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Continuing to work on what’s now become an extended second season, Blake Lively and her off-screen lover Penn Badgley were spotted hard-at-work on the set of “Gossip Girl” in New York City on Friday (November 21).
Joined by co-star Taylor Momsen, the CW stars ran through a few sequences - during which it appears as if Blake’s Serena van der Woodsen character is a bit upset with Badgley’s Dan Humphrey.
They look great together on their hit show “Gossip Girl” and Blake Lively and Penn Badgley are just as cute off-screen. Last night they were spotted looking lovey dovey at the 5th Anniversary of the CDFA/Vogue Fashion Fund.
The “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” babe and her hunky boyfriend arrived at Skylight in New York City, posing for pictures and chatting with fans.
Taking care of her man on his birthday, Blake Lively was spotted treating boyfriend Penn Badgley to a brunch outing in New York City on Saturday (November 1).
Hitting the West Village, the “Gossip Girl” co-star couple rung in Penn’s 22nd at “A Salt & Battery” - which boasts itself to be New York’s only truly authentic
fish and chip shop.
The brand new season of “Gossip Girl” keeps heating up, and earlier today Blake Lively and Penn Badgley were spotted on their way to work in Queens, New York.
Braving the cold, rainy weather, the on/off-screen lovers hid beneath an umbrella and kept bundled up with coats and scarves, stopping for a smooch along the way.
Beginning yet another work week, Blake Lively and Penn Badgley were spotted on their way to work on the set of Gossip Girl earlier today (October 20).
The on/off-screen sweethearts looked focused for their upcoming day of filming scenes, with Blake sporting a grey overcoat as she cuddled her puppy pal, while Penn opted for a grey sweater, dark trousers, and matching slip-on shoes.
His hit show “Gossip Girl” is one of the hottest on the Fall schedule, and Penn Badgley couldn’t be happier to have been thrust into the realm of being a household name.
And yesterday (October 8), he was spotted on the Brooklyn, New York set, looking hunky in a plaid button-up shirt underneath a black blazer with jeans and brown leather shoes.
Getting ready for another day of work, Blake Lively and Penn Badgley were spotted walking to the set of “Gossip Girl” in New York City on Tuesday (September 23).
A source on the scene tells, “Blake turned good Samaritan along the way, helping open a door when a lady came in her apartment building pushing a baby on a stroller. After that, she and Penn hid behind their two bodyguards.”
They’re the male eye candy of the hit teen drama Gossip Girl, and yesterday Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, and Penn Badgley were hard at work in New York City.
The three studs were spotted filming scenes for the upcoming season of GG on the campus of Columbia University, all sporting uber-trendy outfits and having a great time.
She may be young (16 years old as of last month), but Taylor Momsen knows how to get the boys’ attention. And yesterday she was looking hot on the Brooklyn set of Gossip Girl.
The Jenny Humphrey actress had it going on with a plaid schoolgirl outfit as she filmed scenes with Penn Badgley, stopping to pose for the paparazzi at one point.
With Gossip Girl’s metropolitan setting, the cast members get a chance to hang out in the Big Apple practically every day. And yesterday (July 30), Blake Lively and Penn Badgley were all about making the most of their NYC surroundings.
The on-screen and off-screen lovers were spotted posing for the paparazzi as they walked hand-in-hand through the Meatpacking District of Manhattan.
This girl is so popular she has to cut one party short just to attend another party. And Blake Lively had her hands full of social engagements last night.
The Gossip Girl hottie began the night by attending the New York City premiere of “The Dark Knight” held at the AMC Loews Lincoln Center cinemas. Joined by boyfriend/costar Penn Badgley, Miss Lively looked gorgeous in a black satin romper dress with a plunging neckline teamed with a pair of shiny heels.
While most of what we see of celebrities is glitzy and glamorous, it’s not all fun and games. And yesterday the paparazzi caught up with Blake Lively after a long day at work.
