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Now and Then: Susan Sarandon on Boycotts and Free Speech
USA Today / StopDrLaura.com ^
| 4/14/2003 / April 2000
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Posted on 04/14/2003 1:24:45 PM PDT by dirtboy
NOW: (from USA Today): Says Sarandon, "It's so ironic that we should be quote unquote liberating another country and giving them a democracy when we're telling people here if they open their mouths, they're not allowed to participate."
THEN (from StopDrLaura.com): Academy-Award-winning-actress Susan Sarandon offered her comments and a photo for the StopDrLaura.com web site. "Dr. Laura has a right to her opinion, but I think it's irresponsible of Paramount to not give equal time, at the very least, to a person with a more enlightened and contemporary perspective," Sarandon's statement said. "I'm totally against wasting the airwaves giving visibility to a person who is clearly in dire need of compassion, education, and a good shrink herself."
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hypocrisy; sarandon
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To: dirtboy
And, according to Sarandon, boycotting her equates with the stifling of free speech.
To: dirtboy
Like I said on another thread...the hollywood leftists think they and only they can speak out. Speaking of shrinks...I think timmy and suzie are both in dire need of a shrink.
To: theDentist
made-for-TV movie...won't be on my TV How dare your TV victimizes this poor, voiceless, platformless, locked-out-of-the-media RED{as in Russia}head. Why surely you have umpteen TVs simultaneously airing every major network & cable TV all the time like the rest of do. After all, we don't want to be accused by the liberal left that we're boycotting the 99 other stations by actually watching only one. Not very diversity-driven, ya know.
To: Drew68
It has always saddened me that the T-Bird had to demolished for a Sappy Saranwrap flick.
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posted on
04/14/2003 1:59:44 PM PDT
by
exit82
To: dirtboy
Stupid beeatch...
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posted on
04/14/2003 2:01:04 PM PDT
by
Bob J
To: BunnySlippers
boycotting equates with the stifling of free speech. Liberal Commandment No. 2: Thou Shalt Not Closetize Thy Liberal Neighbors' Free Speech.
(Liberal Commandment No. 1: The Only Absolutes are that There Are None * Except the 100 or so Liberal Commandments...read the "fine print" of our two-faced rhetoric)
To: dirtboy
The next time the Liberals whine about "Freedom of Speech" please tell them it only means they are free from their Government's interference, but not their public's judgement- so shut the H*ll up! :-)
And, as I never tire of repeating, Sarandon's liberal "enlightment" was detailed in an old "Personality Parade" Q&A back in the 80's. After losing the "Witches of Eastwick" role she coveted to that other genius, Cher, Susan was able to identify with the oppressed peoples of Nicaragua, El Salvadore, or whatever.
Typical Whollyweird fluffheadedness.
To: dirtboy
Hollywood Freak Bump.
To: dirtboy
She just never shuts up, does she? I feel sorry for her poor trapped kids. Imagine her as your mother.
To: dirtboy
The anti-war types also vociferously "support the troops"...
except for the ones casting absentee ballots in Florida.
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posted on
04/14/2003 2:20:28 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: vikingchick
From IMDB.com
Susan Sarandon, an anti-war activist who did not speak out against the war when she appeared at the podium during this year's Oscars telecast, has come to the defense of Michael Moore, who did. Sarandon told the online edition of TV Guide: "The most interesting part of [the show] is when people go off the book and do something. That's what you remember. It's not sacrilege. It's there for entertainment. Here's a man that got an Academy Award for having an opinion [expressed in his anti-gun documentary Bowling for Columbine] -- why shouldn't he have an opinion when he's standing there [accepting it]?" Meanwhile, Ed Gernon, a 10-year veteran executive of Toronto-based Alliance Atlantis and the producer of the upcoming CBS miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, has been fired for remarks he made in a recent TV Guide interview, comparing the American backing for President Bush's preemptive strike in Iraq with the German people's backing for Hitler's policies at the outset of World War II.So, it is okay for her crowd to politicize an event but according to her insignificant other, the hall of fame can't do the same.
To: Paul Atreides
her insignificant other ha ha ha!
