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...secret that the "creative" part of Hollywood doesn't much care for reality TV. Disgruntled TV writers - and nowadays, is there any other kind? - took to the Internet to try to "spoil" episodes of "Survivor" by handicapping the results; Susan Sarandon did a guest spot on "Friends" because she found "Survivor" so reprehensible; and reality programs, however much they burn up the ratings, aren't allowed to carry their torches into the Emmys...
...very rules of a game make it immoral? Susan Sarandon thinks so. The statement-minded actress condescended to guest-star on NBC's Friends because, she said, its rival Survivor is a game that "[rewards] behavior that shouldn't be rewarded." Unlike the more wholesome chess (which rewards sacrificing the weak to protect the important) or Monopoly (which rewards price gouging)? Hard fought as it is--as in pretty much any game, there's only one winner--Survivor is also based on social precepts most people try to teach their toddlers. Play well with others: Survivor is not kind...
...play's commercial success catapulted the self-described life-time activist into prominence. Productions of the Vagina Monologues grace the stages of most major cities and have had participants such as Kate Winslett and Susan Sarandon...
...refer to the very real danger that if George W. Bush were to be installed in the White House, Barbra Streisand, Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon and other irreplaceable Americans would make good on their threat to move to another country...
Thanks to pop culture, Catholics don't have a monopoly on nuns. The religious sisterhood has been widely appropriated as a vehicle for the comic, the dramatic and the sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that no one looks great in a wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love--none...