See post #49 . . .
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Posted on 04/21/2003 7:13:17 AM PDT by jonalvy44
Dear MGM:
Please, no, no, no, say it isn't so! Don't defile the memories of the victims of 9-11 by allowing Mr. and Mrs. Sarandon to be involved with anything related to this national tragedy...Their blatant anti-Americanism taints any effort on their part to attempt to create a film about this event. This is not only disgraceful, it will not be financially successful for your company. The American public just won't tolerate it.
Jon Alvarez Syracuse, NY Why we fight: Visit Alvy's forum: Americans For Victory Over Terrorism: Bush Country
We Won't Forget!
Forwarding to other like-minded Americans:
Please contact MGM and tell them that this would be a disgrace for them to be involved with...I am totally disgusted.
Contact MGM to share your feelings at: MGM Contact Info: mgmonline@mgm.com
MGM Website Feedback Form: and http://www.mgm.com/corp_inv_contact.do
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/1818049.stm
Wednesday, 13 February, 2002, 14:15 GMT Film plan for Twin Towers hero
Susan Sarandon is an Oscar winning actress
Hollywood couple Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are to make a film about the 11 September attacks in New York, focusing on the bravery of a British security officer. Robbins and Sarandon are to base their film on the bravery of Rick Rescorla, a Cornwall-born war hero, who died in the attacks saving thousands of people.
Susan Greer holds a photo of her husband
The film is based on an article by James Stewart in the New Yorker magazine, All The Heroes Are Dead, and is one of three productions about the attacks on the Twin Towers currently in planning.
Rescorla moved to the US a the age of 23 and served in the US army in Vietnam, his exploits later recounted in the book - and now film, We Were Soldiers - in which he was described as a "battlefield legend".
Drama unfold
He was the head of security at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and died evacuating people from one of the New York towers.
In 1993, he was the last to leave the tower when a bomb was found in the centre.
Rick Rescorla has been called a "battlefield legend"
As the buildings came under attack he phoned his wife at home, who was watching the drama unfold on television .
He told her: "I don't want you to cry. I have to evacuate some people now. If something happens to me, I want you to know that you made my life."
Oscar-winning actress Sarandon will play Rescorla's wife Susan Greer, and she and Robbins hope to have a studio deal in place shortly.
The film will concentrate on the love story between the couple, described as "two fractured people who found each other late in life and enjoyed a storybook romance".
The World Trade Center disaster will provide a cruel finale to the film.
MGM has made a deal with writer Lawrence Wright to adapt his New Yorker article The Counter-Terrorist, while ABC is preparing a major documentary based on Dennis Smith's book Report from Ground Zero.
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Thanks for the rundown on the Sarandon's, AR. I have been well aware of your service at Ia Drang and Rick Rescorla's. Thank you for that.
Thanks Saber for the ping to this.......can't be allowed to happen.
These people make me SICK!
Don't worry, we will. As to your post 66, we will make sure MGM knows the price it will pay for a travesty of this kind to even be contemplated.
Think the Blixie Chicks album plumetted MGM? Just try and do a movie with those two involving 911 and a hero like Rescorla.
ICE pulled a frosty 5.5 rating/9 share in NIELSEN's 55 overnight markets. But it was in New York City where Sarandon hit complete bottom. At 9 PM in Gotham, Sarandon trailed even the WB network's BLACK SASH [3.5/5], with a 3.4 rating/5 share -- the lowest seen for CBS on Sunday night in recent memory. It is not clear if it was ICE's subject matter -- a woman suffering from breast cancer in the South Pole -- or if it was viewership rejection of Sarandon that resulted in the startling ratings crash.
In other words MGM execs: "Whay you have to ask yourself PUNK, is, do I feel lucky?
See post #49 . . .
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.
why would I support these assholes, why would I want to see them on the screen
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Only if they get to play people on floors higher than 100 and the flying of planes into the set ISN'T a camera trick!
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