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In the 1980s, Robert Altman turned to the theater and theatrical adaptations with movies such as Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (play and film, 1982), Streamers (1983) and Fool for Love (1985). In 1987, he shot TV versions of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and The Room. A year later followed a television staging of Herman Wouk's original play The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.
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Pages 193-197 in McGilligan's biography of Robert Altman detail Robert Altman's clash with Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut. (Senator Dodd was a devout Catholic. Senator Thomas J. Dodd's son Chris Dodd would later become a senator from Connecticut. Senator Chris Dodd was, like his father, a Catholic; he was married to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) Senator Thomas J. Dodd was deeply concerned with negative influence of immorality in film and other media. McGilligan, pages 193-194:
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As a filmmaker, Robert Altman (1925-2006) was known as a risk taker and a nonconformist, who was committed at all cost to his own vision. While this led to what many critics consider a highly uneven output, successes like M*A*S*H (1971), Nashville (1975) and The Player (1991) were instrumental in cementing his strong international reputation.
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In 1969, Robert Altman was offered the script for the black comedy-drama about surgeons in a Korean War medical unit, M*A*S*H (1970). It was not only his breakthrough with a larger public and a global box office success, it ... won him the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival.
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As an adult, Lohan began to take on more varied roles and projects, including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion. While filming Herbie: Fully Loaded in 2004, Lohan launched her career in music, recording and releasing her first studio album, Speak; her second album, A Little More Personal (Raw), was released in 2005.
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In 2000, Robert Altman had declared that the election of George W. Bush was “a terrible reverse for the American company”. He had honoured in 1999 in Cookie' S Fortune the universe with the bluesmen with Mississippi. Its last film, A Meadow Home Connection, that the French distributors renamed - as visited by a fatal premonition - The Last Show, recalls the last public recording of a radio broadcast emitted of Minnesota and specialized in the old women songs. He leaves on December 6, and one sees there a woman, phantom in white raincoat, to wander among the singers country condemned to unemployment.
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