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Robert Altman: Careers
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Immediately afterwards, Altman initiated a pattern that would run throughout his career - following a successful film with one that almost seemed calculated to deliver setbacks. Brewster McCloud (1970), mixing broad counter-culture satire and fairytale, lost him much of the credit M*A*S*H had won. Yet the follow-up, McCabe and Mrs Miller (1970), remains a masterpiece of the period, recasting the heroic myth of the old west as a sombre farce of failure and corruption, so mercilessly that John Wayne denounced it as corrupt. Neglected by Warners, it was dismissed until Pauline Kael persuaded several fellow critics to recant. Similarly iconoclastic, The Long Goodbye (1973) revived Raymond Chandler's honorable detective Philip Marlowe as an anachronistic sleepwalker in 70s Los Angeles.
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[A]fter a career downturn starting in the second half of the '70s, Mr. Altman rebounded in the early 1990s. "A Prairie Home Companion, " Mr. Altman's most recent film, was released in June.
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Altman next mounted Popeye, a musical based on the classic E.C. Segar comic strip with comedian Robin Williams in the title role and a script by Jules Feiffer; when the highly-anticipated production failed to live up to commercial or critical expectations, he responded by selling Lions Gate, effectively bringing to an end his career as a mainstream Hollywood filmmaker for over a decade.
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