Tim Robbins gets his Walk of Fame star

October 09, 2008 Tim Robbins might seem a like controversial choice to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, given his well-earned reputation for outspokenness on hot-button issues like the death penalty and the Iraq War. "We're thrilled to honor actor Tim Robbins for his longtime accomplishments in the movie arena," says chamber vp publicity Ana Martinez-Holler. Long before Robbins met Sarandon, won an Oscar for his role in 2003's "Mystic River" or received his first condemnation from a conservative radio commentator, he was already stirring up controversy, according to V.J. Foster, associate artistic director of the Actors' Gang, an experimental theater troupe he co-founded with Robbins in 1981, when both were students in the UCLA theater department.

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