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TIM Robbins' and Susan Sarandon's mission to protect the poor and needy doesn't apply to their Greenwich Village neighborhood. The Oscar-winning liberals recently attended a Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing to oppose St. Vincent's plea to build a new, larger hospital on West 12th Street, three blocks from their home.

What’s the time? It’s about that time. She’s been a trooper up ’til now — 36 years of her life lived under Republican presidents and still, somehow, she hasn’t left yet. How does she stand it? She must be a bona fide SuperPatriot. “I’ve got a lot of flak from feminists who feel that I should be supporting Hillary Clinton, but I thought the whole point of feminism is that you’re not supposed to be defined by gender,” she says… Always busy, Sarandon is about to start work on the romantic period drama The Colossus, but with the presidential election...

WILLCOX — The city may soon have a museum for another legendary singer from Arizona — Marty Robbins. The Friends of Marty Robbins announced recently that the Robbins exhibit is being moved from Glendale to Willcox. It will be at a yet-to-be-determined location. “The hometown of Rex Allen in Willcox has room in their heart for Marty Robbins,” the group’s Web site said. “Rex Allen is a another Arizona legend from Willcox, Arizona. Rex and Marty were friends in life, and Marty played in Willcox over the years.” said Juanita Buckley, founder and president of the Friends of Marty Robbins....

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case that raises significant issues about the ability of private citizens to sue government employees. In the case, Wilkie v. Robbins, a Wyoming rancher charged that officers at the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management retaliated against him after he refused to give the agency access to his land. The rancher, Harvey Frank Robbins, alleged the BLM officers violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and his Fifth Amendment rights by revoking his grazing permits and extorting him to gain access. Robbins originally filed suit against the six BLM employees...

ENTIRE SPEECH: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32088 DFU comments -- Three years ago, Tim Robbins was disinvited from speaking at the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. Neither the Bush Adminstration nor any Republican group in Congress did anything to try to prevent that speech. As we await the showing of THE PATH TO 911, we see a former president and the highest levels of the Democratic Party threatening legal and legislative action against ABC if a movie is shown. Does everyone now realize what would happen if Hillary got back into the White House? Or how about the danger if the Dems take...

"War of the Worlds" Spielberg-esque Message: Don't Fight Terror By Debbie Schlussel I'm violating Steven Spielberg's review policy for "War of the Worlds" and telling you what I think ahead of tomorrow's scheduled release date. I saw the movie at a press screening, last night, and was disturbed by the message: Don't fight terror, and everything will work out. (Security was literally tighter than that for going to the White House to meet the President. No purses allowed. Three wandings by security.) It's bad enough that Steven Spielberg is adding "balance" and factual inaccuracy to the story of the Israeli...

An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare...

Ex-Raider Robbins Shot by Police in Fla. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Former pro football player Barret Robbins was hospitalized Sunday after he was shot by a police officer investigating a burglary at a South Beach office, authorities said. The one-time Pro Bowl center sustained "multiple gunshot wounds" in the torso Saturday night from Miami Beach police investigating a report of a robbery in the administrative office of a building that houses a nightclub, a gym and a jewelry store, police spokesman Bobby Hernandez said. Robbins was inside the office and had a "violent struggle" with detectives before Detective Mike Muley...

When I titled my book "Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From San Francisco," I could just as easily have pointed out that liberals are from Hollywood. It really is a different planet from the one most of us live on. To begin with, it is populated with high school drop-outs and drama majors making millions of dollars a year, convinced they should decide h

VENICE, Italy (AFP) - US actor Tim Robbins took the film version of his ribald anti-Bush play "Embedded/Live" to the Venice film festival, while audiences delighted in Indian director Mira Nair's colourful adaptation of Thackeray's classic novel "Vanity Fair". Robbin's angry satire about the Bush administration's war in Iraq (news - web sites) and the complicity of the mainstream US media in its reporting from the early days of the war is the polar opposite of Nair's sumptuous examination of race and class. "Embedded" was born as a play in a 30-seat theatre in Los Angeles in July 2003 and...

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,...

April 22-Janeane Garofalo sounds energized about her whole antiwar thing: "I knew when I started speaking out that it was going to be unpleasant," say the actress-comedian, "and I've taken my punches. But the positives have far outweighed the negatives." SUCH AS? Such as all the unsolicited offers Garofalo has received-speaking engagements, stand-up gigs, stage roles-in the weeks since she proffered her antiwar opinions on news programs. Such as the bundles of attagirl letters and the hearty congratulations of strangers in the street. Such as the sitcom pilot she's making for ABC. The other day, after a decade and a...

Hollywood Learns Political Hardball ...A little chin music for Tim Robbins Tom Adkins 4/17/03 Little Timmy Robbins is crying foul. The forever-whining co-star of "Bull Durham" was un-invited to the movie reunion by Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey, who noted, "this institution should never be used as a platform for public pro-war sentiments - nor public anti-war sentiments." Wary of the minor-league antics of Robbins, nag Susan Sarandon, and the rest of "Team Left", Petroskey did what every good coach does: he stole the signs. Robbins and Sarandon will turn breakfast into a noxious political tirade if there's...

When over stressed, as we tend to get in times of war, we have a psychological need to seek out humorous stories, adopting them like an orphan who wandered too close to Mia Farrow. Fortunately for us, these past few days, the news has presented us with the comic equivalent of the baby boom at the end of World War II, making it virtually impossible to choose a single topic to write about this week. My writing session a few days ago started out innocently enough. I sat down, intending to write about how Ronald Reagan would have handled the...

