Sean Penn feels gun laws apply only to the Little People and not important actors like him. This picture was from when he was on "patrol" in New Orleans during the Katrina disaster.
~ Blue Jays ~
Posted on 09/12/2006 10:01:19 AM PDT by MikeA
NEW YORK Sparks usually fly, from one quarter or another, when actor Sean Penn meets the press, and it happened again this week at a news conference for the Toronto International Film Festival. Chances were greater there as he was touting a long-expected political drama screened there, the re-make of "All the King's Men."
Among the highlights on Sunday, Penn asked photographers to stop snapping so he could hear questions, and he called President Bush "a Beelzebub -- and a dumb one."
Penn stars in the new movie as a Huey Long-type populist politician in Louisiana, with Jude Law playing a crucial role as his friend, an alcoholic reporter.
"One could make the argument that George Bush is a good politician," Penn said at one point, seemingly offering praise. Then he added: "I think the issue is how you define politician. Once upon a time, politics was the organization of things to benefit the people."
An early review this week by E&P's VNU sibling, The Hollywood Reporter, hailed Penn's "charismatic" performance, but added that the movie "doesn't seem to know how to contain it. Writer-director Steven Zaillian's questionable solution is to fit this rambunctious portrait of unruly Southern politics in a monumental frame where Southern Gothic meets Leni Riefenstahl." Variety panned it as "overstuffed."
At the press conference, a reporter returned to the notion of Bush as a good politician, and Penn said the definition has changed -- much as it has for "good actor" which now means, he said, "contest winner" (he is an Academy Award winner himself).
"So that's the level of politician I think he's good at," Penn said. "Out of context, he's Beelzebub -- and a dumb one."
Another query: Could he name a good politician? Penn said he wasn't about to "rattle off the cliches....It should be obvious, those people who sacrificed of their talents and their commitment to their country or their people . . . we know who they are and they're not currently in the White House."
Penn has written several freelance articles for the San Francisco Chronicle in recent years.
Sean Penn has enough intelligence to make disparaging remarks about the president? Heavens no!! Who cares what he says anyway?
has NOTHING to with the supposed purpose of EDITOR and PUBLISHER.
Yet they eagerly publicize it,
despite that fact that it has NOTHING to do with editing or publishing
showing for all to see that they are just a another media rag promoting the left wing agenda.
What the hell is that? A bagel?
He's so smart....even MADONNA DUMPED HIM.
That just about covers it.
huhhuhhuhuh Narrrley- he's like huhuhhuh dumb and all
Psychotic?
Good. I'll hire you for 5 cents an hour. Show up tomorrow morning at nine am, bright boy.
I would not watch a film that Sean Penn is in if someone gave me the DVD. He is a bottom dwelling scum sucking piece of crap.
More than that...it wasn't a leaky boat, he forget to install the drain plug before he put it in the water...that's genius at work.
BTW, Sean...what school DID you attend for your MBA?
"I'm famous, so I'm smart. Simple as that!"
-Sean Penn, Meathead Magna Cum Laude
Sean Penn feels gun laws apply only to the Little People and not important actors like him. This picture was from when he was on "patrol" in New Orleans during the Katrina disaster.
~ Blue Jays ~
And I still can't believe the pretty girl from Princess Bride married this kook.
>>>He's so smart....even MADONNA DUMPED HIM.>>>
Actually, it was the other way around.
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