Download or read book Susan Sarandon written by Marc Shapiro and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first biography of Susan Sarandon highlights the real person behind the screen image, exploring her idealism, values, and combative spirit in the service of higher goals, while also celebrating her stunning film career. Renowned celebrity biographer Marc Shapiro traces Sarandonfs life from her strict Catholic upbringing in suburbia and her early days of protest in high school for civil rights and against the Viet Nam War to her more recent involvement with women and children''s rights in Nicaragua, the AIDS quilt project, ACT UP, the disruption of an Academy Awards ceremony to protest the internment of Haitians with HIV, and many other ongoing projects. Shapiro also discusses her first career successes through high-profile roles in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, and Thelma and Louise, as well as her openly unconventional relationships with directors Louis Malle and Franco Amuri, and actor Tim Robbins. So motivated is Sarandon by her convictions that she often chooses roles to reflect larger issues. She agreed to play in the film Dry White Season to draw attention to the evils of apartheid, and her opposition to the death penalty resulted in her Academy Award-winning performance in Dead Men Walking. Over the years she has paid a price for her activist positions, and supposedly she has accumulated a sizable FBI file. Nonetheless, she has proved time and again that she is always ready to speak out and act up whenever she believes it will do some good. No ordinary biography, Susan Sarandon is a captivating page-turner about a sexy, alluring, and passionately committed actress who has broken every conventional rule.
Download or read book Susan Sarandon written by Betty Jo Tucker and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Sarandon's memorable performances have made her an American icon. Passionate and outspoken, she's often controversial. Why did Sarandon choose acting as a career? What is her acting philosophy? How does she select roles? What motivates her to promote social and political causes? Why do some people object to this? How do critics rate her work and her movies? Betty Jo Tucker answers these questions and more in an analysis of Sarandon's achievements from a film critic's perspective. Tucker's book also includes an annotated filmography of Sarandon's movies and selected reviews of her key films.
Download or read book Happy Talk written by Jesse Eisenberg and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suburban woman with a love for community theater attempts to play matchmaker in this play by the Academy Award–nominated actor. Lorraine is a saint of the suburbs. On top of trying to save her dying mother, miserable husband and estranged daughter, she’s starring as Bloody Mary in the Jewish Community Center production of South Pacific. When her mother’s home aide, Serbian immigrant Ljuba, asks for help finding a husband, Lorraine takes on her most challenging role to date: matchmaker. In Jesse Eisenberg’s hysterical and devastating play, Happy Talk, he reveals the absurd lengths people go to save themselves in the name of saving others.
Download or read book The World is Just a Book Away written by James J. Owens and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Untouched written by Johnny Rozsa and published by Glitterati. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 80s, a time before Photoshop and plastic surgeons offered picture perfect complexions, masking even the slightest imperfections, Johnny Rozsa captured the flawless features of Hollywood's fresh crop of celebrity beauty. Rozsa recorded the pristine beauty and the exuberance of 115 stars before they were famous, and shows us what they were like before they began following the plan for eternal youth, an elixir of Botox, surgical procedures, and editorial support in the form of computer generated beauty. From Hugh Grant to Halle Berry, Janet Jackson to Nicholas Cage, John Malkovich to Natasha Richardson, with a special section dedicated the legendary Leigh Bowery, Untouched, Rozsa's first monograph, captures the era's most enduring icons at a time where ingénues rubbed shoulders with luminaries like Charlton Heston, Jane Russell, Joan Collins, Dolly Parton, and Tina Turner.
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Download or read book Dead Man Walking written by Helen Prejean and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral clarity.” —The Washington Post Book World • Basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn "Sister Prejean is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental. . . . She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.
Download or read book Goodnight Moon written by Margaret Wise Brown and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic of children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day. In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room—to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one—the little bunny says goodnight. One of the most beloved books of all time, Goodnight Moon is a must for every bookshelf and a time-honored gift for baby showers and other special events.
