Tim Robbins' 'Embedded' to Open in New York [HOLLYWOOD LIBERAL ALERT]

editorandpublisher.com ^ | January 16th | E&P Staff

[VaBthang4]

Tim Robbins' 'Embedded' to Open in NYC

By E&P Staff

Published: January 16, 2004

In a major surprise, Tim Robbins' play "Embedded," about U.S. reporters and soldiers during the Iraq war, will open Feb. 24 at the Public Theater in New York. Robbins will direct the play, as he did last fall in Los Angeles, but will not star in it.

New promotion for the play (which E&P first reviewed last October) describes it as "a ripped-from-the-headlines satire about the madness surrounding the brave women and men on the front lines in a Middle East conflict. [It] skewers cynical embedded journalists, scheming government officials, a show-tune singing colonel, and the media's insatiable desire for heroes."

The play is dedicated, according to Robbins, to Joe Strummer, the late leader of punk rock group The Clash.

"Embedded" had its world premiere on Nov. 15, 2003, at The Actors' Gang Theater in Los Angeles, where Robbins is artistic director.

Robbins told The New York Times today: "People have been questioning my patriotism, and that gets your attention. I grew up on the streets of New York, so I think in a survival mode. If you attack me, I'm going to respond."

The play portrays a U.S. attack on the fictional nation of Gomorrah. One of the play's chief characters is a Colonel Hardchannel who berates American journalists as maggots and tells them they must submit all reports to him. "If a Babylonian granary is bombed," he thunders, "it is to be called a poison factory." He also encourages photographers to shoot close-ups of mass graves, but avoid taking photos of casualties caused by the Americans.

There are also characters clearly based on Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Jessica Lynch. Robbins says the play is in the "punk" spirit of "rude" satire.

[VaBthang4]

It never ends...

[OPS4]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1062220/posts

Read this post about the Tim Robbins candidate Mr. Kerry, and then forward it to whom and let him respond.

Ops4 God BLess America!

[philo]

Why tarnish Joe Strummer's name

[Tacis]

Timmy is a great American and I wish him the same success on Broadway that Rosie had.

[spodefly]

Tim "chill wind" Robbins brings his 'parody' to NY.

Gosh, it seems like Ashcroft, Bush, and the Patriot Act would have send him to the gulag by now ... /s

[jscd3]

It never ends...

And it never will. Remember, these are the same guys who still think that the Rosenburgs were innocent victims of the "Red Scare" and the Stalin was a peaceful agrarian reformer...

[4mycountry]

Hollywood leftist PING!

[wizardoz]

Gosh, it seems like Ashcroft, Bush, and the Patriot Act would have send him to the gulag by now ...

Isn't it a trip? He's screaming "I'M BEING SILENCED! I'M BEING SILENCED!!" at the top of his lungs, and has been for a couple of years now. He'll lose his voice before anyone bothers to shut him up.

[lilylangtree]

I'm not in NY. However, if I were, this would NOT be on my agenda to attend.

[wizardoz]

Hollywood leftist PING!

Hello? I'm from the Department of Redundancy Department? You're in violation and also not in compliance?

[AmishDude]

Robbins says the play is in the "punk" spirit of "rude" satire.

Translation: It is poorly written and not funny, hoping to trade in on controversy to get a pathetic, meager audience.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Thanks. I'm falling behind on the job. Ping coming soon.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Please FReepmail me if you want on/off this ping list.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

It's my fault. I created the list. She was merely informing me that the rest of the people on the list may want to know about this.

[BattleFlag]

This play is nothing more than a manifestation of Pokey the punk's insecurity about being widely criticized, not for being wrong about Iraqi Freedom as 99% of hollywood is, but being stupid enough to make sure the world knows it.

He's in search of agreement and validation even if its in the form of poorly done, irrelevant satire or as AmishDude says, "...hoping to trade in on controversy to get a pathetic, meager (and I would add sympathetic) audience."