‘The Player’

Robert Altman’s triumphant and witty take on Hollywood opens on a studio lot with a bravura eight-minute take--perhaps a sendup of Orson Welles’ celebrated credit sequence of “Touch of Evil”--which ends up in the office of smooth but slimy young executive Tim Robbins (pictured), the target of anonymous death threats. Scads of stars playing themselves, lots of inside jokes and sure to appeal to anyone who presumes to be hip to Hollywood (TMC Sunday at 11:55 a.m., again at 10:40 p.m.).