As the blonde bombshell exited her trailer, she and co-star/real life boyfriend Penn Badgley summoned the energy to meet and greet a few fans, taking pictures and signing autographs.
We spotted Sean Penn, his wife Robin and their two teenage kids, Hopper and Dylan at Fred Segal in Santa Monica the other day, and though they're not all lovey dovey, it is nice to see the family back together.
You may remember that the couple filed for divorce back in December of 2007 but called it off this past April.
In a town where marriages seem to last as long as breathmints, it is refreshing to see a couple working things out.
Think this Hollywood couple will last? Looks like it to us!
The new season of Gossip Girl is sure to be a winner, building on the greatness of this past season. And though their characters broke up during the season finale, it looks like Blake Lively and Penn Badgley will be reunited onscreen.
The real-life lovers were spotted filming some scenes for the new season of Gossip Girl, looking mighty cozy as they made out on the beach.
With Gossip Girl attaining instant success, Blake Lively was thrust into the limelight almost overnight. And she’s handled it like a seasoned pro.
Yesterday the Serena van der Woodsen actress was spotted with her fellow co-stars on the set of her hit show in Southampton, New York looking summer sexy in a variety of printed dresses as she filmed her scenes for the day.
Sometime costar romances work, and sometimes they don’t. But when it comes Blake Lively and Penn Badgley things certainly seem to be going pretty well.
The Gossip Girl sweethearts were spotted having fun and grabbing some grub last night at Tortilla Flats in New York City prior to hailing a cab and heading over to Starbucks.
PDA Alert!
On-screen costars and off-screen lovers, Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley shares some chips and drinks wit girlfriend Blake Lively.
All while romantically draping his arm around her!
Gross.
The pair went out for a festive night at West Village landmark Tortilla Flats on Tuesday evening.
How long until the eventual breakup?
Enjoy it while it lasts!
Penn Badgely is the guy who didn't get the breakout hunk label on Gossip Girl. Chace Crawford did. You know this one wanted it. He has that intense actor boy face going on. We get it, you're committed to your craft. What we don't know is if you're committed to your co-star, Blake Lively. He's all wishy-washy about it!
Penn and Blake, 20, were recently spotted vacationing on the Mayan Riviera in Mexico, yet he seems to not want to put a label on things. Typical dude trick. Watch out, Serena!
"Obviously, there's chemistry there," the actor, 21, says. "She's a great girl. We have to draw a line, at some point, with our personal lives, because otherwise, ya know, when do people stop?"
I don't know. Third base? Penn dug his hole deeper when he also claimed to not be a fan of "on-set romances." So what are you doing splashing around with her in Mexico and trying to fumble inside her bikini top, dude? Was one of you fired from Gossip Girl?
"I think they cause a lot of drama," he said, adding, "God, I'm being so cryptic." And you're being an ass. I'd rather someone chew and screw than give me this mealy-mouthed bullshit!
Photos: Getty Images/BauerGriffinOnline.com
Sean Penn is heading up the jury for the Cannes Film Festival this year and is as outspoken as ever. The eccentric and politically-involved actor denied that he is supporting Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential election. He was asked about it during a pre-festival press conference.
"I don't have a candidate I'm supporting and I'm certainly interested and excited by the hope that Barack Obama is inspiring. I hope that he will understand, if he is the nominee, the degree of disillusionment that will happen if he doesn't become a greater man than he will ever be," Penn said. "This is the most important election, certainly in my lifetime, and maybe ever."
Penn also stated that he felt that Obama had a "phenomenally inhuman and unconstitutional" voting record.
Penn's other concern at Cannes is that the French won't let him smoke. He said he'd been discouraged from smoking in public places due to France's recent ban. As he was saying this, bitch lit up a coffin nail and chain-smoked through the rest of the press conference. This is a guy who lives in a trailer, shoots guns and took a dinghy into New Orleans after Katrina. He's all about a Jack London/Ernest Hemingway/Dennis Hopper f*cked up on acid lifestyle.
