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Susan Sarandon
Marc Shapiro
其他書名
Actress-activist
出版
Prometheus Books
, 2001
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Performing Arts / Film / General
ISBN
157392928X
9781573929288
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FogdAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This first biography of Susan Sarandon highlights the real person behind the screen image, exploring her idealism, values, and combative spirit in the service of higher goals, while also celebrating her stunning film career.
Renowned celebrity biographer Marc Shapiro traces Sarandonfs life from her strict Catholic upbringing in suburbia and her early days of protest in high school for civil rights and against the Viet Nam War to her more recent involvement with women and children's rights in Nicaragua, the AIDS quilt project, ACT UP, the disruption of an Academy Awards ceremony to protest the internment of Haitians with HIV, and many other ongoing projects. Shapiro also discusses her first career successes through high-profile roles in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City
, and
Thelma and Louise
, as well as her openly unconventional relationships with directors Louis Malle and Franco Amuri, and actor Tim Robbins.
So motivated is Sarandon by her convictions that she often chooses roles to reflect larger issues. She agreed to play in the film
Dry White Season
to draw attention to the evils of apartheid, and her opposition to the death penalty resulted in her Academy Award-winning performance in
Dead Men Walking
. Over the years she has paid a price for her activist positions, and supposedly she has accumulated a sizable FBI file. Nonetheless, she has proved time and again that she is always ready to speak out and act up whenever she believes it will do some good.
No ordinary biography,
Susan Sarandon
is a captivating page-turner about a sexy, alluring, and passionately committed actress who has broken every conventional rule.