By Clarice Burger
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Susan Abigail Sarandon (/səˈrændən/ sə-RAN-dən; née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actor. With a career spanning over five decades, she has received accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards.
Sarandon made her film debut in Joe (1970) and appeared on the soap operas A World Apart (1970–1971) and Search for Tomorrow (1972). She gained prominence for her role in the musical horror film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). After Oscar nominations for Atlantic City (1980), Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), and The Client (1994), Sarandon won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995). Her other notable films include Pretty Baby (1978), The Hunger (1983), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Bull Durham (1988), Little Women (1994), Stepmom (1998), Enchanted (2007), The Lovely Bones (2009), Cloud Atlas (2012), and The Meddler (2015).
Sarandon made her Broadway debut in the play An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972). She returned to Broadway in the 2009 revival of Exit the King. On television, she had guest roles on the sitcoms Friends (2001) and Malcolm in the Middle (2002) as well as starring roles as an advocate in the HBO film You Don’t Know Jack (2010), Doris Duke in the HBO film Bernard and Doris (2008), and Bette Davis in the FX miniseries Feud (2017).
Also known for her social and political activism, Sarandon was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006.
Sarandon was born in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City. She is the eldest of nine children of Lenora Marie (née Criscione; 1923–2020) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, an advertising executive, television producer, and one-time nightclub singer. She has four brothers: Phillip Leslie Jr., Terry (an outdoorsman, journalist, and community leader), Timothy, and O’Brian (owner of Building 8 Brewery in Northampton, Mass.); and four sisters: Meredith (or “Merry”), Bonnie Priscilla, Amanda, and Melissa (or “Missy”). Her father was of English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. His English ancestors came from Hackney in London and his Welsh ancestors from Bridgend. On her mother’s side, she is of Italian descent, with ancestors from the regions of Tuscany and Sicily. Her father worked for WOR-TV in New York City.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) was the founder of the Franciscan Order. The son of a wealthy merchant named Pietro di Bernardone, he publicly denounced his father’s wealth in 1206 and dedicated his life to prayer and serving the poor. Pope Innocent III eventually gave Francis and his followers permission to preach, and he ordained Francis a deacon. The followers of Francis were called Friars Minor, or “the lesser brethren.” Francis died on October 3, 1226, and was canonized in 1228. Read the text from his Sermon to the Birds: “My little sisters, the birds, much bounden are ye unto God, your Creator, and always in every place ought ye to praise Him, for that He hath given you liberty to fly about everywhere, and hath also given you double and triple rainment; moreover He preserved your seed in the ark of Noah, that your race might not perish out of the world; still more are ye beholden to Him for the element of the air which He hath appointed for you; beyond all this, ye sow not, neither do you reap; and God feedeth you, and giveth you the streams and fountains for your drink; the mountains and valleys for your refuge and the high trees whereon to make your nests; and because ye know not how to spin or sow, God clotheth you, you and your children; wherefore your Creator loveth you much, seeing that He hath bestowed on you so many benefits; and therefore, my little sisters, beware of the sin of ingratitude, and study always to give praises unto God.” -Saint Francis of Assisi (c.1220)
Question of the Day
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Home Hint of the Day
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Puzzle of the Day
(Blank) is (Blank) day. (What’s the saying? Fill in the blanks!)
1) Tomorrow 2) another
Born
- Eliza Johnson (U.S. First Lady) –
- Jean Francois Millet (artist) –
- Rutherford B. Hayes (19th U.S. president) –
- Frederic Remington (artist) –
- Edward L. Stratemeyer (author, publisher) –
- Buster Keaton (actor) –
- Charlton Heston (actor) –
- Jackie Collins (author) –
- Anne Rice (author) –
- H. Rap Brown (civil rights activist) –
- Susan Sarandon (actress) –
- Armand Assante (actor) –
- Liev Schreiber (actor) –
- Alicia Silverstone (actress) –
- Rachael Leigh Cook (actress) –
Died
- Janis Joplin (singer) –
- Joan Whitney Payson (athlete) –
- Glenn Gould (pianist) –
- Graham Chapman (actor) –
- Gordon Cooper (astronaut who circled the globe 22 times in 34 hours and 20 minutes and became the first astronaut in a space flight of more than 24 hours. He was also the first astronaut to sleep in space, and he successfully carried out a beacon experiment that made him the first man to launch a satellite in space.) –
- Loretta Lynn (American country music singer-songwriter ) –
Events
- Dr. Benjamin Church investigated for espionage –
- Battle of Germantown resulted in a British victory, due to Washington’s disorganized troops and thick fog –
- The first U.S. Open golf championship was held in Newport, Rhode Island –
- Pigeon Cher Ami’s message saved 194 U.S. soldiers during World War I –
- The comic strip Dick Tracy, created by Chester Gould, made its debut –
- Ruth Allen won Long Island horseshoe championship –
- Leave it to Beaver made its television debut –
- Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, launched from the Soviet Union –
- Russia’s Luna 3 was launched toward the Moon, where it later became the first vehicle to send back images of the Moon’s far side –
- Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of ABC’s Evening News and became the first woman to anchor a network evening newscast –
- In Boston, Massachusetts, the bronze Mallard Family Sculpture, in honor of Robert McCloskey’s story Make Way for Ducklings, was dedicated –
- Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty signed, 1991 –
- SpaceShipOne climbed into space for the second time in one week to claim a $10 million Ansari X Prize –
- Astronomers Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies on the expansion of the Universe. By studying exploding stars, they found that the rate of expansion is accelerating due to a force known as dark energy. –
- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady threw his 500th career regular-season touchdown pass. –
Weather
- Saxby’s Gale caused flooding all over New England –
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