Friedrich --

I suppose I should have outgrown my idolatry of Robert Altman by now, but I haven't.

I re-watched "Cookie's Fortune" recently, found it very beautiful (in a small-scale, leisurely, rockin'-on-the-back-porch way), laughed a lot and even snuffled a bit -- mostly because it's a lovely movie, but partly because it reminded me so much of how and why I fell in love with art in the first place.

Robert Altman

Here's a long, good interview with him (by John Tibbetts), done in his hometown of Kansas City and dating from the time of "Vincent and Theo." Free-associative yet down-to-earth, full of shit yet Zen-ishly brilliant.

Best,

Michael