Thursday, November 23, 2006

deaths

Robert Altman died at 81 . The director of dozens of films and TV dramas, Altman changed the vocabulary of American filmmaking starting with MASH, a dark comedy about a madcap medical unit in the Korean war that came out in 1970 and became a lightning rod for anger many Americans felt toward officials over the Vietnam war. It changed how we watch TV. And in my opinion was one of the best shows on TV.

Robert Altman's filmography:

  • Christmas Eve, 1947
  • Bodyguard, 1948
  • The Delinquents, 1957
  • The James Dean Story, 1957
  • Nightmare in Chicago, 1964
  • Countdown, 1968
  • That Cold Day in the Park, 1969
  • M*A*S*H, 1970
  • Brewster McCloud, 1970
  • Events, 1970
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1971
  • Images, 1972
  • The Long Goodbye, 1973
  • Thieves Like Us, 1974
  • California Split, 1974
  • Nashville, 1975
  • Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, 1976
  • Three Women, 1977
  • A Wedding, 1978
  • Quintet, 1979
  • A Perfect Couple, 1979
  • Health, 1980
  • Popeye, 1980
  • Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, 1982
  • Streamers, 1983
  • Secret Honour, 1984
  • Fool for Love, 1985
  • Beyond Therapy, 1987
  • Vincent & Theo, 1990
  • The Player, 1992
  • Short Cuts, 1993
  • Prêt-a-Portèr, 1994
  • Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, 1994
  • Kansas City, 1996
  • The Gingerbread Man, 1998
  • Cookie's Fortune, 1999
  • Dr. T and the Women, 2000
  • Gosford Park, 2001
  • The Company, 2003
  • A Prairie Home Companion, 2006
John Allan Cameron the Mabou, N.S., native who helped popularize Celtic music throughout Canada and influenced such new-generation acts as the Rankins, Ashley MacIsaac, and Natalie McMaster (his cousin), passed away yesterday in a Toronto hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 67. Cameron began his career on The Don Messer Show and Singalong Jubilee before becoming an opening act for Anne Murray.

I took a folk music course at U of Waterloo in the mid-70's [I was a science student and I needed an extra arts course.] John Allan Cameron showed up several times to be part of the class.

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