‘The Player’

Robert Altman’s witty and triumphant look at Hollywood opens 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 a smooth but slimy young executive (Tim Robbins, pictured), the target of anonymous death threats. The film offers scads of stars playing themselves, lots of inside jokes and is sure to appeal to anyone who presumes to be hip to Hollywood (Showtime Monday at 1:05 a.m.).