Robert Altman on Being The 15th Director Cast To Make MASH | The Dick Cavett Show

Dick Cavett welcomes award-winning movie director Robert Altman to the show where they discuss how Altman was only chosen to make MASH after the producers had asked 14 other directors first!
Date aired - January 16th 1971 - Robert Altman
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.

His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.

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[@legin3753]

fourteen-year-old son of director Robert Altman, Mike, wrote the lyrics to the theme song "Suicide is Painless". Because of its inclusion in the subsequent television series, he continued to get residuals throughout its run and syndication. His father was paid $75,000 for directing, but his son eventually made about $2 million in song royalties, with payments continuing, from first syndication through the present day... amazing lol

[@jeshkam]

Wow, 14 years?? 🤯🤯

[@fatfreddyscat5767]

And the tv version never even used the lyrics, CBS deemed them too dark!

[@commanderkeen3787]

Emo kids finally paying for themselves!

[@jmb102]

To give some perspective, my parents bought a ranch house in 1966 for $11,000.

[@fifthbusiness1678]

Great story, thanks for sharing!

[@jasonayres]

(7:15) " If you can learn to be comfortable in failure, maybe you can handle the success a little longer."

[@brachiator1]

I did not know that he was the 15th choice. Very interesting interview.

[@Shah-of-the-Shinebox]

Robert Altman is one of my favorite American filmmakers. He’s a maverick and a rebel, he wasn’t fancy he just made the kind of films he wanted his way because he knew the studios had no idea how to promote or specify his films.

[@46metube]

Altman was a gem.

[@moniquelacosta5170]

Robert Altman captured a slice of real life in Nashville. He also displayed an Agatha Christie and Upstairs Downstairs vibe in Gosford Park. These 2 films are Gems.

[@JoeCasanovax]

The best American filmmaker of all time, hands down.

[@ianbauer4703]

And Coppola.

[@langdonboom]

Isn't John Cassavetes American?

[@JoeCasanovax]

@@langdonboom Yes, as are/were Malick, De Palma, Welles and Lynch. I stand by what I said.

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

yes, I agree ...

[@fifthbusiness1678]

I loved Altman’s description about the ‘impossibility’ of directing a film yet somehow it gets done because of the co-operation of many people.

[@Paul_Wetor]

Maybe having an odd film fall down to an odd director makes magic happen.

[@scoobedoo1008]

Some great bits. Does anyone recognize the other gust on the show?

[@RobinSchoutenRS]

Mr. Cavett, can you PLEASE upload your interview with Sam Peckinpah and Stella Stevens from c. March 1970? Thank you very much.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I’m still waiting for someone to tell me the name of the closing theme played by Bobby Rosengarden and house band.

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other videos.

[@Gannooch]

I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Art Carney or Jackie Gleason? I don’t have Decades.

[@pjk9056]

Who was the other guest?

[@TheDickCavettShow]

Milt Kamen

[@rosario508]

The ugliest jacket in the history of creation

[@Paul_Wetor]

It was the 1970s. There were duller colors to come. Lots of brown.