Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half a century, Julian Altman played his violin at society functions in New York City and Washington. A consummate con man, Altman treated his violin the way he treated people: with little respect. Difficult as he was in life, however, Altman did not want to die without sharing his greatest secret. Before succumbing to cancer in 1985, Altman, 69, told his wife, "Look between the violin case and the cover, and you'll find some interesting papers," she recalls. There she found newspaper clippings reporting the theft of a Stradivarius violin made in 1713 from a Polish virtuoso...
...Altman told his wife he had purchased the violin for $100 from a "friend." These days a Stradivarius can command as much as $1 million. Altman's widow will have to settle for an undisclosed reward from the instrument's rightful owner, Lloyd's of London, which 51 years ago paid the violin's last owner $30,000 for the loss...
...charming and endearing. They are exactly the type of folks you see in any small town anywhere in America, folks who say "somebitch" instead of "sonofabitch" and who enjoy their Kellogg's corn flakes straight from the box. Although you wish for some realistic nastiness a la Robert Altman to balance the film's artiness, Raising Arizona is consistently funny comedy...
...This fund-raiser is worthwhile because it actually involves sending people out to these places to help clean the whole community, while raising money for the homeless and the hungry," said Stephanie A. Altman '90, head of recruitment for HHAC...
...news. Of this trio of movie plays, Beyond Therapy brings the most severe disappointment because it held the most promise. Christopher Durang's 1981 play was a deft and rancid parody of psychobabble. The comely cast includes Jeff Goldblum, Julie Hagerty, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti and Christopher Guest. Robert Altman is an estimable director poised for comeback. He even had an idea about opening up the action: by setting this postromantic comedy more or less simultaneously in Manhattan, with its memory of Philip Barry penthouse sophistication, and Paris, locale of many a clockwork farce about the sexual duplicity...