Since the adoption of the Bill of Rights into the U.S. Constitution, there have been few tenets as reliable as our freedom of speech. On playgrounds across the country, children pour forth with epithets such as "pigface" and "goofball." When told by peers to be quiet, the standard response is: "It's a free country." The recipient of the verbal barrage would then respond in kind. Criticism from adults works in much the same way, or at least it did until we were given the Hollywood interpretation of the first amendment. According to Hollywood, freedom of speech (when used by a...

It's getting creepy out there. Paranoia is rampant. The thought police are on patrol, shining their flashlights into the corners of your garages, looking to root out and crush anything resembling dissent. Ken Griffey Jr. was in the dugout last weekend in Cincinnati, and because we all saw him writhe in agony a couple of weeks ago, his dislocated shoulder isn't exactly a state secret. Yet when someone asked how his rehabilitation was going, Junior went all CIA on us. "I'm not allowed to talk about it," he said mysteriously. "I can't say anything." Someone has gotten to Kevin Appier,...

HOLLYWOOD FREEDOM OF SPEECH QUIZ 1. Freedom of speech is violated if a federal agent interrupts a speech, drags you away in cuffs, and beats you unmercifully for saying bad but non-threatening things about the president. [ ] T [ ] F 2. Freedom of speech is violated if a private business does not give you a speaking gig because it worries that what you are saying in public might be detrimental or embarrassing to its business. [ ] T [ ] F 3. Freedom of speech is violated if a producer fires you because you showed up stoned out...

Tim Robbins’ histrionic speech at the National Press Club on Tuesday, was further evidence of the paranoid bubble-world the Hollywood left inhabits. It all began when he and his “partner,” actress Susan Sarandon, were invited to speak at baseball’s Hall of Fame awards, which were to coincide with the 15th anniversary of “Bull Durham,” a film in which they both starred. Their invitations were recently revoked by the hall’s president, Dale Petroskey, who didn’t feel like providing yet another platform for their hugely unpopular anti-war statements. Ever since, they--and a host of other slighted celebrity pundits--are carrying on as if...

Having a Constitutional right to free speech was so essential to the Founding Fathers that they made it the first of the rights guaranteed in writing, in the creation of the United States. As time passed, lots of things were viewed as speech even though they were physical acts. Pretty soon, things got a little crazy and burning the symbol of the country that gave citizens the right of free speech was seen as a protected right under the first amendment. Apparently, it got folks who made a living pretending to be other people and read words written by other...

ABC's Peter Jennings sees an ominous new threat in the world. Not weapons of mass destruction or terrorism, but another vast right-wing conspiracy at home, specifically, the supposedly "well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war." Jennings ended Tuesday's World News Tonight with this plug for Wednesday's show: "That is our report on World News Tonight. Tomorrow on the broadcast, the well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war. I'm Peter Jennings. Have a good evening, and good night." I...

'Human Shields' Protect Reporters from Pacifist Actor By Jeff Johnson CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief April 16, 2003 Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - "We're here to protect you," members of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Free Republic told reporters gathered to cover an anti-war speech by self-proclaimed pacifist and actor Tim Robbins. "We're here to demonstrate against Tim Robbins and act as human shields for reporters in case they ask a question that Tim Robbins doesn't like and he threatens to harm them like he did Lloyd Grove of the Washington Post ," said Kristinn Taylor, co-leader of the group. Grove...

<p>NEW YORK Ñ Striking members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) have brought out star power to aid their fight against the ad industry.</p> <p>The latest union-industry talks, in their 11th day Monday, are just the third round of bargaining in five months. The core battle is over an industry-proposed flat fee system for network TV ads vs. the current system of payment each time the ad runs. It is widely seen as a prelude to coming battles in the entertainment industry over contracts for actors, writers and directors.</p>

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...

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Hall head stands firm Says he could have handled cancellation of movie event better The president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame said he could have "handled it a little differently," but stood by his decision to cancel an event involving two actors known for their anti-war sentiments. Meanwhile, some in the hospitality business said despite negative e-mails and a couple cancellations, they didn't expect the controversy surrounding Dale Petroskey's decision to cancel an anniversary celebration of the movie "Bull Durham" to hurt the tourist industry. Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins had been scheduled to discuss the movie, a...

Jennings Warns of “Aggressive Efforts” to Hush Anti-War Celebs ABC's Peter Jennings sees an ominous new threat in the world. Not weapons of mass destruction or terrorism, but another vast right-wing conspiracy at home, specifically, the supposedly “well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war.”     Jennings ended Tuesday's World News Tonight with this plug for Wednesday's show: “That is our report on World News Tonight. Tomorrow on the broadcast, the well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war. I'm Peter...

<p>Actor Tim Robbins pleaded with listeners at the National Press Club yesterday to "defy the intimidation that is visited upon us daily in the name of national security and warped notions of patriotism" after calling some members of the press "Aussie gossip rags" and "talk-radio patriots."</p>

04-15-03- I was going to write an Op-ed today to go with our weekly Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame awards. Then Tim Robbins spoke to the National Press Club today.  I've recorded it for your listening disgust.  To say it's beyond the pale is an understatement.  He has declared war on the 77% of the people in this country who support our president, this country and our troops. Here is the audio.  Hollywood-Hero needs to say, one more time for the record, free speech does not mean free of consequences.  Freedom to choose what we watch, rent or...

Head's up, everybody !! The DC Chapter did a Stealth FReep of Hollywood liberal Tim Robbins this afternoon at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Kristinn will be appearing on "Scarborough Country" hosted by former Florida Congressman and Conservative, Joe Scarborough. The program begins at 10:00pm, EDT. Angelwood is working on the after-action report of the FReep now and will post it soon.Speaking of Our "Ringleader" Angelwood, she was also on MSNBC earlier this evening, as they showed footage of the protest today, to promote the segment tonight.

<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...