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Robert Altman: Biography

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Birth Name: Robert Bernard Altman
Birth Place: Kansas City, MO
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 02/20/1925, Pisces
Date of Death: 11/20/2006
Profession: Director; screenwriter; producer

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A groundbreaking filmmaker/legendary troublemaker, Altman initially tried to break into Hollywood as an actor and writer before finding his niche as a director (who often penned his films' scripts). After servi... read more

Robert Altman: TV Guide News

Mad Men Rocks; Nashville Doesn't | Roush Dispatch | 9/14/2007
Favorite line on any show I've seen all week: "Peggy, this isn't China. There's no money in virginity." That's Joan talking, the sexiest secretary in all of '60s New York advertising, once again stealing a scene in AMC's dazzling Mad Men with aplomb. Christina Hendricks, I salute you.It was another intensely enjoyable episode this week, which also grew my estimation for the performance of January Jones (what a name) as Don Draper’s quietly simmering, drop-dead-gorgeous Grace Kelly look-alike wife, Betty. How happy was she when, at intermission at Broadway’s Fiorello!, the ad guy wooing Don to jump agencies to the big time offered her a chance to get back into modeling (with the pause that refreshes). How fooled were we that this was just another ploy to lure Don away from “the tiny store” of Sterling Cooper? Not very. And neither was Don fooled. Betty, however? Very fooled. And very crushed when the opportunity vanishes once Don turns them down.Who can blame her... read more
Ask FlickChick: Film vs. Movie, the Song That Makes the Picture and More | Ask FlickChick | 8/8/2007
Ask FlickChick: The difference between movies and films, songs in movies and moreSend your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks on the Movie Talk vodcast!Hear Maitland on the weekly podcast TV Guide Talk!Question: I was wondering: What's the difference between a movie and a film? I know that if anybody can tell me, it will be you. Thank you for your response. — JayFlickChick: Strictly speaking there's no difference. Movie and film are literally synonymous. But nuance and implication are everything, and the word movie — the shortened form of "moving picture" — usually implies an entertainment: Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Charade (1963). Film — which, curiously, is the more literal word, coming as it does from the physical material of the medium — has come to suggest art: The Seventh Seal (1957), L'Avventura (1960), The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). "Picture" has... read more
Eastwood, Al Gore and YouTube Deemed Significant | Today's News: Our Take | 12/28/2006
The American Film Institute on Wednesday detailed what it is calling the year's Moments of Significance, eight developments that impacted the worlds of TV and film. And they are:— Clint Eastwood's double whammy of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima— The passing of filmmaker Robert Altman— The influence of documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and Iraq in Fragments— The rise of YouTube— The migration of TV news to this "Internet" thing— The death of VHS— The reaffirmation of a moral standard for television, as evidenced by Fox's decision to snuff the O.J. Simpson special— The Big Four networks fighting the FCC's indecency crackdownNo mention of Gwen Stefani's "Wind It Up" video. read more
Legendary Director Robert Altman Dead at 81 | Today's News: Our Take | 11/21/2006
Born on Feb. 20, 1925, Kansas City, Missouri, native Robert Altman died on Nov. 20 — less than a year after accepting an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement, and a few months after the release of his last film, an affectionate adaptation of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. Altman had a heart transplant in 1995, keeping the surgery quiet while continuing to undertake demanding projects such as Dr T and the Women, Gosford Park and The Company. Altman began his long career directing industrial films on the order of "How to Run a Filling Station," graduated to episodic television (where his credits included Peter Gunn, The Millionaire and Alfred Hitchcock Presents), and then forged a feature directing career that produced some of the finest films of the 1970s, notably MASH, McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Nashville. Altman was famous for his deft use of large ensemble casts, overlapping dialogue and an intricate network of overlapping story lines that come... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/4/2006
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Robert Altman: Credits

Title	Year	Type
A Prairie Home Companion (Director)	2006	Movie
A Prairie Home Companion (Producer)	2006	Movie
Tanner '88 (Director)	2004	TV Show Series
Tanner on Tanner (Director)	2004	TV Show Series
A Decade Under The Influence (Actor)	2003	Movie