The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
The last two years have been soul-searching times. Throw in the recession and the holidays, and that's a lot of pressure. But there's one thing I've learned in my attempts at self-preservation: it's crucial to seek out inspiration.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
As all baseball fans know, the weeks following the end of the World Series are highlighted by the "hardware" season - the bestowing by the...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Screened November 15, 2009 on Columbia Tri-Star DVD TSPDT rank #968 IMDb Wiki This tight, modest picture may not have the presumptions to Monumental Importance as Nashville, but in many ways it’s a more quintessential Robert Altman movie, if not a better film. Whereas Nashville maintains an Olympian perspective on its swarming ensemble, California Split inhabits a more complicated [...]
BlogKC (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
This month the KC Public Library is showing several movies by Kansas Citian Robert Altman. Tonight is Short Cuts from 1993, 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library. Get the details at www.kclibrary.org.
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
IMDb Wiki The following quotes are found on the They Shoot Pictures Director page for Robert Altman: “Robert Altman is American cinema’s greatest iconoclast. Prolific, experimental, visionary and ambitious, he is a director whose career spans over five decades and includes over thirty feature films. Known as a maverick director (a label he denies), Altman eschews the market-oriented [...]...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Newton Independent Skiff Medical Center employees today were given an overview of remarks made by new Interim CEO Brett Altman at the department directors' meeting held following Wednesday's board of trustees meeting. The following, at the request of the new interim CEO, appeared in today's issue of Vital Signs, the hospital's [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I recently invited a professional into my kitchen to teach me a few things and WOW, did it pay off big. Kate Neumann came by last week to teach me how to make these glorious hand pies.
The Gradebook (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Allen Altman, who has served as vice chairman of the Pasco School Board for the past year, rose to the chairmanship this evening on a 4-1 vote. When asked if anyone opposed the nomination, Altman voted against himself. "I think...
The Morning News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I never wanted for lack of anything in Greece. The daily repetition of meals suited me just fine. The food was as local, fresh and simple as one could ask for.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Mitchell Zuckoff, author of the newly published “Robert Altman: The Oral Biography,” will discuss the life and career of the Kansas City-born film director in a free presentation Monday. For the book, Zuckoff interviewed more than 200 of Altman’s friends, co-workers, enemies and family members.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Screening of the late director's personal print heralds the donation of his materials to the archive. Director Robert Altman, who died in 2006, always polarized critics and audiences with his maverick, freewheeling, structureless style and determination to reinvent genres.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Like all great improvisers, the late Robert Altman kept a repertoire of stock routines handy. Anyone who’s read multiple interviews with Altman can’t help but note how often the director repeated himself, not with the same personal anecdotes—because Altman was stingy with those—but with the same metaphors and analogies. The biggest problem with Mitchell Zuckoff’s Robert...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
How long "Empire State of Mind" -- the unofficial anthem of the World Series Champion Yankees -- stays in the minds of Yankees' fans depends on how soon they start worrying about next year.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I do believe in knowing what you value most and using that as a rudder to guide your life. So here are some rules for living, exactly as I wrote them two years ago.
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