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.

Barris married twice more, to " Red " Robin Altman, and later to Mary Rudolph.

In January 1984, Carter married Washington, D. C., attorney Robert A. Altman, law partner of Clark Clifford ( and now CEO of ZeniMax Media ).

Altman is married to journalist Jurate Kazickas.

One of the architects — the pragmatic Armand Phillip Bartos ( 1910 – 2005 )— was evidently chosen based on his being married to Gottesman's daughter Celeste Ruth Gottesman ( who formerly had married Jerome John Altman in 1935 and divorced ).

She married Heath Altman in October 2008.

* The Rockefeller Family Home: Kykuit, Ann Rockefeller Roberts ( Text ), Mary Louise Pierson ( Photographs ), and Cynthia Altman ( Captions and additional text ), New York: Abbeville Publishing Group ( Abbeville Press, Inc .), 1998.

Alumni of WBAI include Margot Adler, Abraham Aig, Jan Albert, Chris Albertson, Nancy Allen, Matt Alperin, Archie Altman, Lindsay Audin, Robbie Barish, Deborah Begel, Olenka Bohachevski, Delphine Blue, Peter Bochan, Bunny Bruce, Janice K. Bryant, Doreen Canto, Pepsi Charles, Frank Coffee, Candy Cohen, Janet Coleman, Neal Conan, Pat Conte, John Corigliano, Deloris Costello, Liza Cowan, Larry Cox, Joe Cumo, Ken Davis, Barbara Day, Ife Dancy, Dick Demenus, Kathy Dobkin, Mike Edl, Barika Taheer Edwards, Matt Edwards, Dick Elman, Bob Fass, Mike Feder, Charlie Finch, Richard Fioravanti, Paul Fischer, John Fisk, Sara Fishko, Joe Frank, Gary Fried, Jim Freund, Paul Gorman, Joanne Grant, Jeff Greenfield, Edward Haber, Doug Henwood, Lex Hixon, Charles Hobson, Milton Hoffman, Mary Houston, Susan Howe, Jimmy Howes, Rob Hunter, Timothy Jerome, Reggie Johnson, Larry Josephson, Sam Julty, Citizen Kafka, Jesse Keyes, Glo Kirby, Robert Knight, Alen Pol Kobryn, Chris Koch, Robert Kuttner, Richard Lamparski, Andy Lanset, Julius Lester, Al Lewis, John Lithgow, Sari Locker, Leonard Lopate, The Mighty G-Man, Ann MacMillan, Marian McPartland, Samori Marksmen, Margaret Mercer, Frank Millspaugh, Dale Minor, Kathy O ' Connell, Andrew Phillips, Betty Pilkington, Charles Pitts, Steve Post, Charles Potter, Robert Potts, David Rapkin, Desiree K. Robinson, David Rothenberg, Jay Rothman ( Zeke ), Charles Ruas, Eric Salzman, Lynn Samuels, Bill Schechner, Baird Searles, Judy Sherman, John J. Simon, Miles Smith, Peter Cedric Rock Smith ( aka: Rocky ), Jay Smooth, Bruce Soloway, A.

A digital knock-off of this design was made in 1993 by Ann Chaisson and Mark Altman.

* Images ( film ) directed by Robert Altman ( 1972 )

Solomon ’ s hypothesis was contested by Goldschmidt ( 1977 ), Tellenbach ( 1983, 1987, 1988, 1993 / 1994, 1998 ), Beahrs ( 1972, 1986, 1988, 1993 ), Dahlhaus ( 1991 ), Pichler ( 1994 ), Altman ( 1996 ), Meredith ( 2000 ), Steblin ( 2007 ), and Walden ( 2011 ).

* Images original soundtrack ( Robert Altman, 1972 ), music composed by John Williams ; percussion solos by Stomu Yamashta

Roger Altman, through Evercore Partners, bought a controlling stake in American Media in 1999.

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.

He is tied with Robert Altman and Alfred Hitchcock for the most Academy Award nominations for best director without a single win.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

It later became a prozine under journalist-screenwriter Mark A. Altman and has continued as a webzine.

His directorial style and the use of natural, conversational dialogue in his films were cited a major influence on many noted filmmakers, including Robert Altman, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.

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

Despite an all-star cast ( including Neve Campbell and Matthew Modine ) and the pedigree of Miller's script, Spacey's decision to lure Altman to the stage proved disastrous: after a fraught rehearsal period, the play opened to a critical panning, and closed after only a few weeks.

In 1916 – 1917 he participated in exhibitions of the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow together with Nathan Altman, David Burliuk and A. Ekster, among others.

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.

Standardized tools such as Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale and Young Mania Rating Scale can be used to measure severity of manic episode.

" Three months later, Billy Altman launched the short-lived punk magazine.

These sources include, among others, the Bydale Foundation, Careth Foundation, Carolyn Foundation, Changing Horizons Charitable Trust, CS Fund, Deer Creek Foundation, Educational Foundation of America, Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Grodzins Fund, Jenifer Altman Foundation, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Rockwood Fund, Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Stern Family Fund, Town Creek Foundation, and the Turner Foundation.

Catalytic RNA molecules ( ribozymes ) were discovered in the early 1980s, leading to a 1989 Nobel award to Thomas Cech and Sidney Altman.

* 1960s: Joseph Altman and Gopal Das present scientific evidence of adult neurogenesis, ongoing stem cell activity in the brain ; like André Gernez, their reports contradict Cajal's " no new neurons " dogma and are largely ignored.

* Chemistry – Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech

* February 20 – Robert Altman, American film director ( d. 2006 )