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Actor/Director Tim Robbins hates free speech. So does his long-term partner, Susan Sarandon, as well as Janeane Garafolo, Martin Sheen, The Dixie Chicks, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner, Danny Glover, Chrissie Hynde, and other ''anti-war'' celebrities. They only love free speech when they are using it to bash the military, President Bush, and America, both in our own media and overseas. However, when the American consumer, offended by their blame-America first rhetoric, reacts with petitions and boycotts, the words ''blacklist,'' ''undermining free speech'' and ''suppressing dissent'' are used by these celebrities. Hollywood is scared, because...

Robbins Rants Over Critics Of His Antiwar Views Actor's Speech Chides Baseball Hall Decision, Media Outlets POSTED: 10:14 a.m. EDT April 16, 2003 Actor and peace activist Tim Robbins took another swing at the Baseball Hall of Fame during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington Tuesday, and also hit line drives at selected media outlets who have criticized his and partner Susan Sarandon's antiwar views. Robbins wrote a letter to Hall president Dale Petroskey last week, saying he belonged "with the cowards and ideologues in a hall of infamy and shame" after Petroskey cancelled a scheduled Cooperstown...

Sarandon's portrayal slammed by real-life doctor'This isn't me,' Dr. Jerri Nielsen says of her character in TV movie JOHN MCKAYCANADIAN PRESS "I wanted to work on Lake Simcoe." That was Susan Sarandon's flip initial reply when asked what drew the Academy Award-winning actor to her latest project, the TV movie Ice Bound, airing Sunday on CBS and Global TV. It was flip because she said later that while she was dressed warmly for the scenes shot on the Ontario lake last winter she doesn't handle cold weather very well. And what really attracted her was the story of Jerri Nielsen,...

Hall's Petroskey Throws Wild Pitch April 15, 2003 NEW YORK -- The tables turned on National Baseball Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey Monday. He had been scheduled to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Mets-Expos game at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, but officials in Puerto Rico, after consulting with Major League Baseball, decided the timing was not right. It wasn't a case of an invitation being rescinded as Petroskey did last week, canceling a ceremony in Cooperstown to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the baseball movie, "Bull Durham," because of the anti-war stance of the...

The 15th anniversary celebration of the baseball flick "Bull Durham" appears to be warming up in the bullpen after all, despite its cancellation by the Baseball Hall of Fame. Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins in 'Bull Durham' (MGM photo) Sportscaster Bob Costas says officials were wrong to nix the upcoming event in the wake of anti-war statements by Hollywood stars Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, and he's looking to stage the event on his own cable TV program. Costas says he's invited the stars of the film to appear on HBO's "On The Record" "not to talk about the controversy, but...

<p>Ken Paulson is executive director of the First Amendment Center with offices in Arlington, Va. and Nashville, Tenn. His mailing address is Ken Paulson, First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave South Nashville, Tenn. 37212.</p> <p>C O L U M N This just in: Janeane Garofalo is now more un-American than George Clooney.</p>

The DC Chapter of Free Republic learned through an anonymous source that Tim Robbins (actor, anti-war activist, significant other of Susan Sarandon) would be the guest speaker at a National Press Club luncheon on April 15, 2003. Accordingly, a few of us made plans to meet and greet Mr. Robbins when he arrived at the building to present his speech. I stepped out of my taxi a few minutes before Noon. The sidewalk outside the Press Club building was full of activity. There were people out enjoying the Spring weather, many going into the building, several cameramen waiting patiently, delivery...

general@hbo.com Dear HBO: I am writing to inform you of my plans to cancel my subscription to HBO. I will not support your company if you are going to pander to the anti-American Hollywood crowd. Bob Costas has invited Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon on his show to make a political point. That is his right. I am now exercising my right to cancel my HBO subscription. Loyal Americans will not forget those that spoke out against America in its war on terrorism. I will also forward this to other like-minded Americans that will follow suit and express their contempt...

Re "Cooperstown Muffs One" (editorial, April 12): The politically motivated decision by Dale Petroskey, the president of the Hall of Fame, to cancel the 15th-anniversary celebration of the movie "Bull Durham" because he takes offense at Tim Robbins's and Susan Sarandon's opposition to the war in Iraq mocks the very values that baseball and our country purport to represent. I suppose that Mr. Petroskey would like to bar all of us who oppose the war from Cooperstown as well. As we number in the millions, perhaps this is the only way for him to receive a long overdue lesson in...

