When I mention to Susan Sarandon that the first time I interviewed her, it was for the 1981 film “Atlantic City,” she smiles ruefully.

“We were both babies back then,” she says.

She curls into the couch of the hotel room where we’re talking, for a piece for the New York Daily News. This is the first of the interviews she’ll do this day, to promote the film “Robot & Frank,” which opened in limited release Aug. 17. Though she worked for less than a week on the film, her character – a librarian named Jennifer – proves pivotal in a plot that revolves around a book-loving but aging cat burglar named Frank (Frank Langella) and the robot caretaker who tends to him, in a plot set in the near future. (More…)