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Today we're remembering Shelley Duvall, the actress and tv producer who died last Thursday at age 75.
We'll listen back to a conversation between her and Terry Gross from 1992, and we'll begin with this appreciation.
Shelley Duvall was a student at a junior college in Houston when Robert Altman came to town scouting locations and casting extras for his 1970 movie Brewster McCloud.
The film starred Bud Court, later of Harold and Maude, as a young loner who lives secretly in a small room in the bowels of the Houston Astrodome.
When Altman met Shelley Duvall, he gave her a small supporting role in the movie as an Astrodome tour guide who tries to seduce the innocent.
Brewster, why don't you come sit over here with me?
No, I gotta be going now, I think.
Brewster, here I am sitting over here on the couch and inviting you to do well, who knows what?
And you just sit there and say, oh, no, I've got to go home.
From that small beginning, Shelley Duvall quickly became one of the director's favorites, appearing in six more of his movies in increasingly larger and more complex roles.
In the 1970s alone, she was in Altman's McCabe and misses Miller, thieves like us, Nashville, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, and three women.