Download or read book Anywhere but Here written by Mona Simpson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller—adapted into a movie starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon—Anywhere But Here is the heart-rending tale of a mother and daughter. A moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer, the novel follows the two women as they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions. A brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation, Anywhere But Here is a story about the things we do for love, and a powerful study of familial bonds.
Download or read book Good Enough Mother written by René Syler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syler explains how she learned to chuck perfection for practicality, offering sage advice and tips on navigating different obstacles while offering real wisdom about mothering that is tempered with humor and warmth.
Download or read book Off the Cliff written by Becky Aikman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of history's most controversial and influential movies, drawing on exclusive interviews with the cast and crew. “You’ve always been crazy,” says Louise to Thelma, shortly after she locks a police officer in the trunk of his car. “This is just the first chance you’ve had to express yourself.” In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw women on the run from their disenchanted lives, was a revelation. Suddenly, a film in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel. It turned the tables on Hollywood, instantly becoming a classic, and continues to electrify audiences as a cultural statement of defiance. But if the film’s place in history now seems certain, at the time its creation was a long shot. Only through sheer hard work and more than a little good luck did the script end up in the hands of the brilliant English filmmaker Ridley Scott, who saw its huge potential. With Scott on board, a team willing to challenge the odds came together—including the stars Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon and a fresh-faced up-and-coming actor named Brad Pitt, as well as legends like actor Harvey Keitel, composer Hans Zimmer, and old-school studio chief Alan Ladd Jr.—to create one of the most controversial movies of all time. But before icons like Davis and Sarandon got involved, Thelma & Louise was just an idea in the head of Callie Khouri, a thirty-year-old music video production manager, who was fed up with working behind the scenes on sleazy sets. At four a.m. one night, sitting in her car outside the ramshackle bungalow in Santa Monica that she shared with two friends, she had a vision: two women on a crime spree, fleeing their dull and tedious lives—lives like hers—in search of a freedom they had never before been able to realize. But in the late 1980s, Hollywood was dominated by men, both on the screen and behind the scenes. The likelihood of a script by an unheard-of screenwriter starring two women in lead roles actually getting made was remote. But Khouri had one thing going for her—she was so inexperienced she didn't really know she would be attempting the nigh impossible. In Off the Cliff, Becky Aikman tells the full extraordinary story behind this feminist sensation, which crashed through barricades and upended convention. Drawing on 130 exclusive interviews with the key players from this remarkable cast of actors, writers, and filmmakers, Aikman tells an inspiring and important underdog story about creativity, the magic of cinema, and the unjust obstacles that women in Hollywood continue to face to this day.
Download or read book The Susan Sarandon Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Susan Sarandon written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her work. She is also noted for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes. This book is your ultimate resource for Susan Sarandon. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: , Thelma & Louise, Light Sleeper, Bob Roberts, Lorenzo's Oil, The Client (1994 film), Little Women (1994 film), Safe Passage (film), Dead Man Walking (film), James and the Giant Peach (film), Twilight (1998 film), Illuminata (film), Stepmom (film), Our Friend, Martin, Cradle Will Rock, Anywhere but Here (film), Joe Gould's Secret (film), Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Cats & Dogs, Igby Goes Down, Moonlight Mile (film), The Banger Sisters, Noel (film), Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, Shall We Dance? (2004 film), Alfie (2004 film), Elizabethtown (film), Romance & Cigarettes, Irresistible (film), Mr. Woodcock, In the Valley of Elah, Enchanted (film), Emotional Arithmetic, Speed Racer (film), Middle of Nowhere (film), The Greatest (2009 film), Peacock (2010 film), Leaves of Grass (film), Solitary Man (film), The Lovely Bones (film), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, I Hate You, Dad, Cloud Atlas (film), A World Apart (TV series), Search for Tomorrow, F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles', The Rimers of Eldritch, Oxbridge Blues, A.D. (miniseries), Mussolini and I, Women of Valor, Earthly Possessions, Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, Chappelle's Show, The Exonerated, Rescue Me (TV series), Bernard and Doris, SNL Digital Short, Dick in a Box, You Don't Know Jack (film), Queen of Jordan (30 Rock), School of the Americas Assassins, The Celluloid Closet, Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press, Mythos (film), Islamabad: Rock City, Home (2006 film), Coming Home (TV series), PoliWood.
