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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. ... Read more

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Fascinating Biography
In this fascinating biography, Betty Jo Tucker avoids those dreary details that fill the pages of so many movie star bios and gets right to the nitty-gritty. Tucker includes interesting details of Sarandon's amazing career, aspects of her love life, past and present, and includes a extensive list of sources for digging deeper into the magic of Susan Sarandon. This book covers each of Sarandon's movies, allowing the reader to revisit those great characters from Annie Savoy from Bull Durham to Louise of Thelma and Louise. We learn about Susan's passions, what her peers really think about her and just enough of her personal life to satisfy. Tucker takes the reader behind the scenes to those private causes that touch Sarandon's heart and motivate this otherwise private movie star to speak out.If you love biographies but flip past those tedious chapters recalling the subject's childhood in endless detail, this is a must read.If you love movies, you will enjoy it even more.

Susan Sarandon: A True Maverick
Film Critic, Betty Jo Tucker, has done a fabulous job outlining Susan Sarandon's career and life behind the scenes.In this uniquely different biography of sorts, we hear from colleagues, friends, family and other movie critics about Sarandon and her works.Tucker has done her research and includes Susan Sarandon's filmography from 1970 to 2003,websites of interest, famed movie reviews, and even a bibliography of information on Sarandon.Tucker's work is interactive as well as it provides a quiz at the beginning to test your knowledge before you delve into this expertly written bio. *****

Chapters Include: Why Susan?, Recognizing a Maverick, Balancing Act: Family and Career, Roles of Distinction, Her Colleagues Speak Out, Ah, Men!, The Myelin Project, Her Critics Speak Out, and A Woman of Substance.

Tucker is donating her author royalties from this book The Myelin Project, a multi-national organization formed to support research on diseases like the one depicted in the inspiring film Lorenzo's Oil featuring Susan Sarandon.

Compulsivly Readable
Susan Sarandon: A True Maverick is one of the best star profiles to come along in a long time. It is a wonderfully light and entertaining look at one of films greatest stars.

Compulsivly readable, it is not really a biographybut more of a Sarandon file, filled with information about her life and career. We get to see Sarandon from the point of view of her work collegues, her friends, her family.We get to know the whole Susan, not just parts of her.

What I loved most about this book was it's wonderful writing and it's set up.Betty Jo talks to us, rather than at us, like most biographies.Instead of being boring, reptetitive and boring, Betty Jo presents us with a beautiful look at Sarandon the movie star, the friend, the activist and the mother.

If that's not good enough, Betty Jo has also compiled what is most likely the first annotated filmography of all of Susan Sarandon's films as well as selected film reviews of her work by various other film critics, a look at Susan's career, and opinions of Susan from people who have worked with her or known her.

Susan Sarandon: A True Maverick is no cardboard cut out biography. Instead, it is a treat to read, full of wonderful information about one of, if not the most beautiful woman working in film today.An amazing read and one that I will read again and again.

I may be a little biased...my film review of The Witches of Eastwick is in the back! But I'm not biased really. Aside from my review, Susan Sarandon: A True Maverick is just one hell of a great read. ... Read more

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Highly admired by both women and men, Susan Sarandon is anything but the typical Hollywood actress.In addition to her stellar film career, she has a list of passions--and a good many of them are political and social.

This is the first and only biography of Sarandon that highlights the real peson behind the screen image, exploring her idealism, values, and combative spirit in the service of higher goals, while also celebrating her stunning career as an actress.

Sarandon's creative and political passions have often meshed.So motivated is Sarandon by her convictions that she often chooses movie roles to reflect larger issues.Her opposition to the death penalty culminated in her Academy Award-winning performance in "Dead Man Walking."

From Nicaragua to nuclear waste; from voter registration to the Equal Rights Amendment; from ACT UP to Meals on Wheels and flood relief--Susan Sarandon is there.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.

Renowned celebrity biographer Marc Shapiro traces Sarandon's life from her Catholic upbringing in suburbia and her early days of protest for civil rights and against the Vietnam War to her more recent involvement with women's and children's rights in Nicaragua, and the unforgettable disruption of the Academy Awards ceremony to protest the internment of Haitians with HIV, among many other projects.Shapiro also discusses her career successes through her high-profile, groundbreaking roles in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Pretty Baby," "Atlantic City," "Thelma & Louise," and "Dead Man Walking," as well as her unconventional relationships with directors Louis Malle and Franco Amurri, and actor/director Tim Robbins.

