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Chavez: Sean Penn may make film in Venezuela

President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may film a movie in Venezuela.

Penn and Wright agree to division of property

Robin Wright and husband Sean Penn have already agreed on how they will divide property in their divorce, according to court records.

Sean Penn drops out of 'Cartel,' 'Three Stooges'

Sean Penn will not be one of "The Three Stooges" or join "Cartel."

2 killers in 'At Close Range' case seek new trial

Two brothers convicted of a quadruple killing that inspired a Sean Penn film want a new trial because of a recent book about the case.

Penn withdraws separation filing from wife Robin

Sean Penn has withdrawn his petition to separate from his wife of 13 years.

Huppert follows Penn as Cannes jury president

The Cannes Film Festival faced a problem this year — how to replace passionate, attention-grabbing actor Sean Penn as jury president?

Sean Penn files for legal separation from his wife

Sean Penn and Robin Wright apparently tried to make it work but now, it seems their marriage might be over for good. Penn and his actress wife are separating after 13 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.

Scoop: Debate continues over Madonna’s adoption

While Madonna toured a day-care center built by her charity in Malawi on Monday, adoption experts worldwide continued their debate over whether the pop star should be adopting a second child from the African country.

Penn says he assumes Calif. gov will honor Milk

Sean Penn, who won an Oscar for playing gay rights hero Harvey Milk, says he is confident California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will sign a bill recognizing Milk's birthday.

Penn to lobby for Harvey Milk Day in California

Fresh from his best actor Oscar for his performance as Harvey Milk, Sean Penn is pushing California to officially recognize the late gay politician's birthday.

French film honors Hoffman, Penn

The French film industry honored Dustin Hoffman and saluted Sean Penn Friday during a ceremony that saw its coveted Cesar for best film going to Martin Provost's "Seraphine."

Scoop: ‘New Moon’ has new hunk

Move over, Robert Pattinson. A new supernatural heartthrob is set to hit the big screen. Pattinson, who starred as “Twilight’s” leading man, vampire Edward Cullen, skips town after just two scenes in the franchise’s sequel, “New Moon,” making way for Taylor Lautner’s werewolf, Jacob Black, to romance Kristen Stewart’s character, Bella.

Biggest stars go for fashionable black at Oscars

The big guns — Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn among them — went with black at Sunday's Academy Awards, but light colors and asymmetrical gowns topped the broader fashion trends.

A feel-good Oscar ceremony for the recession era

Maybe it was the adorable smile on that "Slumdog Millionaire" kid in his pint-sized tuxedo.

Sean Penn's political experience helps in `Milk'

Director Gus Van Sant says Sean Penn's experience of political activism helped make him a good choice to play Harvey Milk, the politician and gay rights activist, in the Oscar-nominated "Milk."

'Slumdog' named best picture at UK film awards

Rags-to-riches story "Slumdog Millionaire" continued its fairy-tale journey Sunday, winning seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards and sealing its place as favorite for the Oscars later this month.

`Slumdog' far from underdog with SAG win

"Slumdog Millionaire" continued its unlikely rise from low-budget underdog to the highest Hollywood heights, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for best cast of a motion picture.

Scoop: Cruise gets emotional about Jett Travolta

Tom Cruise’s Jan. 8 appearance on “The View” won't air until Jan. 9, so the prescient nature of Cruise’s remarks about the death of Jett Travolta could be lost somewhat. A visibly shaken Cruise said, “It’s horrific. Here you have a man, both of them doting parents, they’re wonderful people, and….”

Critics pick 'Waltz With Bashir' as best '08 film

"Waltz With Bashir," a groundbreaking animated documentary about Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, won the National Society of Film Critics' 2008 best picture award Saturday.

`Milk' named best film by New York Film Critics

Sean Penn and "Milk," Gus Van Sant's biopic about gay rights leader Harvey Milk, continued to gain awards momentum Wednesday, winning best film from the New York Film Critics Circle.

`Benjamin Button,' `Milk' top Critics' Choice noms

Brad Pitt's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and Sean Penn's "Milk" lead contenders for the Critics' Choice Awards with eight nominations each, including best picture and actor.

`Milk' earns Stanley Kramer prize from Producers

Sean Penn's film biography "Milk" is receiving the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award, which honors pictures taking on provocative social issues.

Pitt, DiCaprio, Streep court Oscar

The stories are varied: A man ages backward, a nun suspects a priest of pedophilia, the rise and fall of a Latin American revolutionary, a married couple questions their life choices and a classic confrontation between a journalist and a politician. The sources are plays, popular novels and pure imagination. The directors are A-list: David Fincher, Ron Howard, Steven Soderbergh, Gus Van Sant, John Patrick Shanley and Sam Mendes. And their stars — Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio — are some of Hollywood’s best. But will one of these six films take home the best picture Oscar? We’re betting on it.

Sean Penn visits Venezuela's Chavez for 2nd time

U.S. actor Sean Penn is visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — again.

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The Top Twenty Modern Actors & Actresses

Trying to create a list of the twenty best actors and actresses of the modern era was probably the most challenging thing I've done in the past few weeks.

Support Iranians, Not US Intervention
Source: Common Dreams

During our travels to Iran in 2005, Penn and Erlich interviewed numerous ordinary Iranians. People were very friendly towards us as Americans but very hostile to U.S. policy against their country.

