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Susan Granger is a product of Hollywood. Her natural father, S. Sylvan Simon, was a director and producer at R.K.O., M.G.M. and Columbia Pictures; her adoptive father, Armand Deutsch, produced movies at M.G.M.
As a child, Susan appeared in movies with Abbott & Costello, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Margaret OBrien and Lassie. She attended Mills College in California, studying journalism with Pierre Salinger, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa, with highest honors in journalism.
During her adult life, Susan has been on radio and television as an anchorwoman and movie/drama critic. Her newspaper reviews have been syndicated around the world, and she has appeared on American Movie Classics cable television.
In addition, her celebrity interviews and articles have been published in REDBOOK, PLAYBOY, FAMILY CIRCLE, COSMPOLITAN, WORKING WOMAN and THE NEW YORK TIMES, as well as in PARIS MATCH, ELLE, HELLO, CARIBBEAN WORLD, ISLAND LIFE, MACO DESTINATIONS, NEWS LIMITED NEWSPAPERS (Australia), UK DAILY MAIL, UK SUNDAY MIRROR, DS (France), LA REPUBBLICA (Italy), BUNTE (Germany), VIP TRAVELLER (Krisworld) and many other international publications through SSG Syndicate.
Susan also lectures on the Magic and Mythology of Hollywood and Dont Take It Personally: Conquering Criticism and other Survival Skills, originally published on tape by Dove Audio.
Angelina Jolie could turn out to be the #1 action star in the world. She’s that good in a
role written for Tom Cruise but rejected by him as being too similar to that of Ethan Hunt
in the “Mission Impossible” franchise. Read the rest of this entry »
For 60 years, six-to-12 year-old children have enjoyed books by Beverly Cleary, so it’s
actually quite surprising that it’s taken this long to bring any of them to the big screen. Read the rest of this entry »
Just as James Cameron fashioned a far-distant world in “Avatar,” Christopher Nolan has created an even more intriguing inner world in this terrifying new sci-fi thriller. Read the rest of this entry »
Like Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy, you need to read/see “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” in order to understand this sequel. In the first movie, crusading Stockholm business journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) enlisted the help of a punk, pierced-and-tattooed computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), to solve a 40 year-old cold case. Read the rest of this entry »
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, John McTiernan, who created the original back in 1987, should feel quite complimented – because there’s not a shred of originality in this sci-fi sequel except, perhaps, the opening scene. It begins with an unconscious man, freefalling from a great height. He awakens mid-air, starts screaming and grabbing for the ripcord on a parachute he didn’t know he had. Now that’s an attention-grabber! Read the rest of this entry »
Don’t even consider seeing this live-action fantasy-adventure unless a) you’ve been watching the animated Nickelodeon television series, or b) someone with you is familiar with the storyline. Otherwise, it makes absolutely no sense, except that it’s obviously the first chapter in a hoped-for future franchise. Read the rest of this entry »
“Winter’s Bone” is a serious, sensitive, stirring 9, revealing a gritty, cruelly uncompromising world within the confines our of our own country. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been seven years since his divorce yet middle-aged John (John C. Reilly) is still single and suffering terrible pangs of loneliness and lack of self-esteem. “I’m like Shrek,” he says. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been 15 years since Woody, Buzz and the gang emerged in the “Toy Story” and 11 years since the first sequel. Now Disney/Pixar has come up with a third episode that’s bigger (3-D!), perhaps cleverer and certainly delightful. Read the rest of this entry »
This is more of an update than a remake of the iconic 1984 original which paired young Ralph Macchio with Pat Morita. While the concept is the same, the locale has moved from California to the Far East. Read the rest of this entry »