Word: sarandon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secret reason was that the moguls were men. Susan Sarandon, a movie actress for 25 years, has a theory on the wiring in the boss-men's minds: "A picture gets made either because they want to be the guy who's starring in it or they want to be with the woman. More often they want to be the guy. They want to be Kevin Costner. They think that everybody does--and that therefore the film's going to make money." Result: Hudson Hawk, Last Action Hero, Assassins, Waterworld...
...close to their hearts that they agree to make them on the cheap. Demi Moore, for example, is being paid a burly $12 million to star in next year's Striptease. But as a producer, she got Now and Then made for the same $12 million. Little Women, with Sarandon and Ryder, took in $50 million at the U.S. wickets but cost only $18 million...
People go to the movies to fall in love, and not just with their dates. Wholesome sex appeal has kept Hollywood purring for 80 years. But today's prime actresses-Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, even Winona Ryder-are a formidable bunch, serioso artists who don't fit into a fellow's dream of easy chatter and backseat romance; they are more likely to hand you a petition. As for Sharon Stone, she's gorgeous, but thanks all the same, we would just as soon survive the good-night kiss...
Armstrong and Swicord have made the girls' mother (Susan Sarandon) something more of a feminist exemplar than she originally was; still, her social activism and her insistence that her children must claim their freedom and behave responsibly do not seem anachronistic for a Concord woman of her time and class...
...family she had lost to a mob bombing. He pressed "pause" and, like a gadget-crazed kid, began putting his multimillion-dollar toy through its paces. With The Specialist still on hold, he ordered a second movie, The Client, fast-forwarded to another favorite scene -- where Susan Sarandon is deciding whether or not to take Brad Renfro's case -- and pressed "pause" again...