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| Sean Penn to work for SF Chron? | ||
| 2003-11-25 | ||
| Sean Penn writing news dispatches from Iraq for the San Francisco Chronicle? It could happen — but don’t hold your breath. Uh-oh.
At length refers to the long-jump his leaps of Bronstein said he has known Penn for years. He said the subject of writing for the newspaper came up when he and the actor (currently lauded for roles in 21 Grams and Mystic River) were chatting about various topics in Bronstein’s office about two months ago. There’s better people, but the beauzeaux don’t want facts. At that time, Penn showed an interest in returning to Iraq some time soon and possibly writing what Bronstein termed as "vignettes about life there. ... I wasn’t really interested in his politics, but he had written some [unpublished] things in the past about life in Baghdad," Bronstein said. "He was talking about going back and I said we would be interested in running some of these little vignettes." What would they be? Interviews with the fringe? Twisting of words would play a key role, of course. Bronstein also said the paper would seek to credential Penn as a journalist if needed. "We like to engage Bay Area residents," Bronstein said of Penn, who lives in nearby Marin County. "We have done stuff in the past with [Napa Valley resident and film director] Francis Ford Coppola." And you would cut your own lips off to get him in? "I’d like to write about people I met earlier on," Penn told Entertainment Weekly. "I’d like to see what their story would be now, now that Mr. Hussein is — presumably — no longer in control of the country." It’s a story you refuse to believe because it refutes your precious delusions. But Bronstein said the idea remains just an idea as Penn shows no signs of returning to Iraq at the moment, focusing instead on his two new movies. Still, the editor and actor remain in touch. "We have a lot of mutual friends," explained Bronstein, who is separated from wife Sharon Stone. "We may do something else with him." | ||
| Posted by:Atrus |
| #5 If Sean can be a reporter I can be an Astronaut I refuse to let the vertigo stand in my way. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-25 3:58:46 PM |
| #4 CrazyFool---Yeah, I should listen to my psychologist wife more. She sez, "do not try to reason with psychopaths or sociopaths. They are incapable of empathy." Sean Penn is my Hollywood Idiot Zen Koan. Back to |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-11-25 3:39:37 PM |
| #3 Alaska, Unfortunately he will only visit his 'friends' he met earlier. I wonder if he hopes to find his 'minder' again: "No! Dammit Sean! I don't do that anymore! Now go away people are starting to take notice. And dont come back here again ok?" (Here I am trying to keep a low profile and Mr. Hollywood fancypants comes around... what a jerk...) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-25 2:32:14 PM |
| #2 Meh. In this mutt's f*cked up worldview, America is responsible, directly or indirectly, for all of those dead. You see, Saddam was a fine humanitarian, in line for a Nobel Peace Prize, until Poppy Bush forced him towards the Dark Side. He had no choice killing a few hundred thousand, and anyway all that blood is on our hands. America is the Great Satan©, responsible for all the bad things that happen in the world. We're all so stupid, we need someone like |
| Posted by: commo 2003-11-25 2:28:17 PM |
| #1 How about Penn making his first story from the mass grave site linked yesterday, and maybe he can interview some of the living left behind. Or maybe when word of his presence gets around, he will get his butt kicked. Bloody "useful idiot." Give him a souveneer scrapbook of the excavation and see if he has any conscience at all in him. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-11-25 1:52:35 PM |