Under 30: I heart Robert Altman

Friday, March 03, 2006

I heart Robert Altman

The moment I'm looking forward to most during the Academy Awards (aside from any onscreen appearances by Scarlett Johansson and Philip Seymour Hoffman's acceptance speech) is when Robert Altman finally wins an Oscar. Sure, it's an honorary Oscar, which means the Academy thinks Altman's gonna die any minute, but at least it's something for one of the best filmmakers ever.

I'm gushing about Bob in my Check it Out column Sunday, so I'll give my remarks to a minimum until then. In the meantime, check out this tribute and this tribute.

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I can't complain but sometimes I still do

: Name: Steve Hyden; Location: Appleton, Wisconsin

My name is Steve and I'm a newspaper reporter and writer living in northeast Wisconsin, which is just below the armpit created by the bulk of the state and the peninsula. I don't live in the actual armpit, which is Green Bay, which is a place where fat people sit on their porches and watch traffic go by when the Packers aren't in season. I live in Appleton, a place where slightly less fat people do slightly more interesting things, like watch NASCAR, which is traffic with better camera work. I like living here 79 percent of the time. I fancy myself a deep thinker, an iconoclast, a man who can enjoy both high and low culture. Think Chuck Klosterman with a dose of Jack Nicholson from "Five Easy Pieces." However, I suspect I am not nearly as cool as I think I am. I may in fact be a dork. For example, look at how I described myself a few sentences earlier. What can I say? I'm the guy who started listening to the Clash when he was 13 not because he was reacting against the repressive Republican regime he had lived under most of his life, but because John Cusack wore a Clash T-shirt in "Say Anything..."

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Friday, March 03, 2006

I heart Robert Altman

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