Robert Altman, 80 in February...

...yet he's making movies like The Company, television series like Tanner on Tanner, he and Garry Trudeau's Sundance Channel update of Tanner '88, and still finds time to stick to his ornery guns: "With the first series, I guess I got in as far as I want to get inside the political process... This time round, we were mainly looking at ourselves as filmmakers and looking at our flaws rather than someone else's."