Movies
June, 1992
No movie in decades has given the hotfoot to Hollywood like director Robert Altman's The Player (Fine Line). This splendid, timely satire of movie moguls and their minions is as slashing as The Bad and the Beautiful or Sunset Boulevard--and manages to be wickedly funny at the same time. The screenplay adapted by Michael (The Rapture) Tolkin from his own scathing novel presents Tim Robbins as Griffin Mill, a baby-faced studio barracuda whose power base is threatened by a predatory newcomer (Peter...
