Altman Retrospective


Posted on Oct 27, 2008 @ 04:07PM  
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LEGEND Altman

Maverick till the end: Robert Altman, director of M*A*S*H, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Player, and most recently, A Prairie Home Companion has died. He was 81. Stop Smiling magazine interviewed Altman for their Auteur Issue.

Assassination: Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel was killed near Beirut with an automatic weapon.

Crash: Three motorcycles in a Bush presidential motorcade crashed in Hawaii. One officer is listed in critical condition, another serious, and the third had minor injuries.

Liars! TMZ has reported that Britney Spears and Kevin Federline will release a statement denying the existence of a sex tape. But everyone knows where you can find it.

Conventional wisdom watch: Will clips of O.J. Simpson's completely hypothetical confessional interview with Judith Regan wind up on YouTube? Sure. Whatever. It's a short week.