{"id":2262,"date":"2006-11-21T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T17:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2006-11-22T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T18:36:04","slug":"robert-atlman-dead-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"Robert Altman Dead at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Robert Altman<\/strong>, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind &#8220;M-A-S-H,&#8221; &#8220;Nashville&#8221; and &#8220;The Player&#8221; who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6518762\"><strong>died at a Los Angeles Hospital<\/strong><\/a>, his production company said Tuesday. He was 81.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The director died Monday night, Joshua Astrachan, a producer at Altman&#8217;s Sandcastle 5 Productions in New York City, told The Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The cause of death wasn&#8217;t disclosed. A news release was expected later in the day, Astrachan said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A five-time Academy Award nominee for best director, most recently for 2001&#8217;s &#8220;Gosford Park,&#8221; he finally won a lifetime achievement Oscar in 2006.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;No other filmmaker has gotten a better shake than I have,&#8221; Altman said while accepting the award. &#8220;I&#8217;m very fortunate in my career. I&#8217;ve never had to direct a film I didn&#8217;t choose or develop. My love for filmmaking has given me an entree to the world and to the human condition.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to tell you how sad this makes me &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind &#8220;M-A-S-H,&#8221; &#8220;Nashville&#8221; and &#8220;The Player&#8221; who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his production company said Tuesday. He was 81. The director died Monday night, Joshua Astrachan, a producer at Altman&#8217;s Sandcastle 5 Productions in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-Au","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}