Tim Robbins' play Embedded not endorsed by Fox News embedded reporters

Editor&Publisher.com ^ | November 21, 2003 | Editor & Publisher

[Captain93728]

NEW YORK -- Tim Robbins' new play Embedded, centering on U.S. soldiers and reporters in Iraq -- has opened in Hollywood and runs through Dec. 21 at the Actor's Gang Theater.

Robbins interviewed embedded journalist Evan Wright of Rolling Stone as part of his research, along with Anthony Swofford, the Gulf War I veteran who wrote the popular book Jarhead.

Cofounder of the Actors Gang in 1981, Robbins is both writer and director of "Embedded," which depicts soldiers getting ready to leave for war in an oil-rich land called "Gomorrah" to fight against the "butcher of Babylon."

[Captain93728]

A Fox News reporter and one of our soldiers in uniform attended this play and one of the audience members called the soldier "a Nazi".

It's the epitome of irony that Robbins' freedom of speech is being protected by the very people he's mocking in this play.

I wonder if Robbins is one of the "americans" Ann Coulter describes in her book about treason... along with Sarandon, Penn and Garafalo.

[elbucko]

Robbins' should have some object, imbedded some where.

[linn37]

I think he has something embedded,he needs to eat more fiber.

[wizardoz]

Spoiled Leftie Has Brat Attack: "No one should ever disagree with me, ever!"

[anniegetyourgun]

Saw the LaJeunesse (of FoxNews) commentary on this dramatic effort. As he was embedded and knows first-hand of what he speaks, he didn't have much good to say of this trash - written by a guy who doesn't know squat about what he's trying to portray.

However, I can see how Robbins' hatred for the Prez and the U.S. would drive him to such a worthless screed.

[MCRD]

I've got an idea for a play where a former Marine bumps into Tim Robbins on the street and beats the silly shiite within an inch of his worthless life. Now if I can only find a backer.

[Incorrigible]

I saw this report on FoxNews last night.

What a disrespectful buch of trash! That includes Robbins, the actors and even the audience.

Except of course for the Marine officer and FoxNews reporter who attended just to see how off base this "play" is.

[P-Marlowe]

Now if I can only find a backer.

I'd pay good money just to watch the rehersals.

[Commiewatcher]

Here's hoping for a chill wind at the box office.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'll pitch in so long as Timmy doesn't get a stunt double.

[TheGeezer]

One of the truths Coulter proves clearly is that liberals support socialist dictatorships blindly and vociferously. This is the same: a liberal blindly supports a brutal and monstrous dictator, lying unabashedly, and with the explicit and implicit support of local paper press allies. So typical.

Thank heaven for Fox News, weblogs, the internet...so the truth may be known.

[armymarinemom]

I wonder if Robbins is one of the "americans" Ann Coulter describes in her book about treason... along with Sarandon, Penn and Garafalo?

Robbins and Sarandon have been living together for several years. My guess is that they are covered much like a two for one sale.

[Lee'sGhost]

" wonder if Robbins is one of the "americans" Ann Coulter describes in her book about treason... along with Sarandon, Penn and Garafalo."

Without a doubt.

[mhking]

Please post entire article when not covered by exclusions:

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NEW YORK -- Tim Robbins' new play Embedded, centering on U.S. soldiers and reporters in Iraq -- has opened in Hollywood and runs through Dec. 21 at the Actor's Gang Theater.

Robbins interviewed embedded journalist Evan Wright of Rolling Stone as part of his research, along with Anthony Swofford, the Gulf War I veteran who wrote the popular book Jarhead.

Cofounder of the Actors Gang in 1981, Robbins is both writer and director of "Embedded," which depicts soldiers getting ready to leave for war in an oil-rich land called "Gomorrah" to fight against the "butcher of Babylon."

Also featured are masked characters in the government's "Office of Special Plans" with names like Rum-Rum, Pearly White, and Woof.

Reporters are pictured caving in to military authority, personified by their "minder," a Colonel Hardchannel, who refers to them as "maggot journalists."

Robbins told the Los Angeles Times' Richard Stayton last week that vicious attacks on him and his family (especially his 13-year-old son) after he and Susan Sarandon came out against the war in the spring motivated him to write the play, which "came really fast." Among other things, Robbins was accused of being a traitor and his appearance at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown to honor Bull Durham was cancelled.

Slayton called Embedded "a surprisingly touching and balanced play."

Asked what he hoped to accomplish with Embedded, Robbins told the Times, "Maybe -- those of us who are against the war -- can find some solace in that other people might have the same questions." He added that he couldn't understand that if conservatives now "have all that power, and if they got it legitimately, then why be so concerned by what a couple of actors say?"

[TomB]

Here's the play we were discussing last nite.

[wizardoz]

He added that he couldn't understand that if conservatives now "have all that power, and if they got it legitimately, then why be so concerned by what a couple of actors say?"

If we lived in the kind of country Robbins likes to pretend we live in, he'd be dead by now in a mysterious accident. I've seen BOB ROBERTS and ARLINGTON ROAD. He's so paranoid it's almost sad. And yet, he, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky et al are still alive and well and prancing around in complete safety, like the court jesters they are.

[zook]

I'll chip in for that!

[TomB]

It's worth mentioning that Robbins refused to meet with LaJeunesse and the Marine until after they had seen the play. However, afterwards he still refused to meet with them. Also LaJeunesse and the marine did get one of the actors they interviewed to admit the play wasn't close to factual.

[Paul Atreides]

Thanks!

[SquirrelKing]

I guess Vagina Monologues was taken.