Densmore, Clift, Folkenflik reflect on actor As an Oscar-winning actor, Tim Robbins has played characters as disparate as a young minor league baseball pitcher ("Bull Durham"), folksinger-turned-corruptician ("Bob Roberts") and blackmailed movie studio executive ("The Player"). As a staunchly liberal political activist and outspoken opponent of the invasion and war in Iraq since 2003, Robbins has fielded criticism from hawkish conservatives who've called him everything from "Saddam lover" to "terrorist supporter." Yet regardless of where one squats on the political spectrum, as our country approaches an historical presidential election and Robbins nears 50, there's no undercutting the long-standing Hollywood figure's contributive influence on modern American culture. As a selected batch of social and political thinkers cite...
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