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Robert Altman: 1925 - 2006

Director Robert Altman, whose best-known films include M-A-S-H, The Player and Nashville, died last night at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 81. The cause of death was not immediately known. Prior to the 2000 U.S.
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Director Robert Altman, whose best-known films include M-A-S-H, The Player and Nashville, died last night at a hospital in Los Angeles.

He was 81.

The cause of death was not immediately known.

Prior to the 2000 U.S. election, Altman promised journalists at the Cannes Film Festival that "if George Bush gets elected president, I will move back to France."

Bush was elected.

Altman never got around to moving to France, though.

His most recent film was A Prairie Home Companion released in June of this year.