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Actor Tim Robbins was not happy when told he would have to vote by provisional ballot in New York on Tuesday, TMZ.com is reporting. The actor and well-known liberal activist became enraged when officials at his usual polling location in New York informed him that his name was not on the register, the Web site reports. Polling authorities asked him to fill out a provisional ballot instead of using the machine. ********************* "This is just one example of how difficult it is to vote in the United States," he said.

Tim Robbins Faces Mix-Up at Polling Place By Nicholas Confessore AND Sewell Chan The actor Tim Robbins, looked dejected and annoyed around 10:30 a.m., as he was sitting in a folding chair at the McBurney YMCA at 125 West 14th Street, one of the more than 1,300 polling places throughout New York City. Mr. Robbins said that he had been surprised and dismayed to learn that he was not in the voter lists that are printed and bound before the election. “The issue is that they removed my name from the voting rolls,” he said. “My name was there for...

Actor Tim Robbins warned fellow left-wingers watching, and in the audience, of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night that McCain operatives/Republicans will “try to disenfranchise as many voters” as possible by “doing a lot of dirty tricks” and so: I am very cautious right now. I don't think this thing is over. I do think there is a chance of another stolen election, so don't get too confident, folks. Get out and vote because this could be very close. When fellow panelist Matthew Dowd, the ex-Bush adviser turned ABC News analyst, predicted an Obama victory by 8...

Tim Robbins in Toronto at celebrity hockey game over the weekend...

"Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles (L) greets actor Tim Robbins at a screening of "The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306" at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles June 9, 2008."

Normally I am saddened to witness a fellow human sink into the abyss of madness. But for Tim Robbins I’ll crack open a fresh bottle of Jack Daniels and and bid his brain a joyous bon voyage. ... Leveraging his marginal fame, which in turn is based on his marginal acting abilities, Tim thrust himself into the political arena with the confidence that only complete idiots posses. ... “Just when we were close to a national news media providing a general consensus on what the truth is …“ First is the rather psychotic notion that the media has ever come...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Even as he came on stage to give the keynote address at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, it was obvious that Tim Robbins' remarks had caused controversy backstage. The Academy Award-winning actor and critically acclaimed screenwriter, director and producer first indicated to the audience that he would not be giving his speech. Then, floor agents of the NAB organizers ordered journalists' video cameras turned off. An NAB spokesman later said Mr. Robbins contract had a "no filming" clause. Ultimately, Mr. Robbins changed his mind and started talking. Listen to the six best...

OWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Actor and film director Tim Robbins came to Iowa Wednesday to praise John Edwards—and bury the media. "I'm not Oprah," Robbins said, by way of introduction to a packed library auditorium. Robbins, whose film credits include "Mystic River," "Bull Durham" and "The Shawshank Redemption," said Edwards has been overlooked as the media focus on the clash between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. "There is one man who is neck-and-neck with these two in the polls," he said of Edwards. "And he's there because he's listening to people. He's reaching their lives with his campaign."...

Rosie O’Donnell took another vicious swipe at the Bush administration and its efforts to combat terrorism during Tuesday’s ‘The View.’ Liberal actor Tim Robbins appeared on the program to promote his latest film ‘Catch a Fire,’ set in apartheid-era South Africa. In the film, Robbins portrays a white police officer who tortures a black South African man, wrongfully accused of sabotage of an oil refinery. While discussing the film and his character, co-host Rosie O’Donnell equated the brutal tactics used against the people of South Africa by its own government with the Bush administration’s Patriot Act.: Rosie O’Donnell: "They...

  AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton December 7, 2005 Dear Concerned Americans, Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive. We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the...

IMPERIOUS HILLARY(THE REPORTS OF HER DEATH ARE GREATLY UNDERSTATED)       by Mia T, 12.05.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) FOREWORD The context is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the underlying issue is whether our democracy will survive. We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will? In particular, do we have the will to identify and eliminate the enemy in our midst? Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, hillary clinton incarnates...

Actor Tim Robbins Lashes Out: 'Hillary Clinton can kiss my butt... That ridiculous, ridiculous statement she's made on Iraq.' Comments made Thursday on AIR AMERICA'S 'Morning Sedition'...

In Surrounded by Idiots, Mike Gallagher, one of the top radio talk show hosts in America, takes us to the front lines of the unprecedented cultural and political war confronting all decent Americans. The 2004 election was a watershed moment in our nation's history, and while it was shocking to the left to see so many red states on the electoral map, to conservatives it was just an affirmation of what they'd known all along – conservatives are the mainstream and liberals are the fringe. It is not the time to rest or take things for granted, Mike Gallagher argues....

