The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

Ah, The Player. Watching it, I think I may have under-appreciated many aspects of it. Most notably, the comic ability of Lyle Lovett. "One of us. One of us. One of us." He's an interesting choice for Altman--seemingly without personality on the outside, and yet he's in roles in Altman films positioned at the crossroads of pathos and its suppression. I'm thinking of his turn as the baker in Short Cuts, in the movie's rendition of Raymond Carver's tragic story...