Tomlin made her dramatic debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she played Linnea Reese, a straitlaced, gospel-singing, mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a womanizing country singer ( played by Keith Carradine ).

In the same year, Waits lent his vocals to Gavin Bryars ' 75-minute reworking of his 1971 classical music piece Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet ; appeared in Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Carver's stories Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, a short black-and-white movie with Iggy Pop ; and his third child, Sullivan, was born.

Altman's ancestry was German, English and Irish ; his paternal grandfather, Frank Altman, Sr., anglicized the spelling of the family name from " Altmann " to " Altman ".

It was Altman's highest-grossing film, released during a time of increasing anti-war sentiment in the United States.

Novello was portrayed in Robert Altman's 2001 film, Gosford Park, by Jeremy Northam, and several of his songs were used for the film's soundtrack, including " Waltz of My Heart ", " And Her Mother Came Too ", " I Can Give You the Starlight ", " What a Duke Should Be ", " Why Isn't It You?

Sutherland was then on course for the first of the three war films which would make his name: as one of the The Dirty Dozen in 1967, alongside Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson ; as the lead " Hawkeye " Pierce in Robert Altman's MASH in 1970 ; and, again in 1970, as hippy-like tank commander Sgt.

Nixon was part of the cast of the NBC miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan ( NBC, 1988 ) starring Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate ( Michael Murphy ) in Tanner ' 88 ( also 1988 ), Robert Altman's political satire for HBO.

The name was influenced by Robert Altman's film McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), which featured the Leonard Cohen song " Sisters of Mercy " ( from the album Songs of Leonard Cohen ) (" because ourselves The Captains of Industry wouldn't have been as funny ").

One of the actor's first forays into film was as an extra alongside Allen, Terry Kinney, George Wendt and Laurie Metcalf in Robert Altman's 1978 film A Wedding.

His music was featured in the 1983 film Breathless, starring Richard Gere, and the 1986 comedy One More Saturday Night, and he acted in Robert Altman's 1987 comedy O. C.

Anderson was a standby director for Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion for insurance purposes, as Altman was 80 years old at the time.

Hunt's film debut in 1980 was in Robert Altman's musical comedy Popeye.

Altman's film crew was made up mostly of his Calvin co-workers.

Calvin artist and designer ( and Altman's brother-in-law ) Chet Allen was art director, and Altman's sister Joan served in a production executive capacity.

Altman's experimental directing style was still developing, but one sign of his future directorial achievements can be seen in a story told by one of Altman's young cast members, SuEllen Fried, about the shooting of a party scene in the film: “ He rented an old house off Walworth Boulevard and told us to pretend we were having the wildest party of our lives, while he moved the camera from room to room and just filmed whatever was going on.

In an attempt to fight against typecasting after her Bond girl performance, Janssen began seeking out more intriguing support roles, appearing in John Irvin's City of Industry, Woody Allen's Celebrity, Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man, and Ted Demme's Monument Ave. Denis Leary, her co-star in Monument Ave., was impressed by how easily she blended in, initially not recognizing her as she was already in character.

" In 1994, he was a member of the cast that won the first ever National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble for Robert Altman's film, Prêt-à-Porter.

Altman's favourite method of transporting information and film was by way of the containers that would destroy their contents, such as the small statue mentioned before.

Constance Myers indicates that three factors led to the expulsion of the Trotskyists from the Socialist Party in 1937: the divergence between the official Socialists and the Trotskyist faction on the issues, the determination of Altman's wing of the Militants to oust the Trotskyists, and Trotsky's own decision to move towards a break with the party.

Traces of identity politics can also be found in the early writings of the modern gay movement such as Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Liberation / Oppression ( 1971 1st ed ), Jeffrey Week's Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present ( 1977: London: Quarter ), and Ken Plummer's ed The Making of the Modern Homosexual ( 1981: London Hutchinson ).

In the collection, The Committee of Sleep, Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett identifies modern dream-inspired art such as paintings including Jasper Johns's Flag, much of the work of Jim Dine and Salvador Dalí, novels ranging from " Sophie's Choice " to works by Anne Rice and Stephen King and films including Robert Altman's Three Women, John Sayles Brother from Another Planet and Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries.

