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MIDI - TELL LAURA I LOVE HER Sarandon heard on the radio…a shrink she said had to go She made the gays mad…so Susan said she's really bad That shrink's offered a brand new gig…and the bucks would be very big But Susan said there's just no way…I'm gonna join the fight today Tell Laura I hate her…tell Laura I'll stop her Tell Laura she's gonna see…she'll never be on the TV Though Susan claims she's compassionate…she is really full of it It is true, a cold wind blows…I guess the whining Tim Robbins knows Free speech is just...

Congressman Billybob Sez:This here's the 346th Report ta the Folks Back Home from the (More er Less) Honorable Billybob, cyberCongressman from Western Carolina. Proliferation izza word fer the day. Not proliferation ov weapons, but proliferation ov freedom n self-government. Since yer Congresscritter don us'ally use big words lack that, I'll turn this over ta ma able assistant, J. Armor, Esq.. "Who's Next?"Let's begin this lecture with a blast from the past, a few bars from Tom Lehrer's classic about nuclear proliferation: "First we got the bomb, and that was good, ‘Cuz we love peace and motherhood. Then Russia got the...

EDMONTON - It's hard to imagine feeling let down when Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon is playing your character in a movie. But that's how Ice Bound reacts to her portrayal in the new tele movie, Ice Bound."I'm disappointed," says the 51-year-old doctor famous for the diagnosis and treatment of her own breast cancer while at the South Pole in 1999. "I wish they would have met me. I think it would have been nice to have had a chance to have them know me before they wrote about me or tried to play me."Based on the book Nielsen wrote about...

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...

Dear MGM: Please, no, no, no, say it isn't so! Don't defile the memories of the victims of 9-11 by allowing Mr. and Mrs. Sarandon to be involved with anything related to this national tragedy...Their blatant anti-Americanism taints any effort on their part to attempt to create a film about this event. This is not only disgraceful, it will not be financially successful for your company. The American public just won't tolerate it. Jon Alvarez Syracuse, NY Why we fight: Visit Alvy's forum: Americans For Victory Over Terrorism: Bush Country We Won't Forget! Forwarding to other like-minded Americans: Please contact...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Poll... Should celebrities like Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins be penalized professionally for their anti-war statements by the American people? http://www.billoreilly.com/index.jsp

<p>Why are protesters planning to line up outside the National Press Club today for an appearance by antiwar activist and Hollywood actor Tim Robbins?</p> <p>"We are human shields for reporters," says Kristinn Taylor of the D.C. chapter of FreeRepublic.com, "in case they ask a question of Tim Robbins he doesn't like."</p>

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...

Actors are jackasses. Ok, maybe that’s a bit much. But it’s sure true for three of them. Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Timothy Robbins. Fifteen years ago it was “Bull Durham,” now it’s bull crap. Let me tell you what I mean. Robbins and Sarandon are a couple. Which means he’s fond of old wrinkly women and she’s got a thing for self-important blowhards. They’ve been in the news lately because of their strident attacks on President Bush, the United States, the military, the liberation of Iraq, motherhood, apple pie, the flag, the Fourth of July and anything else remotely...

NOW: (from USA Today): Says Sarandon, "It's so ironic that we should be quote unquote liberating another country and giving them a democracy when we're telling people here if they open their mouths, they're not allowed to participate."THEN (from StopDrLaura.com): Academy-Award-winning-actress Susan Sarandon offered her comments and a photo for the StopDrLaura.com web site. "Dr. Laura has a right to her opinion, but I think it's irresponsible of Paramount to not give equal time, at the very least, to a person with a more enlightened and contemporary perspective," Sarandon's statement said. "I'm totally against wasting the airwaves giving visibility to...

<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>

There aren't many great movies about sports but there is one about baseball and it's called "Bull Durham." It was made in 1988 and people today still swear by it. It was funny and warm and acerbic and crazy, much like the game itself. So beloved is this film, that the Baseball Hall of Fame had a 15th anniversary celebration scheduled for it later this month at Cooperstown, N.Y. I say "had" because the event was just canceled. The reason it was canceled was because the president of the Hall of Fame, a Michigan native named Dale Petroskey, didn't like...

National Baseball Hall of Fame Board of Directors has only one choice with regard to Dale Petroskey -- it must fire him. The sooner, the better. Failure to do so would be an implicit endorsement of his outrageous decision to cancel an April 26-27 Cooperstown celebration of the movie "Bull Durham" because he disagrees with the stars' political views. Please don't pretend to believe that his decision was anything but a political statement that exposed his roots in the Republican Party, which has a way of defending to the death your right to agree with its policies and positions.

The juxtaposition would be funny if it weren't so serious. Scenes of joy in Baghdad were on the front pages of every newspaper in the country yesterday. Iraq, a very literate country, was celebrating in the streets. The population was filled with the hope that maybe, just maybe, it could celebrate the freedoms that have been denied it for a generation. Freedoms like the freedom of speech. Meanwhile, on this nation's sports pages yesterday, baseball's Hall of Fame president, Dale Petroskey, was declaring that, because of the politics of actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, the Hall was canceling its...