Posted on 03/19/2006 9:16:35 AM PST by SquirrelKing
The sun is rising over a house in the Berkeley Hills, and in its modest studio apartment, America's most compelling anti-war activist is making her bed, apologizing for the clutter and running late.
Cindy Sheehan was up much of the previous night while emergency room doctors treated her daughter for a painful cyst, but sleeping in is out of the question. Soon a car will whisk her off to a Canadian TV interview, to be followed by a local TV interview, and finally, fixing spaghetti for her three adult children in Vacaville -- her home before the death of her soldier son Casey and the political trajectory of her anguish propelled her to divorce, to estrangement from friends, and to a frenetic campaign to end U.S. military involvement in Iraq.
[Listen to a podcast about Cindy Sheehan]
And where is "home" to her now?
She pauses and sighs, sinking into the window seat and pulling a quilt up to her chin. "Nowhere, really ... ."
She's averaging just two days per month here. The next morning she will fly off again, the surreal star of what is -- depending largely on one's political perspective -- either an epic tragedy or a farce. After stops for protests in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., she will breakfast in Manhattan with actress Susan Sarandon, who is set to portray her in a biopic movie. A crew will film Sheehan for a weekly reality series on the Sundance Channel. Her letters to President Bush inspired "Peace Mom," a one-woman monologue show in London. A memoir is due to her publisher April 1.
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E-mail Vicki Haddock at vhaddock@sfchronicle.com.
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Ewww! Don't you know where it's been?
Though that might explain the smell...
Compared to the Stouffer's ad voiceovers she's been doing lately, she must think this is a positive career move.
When I saw that on Drudge, I didn't know which is worse; the thought of a movie being made about that ugly skank, or the real life skank who is going to portray her! OMG
And another thing: I would like some warning if I am going to scroll down and be subjected to actual pictures of Sarandon, Sheehan, or Shrillery! The 3 sss's, you know, like the sound a snake makes right before it strikes!
barf again.
On the other hand, if Hollywood were to have a movie about, say, Ann Coulter, they'd probably go to the other extreme and have Kathy Bates play her!
You know, Cindy looks much more like Tim Robbins.
Horrors! What would the Coulter-needs-to-eat-more crowd here on FR say?
=)
Really? Too funky!
I would think Stouffer's would want customers to keep their food down...
Susan Sarandon is a beautiful woman..misguided, yes, but you can't deny she's a great looking woman.
I guess beauty IS in the eye of the beholder.
sigh.....just because you don't agree with a performmer's someone's politics doesn't mean they are ugly or untalented. It's one of my biggest grievance with FR.
She's never been attractive, and is even less so now that she has turned into a hateful moonbat.
I laughed like hell when she was so totally miscast as Sr. Helean Prejean in that anti-death penalty movie.
I didn't think she was attractive even before I metamorphosed into a conservative...now Michelle Pheiffer (sp)in the Fabulous Baker Boys...Yeow!
Paper or plastic.........
How about Jim Varney --- Ernest?
http://www.jimvarney.org/
I loved her in the final scene of Thelma and Louise.
...and the oscar goes to......
Slutty looking, but somewhat attractive. She cleans up well.
I here you. I'm tired of some folks coming down on Janet Reno and Helen Thomas for the same reason.
;-)
....... on the grand piano.
;-)
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