Robert Altman film director best know forthe movie "Mash" has dies at 81 years of age,.
I would imagine there are not many people who haven't heard of the movie Mash,......albeit they would most likely know the TV series better
Here's some Mash Trivia:
- The opening title sequence has a text that identifies the place as Korea. This was added at the insistence of the studio after director Robert Altman had removed every reference to Korea, intending it to be mistaken for Vietnam, which would reinforce the anti-war statement.
- G. Wood (General Hammond) played the same character in the movie and first three episodes of the TV series.
- The 14-year-old son of Robert Altman, Mike Altman, wrote the lyrics to the theme song (and reportedly made more money from the movie than his father did as a result).
- This and Catch-22 (1970), two films satirizing recent American wars, were released in the same year. "Catch-22," based on a best-selling novel, featuring a huge cast, and boasting director Mike Nichols fresh from his success with The Graduate (1967), was expected to be the more successful film. When the reverse proved true, Robert Altman hung a banner in his office reading, "Caught-22."
Interesting that Altman's son made more money from writing the theme song,than his old man did ,making the Movie:
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