by Molly Eichel
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movies
Robert Altman's career is full of highs and lows. Popeye, for example, was so widely panned, it sent Altman to Broadway to direct Ed Graczyk's Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, a play about the reunion of a James Dean fan club in small-town Texas. The movie version's no Nashville, but it is a master class in direction. Working with a miniscule budget, Altman created an entire world in a variety store, making the highs that much higher and the lows not so low.


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