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Sean Penn, no wimp like "dixie chicks", Puts money where mouth is with $135,000 open letter in the NYT

Zebo

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What I find interesting is the man is sacrificing his career and own cash to do what he thinks is right. Few birds like this left anymore.
 
Either he has strong feelings on the issue and is using the newspapers as an avenue for getting his views into mainstream America, or it's a move to bolster his career. Or it's a combination of both.
 
Originally posted by: cpumaster
did anyone check to make sure this isn't one of those stories fabricated by NY Times ?

Kind of like the WMD story fabricated by the White House and Pentagon...with a little arm twisting of the CIA?
 
I certainly have no problem with Penn taking the ad out. It is his right. But the dixie chicks stand to lose alot more than Penn(what movies has he been in lately).

But speaking of Dixie chicks, Maines did wear a t-shirt at the country music awards that had "FUTK" on it. No one is quite sure what it means, but most guess it mean Fsck U Toby Keith. This assumption is made because Keith has written some patriotic music after 911. It seems we have not heard the last from the Dixie Chicks.
 
Originally posted by: konichiwa
Well, namely 3 movies due to be released this year and 1 already slated for 2004. More of a movie career than most 😉

Ahhh...I didn't realize that. I hadn't seen him in much of anything since Dead Man Walking.

 
Originally posted by: Insane3D
What "career" is Penn risking? LOL.

Agreed! There aren't many actors whose presence in a movie would make me really not want to see it. Sean Penn is one of them. I don't know what it is about him. I'm not a huge fan of Lisa Kudrow.
 
Originally posted by: Carbonyl
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What I find interesting is the man is sacrificing his career and own cash to do what he thinks is right. Few birds like this left anymore.

Bill O'Reilly was talking about this on his show the other night (which I watch ENTIRELY for its comedic value, because I really can't stand O'Reilly and I think everything he says is a load of crap). I think he kept saying it was 40,000 words, which sounded a bit odd, because that would have been about 80 type-written pages. He had a very manly sounding female columnist on the show to talk about it; she said she basically just skimmed over it, but it was nothing but drivel. Hmmmm... sounds like bias to me. I havent' read it, but I'd like to find it somewhere and read it. He also had some woman from a daytime soap opera on the show to "represent" Hollywood's point of view and defend Sean Penn. She was surprisingly articulate for a blonde soap opera actress, and she didn't take no guff from the manish columnist. Pretty interesting.
 
Originally posted by: konichiwa
Well, namely 3 movies due to be released this year and 1 already slated for 2004. More of a movie career than most 😉

That would be 4 more movies that I won't be watching.
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: konichiwa
Well, namely 3 movies due to be released this year and 1 already slated for 2004. More of a movie career than most 😉

That would be 4 more movies that I won't be watching.


You Dick!!!



^favorite Fast Times quote. 🙂 Sean Penn was brilliant in that movie. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Carbonyl
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What I find interesting is the man is sacrificing his career and own cash to do what he thinks is right. Few birds like this left anymore.
Well it would be interesting if it were true.

This is the industry that gives Academy Awards for Best Documentary to Michael Moore. Its a notoriously left-wing industry dominated by left-wing views or those sympathetic to them.

It would be far more likely for Penn to be risking his career by speaking out in favor of Bush than he would ever risk speaking out in opposition to Bush.

In fact, I'd be willing to bet Penn's phone is ringing off the hook with job offers he wasn't getting before. What's more, I'm equally sure Penn knew it would be.
 
Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Originally posted by: Insane3D
What "career" is Penn risking? LOL.
Agreed! There aren't many actors whose presence in a movie would make me really not want to see it. Sean Penn is one of them. I don't know what it is about him. I'm not a huge fan of Lisa Kudrow.
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I'm no fan of Sean Penn's politics (although I do admire his conviction), but don't knock his acting. As penance, you must rent Carlito's Way tonight.
 
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