Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniel Altman '96 is a Crimson editor. His column will appear every other Monday...
...same time, Clinton's proposed cuts in Medicare and Medicaid are drawing fire from liberals. And some health experts think Clinton may be going too far. "No one can tell you with any assurance that these levels of cuts will not affect patients," says Stuart Altman, an economist at Brandeis University...
...every-pie packager who represented the writer and the director and the stars of a given production. Deep into the 1980s, Cohn had an impressive plurality of the stars and filmmakers with claims to blue-chip seriousness: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Robert Altman, Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Nichols and so many more. Cohn got Columbia Pictures to pay an astonishing $9.5 million for the movie rights to the Broadway musical Annie, a record that will probably never be broken. In New York's big-time legitimate theater, Cohn's hegemony was almost...
...from Wilshire Boulevard or his chronic breaches of etiquette. Rather, says a friend, "Sam was the king of artistic seriouness," and the appetite for serious films -- dark and downbeat, reeking of alienation -- is not what it was. In 1993, would studios green-light Lumet's Equus, Allen's Interiors, Altman's Quintet or Nichols' Carnal Knowledge? Cohn was a power broker during the decade or two when every movie director was by definition an untouchable auteur. Nowadays even true auteurs such as Scorsese are kept on rather short leashes, indulged their expensive artistic visions not much beyond...
B.C.C.I. jury finds Robert Altman not guilty and scoffs at D.A.'s case...