Tough Luck Smokey Penn!
Posted on 09/17/2006 6:32:55 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
TORONTO (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in Hollywood had their egos bruised at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Critics and film buffs at the festival, which ended on Saturday, took special aim at Steven Zaillian's "All the King's Men," starring Sean Penn, Jude Law and Kate Winslet.
Several major reviewers declared their disappointment in the most controversial film at the festival, "Death of a President," a fictional documentary about the assassination of President George W. Bush
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Tough Luck Smokey Penn!
Penn Smoked Out
Friday, September 15, 2006
Toronto authorities slapped a $600 fine on the Sutton Place Hotel for allowing Sean Penn to smoke during a press conference for the film All The King's Men. Penn is also due to receive a "stern letter" from the city's medical officer of health reminding him of Toronto's anti-smoking laws.
http://www.muchmusic.com/news/story.asp?id=18232
U.S. actor Sean Penn attends Friday prayers at Tehran university June 10, 2005. Penn arrived in Iran as a reporter for San Francisco Chronicle. At the Prayer Service, the Iranians prayed for the deaths of Americans and Jews.
Those stern letters usually do the trick.
Sean Penn Breaks the Montral Smoking laws, and the Hotel is slapped with the fine.
What in the world ever made Sean Penn think he could be better than Broderick Crawford - or Huey Long for that matter? Oh wait - he thinks it, therefore he is it!
I don't care WHO is in the remake- it won't stack up to: All the King's Men (1949) [IMDB] All the King's Men Directed by Robert Rossen Writing credits Robert Rossen Robert Penn Warren (novel) Tagline: He Might Have Been A Pretty Good Guy . . . If Too Much Power . . . And Women . . . Hadn't Gone To his Head ! (more) Plot Summary: All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the spotlight... (more) User Comments: Great Film From a Great Novel (more) User Rating: ********__ 7.6/10 (1,969 votes) Vote Here Complete credited cast: Broderick Crawford .... Willie Stark John Ireland .... Jack Burden Joanne Dru .... Anne Stanton John Derek .... Tom Stark Mercedes McCambridge .... Sadie Burke Shepperd Strudwick .... Adam Stanton Ralph Dumke .... Tiny Duffy Anne Seymour .... Lucy Stark Katherine Warren .... Mrs. Burden (as Katharine Warren) Raymond Greenleaf .... Judge Monte Stanton Walter Burke .... Sugar Boy Will Wright .... Dolph Pillsbury Grandon Rhodes .... Floyd McEvoy (more)I'm surprised it only got a 7.6 out of 10 rating.
Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 8.3 with a 100% critics positive rating.
I generally try to segregate my politics and my entertainment (music, movies, etc.)
But there are a few "entertainers" who will not get my money. Barbara Streisand. Jane Fonda. Susan Sarandan. Sean Penn. And so on.
I went to see Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) recently. It was great, until about halfway through the show, when the whole thing took a political turn, and became a huge anti-war, anti-republican anti-Bush tirade.
I sat there, sitting on my hands, steaming like hell. At one point, I just burst out in replay to a lengthy, sappy diatribe (about the "innocent Lebanese" "we" were killing...) "Maybe someone should ask the Israelies how innocent some of those Lebanese were!"
At another time, they bought out a giant helium Macy's Parade size pink pig with "Fuck Bush" written on it, and "VOTE DEMOCRAT IN NOVEMBER" on one side, and on the other side it said "KAFKA RULES". They paraded this around the crowd, then released it into the air (open air theater)
I was so effing mad and wanted to leave, but I didn't want to ruin it for all the people around me who I had gone to the show with.
Afterwards, I thought "What should my expectations have been?" Surely, if I had known anything about Roger Waters, I should have fully expected it (I didn't...I just liked the music of Pink Floyd, never delved into the political aspect of their music such as The Wall, Animals and Wish You Were Here. I simply liked the music.)
And truth be told, I always felt that the music in The Wall could be more easily and appropriately applied to the Liberals.
Anyway, I ended up blaming myself in the end for being ignorant. After all, who could be upset at going to a strip club and seeing naked women inside?
But the laws aren't made for people like him!! They're for the little people.
But Sean Penn is a " little" man.
He's a celebrity donchano.
Penn has been playing a victim all his life...cashing in on his father being blacklisted in Hollywood as a communist during the 50s.
It gives him the opportunity to pretend he's a man of the people.
In other words, you were shocked, shocked!
Penn Warren's book is a classic, but I can think of no worse casting than Penn for the part of Willie Stark.
Vote with your pocketbook!
Cry me a river. It's not enough for Holywood egomaniacs to be paid tens of millions of dollars for every movie, they're also supposed to have their egos stroked at every step along the way.
"It's been downhill fast for Penn since Ridgemont High"
I dunno. He's a royal tool, but the man can act.
It's an infallible rule: Anything with Jude Law will suck.
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