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Local Boy Made Huge ROBBINS, N.C. — Two days after Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry announced his choice of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards as a running mate, there was little evidence of the event in Edwards' rural, industrial hometown. There were no banners, no balloons, no Kerry-Edwards lawn signs. Although the owner of the Capt. Snipper Salon and Day Spa had put up a hand-lettered poster on the morning of the announcement — "Congradulations to John Edwards" — that poster was gone by the next day. At Amy's Cafe, old men in work-worn clothes sat eating barbecue...

<p>ROBBINS, N.C. — Two days after Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry announced his choice of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) as a running mate, there was little evidence of the event in Edwards' rural, industrial hometown.</p>

John Edwards wasn't running for a sophomore term in the U.S. Senate because polls showed he would probably lose. His home turf reveals why he is the political and intellectual equivalent of the smiley-face button. How embarrassing: Moore County is pro-Bush territory and voted against Edwards in 1998. The Los Angeles Times paid a visit and reported today, "There were no banners, no balloons, no Kerry-Edwards lawn signs." "He lives in Raleigh. He doesn't live here," deliveryman Terry Parrott told the pro-Democrat newspaper. "Seems like, in the last couple of years, the only time he's been here was when the...

Dear Mr. Robbins, I’ve never written to a movie star before—least of all to one who cares as much as you. That I have contempt in my heart for you disturbs me more than you will at first appreciate. Make no mistake about my feelings. Your feeble political satire about the war in Iraq, Embedded, which you’ve also directed at the Public, has been dressed up as a revolutionary statement. Enough is enough. I usually strain to be polite, but there will be no apologies from me this time. I’m no political animal, but I know smugness when I see...

NEW YORK (Talon News) -- Liberal Hollywood actor Tim Robbins has received poor reviews for his new anti-war, anti-Bush satirical play called "Embedded." Although the 90-minute play debuted at the Public Theater in New York on Sunday, it has not been welcomed even by the mainstream press. The New York Times wrote in a review that "Embedded" seems old and that "it is hard to avoid the sensation that everything said here has been said before, in some cases many years before." The New York Daily News described the play as "slapdash" and "adolescent." The Associated Press compared "Embedded" to...

THE D.C. SNIPER'S JIHAD By MICHELLE MALKIN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email Archives Print Reprint December 10, 2003 -- FROM the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism: * CNN downplayed Muhammad's religious conversion - calling him by his old name, John Allen Williams, when his identity was first revealed. Malvo was cast as a clueless dupe with no true convictions. * Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued: "There...

Little Timmy Robbins has written a play. From the reports it is full of the usual anti-Bush, hate-filled rhetoric that has become a left mainstay these days. Mr. Robbins takes it a step farther, however. He portrays our soldiers and marines as roving bands of thieves and looters who murder women and children for the fun of it. He tells his story through the eyes of an embedded reporter. This “reporter” is apparently told what to say; what he can show and if he doesn’t go along with the great Bush lie, his words will be written for him by...

LOS ANGELES — Embedded journalists brought the Iraq war live into America's living rooms. But now, actor and anti-war activist Tim Robbins has written and directed a play depicting his version of what he thinks happened in Iraq. Robbins, an ardent critic of President Bush, as well as the war, isn't a journalist, nor is he a soldier who has been to Iraq. In fact, he's never been embedded with the troops. But his play, "Embedded," profiles the journalists who traveled with and reported on U.S. soldiers in Iraq and features the president's war cabinet. It was written in Los...

This is not to be missed. Tim Robbins does, what else, bash the liberation of Iraq, the Pentagon, and the embedded reporters who risked their lives to cover the war.

<p>LOS ANGELES — Embedded journalists brought the Iraq war live into America's living rooms.</p> <p>But now, actor and anti-war activist Tim Robbins has written and directed a play depicting his version of what he thinks happened in Iraq.</p> <p>Robbins, an ardent critic of President Bush, as well as the war, isn't a journalist, nor is he a soldier who has been to Iraq. In fact, he's never been embedded with the troops.</p>

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."

Left-wing activist/actor Tim Robbins took a crude shot Thursday night at "compassionate conservatives." On CBS's late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, when Robbins was asked to "use the words 'compassionate' and 'conservative' in the same sentence while being neither ironic nor scornful," Robbins came up with "F*** compassionate conservatives," forcing CBS to bleep his first word though it was clear what it was. The MRC's Brian Boyd caught the exchange in question #4 during the "5 Questions" segment on the October 30 show: Kilborn: "Use the words 'compassionate' and 'conservative' in the same sentence while being neither ironic nor scornful."...

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Mystic River, starring Sean "Baghdad" Penn and Tim "Cold Chill" Robbins is set for release Oct. 10th. Mark your calendars and tell your friends!! Let's make sure Hollywood gets the message...Sean Penn and Tim Robbins do not deserve our money! Let's email this action alert to all on our email lists, let's spread the word so these actors and Hollywood get the message that we ain't buying their work...Should not bite the hand that feeds you!

<p>LOS ANGELES - Hollywood celebrities led by actor-director Tim Robbins called on Gov. Gray Davis Monday not to slash funding for public arts programs, saying children would suffer most and the money would scarcely make a dent in closing the state's $38.2 billion budget deficit.</p>

New Sean Penn/Tim Robbins Movie! Mark Your calendars, tell your friends that love America not to waste their money on this one!! Mystic River (2003) Release Date September 19, 2003 Three childhood friends, Sean (Kevin Bacon), Dave (Tim Robbins), and Jimmy (Sean Penn), are reunited after 25 years by a police investigation into the murder of Jimmy's oldest daughter. Sean was the cop on duty in the area when the girl was murdered, and Jimmy, an ex-con, wants to take the law into his own hands. Starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Laurence Fishburne (All 4 are on the...

Bull Durham stars give to food bank COOPERSTOWN - Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Ron Shelton, the co-stars and director of the film "Bull Durham," have each contributed $1,000 to the Cooperstown Food Bank The checks, which arrived Wednesday, followed an earlier $377 check, sent to the food bank through the efforts of the "Bull Durham" crew. The $377 was contributed by people who attended a 15th anniversary screening of "Bull Durham" last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. During that screening, Robbins passed a hat to collect money for the food bank. Ellen St. John, food bank director,...

WASHINGTON – “Lethal Weapon” actor Danny Glover is the latest celebrity facing an icy brand of national pride that puts the pinch on public figures who question American foreign policy. A threatened boycott seeks to force telecommunications company MCI to dump Glover as its pitchman because of views he expressed about Cuba and against the Iraq war. Similar frostiness extended to the Dixie Chicks, and actors Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon when they came out against war in Iraq. Glover said this chill comes from right-wing factions that he denounced as self-appointed thought police. “It’s basically this rabid...

TIM ROBBINS IN PERSON WITH "BOB ROBERTS"!! Actor/director/writer Tim Robbins will be at the Museum [of the Moving Image--http://www.ammi.org] next Monday, May 19, at 7:00 p.m. for a special screening and discussion of his shockingly timely 1992 film BOB ROBERTS, a political satire that makes reference to the Gulf War, President Bush, Saddam Hussein, and weapons of mass destruction. [TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE EXPECTED TO SELL OUT QUICKLY…CALL 718-784-4520 to ORDER. SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION]. Robbins is best known for his roles in such films as BULL DURHAM, THE PLAYER, and SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, and for DEAD MAN WALKING,...