Open Letter to the Hollywood Girly Man
Source: reakmanmag.com

During this difficult economy when the Real Man is out busting his ass trying to keep food on the table for his family, you've treated us to a very public display of an entirely different kind of man: the Hollywood girly man.

Is 20 years age difference an issue for Portman and Penn?

Can it be true? Is the cause of Robin Wright Penn's angry divorce to Sean Penn, Natalie Portman?

Sean Penn: Socialist Hugo Chavez Is Warm and Friendly Man
Source: CNSNews.com

CNSNews.com) - Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn said in a Huffington Post blog entry this week that the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, is a "warm" and "friendly man" with a "robust sense of humor," who daily "risks" his own life for his country in ways  …

Sean Penn's "Witch Hunt" - Leave questions for the producers and people featured in the program

Executive Producer Sean Penn proudly presents "Witch Hunt," a documentary that brings light to an injustice that took over 20 years to correct. It's the story of John Stoll and dozens of other men and women who found themselves caught in a spiral of fear, ignorance and hysteria.

Sean Penn Jim Carrey Benicio Del Toro In The Three Stooges?
Source: Fileunderi

Rumors and confirmations swirling about a working The Three Stooges movie: A rep for MGM has confirmed with Access Hollywood that Sean Penn will star as Larry Fine...

Penn Cut Self From 'Crossing'
Source: New York Post

DID Sean Penn's sympathy for Iran's ayatollahs help cripple the box-office prospects of a recent Harvey Weinstein movie?

'Shut up about Chavez the killer' Venezuelan co-star tells Sean Penn
Source: Independent.co.uk

The saccharine conventions of showbusiness were thrown out of the window last week, when the Hollywood actress Maria Conchita Alonso was collared by paparazzi and asked if she was pleased about her former co-star Sean Penn's recent Oscar victory.

How Beijing Butchered Sean Penn's "Commie, Homo-Loving" Oscar Speech
Source: The Huffington Post

In recent days, journalists around the globe have reported on the efforts of Asian governments to censor speech and images in support of gay rights from the broadcast of last Sunday's Oscars.

Revolutionary Road: a review of 'Milk' directed by Gus Van Sant
Source: The New York Review of Books

On the surface, Milk isn't a terribly complicated film. Whatever complexity it has is revealed subtly, intermittently. As a description of the final eight years of Harvey Bernard Milk's life, it's fairly accurate.

Anti-Gay Westboro Baptist Church Protests the Oscars, Sean Penn Reacts
Source: LAist

Those protesters he's referring to were seen by thousands as they passed by Sunset and Highland. It was a small group from the infamous Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, who own hateful web domains like www.godhatesfags.com.

Sean Penn's Oscar Sneer: Conservatives Put 'Great Shame in Their Grandchildren's Eyes'
Source: newsbusters.org

Sean Penn uncorked several liberal political messages in his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday night. He started like this: "You commie, homo-loving sons of guns! I did not expect this, and I wanted it to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me, often.

Oscar joy for Slumdog Millionaire
Source: BBC News

Hit British film Slumdog Millionaire has won the top prize at the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars including best director and best picture.

Predictions for the 81st Annual Academy Awards

The clock is winding down for the 81st time in history that the Academy Awards will be handed out honoring the best in motion picture achievements for the past year. Here are my predictions for what will happen on Sunday night as well as what should happen on Sunday night.

Milk Reviewed: [Witty Beverage Pun Goes Here]

Milk is a deceptive film. The hype will tell you it's a star vehicle about gay rights. It's actually a love letter to politics, and a well-placed and well-played cast gets to sign the card.

In One Swirling Scene in 'Milk,' Capturing a Sea Change
Source: The New York Times

IT'S June 7, 1977, nighttime in the Castro district of San Francisco. Televisions are on everywhere. The news is bad. A crowd is gathering in the street. A telephone rings.

Harvey Milk Deserved A Better Film Than Van Sant's Low-fat Biopic
Source: The Huffington Post

Gay history -- unedited -- is ugly, angry, and violent. It's police dragging us out of cellar bars and down to the station to gang @!$%# the femmes and face-rape the butches, queens, and trannies.

Is it Just Me or Are the Golden Globes Crazy?

Is anyone really believing what I've just read? I got on the internet in between classes so I could take a look at who is up for the 66th installment of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards.

Milk, identity politics and Gus Van Sant's art
Source: WSWS

The subject of Gus Van Sant's new movie is Harvey Milk, a 1970s liberal activist and the first major openly gay politician to be elected in the US.

Milk, Some things never change

Just got back from watching the film Milk w/ Sean Penn. It's very interesting to see some of the same "fears"that were used 30 years ago to try to pass Proposition 6 used once again in the Proposition 8 battle.

Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes -- on the failure of free market capitalism
Source: ZMag

Free market capitalism and greed in the hands of humans are, in fact, a marriage that never rids itself of the demon. They are of one body. It can be said that Ronald Reagan marked the end of the Roosevelt era, and perhaps, that Barack Obama may mark the end of Reagan's.

Minnesota Movie Bears
Source: Minnesota Public Radio

New movie 'Milk' enjoyed by movie going enthuisists in Minneapolis.

Sean Penn Offers Warm "Milk" to Movie Fans
Source: The New York Times

Even in liberal Hollywood, an openly gay actor with a marketable name is a hard commodity to find, and if anyone should know, it is the filmmakers behind new movie, "Milk."

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