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Suicide Is Painless

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Robert Altman said that while he only made $70,000 for having directed the movie, his 14 year old son had earned more than $1 million for having co-written the song.

Dr. H. Richard Hornberger (Richard Hooker) "was so furious at having sold the film rights for only a few hundred dollars that he never again signed a copy of the book".

Dr. John Lyday, Hornberger's model for Trapper John, came home to North Carolina after the Korean War, and established a surgical practice in Greensboro.

Originally shared by The Cloberth

“This isn't a hospital! It's an insane asylum.”

Three miles from the front line…
M*A*S*H premiered on this date in 1970.
Directed by Robert Altman
Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and Tom Skerritt
Co-starring Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall and Jo Ann Pflug
Screenplay, based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel, by Ring Lardner, Jr. [Laura (1944), Forever Amber (1947)]
Music by Johnny Mandel [The Sandpiper (1965), Being There (1979)]
Cinematography by Harold E. Stine
Nominated for five Academy Awards M*A*S*H won only for Best Adapted Screenplay. 
It won Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) at the 1971 Golden Globe Awards.
M*A*S*H is number 54 on AFI’s 2007 list AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies and number 7 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs. 
Deemed "culturally significant" was, in 1996, selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

MASH (1970) Movie Trailer 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O48Cr5vm6Yg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O48Cr5vm6Yg

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