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...statement earlier this month, Robbins—who took home an Oscar last year for his supporting role in Mystic River—called receiving the Pudding’s prize “an experience of exaltation rivaled only by the birth of one’s children, being named the new Dalai Lama, or by being found not guilty on all charges...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tim Robbins, Man of the Year | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

Anyone who’s seen Tim Robbins’ stunning performance of a damaged man coping with a horrible secret in 2003’s Mystic River or his quiet portrayal of the falsely convicted Andy Dufresne in 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption knows what a truly gifted actor is about to come to Cambridge. Robbins won Academy Awards for both those roles, and was nominated for Best Director for 1995’s Dead Man Walking. He’s also won acclaim for his roles in 1992’s The Player, 1990?...

Author: By Jamie E. Greenman and Jennifer P. Jordan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Man of the Year: Tim Robbins Will Bring Politics, Humor to Cambridge | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

...singer of the Irish rock band U2, inducted Marley into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he said this about the Tuff Gong: "He wanted everything at the same time and was everything at the same time: prophet, soul rebel, Rastaman, herbsman, wild man, a natural mystic man, ladies man, island man, family man, Rita's man, soccer man, showman, shaman, human, Jamaican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Bob Marley | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

...Jamaica's complicated history-a jumble of such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Bob Marley | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

Robbins won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar last year for his role in “Mystic River” and has starred in other films including “The Shawshank Redemption.” He also is a writer, director, and producer whose credits include “Dead Man Walking...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zeta-Jones, Robbins Tapped for Pudding Pots | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

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