Director Robert Altman dead at age 81
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Director Robert Altman, who revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking with an irreverent style that critics hailed as "American Art Cinema" has died at age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, star of Law and Order, has died of prostate cancer, a representative of the show said. The 69-year-old, who also starred in Dirty Dancing and Last Exit to Brooklyn, revealed he was battling cancer in early December.
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In the last conversation Paul Thomas Anderson had with Robert Altman, his friend and mentor told him: "I think this film is something different for you."
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was legendary director Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer of choice, died Wednesday after a long illness, his son said. He was 83.
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Robert Altman, the legendary film director who died last month, began his career in television, perhaps most memorably bringing his style and dark vision of war to the first season of "Combat!"
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Robert Altman was one of the most adventurous and influential American directors of the late 20th century.
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Jerry Orbach, the Tony Award-winning star of Promises, Promises and other musicals, has died at the age of 69, according to a radio report citing his manager, Robert Malcolm.
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Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
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Actors, directors and producers join members of Robert Altman's family at a memorial service for the late director.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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Arthur Miller, whose dramas of fierce moral and personal responsibility such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" made him one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights, has died at the age of 89.
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Robert Altman thrived on the shapelessness and confusion of experience, and he came closer than any other American filmmaker to replicating it without allowing his films to succumb to chaos.
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Director Gerard Oury, a cultural icon of France whose decades-old comedies remain hits today, has died, local officials at his Riviera home said Thursday. He was 87.
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Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has diedy. He was 89.
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Robert Altman was the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player."
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NEW YORK  - It has been almost a year since Robert Altman stood on the stage of the Kodak Theater on March 5 to receive his long-overdue honorary Academy Award.
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Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress and former wife of Ronald Reagan, has died at he age of 93, officials said Monday.