QUICK TAKES - Jan. 3, 2009

Filmmaker George Butler wants his friends to know he’s very much alive, despite a premature obituary on “The Charlie Rose Show” this week.

During Rose’s annual New Year’s Eve tribute on PBS to notable figures who died during the year, he included Butler, whose 1977 film “Pumping Iron” featured a then-unknown bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The PBS show had confused him with another George Butler, a longtime jazz record executive who signed Wynton Marsalis. He died April 9.

Rose, who did not immediately respond to e-mail messages seeking comment, apologized at the opening of Thursday’s show.