( On Altman's departure from the Philadelphia City Paper.

In Robert Altman's ensemble film Short Cuts, Penn played a troubled swimming pool cleaner who is disturbed by his wife ’ s profession ( a telephone sex worker who takes calls from clients at home ) to which Penn ’ s character is obliged to listen.

A ubiquitous figure in New York's downtown jazz scene, Steven Bernstein has been the musical director for the Kansas City Band ( from Robert Altman's film Kansas City ), Jim Thirlwell's Steroid Maximus and Hal Wilner's Leonard Cohen, Doc Pomus and Bill Withers projects.

Altman's father, born in Ukraine, had been a worker on a collective farm in the Soviet Union.

Instead, Cohen had loved Altman's less popular follow-up film Brewster McCloud.

During the next two years, Black had leading roles for famed directors as an aspiring Hollywood actress in John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust, as a country singer in Robert Altman's Nashville and as a kidnapper in what turned out to be Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot.

Benson was kicking around ideas with writer friend Anne Rapp, a West Texas native who had written scripts for two of director Robert Altman's films.

Later he had a memorable cameo as a disgruntled staff sergeant assigned to driving Hawkeye and Trapper John around in Japan in Robert Altman's 1970 masterpiece M * A * S * H. ( His only line of dialogue is a repeated exasperation, " Goddamn army!

It was there that he met Ronee Blakley, the actress / singer who had recently starred in Robert Altman's celebrated film Nashville.

Though Huberman never saw the Gibson again, the instrument was recovered 50 years later, in 1985, as a result of Altman's deathbed confession to his wife that he had stolen the violin.

* 1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements ; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

Joel Coen cites Robert Altman's contemporary take on Chandler with The Long Goodbye as a primary influence on their film in the sense that The Big Lebowski " is just kind of informed by Chandler around the edges ".

Altman's career at Yale followed a standard academic pattern with promotion through the ranks until he became Professor in 1980.

While at Yale, Altman's Nobel Prize work came with the analysis of the catalytic properties of the ribozyme RNase P. RNase P is a ribonucleoprotein particle consisting of both a structural RNA molecule and one ( in prokaryotes ) or more ( in eukaryotes ) proteins.

Tomlin also played chain-smoking waitress Doreen Piggott in Altman's 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, and, in two films by director David O. Russell ; she appeared as a peacenik Raku artist in Flirting with Disaster and later, as an existential detective in I ♥ Huckabees.

He wrote all the songs for Robert Altman's movie-musical Popeye ( 1980 ), the score of which met with unfavorable reviews.

Working again with Altman, a family friend, she played a streetwise kidnapper alongside Miranda Richardson in Altman's Jazz Era drama Kansas City ( 1996 ).

In 1990, Roth began to enjoy international attention with starring roles as Vincent van Gogh in Robert Altman's Vincent & Theo and as Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Also with Altman's Kansas City crew were Californians Harry Birch ( camera operator ) and Bob Post ( sound recorder ).

In 1975, he made W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings ( 1975 ), once again with Burt Reynolds ; Robert Altman's Nashville ( 1975 ), portraying the Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese and he also appeared as Colonel Hollister in the 1975 M * A * S * H episode " Dear Peg ".

After giving a performance in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud, she recorded her first demo with Lou Adler and then went into the recording studio with arranger and record producer Gene Paige to record Roll With The Feelin, an album for Decca Records.

Laughlin's first starring role was in Robert Altman's 1957 film The Delinquents, in which he played Scotty White, a teenager who gets mixed up with a gang when he is told he can no longer see his girlfriend.

" Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 57 % " Rotten " rating with the critical consensus stating " Altman's take on the iconic cartoon is messy and wildly uneven, but its robust humor and manic charm are hard to resist.

A Wedding is a comic opera based on Robert Altman's 1978 film A Wedding and was composed by William Bolcom with a libretto written by Robert Altman and Arnold Weinstein.

He has also performed with the Kansas City All-Stars, appearing in Robert Altman's 1996 film Kansas City with this group.