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...quashed that idea. In early 1997, Bush's team held a series of private meetings with oil-, gas- and chemical-industry leaders and invited them to draft a plan for a voluntary emission-reduction program. The secret meetings came to light last summer, when an Austin activist named Peter Altman filed an open-records request. Despite cries from environmentalists, the plan passed the legislature, in only slightly tougher form, last year. Bush says he is proud he got the grandfathered plants to the table, and to his credit, no Governor before him did as much. (He also backed a bill...
Magnolia's faithfulness to the surreal irregularity and aimlessness of life is what distinguishes it from its nearest relative, Robert Altman's Short Cuts. Where that film found black social satire in forcing its inhabitants' to collide in a series of chance events, Magnolia opts for an intimate and studied portrait of each of its nine focal characters by allowing their suffering to be its own dramatic vehicle. Nonetheless, Anderson is a cinephile, and he is indebted here, as in all of his work, to other distinctive and established filmmakers, Altman especially. This film bears some obvious resemblance to Short...
March 18, 1993 Clinton with friend and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Roger Altman, thanking federal workers...
November 29, 1999 The National Equirer, owned by the company Altman runs, runs a fun headline
...emotionally) imprecise region that lies somewhere between a hungry gut and a yawning ego. But it has kept Moore busy (21 features since 1992) and won her an Oscar nomination (for Boogie Nights) and the respectful regard of directors ranging from Steven Spielberg (The Lost World) to Robert Altman (Short Cuts), if not yet the kind of stardom that can carry a picture...