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Old Role, New Twist.(Brief Article)
She has made her name playing strong female characters, from a tough but inexperienced lawyer battling the Mafia and the FBI in "The Client" to a nun counseling a death-row inmate in "Dead Man Walking." But early next year, Susan Sarandon fans may be surprised to see the Academy Award winner in quite a different role: that of an evil princess in an interplanetary, made-for-TV thriller.
"Children of Dune," based on Frank Herbert's best-selling "Dune" books, marks the actress's first foray into science fiction. Though the story unfolds on a distant planet 10,000 years in the future, Sarandon found herself on familiar ground. "I'm not a sci-fi person, but there was something about this that was more than just sci-fi," Sarandon told NEWSWEEK during filming last month in Prague. "Everything that propels the plot forward [in 'Dune'] really has to do with women breaking the rules. Doing everything they're not supposed to do, whether it's having children they're not supposed to have or loving someone they're not supposed to. Women feature very, very strongly in 'Dune'; I liked that about it." In the $20 million, six-hour television dramatization, which will air around the world, Sarandon plays wicked Princess Wensicia, whose deposed family once ruled the desert planet Arrakis (known as "Dune") and is now plotting to ...
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...Thursday during a bloody rampage near Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, the sheriff...sheriff's office said. The name of the dead man had not been released. A Coast Guard...sheriff's office, regularly patrols the Dunes area, specifically near Trans Pacific...
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from: The Book of the Dead Man Live as if you were already dead. --ZEN ADMONITION I About the Dead Man and Time When the dead man rises from bed, time smiles. Time itself snickers at the dead man rising from bed. The chortling sounds in bells...
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- Magazine article from: Poetry Yezzi, David August 1, 1998 700+ words
Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Volume 2, by Marvin Bell. Copper...a continuation of his Book of the Dead Man (1994), builds on the same rhetorical...complete sentence, e.g., "The dead man is slag ash soot cinders grime powder...
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- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot July 27, 2001 700+ words
...HAMPTON THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT MOYOCK -- Moyock's Dead Man's Curve isn't as bad as some that have earned...without any fatalities. No doubt there are worse Dead Man's Curves around. A Dead Man's Curve in South Kona, Hawaii, was linked...
- Dead Man's Cell Phone
- Newspaper article from: Windy City Times Abarbanel, Jonathan April 16, 2008 700+ words
THEATER REVIEW Dead Man's Cell Phone Playwright: Sarah Ruhl...quite pull together. Her latest play, Dead Man's Cell Phone, is smaller, far less...character, like one of the better sitcoms. Dead Man's Cell Phone is pithy, really funny...
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