Welcome to Admiring Susan Sarandon, a fansite dedicated to Academy Award winning actress and activist Susan Sarandon. Susan is best known for her roles in 'Thelma and Louise', 'Dead Man Walking', and the upcoming 'The Lovely Bones'. Admiring Susan currently provides fans with the latest news on Susan's career and activism, and, with a bit of work, will one day develop into a full archive in tribute to Susan's extensive career.
As we approach the 21st anniversary of World AIDS Day, I am writing to ask you to consider sharing the names of loved ones who have been lost to HIV/AIDS, so that they may be read aloud as part of Housing Works’ World AIDS Day commemoration.
For a 24-hour period beginning on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009, activists, volunteers, and those living with HIV/AIDS will read names continually at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan to memorialize friends, family, and loved ones, and to raise awareness about the twin crises of HIV/AIDS and homelessness.
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Susan Sarandon has admitted that the fantastical elements of Peter Jackson’s latest film The Lovely Bones did not appeal to her.
The actress stars as Grandma Lynn in the Alice Sebold adaptation, taking charge of the Salmon family after the murder of their eldest daughter Susie.
“I’m really curious to see it again because the first time you see it all you notice is the things that are missing, you can’t really enjoy it,” Sarandon said at the film’s world premiere in London.
“When I read the book I wasn’t interested in heaven or the in-between, so it was interesting to see how [Jackson] saw it. My mind didn’t go there at all, I was totally identifying with the family.”
The Lovely Bones opens in US cinemas on December 11 and January 29 in the UK.
Location: Leicester Square (Royal Gala Film Performance)
Distributors: Paramount Pictures
Directions: Leicester Square
Weather: Check
Crowds Arrival: 3:45pm
Red Carpet Arrivals: between 5:45pm (Audience seated: 7.10pm)
Guests: Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall , Director Peter Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Saoirse Ronan, Rose Mciver, Carolyn Dando, Michael Imperioli, Reece Ritchie writer Alice Sebold and Many More
American actress Susan Sarandon was on Saturday honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Stockholm film festival.
“The roles Susan Sarandon has played often gain a life of their own beyond the films themselves,” said Swedish actor Gustaf Hammarsten, presenting the award to Sarandon who won an Academy Award in 1995 for her role as a nun counselling a death row prisoner in “Dead Man Walking.”
“Reflection, seduction and rebellion animate her characters and seem to be the key tools in her actor’s repertoire,” he added.
Sarandon accepted the prize, a 7.3 kilo (15 pound) bronze horse — the heaviest of all film awards, according to organisers — following an interview and audience discussion at a theatre in central Stockholm.
The actress, 63, said she hoped the prize “would be my mid-life award,” she joked with the crowd.
Wellington will once again play host to some of Hollywood’s biggest names at the premiere of Peter Jackson’s latest film The Lovely Bones in December.
The film, which will be in cinemas here from December 26, will have its New Zealand Premiere on Monday, December 14 at Wellington’s Embassy Theatre.
Jackson will attend as will some of the film’s stars including Saoirse Ronan and Susan Sarandon.
Ronan, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in 2007s Atonement at the age of 13, stars as Susie Salmon, the young girl who watches her family from heaven after being murdered.
The film, adapted from Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel, is Jackson’s first major directing role since King Kong.
The film also stars Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz, as well as New Zealand actresses Rose McIver and Carolyn Dando.
Fans will have the opportunity to see the stars and collect autographs on the red carpet.
Bill Kincaid is a very celebrated Ivy League philosophy professor on the verge of being hired for a tenure at Harvard, the other brother, Brady Kincaid, is a hydroponics weed-growing genius in rural Oklahoma. Estranged from his family and trying to leave all traces of his Midwestern upbringing behind (including completely burying his accent and essentially severing all ties), the very organized, very straight-laced Bill has not spoken to his brother or his mother (Susan Sarandon) in some 10-years or so, but he’s brought back into the family fold when Brady becomes embroiled in some drug-related crime activity that he needs dire assistance with.
Peter Gabriel, Susan Sarandon, Cyndi Lauper, and Citizen Cope have signed a petition calling on Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, to help end politically motivated violence against women. Their actions were inspired by remarks made by Kuda Chitsike, Program Manager at the Research and Advocacy Unit in Zimbabwe and keynote speaker at the WITNESS Focus for Change Benefit Dinner and Concert in New York last week.
In 2007, Ms. Chitsike and her organization partnered with WITNESS, the international human rights organization, to produce visual evidence of violence against women in the region.
In 2008, political violence erupted throughout Zimbabwe as a result of highly contested national elections. Between the months of May and July, local organizations estimate that state-sanctioned groups abducted, raped, tortured, and beat over 2,000 women and girls due to their political affiliations. Human rights groups believe these numbers to be much greater, as currently there are no formal mechanisms to report these types of attacks. Local police ignore these women’s pleas for protection and accountability, and national leaders have been equally unresponsive. As the country prepares for another election year, women’s groups are bracing again for an increase in attacks for real or perceived affiliations with the MDC Party, headed by Mr. Tsvangirai.
Signatories implore Prime Minister Tsvangirai to ensure that the government of Zimbabwe investigate and prosecute all cases of politically motivated violence against women and bring the perpetrators to justice, as stipulated in the Global Political Agreement through national justice institutions, and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development, or SADC tribunal. The petition advocates for financial assistance, including medical and psycho-social support, to women who have experienced violence, as reiterated by the Zimbabwean Global Political Agreement and the South African Development Community Protocol on Gender and Development.
American actress Susan Sarandon, due in Stockholm to receive an award next week, has no plans to meet journalists but she will set aside time to meet one person — table tennis legend Jan-Ove Waldner.
The Oscar-winning actress, a keen player herself, put in a request to meet with Olympic gold medalist and former world champion Waldner, the director of the Stockholm Film Festival told Reuters on Wednesday.
“It was on her initiative, we just made the effort to find him,” Git Scheynius, director of the Stockholm Film Festival, said. “She’s actually involved in a table tennis club in New York — that’s one of her greatest hobbies.”
Waldner is to his sport what Michael Jordan is to basketball or Tiger Woods is to golf. He won the World Championship twice in singles and took home an Olympic gold medal during a career that spanned more than two decades.
His longevity earned him the nickname “The Evergreen Tree” in China, where he is particularly revered.
Scheynius said Waldner was surprised at the invitation but gladly accepted. He and Sarandon will sit next to each other at the dinner, she added, but will not be alone.
Sarandon, who won an Oscar for the 1995 film “Dead Man Walking,” is due to receive a lifetime achievement award at the festival.
Any chance Sarandon might square off with Waldner across a table tennis table during her time in the Swedish capital? A festival official said that if they did it would be a surprise.
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The Lovely Bones (2009) 
Leaves of Grass (2009) 
The Greatest (2010) 
Peacock (2010) 
You Don't Know Jack (2010) (HBO TV movie) 
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