Suicide is Painless
The Long Goodbye
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Ready to Bury
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Hopefully Whatever Killed Him Was Also Painless
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The Hopefully Ready Whatever Long Killed Him Alted Was to Also Goodbye Bury Painless
In accepting his lifetime achievement award at the Academy Awards in March of this year, Robert Altman said the award was premature as a heart transplant he’d received in 1995 meant he could have another four decades of work ahead of him. Turns out, not so much. Altman, the perennial best director bridesmaid with 5 nominations, has died at the age of 81. If you liked movies that bucked trends and had an elevated self-importance despite often not making a lot of sense while big casts talked over each other, Altman was the director for you. The man who brought us MASH, Nashville, Gosford Park and The Player also gave us Pret-a-Porter, Short Cuts, Dr T. and the Women and Popeye (save it, Greg). Other achievements included Tanner ’88, an HBO miniseries chronicling the campaign journey of a presidential candidate that Altman considered among his best work. Altman got his start in industrial films, then caught the eye of Alfred Hitchcock in his feature debut, which led him to direct several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Other TV gigs followed, including an episode of Bus Stop in which a killer is not caught or punished for his crime at the end of the episode, prompting Congressional hearings and helping to lead to the cancellation of the show.
Still Waters Run Six Feet Deep
The knees of quarterbacks of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference can breathe a little easier as Fort Valley State University defensive coordinator Andre “Dirty” Waters shot himself yesterday at the age of 44, apparently unable to accept the choices of Jay Feeley and Jeff Garcia as Eagles’ starting quarterback for the rest of the season. As a member of the Philadelphia Eagles’ record-settting defenses of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Waters delivered some of the hardest hits in the NFL, a few of them even legal. Waters developed a reputation as an ethically challenged defensive back, with blows directed at the knees of Jim Everett, David Archer and, twice in a Monday night game, Rich Gannon, which earned a $10,000 fine. Unfortunately, this overshadowed the career of a player who started as an undersized undrafted free agent out of Cheyney State University and became a key member of one of the greatest defenses in history.
Or
Ready to Bury
Or
Hopefully Whatever Killed Him Was Also Painless
Or
The Hopefully Ready Whatever Long Killed Him Alted Was to Also Goodbye Bury Painless
In accepting his lifetime achievement award at the Academy Awards in March of this year, Robert Altman said the award was premature as a heart transplant he’d received in 1995 meant he could have another four decades of work ahead of him. Turns out, not so much. Altman, the perennial best director bridesmaid with 5 nominations, has died at the age of 81. If you liked movies that bucked trends and had an elevated self-importance despite often not making a lot of sense while big casts talked over each other, Altman was the director for you. The man who brought us MASH, Nashville, Gosford Park and The Player also gave us Pret-a-Porter, Short Cuts, Dr T. and the Women and Popeye (save it, Greg). Other achievements included Tanner ’88, an HBO miniseries chronicling the campaign journey of a presidential candidate that Altman considered among his best work. Altman got his start in industrial films, then caught the eye of Alfred Hitchcock in his feature debut, which led him to direct several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Other TV gigs followed, including an episode of Bus Stop in which a killer is not caught or punished for his crime at the end of the episode, prompting Congressional hearings and helping to lead to the cancellation of the show.
Still Waters Run Six Feet Deep
The knees of quarterbacks of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference can breathe a little easier as Fort Valley State University defensive coordinator Andre “Dirty” Waters shot himself yesterday at the age of 44, apparently unable to accept the choices of Jay Feeley and Jeff Garcia as Eagles’ starting quarterback for the rest of the season. As a member of the Philadelphia Eagles’ record-settting defenses of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Waters delivered some of the hardest hits in the NFL, a few of them even legal. Waters developed a reputation as an ethically challenged defensive back, with blows directed at the knees of Jim Everett, David Archer and, twice in a Monday night game, Rich Gannon, which earned a $10,000 fine. Unfortunately, this overshadowed the career of a player who started as an undersized undrafted free agent out of Cheyney State University and became a key member of one of the greatest defenses in history.
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