"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...

Oscar presenter Tim Robbins makes a gesture toward host Chris Rock, after Rock's comments about his politics during the 77th Academy Awards (news - web sites) Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

In this time of traditional thanksgiving for the families, friendships, freedoms and bounties we enjoy, it's only appropriate that we Republicans - in the spirit of appreciation, graciousness, charity and comity - give thanks to those whose contributions were instrumental in securing control of both houses of Congress, a majority of governorships, a plurality of state legislatures, a clear majority of the popular vote (for the first time in 16 years) and, of course, the re-election of President George W. Bush. Thank you, Terry McAullife. You will no doubt be remembered as the worst-ever chairman of the Democratic National Committee....

ROBBINS 'EMBEDDED' AT NU Oscar winner Tim Robbins is bringing The Actors' Gang to Northeastern University for the Boston premiere and first national tour of "Embedded," which Robbins wrote and will direct. It's a satirical look at the relationship between the embedded media and the soldiers they cover in an unspecified Mideast conflict. Robbins, who is the troupe's artistic director, and The Actors' Gang will be in residence at NU Dec. 6-11 for performances that will also take place during that time. Promoters unabashedly point out that the play and the troupe reflect Robbins's liberal politics.

"Stupidity is not limited to any one group of people. Sometimes the people we look up to most make the biggest fools of themselves. When they do, we are here to point it out." http://www.famousfools.com/

...And while President Bush sought constantly to sharpen his differences with Mr. Kerry, the Senator largely succeeded in blurring them, turning an argument about ideology into one about competence. Given the current parameters of Democratic orthodoxy and Mr. Kerry's sincerely held reservations about the use of force, it was the only thing he could do. As it is, Mr. Kerry was not exactly the night's lonely Democratic loser. This is the third consecutive election in which the Democrats have lost to George Bush's Republicans (with each loss bigger than the last) and that is no accident. In part it has...

"Team America" Rocks October 14 , 2004 Printer Friendly No wonder Sean Penn is miffed at Matt Stone and Trey Parker. He and other liberal airhead celebs--like Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and Alec Baldwin--finally get their comeuppance. They’re dismembered, incinerated, and otherwise tortuously eliminated by the “South Park” creators. Unfortunately, it’s just the puppet version. And it’s only on celluloid. The real-life versions of these self-righteous glitterati pains in the rear are still with us. But it’s always nice to fantasize -- as Stone and Parker do in Team America: World Police, a cinematic political satire, which debuts Friday. Just...

VENICE (Reuters) - While stars sip martinis poolside at the Venice Film Festival, down the beach hundreds of activists are staging a "camp-in" to protest against Hollywood blockbusters and high ticket prices at the competition. The T-shirt and flip-flop wearing crowd has stormed the red carpet twice, marched down the Lido's main avenues in anti-war protests and on Sunday night they occupied the exclusive terrace at the Excelsior Hotel where actors go to see and be seen. "That was our masterpiece, our crowning achievement so far," said Luca Casarini, an anti-globalization activist and one of the organizers of the anti-festival...

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...

Actor Tim Robbins has staunchly defended his critically-mauled satirical Iraq war play Embedded, insisting the show is thrilling audiences. The Mystic River star - whose show focuses on the media coverage of the conflict - is convinced critics despise the play because they hate to see people in their own field of work mocked. He says, "Everywhere we go we get terrible reviews but great responses. I don't believe people in the media take criticism very well. Some are reviewing it as if it's a news program instead of a satire." Robbins, an outspoken critic of the US-led war against...

<p>Even in a city where money and celebrity make for strange bedfellows practically every night, a benefit held on Thursday night at the Public Theater could probably be filed in the "very strange" category.</p> <p>Onstage was Tim Robbins, who had rejoined the cast of his political satire, "Embedded," for the special $100-a-ticket performance.</p>

<p>Fiesty, beautiful redheads obviously do it for Tim Robbins. And there he was engaged in what one could only assume was an erudite political conversation with one last Thursday. But it was 2 a.m. and her name definitely wasn't Susan Sarandon.</p>

Six figures in masks enter the Office of Special Plans in Washington. They greet each other under portraits of Leo Strauss: COVE: … and this ignoramus writer says to me “The father of the neocons invented blue jeans?” I was embarrassed for him. “Leo,” I said, “you pecker. Not Levi. Leo Strauss.” DICK: Gentlemen, gentlemen, settle down. I’d like to call this meeting of the Office of Special Plans to order. Rum Rum, how does it look? RUM RUM: We are currently sufficiently deployed, locked and loaded, cocked and ready, champin’ at the bit, poised for engagement, steady ready Freddy....

