Altman
Robert, 1925–2006, U.S. film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Sidney, born 1939, U.S. biologist, born in Canada: shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989.
Contemporary Examples
My Pal Paul Newman A. E. Hotchner March 18, 2010
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange Marlow Stern December 26, 2014
The World’s 12 Richest Dogs The Daily Beast June 17, 2010
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange Marlow Stern December 26, 2014
My Pal Paul Newman A. E. Hotchner March 18, 2010
Historical Examples
Spillthrough Daniel F. Galouye
That Affair Next Door Anna Katharine Green
Spillthrough Daniel F. Galouye
A New Sensation Albert Ross
The Phantom of the River Edward S. Ellis
noun
Robert. US film director, 1925–2006; his films include M*A*S*H (1970), Nashville (1975), Short Cuts (1994), and Gosford Park (2001)
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Robert (“Bob”) born 1946, U.S. track-and-field athlete.