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Amped up for `Voltage.'.(Robert Altman's next film "Voltage" an adaptation of Robert Grossbach's novel "A Shortage of Engineers")(Brief Article)

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"Gosford Park" director Robert Altman has set his next film, plugging into "Voltage," an adaptation of the Robert Grossbach novel "A Shortage of Engineers."

The satiric comedy, which was adapted by Alan Rudolph, so far has an ensemble cast of Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, Bob Balaban, Harry Belafonte, William H. Macy, Tony Shalhoub, Elliott Gould and Liv Tyler.

Published last summer by St. Martin's Press, Grossbach's novel is set in 1991 and revolves around an engineering ...

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