He said I don't want you to do that.
Then he went out of town and...
and, uh,
I didn't have a decent script
to go in with and so we did it.
And when he saw it I was fired.
And to edit the show the
editor would come...
there was a bar there over there
on... on Washington Boulevard,
over by MGM.
I would go sit in the bar
and Vic Morrow would go to the editor
and then come and sit with me
and he says here's what he's doing.
I said well tell him do 'so
and so' and 'so and so'.
Then Vic would go back and...
And then that episode got
quite a bit of attention.
I think it won an Emmy.
He continued to push for more realism
in all of his shows, but the
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