Thin Veils
In this photo, Susan Sarandon was attending the 69th annual Academy Awards ceremony. When she was 69 in May 2016, herself and Juliette had attended the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival. The event that they had attended at the festival was called Women in Motion. As for October 2026, both actresses have films scheduled to be shown at a Spanish film festival called VIFF (Valladolid International Film Festival). Susan has The Echo Chamber whereas Juliette has Queen at Sea. I can imagine that Susan would be interested in Juliette seeing as how Juliette had a sapphic scene with Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). Juliette could be seen kissing Emily Mortimer in an episode of The New Look (2024).
Susan Sarandon acted with Brooke in a TV movie called F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘The Last of the Belles’ (1974). Three years after the above photo, both actresses attended the New York premiere of a Peter Yates film where John Malkovich played a character named Nicolas Gage. Yes, Gage as in Gage Golightly. Anyway, the film was called Eleni. Susan Sarandon must have experienced some nostalgia when she worked with an actress who is a Brooke Adams lookalike i.e. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The January Man (1989). Brooke later played a lesbian in a romance called Snapshots (2018). She would have played one earlier in Lianna (1983) but she dropped out because she chickened out. At least she got to co-star opposite Susan’s friend in The Dead Zone (a 1983 David Cronenberg adaptation of a Stephen King novel starring Christopher Walken).
Susan and Amy received special thanks in the closing credits of The Guys (2000). The casting is a joke because Sigourney Weaver has talked about being mistaken for Susan whereas Anthony LaPaglia was in Susan’s The Client (1994). Amy played a lesbian in A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop (2006). Susan must have told her about the aforementioned Lena Olin because Amy’s husband, Bruno Barreto, directed Lena in a film called Bossa Nova (2000). In May 2000, Amy was quoted as saying: “He’s got the hots for Lena Olin. But so do I! I think if I were a lesbian, that would be the woman I would go for.”
After Susan Sarandon played a vampire in The Hunger (1983), it was natural that Lauren Hutton would follow suit with Once Bitten (1985). After all, Lauren inherited the role that Susan played in a play called Extremities (1982). There was a French makeup artist who not only worked on Lauren and Susan but Catherine Deneuve - the star of The Hunger. The artist’s name is Laura Mercier, and she was based in New York for a long time after she moved there in 1985. The significance being that this is where Susan and Lauren lived. Laura became Madonna’s personal maker-upper for many years.
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Patricia Field is a lesbian costume designer from New York. In the above photo, she attended the 8th annual ACE Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street in NY. In the above photo, Courtney Love attended a fashion show in Milan. This was five months before the Me Too movement did to Hollywood what Israel did to Gaza in October 2023. In 2005, Courtney warned actresses about Harvey Weinstein. It doesn’t make it any less unnerving that Susan and Harvey appeared in separate episodes of Doll & Em (2013 - 2015). This starred the aforementioned Emily Mortimer.
Sean co-starred in Dead Man Walking (1995). It’s just as well that Susan Sarandon didn’t change her stage-name to Susan Tomalin after getting divorced from Chris Sarandon. People might have gotten her mixed up with Lily Tomlin, or accused her of nepotism despite having a different surname. Lily is the best friend of Jane Fonda, who can be seen hugging Susan in the above photo. This was taken in Washington as Jane took the stage in her first anti-war demonstration in decades. Sean Penn used to be the husband of the aforementioned Madonna.
The 1997 event was an AIDS benefit for children whereas the 2017 event was a rally for Colin Kaepernick outside the NFL headquarters in NYC. Much like Susan, Donna Karan kept her husband’s name long after the divorce. This didn’t bode well for Stephan Weiss, whose marriage to her had lasted from 1983 to 2001 (albeit the marriage only ended because he died of lung cancer). Maybe Donna didn’t want people to joke about her having to wise up. Linda is a Muslim of Palestinian descent. Because she entered into an arranged marriage, she can’t really afford to reveal her true identity.
This happened as they were on stage for CFDA Awards at the New York Public Library. CFDA as in the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Their bond is strengthed by the fact that Susan remained close with her many years after the death of Stephan Weiss. The day after Valentine’s day in 2010, Susan attended one of her fashion shows with two fellow bisexual actresses: Demi Moore and Brooke Shields. The theme of the event was Donna’s collection for the fall of that year. The show happened during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at 711 Greenwich Street in NYC.
In August 2000, it was reported tha Goldie had has no problem with her daughter kissing other girls as long as it was for a theatrical release. This is referring to Kate Hudson in Dr. T and the Women.