To: dirtboy
BUMP!!!
To: Luke
How does someone so immature get quoted so often? The sad fact is that USAToday believes what Sarandon said about being banned from participating. In fact, the reporter & editor who wrote & edited this thought this was an outstanding ironic trump card to end the story so they could elitely look down upon us "free-speech-stifler-peons."
LA Times media reviewer Howard Rosenberg belittled George Bush's TV appearance three days after 9/11. He rec'd 950 critical e-mails out of 1,000 in less than two weeks. So he had to write another column defending himself 12 days later: Of course, he, like Susie S, resorted to ending the article w/his first amendment trump card: "It's one thing to label someone a miserable jerk, another to advocate stilling the jerk's voice just because you find it strident."
Hugh Hewitt caught him on it: "Rosenberg lacked the courage in the recent column"--wrapping "himself in the First Amendment, which demonstrates either ignorance or disingenuousness...What stinks is this pathetic attempt to have ib both ways, to claim First Amendment protection while serving up an explanation/excuse that is neither."
Rosenberg only admitted to having poor timing of his column. Hewitt: "The column's timing didn't stink. The editorial content and supervision did."
There ya have it: Liberal commentary is never wrong. It never stinks. It's just poorly timed. Obviously anyone who disagrees with a liberal commentator from LALand (Hollywood or not) is attempting to "still" their voice.
Try convincing Hollywoodites of the putridity of their rhetoric and they'd swear you were attacking them with duct tape. (See, they've convinced themselves that when their movies bomb, it wasn't their fault...their product was 100% art...therefore, the problem was with the consumer who sought to stifle such art by not forking over their entitlement of art...greenbacks).
To: All
All of the people listed above are not from Hollywood, or California for that matter.
Georgia Clooney from Lexington,Kentucky
Matt Damon Born from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Janeane Garofolo from Newton New Jersey
Ethan Hawke from Austin Texas
Susan Sarandon from Jackson Heights, New York
Martin Sheen from Dayton OHIO
Barbra Streisand from Brooklin New York
Uma Thurman. from Boston Massachusetts
Gray Davis, and Barbara Boxer, both from New York, will be returning home in the not too distant future.....
To: Joe Hadenuf
BUMP!
To: marlon
Because she has so much experience method acting those parts
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posted on
04/14/2003 4:37:20 PM PDT
by
Wondervixen
(Ask for her by name--Accept no substitutes!)
To: dirtboy
Susan Sarandan in "Ice Bound" (2003) (TV)
A Woman's Survival At The South Pole
This project is categorized as being in production.
Susan Sarandan in "A Whale in Montana" (2004)
Status: Pre-production
Comments: Filming is scheduled to begin on May 19, 2003.
Status Updated: 7 March 2003
To: Colofornian; dirtboy
Susan Sarandan will probably get a part in this movie. Wouldn't it be nice if Paramount Pictures and Lions Gate Films received negative e-mail about Sarandan?
"The Prince and the Freshman" (2004)
Release Date: TBA 2004 (wide)
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Films (coproducing with Paramount; they're handling foreign distribution), Sobini Films (Julia Pastrana)
Cast: Julia Stiles (Paige), "SUSAN SARANDAN"(in talks); other cast not announced yet.
Director: Martha Coolidge (Real Genius, Out to Sea, Rambling Rose, Lost in Yonkers, Valley Girl)
Screenwriter: Katherine Fugate (she made her debut with Carolina, which also stars J. Stiles); rewrites by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (cowriters of Raising Helen)
Premise: Paige (Stiles), a free-spirited American college student (and motorcyling enthusiast) starting her education at an Indiana university, meets and falls in love with one of her classmates, but what she doesn't know is that he's actually a British prince, Frederick, spending his "gap year" (before having to perform his princely duties) by hiding in America disguised as a regular guy (Sarandon would play his mother).
Filming: Production is scheduled to start in July, 2003 (pushed back four months from the original target start in March) in Prague, the Czech Republic.
Genre: Comedy, Female, Romance, Teen
To: Joe Hadenuf
Why isn't this thread getting more play?
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