The great if uneven director has died. (Associated Press obit here.) There was a time in the '70s when I would go to any movie with Altman's name on it; in various theaters I saw "MASH," "Brewster McCloud," "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," "Nashville," "California Split," "Buffalo Bill and the Indians," "The Long Goodbye," "Popeye," "3 Women" … my reactions sometimes ranging as wide as the content and subject matter of the movies. But he did some remarkable work along the way, and more besides in TV ("Tanner '88," "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial").

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