Download or read book My Sister Eileen written by Joseph A. Fields and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1946 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As decribed in the World Telegram, The new play recounts only the twelve months' period encompassed by the signing of a lease on a Greenwich Village basement apartment and the evacuation thereof, and a few of the amazing adventures that
Download or read book The Best Susan Sarandon Guide 168 Facts written by Harry Moody and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let us shatter any Susan Sarandon myths. This book is your ultimate resource for Susan Sarandon. Here you will find the most up-to-date 168 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Susan Sarandon's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Exit the King - Productions, Mary Scheer - MADtv, Cradle Will Rock - Cast, Bernard and Doris - Critical reception, Little Women (1933 film) - Other adaptations, The Concert for New York City - Audience reaction, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - Characters, Kajol - 2006-10: Fanaa and beyond, Satellite Awards 2008 - Television categories, Soweto - Fiction and cinema, 1996 MTV Video Music Awards - Main show, Anton Yelchin - Career, The Tempest (play) - Screen, James and the Giant Peach (film) - Voices, Peacock (2009 film), Academy Award for Best Actress - Multiple nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress combined, Gillian Armstrong - Career, Cillian Murphy - 2006-2010, The Greatest (2009 film) - Plot, Into the Woods (film) - Development at Columbia, Richard Hatch (actor) - Television, The Lovely Bones (film) - Cast, Team America: World Police - Cast, Inside the Actors Studio - S, List of 30 Rock characters - Guest characters, Baltimore Orioles - Milt Pappas for Frank Robinson, 1994 in film - A-D, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains - The actors, 75th Academy Awards - In Memoriam, Amy Adams - 2005-07: Critical success and breakthrough acting roles, Michael Madsen - Career, Topher Grace - Career, Justin Henry - Early life and acting career, Solitary Man (film), Carolina League - History, and much more...
Download or read book Long Time No See written by Susan Isaacs and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe heroine of Compromising Positions returns to investigate a disappearance/divDIV/divDIVWhere did Courtney Logan go? The former investment banker turned suburban dilettante had not lived in Shorehaven for long, but had begun to establish herself there. Her small business—a video production company dedicated to filming newborns—was taking off, and she seemed to have settled into life outside of the big city. Then, suddenly, she disappeared./divDIV /divDIVJudith Singer wants to find her. Two decades after the thrilling case of a murdered dentist, the Long Island housewife is now town historian—and recently widowed. She needs a hobby, and Courtney Logan’s disappearance seems like just her kind of fun./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Isaacs, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection./div
Download or read book The Silenced Majority written by Amy Goodman and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of newspaper and magazine articles where Goodman and Moynihan take an anti-establishment stance and get to the heart of today's critical news stories and political events
Download or read book Susan Sarandon written by Robert A Evans and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the captivating journey that begins on the vibrant streets of New York City, where Sarandon's early years hinted at a destiny far beyond the ordinary. As we traverse the highs and lows of her cinematic career, from iconic roles in "Thelma & Louise" to the profound depths of "Dead Man Walking," the pages come alive with the vibrancy of her performances and the resonance of her characters. But this is not merely a recounting of filmography; it's an odyssey through the corridors of Hollywood power, where Sarandon's voice becomes a clarion call for equality. Her advocacy is not confined to red carpets; it reverberates through boardrooms, challenging the very foundations of an industry grappling with gender disparities. Through her, we witness a transformation-a seismic shift that extends far beyond the confines of the movie sets. As you turn the pages, you'll encounter the Susan Sarandon who not only broke through the glass ceiling but shattered it, paving the way for future generations of actresses. Her legacy is not confined to the screen; it's etched in the evolution of an industry and the empowerment of women who dared to dream beyond the stereotypes.
