Susan Sarandon is putting women in the frame in Hollywood

WHEN Susan Sarandon glided up the Cannes red carpet recently in a low-cut tuxedo-style dress, it was hard to believe that the Oscar-winning actress turns 70 in October. Certainly, she hasn’t lost any of her pizzazz.
Interestingly, the sometimes outrageous, out-spoken New Yorker won her best actress Oscar (after five nominations) for her portrayal as a real-life nun in 1995’s Dead Man Walking, a film she and her then partner, the film’s writer-director, Tim Robbins, struggled to make.