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...

One of my colleagues and I have a running bet: Who can find the dumbest reference to "neoconservatism"? Until last week, the honor was Tina Brown's. In a Washington Post piece last year, she recalled "the New Deal for which neocons of the '30s bitterly reviled FDR as 'that man'"--the problem, of course, being that "neocons" did not emerge until 30 years after FDR's death, and the movement's founders vigorously supported the New Deal. But, in a new play, Embedded (opening later this week at New York's Public Theater), film star and director Tim Robbins outdoes even Tina Brown. Embedded,...

An AP article on Yahoo News this morning ended with the following paragraphs, including a quote from big-time Leftist, Tim Robbins. As these statements indicate, the hypocrisy of the Hollywood Left is truly remarkable. [BEGIN EXCERPT] Some winners used the guild awards to make a plug for union solidarity and to encourage studios and producers to curtail so-called "runaway production" — a trend toward shooting in Canada, Mexico, Eastern Europe and other locations to take advantage of tax breaks or lower labor costs. U.S.-based actors and crew members say production elsewhere has cost them work. "I'd like to encourage all...

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."...

NEW YORK - Tim Robbins says he drew inspiration from growing up in New York for his latest role in Clint Eastwood's movie "Mystic River." Robbins was raised in New York City's Little Italy and Greenwich Village, playing with children from working class families. "We'd play hockey in the streets after school. Working class families," Robbins said in an article for Sunday's edition of Newsday. "Mystic River" tells the story of three childhood friends from a blue-collar Boston neighborhood — his co-stars are Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon — who are reunited by murder. Robbins plays Dave Boyle, who was...

Charlie Rose proves we were right! He hangs himself with his own words. Here's a link to the article, "A Free Speech Message To Charlie Rose, that Charlie finds so offensive. At the end of it is added the email Rose wrote to Leonard today to complain.(Here's the link to the October 14 FR post of the article" ) with FREEPER COMMENTS setting him straight. In that email, Charlie proves Leonard and the FR commentators to be absolutely correct!

"If you feel you are intimidated from your freedom of speech, it's un-American." -- Charlie Rose to Tim Robbins --12:50 AM. Tuesday, October 14th, 2003, on PBS (OPB). This was a reference to Robbins saying that many Hollywood people didn't speak publicly of their opposition to the war in Iraq out of fear. If we look at what it was they were afraid of, we look into the heart and soul of the liberal. They were afraid of what happened to the Dixie Chicks. And, what was that? Millions of Americans turned against them, spoke out against them and refused...

Tim Robbins called out Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, urging them to "undo their shameful" past, when they "pussied out" of service during Vietnam, by agreeing to sign up and join the military deployed to Iraq. The far-left actor proclaimed Friday night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher: "I would suggest that we send some of those people over there. I would love to see a Sergeant O'Reilly in the armed forces. And a Lieutenant Limbaugh. Lieutenant Limbaugh would be beautiful thing to see." Appearing on the September 19 panel with Republican Congresswoman Heather Wilson and actor/comedian Dana Carvey,...

Do NOT be fooled by the movie "Mystic River" being a Clint Eastwood Production...Pass the word on the two lead actors in the movie: SEAN PENN and TIM ROBBINS and see something else!

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2003)A desperate insurance salesman (Sean Penn) plans an assassination attempt on Richard Nixon by crashing a plane into the White House in order to make his mark on history.

<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>

A Hot Wind is Blowing in This NationTim Robbins Warning to AmericaThe Gulag Americana(The Gangly Boob Has Found A Cause)On April 15, 2003 Hollywood actor and part time political activist Tim Robbins addressed the National Press Club. Robbins spoke eloquently of how after "the ugliness and tragedy after 9-11" there was a brief period where he held out a "great hope" that "in the midst of the lethal air we breathed as we worked at Gound Zero" (note Robbins' use of the word "we" instead of "they". He makes it sound as though he was right there in the midst of the tragedy, sifting through the rubble looking for survivors, helping to...

Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year: This award has been bestowed annually since 1946 upon a distinguished son or daughter of UCLA in recognition of exceptional merit. Alumnus of the Year Wall. Tim Robbins '82

'Bull Durham' stars giving money to food bank Director Shelton also taking part in donation to Cooperstown charity Cooperstown News Bureau COOPERSTOWN - Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Ron Shelton, the co-stars and director of the baseball movie, "Bull Durham" have decided to make a donation to the Cooperstown Food Bank. Robbins' agent Chris Widmaier, said the gift will be made soon, though he was unsure how large it will be. It will total more than the $377 collected for the food bank last Wednesday during two screenings of "Bull Durham" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, he said. "We...

But when Costas opens up the third season of his critically acclaimed, "On The Record,'' this Friday (10:30 p.m., HBO), there will be no controversy. Week 1 will feature a roundtable discussion with "Bull Durham" stars Sarandon, Robbins, Robert Wuhl and writer-director Ron Shelton. They'll celebrate the 15th anniversary of what many believe is the best baseball film ever made. "I would certainly have been willing to talk about the politics of it, but they agreed to come only for the discussion of 'Bull Durham' that was supposed to take place in Cooperstown,'' Costas said from New York. "They view...

Boycotts don't work, America cannot beat anyone in a war, the supply lines are too thin, Iraqi resistance is stiff, the Arab street will rise up, and my favorite, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" The bottom line is that the Left wants everyone to believe them, or in the case of the former Iraqi Minister of Information Baghdad Bob, believe anything but what is actually happening.....

The backlash from Tim Robbins’s anti-war comments got so bad that the star had to hire extra help to deal with it. The “Bull Durham” actor, who usually shuns public relations agencies, called in the help of New York PR firm Dan Klores Associates to deal with the fallout he got for speaking out against the war. Robbins usually just has an assistant, a source says. “The straw that broke the camel’s back was when he was disinvited to the Baseball Hall of Fame event for the screening of ‘Bull Durham,’” says the source. “He was shocked that what he...

Celebs Speak Their Mind and Expect Others to Keep Quiet By Bobby Eberle 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 target 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 Brooklyn Academy of Music has stepped up to the plate to host the 15th anniversary screening of baseball film "Bull Durham" on Wednesday.... (sorry, I'm not a subscriber to Variety.com, so this is the best I could do!).

The Anti-Choice Left By Tov B. Brog As I read Tim Robbin’s whiny missive on the “unfairness” of being called to account for his public anti-war position, it occurred to me that the left is very quick to defend their own right to make any public declaration, no matter how egregious, while they take every opportunity to deny any number of choices to everyone else. Every America has the right to states his views, no matter how onerous they may be. By the same token, the rest of us have every right to refuse to listen. How best to refuse...

Tov B. Brog © 2003 The Anti-Choice Left  By Tov B. Brog April 24th 2003 ? As I read Tim Robbin?s whiny missive on the ?unfairness? of being called to account for his public anti-war position, it occured to me that the left is very quick to defend their own right to make any public declaration, no matter how egregious, while they take every opportunity to deny any number of choices to everyone else. Every America has the right to states his views, no matter how onerous they may be.  By the same token, the rest of us have...

Baseball Hall of Fame PROTEST Sat.April26th ACTION ALERT!!! THE SIDEWALK DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM IS THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 26TH FROM NOON UNTIL 2PM FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN CAR POOLING AND OR CARAVANNING WE WILL BE MEETING AT 9:45 AM NEAR FRANCO'S PIZZA IN THE TOPS PLAZA, KELLOGG ROAD WASHINGTON MILLS departure is at 10:00 am Utica,New York A PRESENTATION REGARDING PROPER ETIQUETTE FOR DEMONSTRATING, YOUR RIGHTS, ETC WILL BE GIVEN AT11:30 AM IN FRONT OF DOUBLEDAY FIELD (MAIN STREET) THE FOCUS OF THE DEMONSTRATION IS ON FREE SPEECH AND OPPOSING THE HALL...

Wednesday, April 23, 2003Hollywood Appeasers Cash In on Anti-U.S. RantsDon't believe the whining of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon and other Tinseltown leftists who claim they're paying a price for opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom. They're getting rich from their anti-U.S. activism, according to the liberal Washington Post. Consider this boast from Janeane Garofalo, who still refuses to make the apology she so publicly promised after Iraqi citizens welcomed their U.S.-led liberators. "I knew when I started speaking out that it was going to be unpleasant, and I’ve taken my punches. But the positives have far outweighed the negatives,” she...