The Player is a 1992 American satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Michael Tolkin, based on his 1988 novel. [2] The film stars Tim Robbins , Greta Scacchi , Fred Ward , Whoopi Goldberg , Peter Gallagher , Brion James and Cynthia Stevenson , and is the story of a Hollywood film studio executive who kills ...

Detective DeLongpre : [stopping Mill just as he's exiting his gated driveway] Mr. Mill, I'm Detective DeLongpre, Pasadena police. Griffin Mill : Yes, I recognize you. Did you have a good time at the party last night? Detective DeLongpre : No, I didn't. I'm not supposed to …

Oct 22, 2016 · 1992 Robert Altman, Lyle Lovett, Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Robbins

Lovett acted in a number of films, notably four for director Robert Altman: The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), and Cookie's Fortune (1999). He also composed the score for the director's Dr. T & the Women (2000).

Detectives Avery (Whoopi Goldberg) and DeLongpre (Lyle Lovett) suspect Mill is guilty of murder. They question him and DeLongpre keeps an eye on him. Mill receives a postcard from the writer suggesting they meet at a club.

The Player: Directed by Robert Altman. With Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg. A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?

Apr 24, 1992 · Robert Altman‘s “The Player,” which tells Griffin’s story with a cold sardonic glee, is a movie about today’s Hollywood — hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time. It is about an industry that is run like an exclusive rich boy’s school, where all the kids are spoiled and most of them have ended up ...

Sklar has recorded and toured with artists including James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Phil Collins, Toto, The Doors and Lyle Lovett. As a group member, session player, or touring musician, Sklar has appeared on over 2,000 albums, and contributed to many motion picture and television show soundtracks .

For sheer comedy watch for Griffin's visit to police headquarters where the Pasadena detective (Whoopi Goldberg), interviews him in the busy squad room. Another detective (Lyle Lovett) is a movie buff who keeps chanting "One of us! One of us!" from "Freaks".

Aug 15, 2016 · For these leading roles he cast Peter Gallagher (as Griffin's rival), Fred Ward (the studio's swaggering head of security), Cynthia Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Greta Scacchi, plus Whoopi Goldberg and singer Lyle Lovett (in his first screen role) as police detectives and Dean Stockwell and Richard E. Grant as filmmakers pitching a "serious ...