Goldblum mixes fact, fiction in 'Pittsburgh'

August 23, 2007 "Pittsburgh" is a witty variation on a Christopher Guest mockumentary that swirls together fiction, reality and an unlikely cast including Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Illeana Douglas, Moby, Conan O'Brien and unsuspecting Pittsburghers, all as themselves. Goldblum, who first contemplated taking advantage of video technology for some sort of personal project about six years ago, says he didn't want to create a film as mundane or revealing as a journal. Instead, he and his collaborators ended up with an approach that owes a tip of the hat not only to Guest ("Waiting for Guffman," "Best in Show") but also, as Goldblum sees it, to the spontaneity of directors John Cassavetes and Robert Altman.

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