<p>From the Dixie Chicks and Martin Sheen to Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, stars who speak out against President Bush and the war in Iraq are seeing repercussions.</p> <p>"There's a piling on, and we're isolating people. That's just wrong," says Kevin Costner, standing up for "courageous" Bull Durham co-stars Sarandon and Robbins.</p>

NASIRIYAH, Iraq -- Sheik Lami Abbas Ajali looked around at the small cell where he spent several bleak weeks of his life and recounted the torture: how he was hit, prodded, had his eyelids pulled back, had electric shocks applied to his temples and genitals, how his hands were cuffed behind him then raised until he was off the ground. He recalled Saturday how torturers stuffed 10 suspects into an 8-by-6-foot room so only two could sleep at any given time while the other eight were forced to stand

George W. Bush used to own the Texas Rangers. Maybe he wasn't smart enough to hang on to Sammy Sosa, but of all U.S. presidents, he should at least understand the importance of baseball as a wartime diversion. And where better to escape than in Cooperstown, a sleepy backwoods nook with a glimmerglass lake, hills, an old hotel and, over on Main Street, the Baseball Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, I won't be visiting the Hall anytime soon. Nor should you. We shouldn't because the president of the Hall, Dale Petroskey, is enforcing what appears to be a disturbing mandate of...

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld apologized to the celebrity community for the outcome of the war yesterday at his daily press briefing. "In spite of the joy we feel at what happened in Baghdad this week, it is tinged with sadness as we know that we have embarrassed and disappointed the many members of the celebrity community who wanted us to fail." Rumsfeld went on to say that "it is always difficult" to go against celebrity foreign policy analysts and added that he hoped "Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Michael Moore, Edward Norton and the Dixie Chicks will not feel too...

Babe Ruth once declined to have his picture taken with presidential candidate Herbert Hoover. "Nothing doing on politics," Ruth said. The baseball version of the separation of church and state is now shattered. In one letter to one person, the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has issued an edict to millions: If you oppose the war in Iraq, you're not welcome in Cooperstown. Dale Petroskey, a White House assistant press secretary in the Reagan administration, canceled the Hall's 15th anniversary celebration of the classic baseball film Bull Durham. The reason: Two of its stars, Tim...

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Hall President Stands by Durham Decision The baseball Hall of Fame president insisted Friday he was not politically motivated when he canceled a "Bull Durham" celebration because of anti-war criticism by co-stars Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, and said he had only one regret."I wish that the reasoning had been better articulated so it could have been better understood," Dale Petroskey, a former official in the Reagan administration, said from his office at Cooperstown, N.Y."What we were trying to do was take politics out of this," he said. "We didn't want people to espouse their views in a very public...

New York-AP -- The baseball Hall of Fame is staring at a real curve ball. It's facing criticism and one cancellation for asking two anti-war actors to stay away. The controversy surrounds a planned 15th anniversary celebration of the movie "Bull Durham." The Hall of Fame at first invited co-stars Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon. Both are vocal opponents of the war in Iraq -- an opinion the Hall president now says puts troops at risk and is too political for the baseball shrine. Now, in protest, a leading baseball writer is canceling a summer appearance in Cooperstown. "Boys of...

Dear Susan: I was wondering if you had a chance to see what’s on the tube lately? Oh, I don’t mean the reruns of your old movies, or those of your friends, or the style channel, the home and gardens channel or even PBS. And I know how busy you are, running around to this chichi party and that special function in your latest role as activist/useful idiot and all and I also know that you probably don’t watch too much news since facts might stand in stark contrast to your belief system, but if you’re missing what’s happening, I...

<p>Some among my loyal e-mailers have suggested that people like me, meaning people who have taken a strong public stand against the war, might actually be putting American troops in greater danger.</p> <p>I had been dismissing this notion as nothing short of preposterous until yesterday, when an almost identical charge came from Dale Petroskey, president of baseball's Hall of Fame. When the president of baseball's Hall of Fame stops whatever he's doing to criticize you, you might have to rethink your position.</p>

<p>The Baseball Hall of Fame president has pulled the plug on a 15th-anniversary celebration of the movie "Bull Durham" because of anti-war criticism by co-stars Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.</p> <p>Dale Petroskey sent a letter to Robbins and Sarandon this week, telling them the festivities April 26-27 in Cooperstown had been called off.</p>