Susan Sarandon and
Prof.
Brown on May 9,
2006 talk about her life and career. (
AMC episode aired 11/26/2006)
Susan Abigail Sarandon is an
American actress. She is an
Academy Award and
BAFTA Award winner who is also known for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes. She was appointed a
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in
1999 and received the
Action Against Hunger Humanitarian
Award in 2006.
She starred in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (
1975), a cult classic, which is the longest running movie of all time. She was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actress for
Atlantic City (
1980),
Thelma & Louise (
1991),
Lorenzo's Oil (
1992) and
The Client (
1994), before winning for
Dead Man Walking (
1995). She has also won the
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading
Role for The Client and the
SAG Award for
Best Actress for Dead Man Walking.
She made her
Broadway debut in
An Evening with Richard Nixon in
1972, and went on to receive
Drama Desk Award nominations for the Off-Broadway plays, A Coupla
White Chicks Sitting
Around Talking (
1979) and
Extremities (
1982).
On television, she is a five-time
Emmy Award nominee, including for her guest roles on the sitcoms
Friends (
2001) and
Malcolm in the Middle (
2002), and the TV films
Bernard and Doris (
2007) and
You Don't Know Jack(
2010).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Sarandon
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000215/
American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally known, debuted on
October 1,
1984 as a premium channel. Its original format focused on classic movies – largely those made prior to the
1950s – that aired during the afternoon and early evening hours in a commercial-free, generally unedited, uncut and uncolorized format. AMC is an
American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by
AMC Networks.
The channel primarily airs theatrically released movies, along with a limited amount of original programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_(TV_channel)
http://www.amc.com/
@AMC_TV
The New York University School of Professional Studies ( also known as
SPS ) is one of the schools and colleges that comprise
New York University. Founded in 1934, the school offers undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs.
The school's main campus is located at 7
East 12th Street,
New York at
NYU's
Washington Square main campus.
http://www.scps.nyu.edu/
https://www.youtube.com/user/scpsnyu
@NYUSPS
Richard Brown began his teaching career at New York University in
1967. Movies101 was launched in
1969. In
1973 he was invited to join the founding faculty of The
Tisch School of the Arts where he helped design the curriculum. In 1975 he founded
The International Center for
Film and
Television. Since then he has taught on land and sea, to youngsters at
Little Red School House and seniors at
Greenwich House. He has lectured to the most powerful executives in
America at the
World Presidents
Organization and inmates at
Riker’s Island. His unique programs, blending adult education and a love of motion pictures have sold out at
The Smithsonian and
The Library of Congress, at
Oxford,
The Sorbonne, and
The Carpenter Center at
Harvard University. His
Evening with
John Cleese at the
Smithsonian recently drew 1,
500 fans and sold out on announcement. He addressed the
United Nations delivering the keynote at the first annual conference on motion picture.
He has also produced specialized festivals for
Vassar College, The
Cooper-Hewitt Museum,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
The National Arts Club and
The Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. He has created individualized programs for numerous organizations, including
American Express Centurion Division,
Cunard Line,
Four Seasons Hotel Group,
Orient Express, and
Silversea Line where he presents annual film festival cruises. He has undertaken corporate projects partnering with a broad variety of America’s outstanding corporation including the
Sony Corporation,
Grey Advertising,
Walt Disney,
BBD&O;, DuPont and
Time, Inc.
Most of these projects included Prof.
Brown’s friends from the film industry. Over
200 different film artists have participated, including
Alan Alda,
Jennifer Aniston,
Mel Brooks,
Nicolas Cage,
George Clooney,
Tom Cruise,
Billy Crystal,
Michael Douglas,
Edie Falco,
Marcia Gay Harden,
Kevin Kline,
Paul Newman,
Brad Pitt,
Julia Roberts,
Martin Scorsese,
Ben Stiller and
Sigourney Weaver, among others.
His critically acclaimed series,
Reflections on the
Silver Screen featured 50 in-depth conversations with screen legends ranging from
Gregory Peck and
Audrey Hepburn to
Jimmy Stewart and
Katharine Hepburn. (
Commissioned by The Library of Congress, it has been termed “
...the definitive archive on
American film in the
20th Century.”) Prof. Brown is revisiting these interviews with a
21st Century perspective in his new
TV series, The
Great American Movie Star, set to premiere on
WNET in late
2013.
@Prof_RBrown
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