 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 McLeod. The film starred Bud Cort, later of Harold and Maude, as a young loner who lives secretly in a small room in the bowels of the Houston Astrodome.