No ordinary biography, SUSAN SARANDON is a captivating page-turner about a sexy, alluring, and passionately committed actress who has broken every conventional rule and survived to become one of Hollywood's outstanding stars. ... Read more

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Pulitzer-quality writing
The fact that this title wasn't considered for the Pulitzer the year is came out is a sham. Susan Sarandon is hot, white hot. Trying to chronicle and describe her dynamic life is like trying to explain a unicorn to a blind man. You can try, but you'll both end up confused. Shapiro has this woman down! Those of you looking for nudity will be disappointed. I've read it 5x and each time I pick up on some of the allegory and subtleties that Shapiro mixes into the biography. Very skillful!

Susan Rulezzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!1
This Biography of Susan Sarandon Is the most wonderful book I've ever read.
Marc Shapiro has donea great job writing this book. It's shows all the sides of susan. You don't even have to be a Susan fan to like this book.Most people only know she's a great actress but she's so much more. She's a wonderful activist, a mother and a beautiful woman.

It's really cool to read. Shapiro derscribes her whole life from her childhood till this moment.

This book shows the life story of a never comparable beautiful woman. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 6745 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Susan Sarandon, an accomplished actress who prefers not to be associated with the insular practices and policies of Hollywood, considers herself a humanist rather than a feminist because she feels that the feminist label makes people more defensive. She believes that attitudes of social concern must be expanded to encompass the rights of children, homosexuals and destitutes. She believes that acting can be addictive because of the insatiable urge to improve previous performances. She views her role in 'Thelma and Louise' as rewarding on a professional level, and views the film as a landmark for its portrayal of the female protagonists.

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Title: Acting, activism and Hollywood politics: an interview with Susan Sarandon. (Interview)
Author: Roy Grundmann
Publication: Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: v20Issue: n1Page: p5(7)

Article Type: Interview

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A grand adventure story
The adventures of how Ivan the archer and his wise "Horse of Power" survive the greed and selfishness of the czar make for an excellent adventure.Our 8-year old (knight loving) son and 5-year old(horse and princess crazy) daughter loved reading the book and listening tothe audio version while we were traveling in the car.This is anentertaining way to pass time while zipping down the interstate and makesfor good "quiet" time with the kids at home. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on April 4, 2001. The length of the article is 967 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Susan Sarandon: Me gusta ser villana.(actriz)(TT: Susan Sarandon: I like to play the villain.)(TA: actress)(Artículo Breve)(Entrevista)
Author: Susana Moscatel
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: April 4, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 47Issue: 2494Page: 68

Article Type: Artículo Breve, Entrevista

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Articles include baseball movies, Susan Sarandon, Shot by Shot: D.O.A.Gary Oldman, Dirty Dancing Au Revoir Les Enfants, more ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on November 28, 2004. The length of the article is 2176 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Susan Sarandon, conciencia crítica de Hollywood.(Entrevista)(Biografía)
Author: Sanjuana Martínez
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 28, 2004
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: 1465Page: 88(2)

Article Type: Biografía, Entrevista

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1995 Academy Award Nominee. Did you know that U.S. taxpayers foot the bill for a school on U.S. soil taht has graduated some of the worst human rights violators in the hemisphere? Since it was established in 1946, the United States Army School of the Americas has trained thousands of Latin American and Caribbean soldiers. Among them, we learn in the expos'e, are the former dictators of Argentina, Bolivia, Honduras and Panama. USing rarely seen footage, this documentary shows how officers who studied at the school are responsible for the massacre of tens of thousands of people, including Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador. In addition to shedding light on the secret world of the School of the Americas, the program also follows efforts of church people, activists and members of Congress to close it down. ... Read more

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A Russian legend about an archre named Ivan and his inseparable companion, the Horse of Power. ... Read more

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On November 22, 1998, over 7,000 students, church people, former military and activists met outside the gates of Ft. Benning, Georgia, where the U.S. Army School of the Americas is located, in the largest protest since the Vietnam War days. Led by actor Martin Sheen and Sister Jackie Doepker, 2,318 of them risked arrest and imprisonment by Crossing the Line onto the military base. Carrying coffins and crosses bearing the names of thousands of men, women and children assassinated by SOA graduates in Latin America, they demanded that the U.S. government end its policy of training foreign soldiers and close the SOA's doors forever. This 16 minute video docuemtns this nonviolent protest with interviews of the participants and dramatic scenes of the march. ... Read more

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A fine translator and performer
Stanley Lombardo strives to bring a classic to the hearts and minds of a modern, disinterested audience, an audience which may regard this epic as a relic of ancient times. As language mutates over time and the meaning of words change, a point is reached at which literature becomes unintelligible except to an elitist educated minority. We see this happening in Shakespeare right now for example. Similarly, translations of Ancient Greek classics from 80 years or more ago now sound 'archaic' in style. Lombardo attempts in his translation to bring the Iliad into an 'ultra-modern' idiom, and he does this with the heart of a poet himself.

