In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.

He was also joined for some of the storyline by Nick Cotton ( played by John Altman ), who was imprisoned for a different offence.

The union was based in Altman, and had chapters in Anaconda, Cripple Creek and Victor.

Shortly after, Gardner, who at the time was a student at Atlantic Christian College, traveled to New York to be interviewed at MGM's New York office by Al Altman, head of MGM's New York talent department.

Robert Bernard Altman ( February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006 ) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective.

Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Helen ( née Matthews ), a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler, who came from an upper-class family.

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 ".

In February 2012, an early Calvin film directed by Altman, Modern Football ( 1951 ), was found by filmmaker Gary Huggins.

During his TV period, though frequently fired for refusing to conform to network mandates, as well as insisting on expressing political subtexts and antiwar sentiments during the Vietnam years, Altman always was able to gain assignments.

Two years later, Altman was hired to direct the low-budget space travel feature Countdown, but was fired within days of the project's conclusion because he had refused to edit the film to a manageable length.

In 1969 Altman was offered the script for MASH, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services ; more than a dozen other filmmakers had passed on it.

) Production was sometimes so tumultuous that the leads Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to have Altman fired over his unorthodox filming methods, but MASH was widely hailed as an immediate classic upon its 1970 release.

Altman favored stories expressing the interrelationships among several characters ; he stated that he was more interested in character motivation than in intricate plots.

Though some critics thought it a failure, the film made money, and was the second highest-grossing film Altman had directed to that point.

Altman directed Gosford Park ( 2001 ), and his portrayal of a large-cast, British country house mystery was included on many critics ' lists of the ten best films of that year.

Working with independent studios such as the now-shuttered Fine Line, Artisan ( which was absorbed into today's Lionsgate ), and USA Films ( now Focus Features ), gave Altman the edge in making the kinds of films he has always wanted to make without studio interference.

Altman was still developing new projects up until his death, including a film based on Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary ( 1997 ).

" Altman was an outspoken marijuana user, and served as a member of the NORML advisory board.

Anderson had worked as a standby director on A Prairie Home Companion for insurance purposes, and in the event the ailing 80-year-old Altman was unable to finish shooting.

In the 1990s, this office moved from 200 Madison Avenue ( a building it shared with Putnam Publishing ) to 198 Madison Avenue, which was the former B. Altman Company headquarters.

The report found that Clifford and his legal / business partner Robert A. Altman had been closely involved with the bank from 1978, when they were introduced to BCCI by Bert Lance, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget, to 1991.

In the Season Two Premiere " Interview with an Angel " the Angel of Death is introduced as Henry and is played by Bruce Altman.

In March 1962 Keith Altman, owner of riverside eatery " Jolley's Boathouse ", took over the Popeyes and introduced recreational paddle boats to the river.

In 1992, Rudolph attended a Fourth of July party hosted by filmmaker Robert Altman who introduced him to actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.

In 1996, Altman directed Kansas City, expressing his love of 1930s jazz through a complicated kidnapping story.

One example is Robert Altman, whose Gosford Park copies many of Rules of the Games plot elements ( a story of aristocrats in the country, aristocrats and their servants, murder ) and pays homage with a direct reference to the infamous hunting scene, or " la chasse ", in which no one moves but the help.

Trudeau and Altman revisited the story 16 years later in Tanner on Tanner.

The dialogue is humorous, and the story is told in the trademark Altman style, with multiple plots and overlapping dialogue.

Severity of manic symptoms can be measured by rating scales such as self-reported Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale and clinician-based Young Mania Rating Scale.

In the 2006 season, Spacey suffered a major setback with a production of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues, directed by Robert Altman.

* Kansas City ( film ), a 1996 film by Robert Altman

Critic Billy Altman, whose work has appeared in many publications including Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, wrote the following for Amazon. com: " One of rock's most overlooked masterpieces, this third album by the L. A. folk-rock outfit led by inscrutable singer-songwriter Arthur Lee sounds as fresh and innovative today as it did upon its original release in 1968.

* Nashville ( film ), 1975 American musical film directed by Robert Altman

* Foreign rights to the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, are currently owned by ABC through Walt Disney Pictures but Paramount still owns North American rights ( both Paramount and ABC share copyrights ).

*" The RNA world " ( 2001 ) by Sidney Altman, on the Nobel prize website

Altman directed some 65 industrial films and documentaries before being hired by a local businessman in 1956 to write and direct a feature film in Kansas City on juvenile delinquency.

Altman directed Short Cuts ( 1993 ), an ambitious adaptation of several short stories by Raymond Carver, which portrayed the lives of various citizens of Los Angeles over the course of several days.

Altman is survived by his wife, Kathryn Reed Altman ; six children, Christine Westphal, Michael Altman, Stephen Altman ( his production designer of choice for many films ), Connie Corriere, Robert Reed Altman, and Matthew Altman ; 12 grandchildren ; and five great-grandchildren.

* Sidney Altman Nobel Lecture: Enzymatic Cleavage of RNA by RNA

The radio program inspired a 2006 film of the same name, written by Keillor, directed by Robert Altman and featuring Keillor, Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, and Woody Harrelson.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman.