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Olympic Filmmaker Bud Greenspan Dies at 84
By not in system - AOL NewsOh, to catch Bud Greenspan's eye and then turn up in one of his Olympic documentaries. For many athletes, from the famous to the obscure, the honor ranked just behind winning a medal. The filmmaker, whose riveting tales soared as triumphantly as the men and women he chronicled for more than six decades, died Saturday at his home in New York City of complications from Parkinson's disease, companion Nancy Beffa said. He was 84. "Bud was a storyteller first and foremost. He never lost his sense of wonder and he never wavered in the stories he wanted to tell, nor how he told them," she said ...
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By Michelle Brafman - Politics DailyLast night I invited my young children to stay up past their bedtime to watch Showtime with me. Typically, my husband and I wait until they're fast asleep before we indulge in recorded episodes of "Weeds," but at 7 p.m., with jammies donned, we tuned into "Bud Greenspan Presents: Beijing 2008 -- America's Olympic Glory."One frame of video zapped me back to the green couch in my parents' den where my dad fiddled with the television antenna to get clear reception of Greenspan's 22-part Emmy Award-winning documentary series, "The Olympiad." I learned from listening to David Perry's distinctive ...
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