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Admiring Susan Sarandon would like to wish Susan a big CONGRATULATIONS for her Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her role as Janet Good in You Don’t Know Jack!
Susan is nominated in the category alongside Julia Ormond (Temple Grandin), Catherine O’Hara (Temple Grandin), Kathy Bates (Alice), and co-star Brenda Vaccaro (You Don’t Know Jack). As expected, Al Pacino also won an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie nomination for his lead role in the TV mini-series, and nominations were also received in other categories, including Outstanding made For Television Movie, Writing, Directing. Find a full list of Emmy nominations here.
Congratulations again to Susan and the cast and crew of You Don’t Know Jack! The Emmy’s take place on August 29th, so let’s cross our fingers that Susan will be in attendance ad will pick up her award
Susan’s reaction:
Susan Sarandon admitted she forgot what day it was. “I honestly didn’t know nominations were coming out today. I was helping my son pack and my assistant stopped by to tell me,” said Sarandon from New York of her Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a made for TV movie for “You Don’t Know Jack.” “I’m either losing track of this stuff, or just losing my mind. Either way, I’m really excited for our cast, and that HBO is able to do these edgier films.” Sarandon said she is kind of “removed from Hollywood these days,” but looks forward to Emmy night when she can “bob in and see everybody” in L.A. Though, there might be a slight conflict timing-wise. “I’m supposed to take my son to college that same weekend,” she said. “We’ll figure something out!” – thr.com
Just a reminder that You Don’t Know Jack airs on HBO in the US tonight at 9pm. Susan plays Janet Good, a supporter, and later patient, of Dr Jack Kevorkian in the TV movie. Visit www.hbo.com/movies/you-dont-know-jack for more information and trailers!
Al Pacino is Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the HBO movie about the life of the man who advocated doctor-assisted suicides for terminally ill patients.
The movie will repeat on April 24 (2:45 a.m.), 25 (5:45 p.m.) and 27 (9:45 a.m., 8:30 p.m.), and May 2 (1:30 p.m., 2:10 a.m.), 5 (11:30 a.m., 7:15 p.m.), 8 (3:45 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT), 10 (1:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m.), 13 (12:30 a.m.) and 16 (10:30 a.m.)
Bottom Line: Masterfully acted, sympathetic portrayal of the last doctor anybody ever needs.
How a person feels about Dr. Jack Kevorkian dovetails neatly with personal opinions over end-of-life choices: Either he’s a monster or ahead of his time.
Kevorkian always has been clear that he’s on a mission to let individuals decide when they’re ready to check out. In “You Don’t Know Jack,” HBO’s new film about the doctor’s successes (and one big failure) in making suicide an option for the terminally ill, the position of filmmaker Barry Levinson also is clear: the man is extremely eccentric, but he’s on to something.
Humanizing Kevorkian requires a bit of costume drama, but Al Pacino (Kevorkian) and Susan Sarandon (the head of the local Hemlock Society, later one of his patients) are up to the task along with some clever hair work and oversized glasses. Backed up by John Goodman (who calls Kevorkian “America’s quack”) and Brenda Vaccaro, what emerges are spot-on, heartfelt performances flayed of any sentiment.
Levinson’s tale covers the 130 patients Kevorkian helped to their demise and the legal battles he fought and won thanks to rabble-rousing lawyer Geoffrey Feiger (Danny Huston with a terrible, if accurate, hairdo).
The doc has his own sense of drama, refusing to eat while incarcerated, then storming out of court decrying “this fusion of religious dogma and medicine.” Pacino disappears into the hunch and Michigan accent and fashions an introverted man who is nonetheless propelled by his passion; watching him move forward without regret or fear is astonishing.
Susan attended the premiere of her HBO TV movie ‘You Don’t Know Jack‘ in New York City two nights ago (April 14th). As reported earlier (see the new news posts below), she was on crutches because she sprained her ankle in Haiti the other day! So we’re sending her best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Here are some photos of Susan at the premiere on April 14th:
Al Pacino joins the cast of You Don’t Know Jack, a television series in America which tells the story of Dr Jack Kervorkian, the right-to-die activist, known by many as ‘Dr. Death.’
Pacino portrays Kervokian in the series during the years when he launched a campaign to provide what he considers a human and dignified option for the terminally ill: physician-assisted suicide.
Al Pacino and co-star Susan Sarandon talked to reporters about their latest roles.
You Don’t Know Jack is a deadly-bad title for a lively-good TV movie about the assisted suicide… well, pioneer seems too jaunty a word, doesn’t it? Director Barry Levinson (Diner) approaches Jack Kevorkian’s championing of physician-assisted death as a little-guy-against-the-Establishment drama. The movie shows how Kevorkian’s desire to provide a humane alternative for the terminally ill became a cultural flash point and a media circus.
Al Pacino plays Kevorkian with admirable restraint — a broad Michigan accent is about as showboaty as he gets. Brenda Vaccaro (so infrequently used on screen anymore) proves how brightly she still glows as Kevorkian’s devoted sister Margo, while Susan Sarandon and John Goodman give artfully modest performances as friends of Kevorkian.
You have to admire the way Levinson and company aren’t bothering to reach out to HBO’s True Blood demo, unless you count viewers who’ll tune in to see anybody dead. The movie begins with Kevorkian at age 61 — which was when he began his crusade — and ends with him at 79, just out of jail on a second-degree murder rap cooked up by prosecutors depicted as embarrassed that they’d previously failed to make ‘Dr. Death’ a public pariah.
There’s nothing visually interesting going on in Jack; Levinson shoots everything straightforwardly, approximating a documentary style in many scenes. He craftily edits in real footage of Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace interviewing Pacino-Kevorkian, but that’s as fancy as the director gets. The result is a pro-euthanasia argument told as a lovable-old-coot story. It’s probably the best way to sell such a grim tale. B
Not strictly about Susan, but an interesting article about Al Pacino and the TV movie itself.
Usually, Al Pacino means raw emotion, a swagger, and an attitude and accent born from his upbringing in the Bronx. Yet in HBO’s compelling “You Don’t Know Jack,” airing Saturday, April 24, Pacino is restrained, shuffling and sounding as if he’s from Michigan. Pacino becomes Jack Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death for assisting terminally ill patients’ suicides.
“I think what appealed to me to do it was to see if I could capture where I could go as a zealot just because there are so few who are really the real McCoy,” Pacino says. “And that would be Jack. He’s the guy that goes out the window.”
Though Pacino makes viewers feel as if they know the crusading Michigan pathologist, he never met the man. He did, though, study hours of footage of the doctor and talked to him over the phone. He worked with a dialect coach to nail Kevorkian’s accent.
“I just practiced every day,” he says. “It is nice to have that advantage to try to learn it as much as you can. It’s like practicing anything, like an oboe.”
Kevorkian first became the subject of controversy in 1990, when he helped the first of about 130 terminally ill people kill themselves. Though a movie about assisted suicide isn’t a day brightener, it is an important, exceptionally well-done film.
Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon talk about Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the new HBO movie “You Don’t Know Jack.” The movie premieres Saturday, April 24 only on HBO.
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