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2003-05-12 Fifth Column

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Posted by Steve White 2003-05-12 12:40 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You can sue ANYBODY for ANYTHING. This is America.

Doesn't mean you'll win, or even get a trial. Just means you're allowed to start proceedings.

Posted by mojo 2003-05-12 13:55:50|| 2003-05-12 13:55:50|| Front Page Top

#2 "Elizabeth Hurley used DNA tests to prove in court last year that he had fathered her son."
If I had nailed Liz Hurley, I would of had T-shirts printed up.

Posted by Steve 2003-05-12 14:08:15|| 2003-05-12 14:08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 "That would make a comedy film harder to sell, unless the next scene shows Mr. Penn being spanked by Condi Rice. "

There's something I'd pay to see.

Posted by Kathy K 2003-05-12 17:24:31|| [site-essential.com/] 2003-05-12 17:24:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting is a left-wing group that "monitors" the media looking for conservative bias. Unconnected to ANSWER, however.

One wonders though whether FAIR (cute, eh?)will say anything about Jayson Blair's lying and fabricated reporting at the New York Times. Don't hold your breath...and take a look at the links on their site...tells you plenty about what this group's "spin" is.

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-05-12 02:05:23|| 2003-05-12 02:05:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Though a blacklist has yet to emerge...

It's on my refrigerator. Does that mean he can sue me?

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2003-05-12 06:35:59|| 2003-05-12 06:35:59|| Front Page Top

#6 First of all, the McCarthy-era "blacklist" did not deal with those who made public statements, only private associations, and second, one such breach of contract dispute doesn't even come close to implying any such "blacklist" exists.

Even if his whole career goes into the toilet now, and one can only hope, the case could be made quite impressively that his public statements made him box office poison, and the producers of a movie have no obligation to put up good money to make movies with such box office poison. Hollywood is all about image, more than anything else.

Ya see, Mr. Penn, when you cross that "bright line", people have long memories, and you are held accountable for your public statements. Don't be so stupid as to believe your public statements have no impact on your box office appeal.

Posted by Jeff Brokaw 2003-05-12 07:53:14|| [jeffbrokaw.net/weblog/] 2003-05-12 07:53:14|| Front Page Top

#7 A comedy starring Sean Penn about hijacking an airliner and crashing it into the White House. Gee, that's just got to be a howl... Everybody even slightly associated with this "project" has got to be a mental midget to start with.

Posted by Dar 2003-05-12 08:15:44|| 2003-05-12 08:15:44|| Front Page Top

#8 If there's a blacklist, it's economic, not political. There isn't a more bottom line industry on earth then the entertainment industry. If you can't make them money, they don't want to know you. And if you piss off a large segment of the American public to the point where they won't support your projects, you aren't going to be making the studios and the moguls any money. They don't like that.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-12 08:17:44|| 2003-05-12 08:17:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Penn's trying to follow in Dad's footsteps. His father was purportedly blacklisted for ~~having no talent too~~ HUAC accusations. Sean however thinks everyone should be forced to employ him when public displeasure at his stupid statements, actions in Iraq/ads could very well cost his employer a freaking lot of money. I really hope Bing has the cojones to go to the mat on this. How about a couple public opinion polls showing how Sean's image would impact the bottomline (of what's gotta be a piece of crap movie anyway)?

Posted by Frank G 2003-05-12 08:54:59|| 2003-05-12 08:54:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Sean Penn goes to Iraq and tells Saddam to "tear down this wall". And now can't get work. So nearly broke he tries to clear his name...

Posted by Lucky 2003-05-12 11:25:00|| 2003-05-12 11:25:00|| Front Page Top

#11 This is ridiculously easy to resolve... take him back into the movie, and give the job of re-writing Sean's part to those play-writing monkeys that were in the news this weekend, and tell him it's going to be a combination of "Rain Man", "I am Sam", and "Die Hard":

Actor: Look at that!
Penn: SSsssSSsSSssSSSsssSSSS
Actor: I agree totally. Should we steal this car?
Penn: SSSsssSS... kd j jkd lasjdkf ?

Posted by snellenr 2003-05-12 13:11:21|| 2003-05-12 13:11:21|| Front Page Top

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