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In his eighty-second year, Robert Altman is managing to do what he's always done: making films that he wants to make, ignoring anyone else's market-tested notion of what will or won't fly at the box office, and remaining utterly cool. His manner puts one in mind of a laconic jazz musician--equal faith in art and in technique, and never an iota of attitude. He also appears, as always, to be having a pretty good time.
One breezy recent evening, in downtown St. Paul, a parade of ten horse-drawn carriages, led by a high-school marching band, departed from the circular drive in front of the swanky enough St....
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