His search for the poetic message in the modern idiom comes at some slight cost in translational precision, too much for some purists. However there can be no doubt that Lombardo possesses a profound insight into his subject material and he has chosen his words deliberately and carefully. For those interested in the sound of the original language, Dr Lombardo has, to my mind, his simply wonderful recitation of the first book of the 'Iliad' in Ancient Greek on the internet. When Chryses speaks, one visualises the old man and when Achilles and Agamemnon argue, the emotions sound fully authentic. So too he achieves emotional integrity in this recording. The technical quality is excellent, with clarity throughout.

Although an introduction of some sort is probably mandatory in a recording of this nature, and Susan Sarandon's introduction is fine, I found her preamble to each book of the 'Iliad' quite annoying. These are nothing more than a plot-revealing, in fact plot-diminishing summary of what is about to happen. What point in this when Lombardo's translation rings so lucidly to the modern ear? Perhaps they are placed out of fear of monotony developing in so long a tale. Also the music, which initiates and concludes each Book is unvarying and a little too long at 60 seconds every time. Such are the decisions made by the marketing people these days. I side-stepped annoyance by down-loading only the Lombardo tracks to my mp3 player. (My apologies to Ms Sarandon, whom I admire as a fine actor.)

If you are interested in a modern recording of an ancient classic, then I would recommend this without reservation. After listening to Lombardo, he has won me over and I'm a big fan.

An engaging, entertaining, and memorable reading of the classic work
Ably translated and expertly narrated by Stanley Lombardo, Iliad is a flawlessly recorded, complete and unabridged audio presentation of the timeless and classical Greek tale of the Trojan War ascribed to the blind poet Homer. Enhanced with an introduction read by Susan Sarandon, this audio book edition of the Iliad fully captures the epic nature of this story of an ancient tragedy. A "must" for school and community library audiobook collections, this Parmenides Audio 12 CD, 15 hour edition of the Iliad is enthusiastically recommended for all listeners searching for an engaging, entertaining, and memorable reading of the classic work. Also very highly recommended as translated by Stanley Lombardo and featuring equally insightful synopses from Susan Sarandon, is Homer's Odyssey (1930972067, $42.00, 10 CD, 12.5 hours, unabridged, Parmenides Audio).
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Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales Volume 4 enlightens and entertains with these classic stories read by your favorite stars and featuring original music by some of today's greatest artists.

The Firebird
Read by Susan Sarandon
Original Music by Mark Isham

When an archer named Ivan brings a golden feather from the Firebird to the Tsar, he is ordered to present the entire bird or lose his life. Next, he is commanded to retrieve a princess from the end of the earth for the Tsar to marry. but when Ivan himself falls for the princess, he--along with his companion, the Horse of Power--must find a way to thwart the Tsar. This tale captures the essence of old world Russia.


The Emperor's New Clothes
Read by Sir John Gielgud
Original Music by Mark Isham

Everyone in the kingdom understands the king's passion for new clothes. But when two swindlers claim to create the most beautiful cloth in the world, they cleverly proclaim that the "magical" garments they are weaving for the Emperor are invisible to anyone lacking intelligence. Who will have the courage to speak the truth? ... Read more

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If it can help 8th graders, it can help anyone!
I purchased this to accompany the class set of "The Odyssey" for my 8th grade Reading students. I thought the reading was excellent, and my students loved hearing it aloud, as it is meant to be enjoyed. It helped their comprehension immensely-they rarely had questions when listening, while they asked numerous questions when trying to read alone. There are a few places where the book and the cd do not match exactly, but it's never more than one word at a time. The introductions are, however, often not quite accurate-the information is not always with the proper chapter. The information is correct, just misplaced. ... Read more

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this is a 2nd hand PLAYBOY magazine JANUARY 1993 in near mint condition -- this issue contains centerfold monique noel from salem oregon -- an interview with susan sarandon-- 20 questions with richard lewis -- pictorials on the tories scandal - natalya negoda -personality on geraldo revera -- articles on sex in america - fashion -- ... Read more