Photos: PacificCoastNews.com
More photos of Sean Penn grabbing lunch in Cannes after the jump.
Here is a group of individuals who weren't slick enough to get themselves out of jury duty. And if you look at that brunette in the center in the red dress, the sting of it is really getting to her. OK, that's not completely true. This is a group photo of the Cannes Film Festival jury and I have a feeling that it's a hell of a lot more fun of a gig than having to sit in regular people jury duty. And you can't get out of it by pretending not to speak English.
Meanwhile, here's sketchy ol' Sean Penn, Mr. On-Again, Off-Again divorce. I can't imagine being in real jury duty with him. He's so passionate about everything, I think he'd probably be likely to throw chairs. And Natalie Portman's adorable, but I still can't get behind the whole formal shorts thing.
Photos: WENN
More photos of Natalie Portman and Sean Penn at the Cannes Film Festival jury photocall after the jump.
Now that we’re back on track with some new episodes of Gossip Girl, the cast is being spotted all over New York City filming scenes and having fun.
Yesterday, the Palace Hotel was taken over by the hit CW show’s cast. Leighton Meester, Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, and Kelly Rutherford all took turns filming a wedding scene (for Serena Van Der Woodsen’s mom Lily) inside the beautiful hotel.
When it comes to hot kissing scenes, Michelle Trachtenberg and Penn Badgley may have cornered the market.
They were spotted doing a little making out while shooting a scene for a new episode of Gossip Girl in the New York City Borough of Queens.
As we reported to you here less then a few weeks ago Sean Penn was rumored to be desperately trying to win back Robin Wright.
Wright Penn filed her paperwork Dec. 21 in Marin County Superior Court, where the duo holds their primary residence, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason she was ending an 11-year marriage that produced two teenage children. (View Wright Penn’s divorce petition.)
Within weeks, Penn appeared to be moving on, spotted on several occasions enjoying the company of model Petra Nemcova.
But then on Tuesday, the estrangement appeared to be history, when the couple were taking in an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco. Vedder, a longtime friend of Penn’s who contributed to the soundtracks of Dead Man Walking and Into the Wild, allowed his friend up on stage, where Penn dedicated a tune to his wife in honor of her 42nd birthday.
It turns out that in a one-page document filed that same Tuesday in Marin County Superior Court, the clerk dismissed the couple’s divorce petition at their request.
The acting twosome met on the set of the 1990 thriller State of Grace. They tied the knot in 1996.
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For the second time, the divorce between Sean Penn and Robin Wright have been dismissed at the request of the couple.
Reports said that Sean filed for divorce on December 7, after Robin found him in bed with two Russian girls while they were on vacation together (although staying in separate suites). That was dismissed 11 days later. Then, Robin filed again on December 21.
Since then, Sean has been seen out and about, including going to Elton John's Oscar party with Petra Nemcova.
On Tuesday, the two went to an Eddie Vetter concert, where Sean dedicated a song on stage to Robin for her birthday.
I'm guessing that's not the only romantic gesture he has made to get himself out of the dog house. He better keep it up if he doesn't want to see round three of a divorce.
Photos: BauerGriffinOnline.com
For the second time, the divorce between Sean Penn and Robin Wright have been dismissed at the request of the couple.
Reports said that Sean filed for divorce on December 7, after Robin found him in bed with two Russian girls while they were on vacation together (although staying in separate suites). That was dismissed 11 days later. Then, Robin filed again on December 21.
Since then, Sean has been seen out and about, including going to Elton John's Oscar party with Petra Nemcova.
On Tuesday, the two went to an Eddie Vetter concert, where Sean dedicated a song on stage to Robin for her birthday.
I'm guessing that's not the only romantic gesture he has made to get himself out of the dog house. He better keep it up if he doesn't want to see round three of a divorce.
Photos: BauerGriffinOnline.com
After rumors of infidelity and accounts of Sean's famously bad temper affecting their marriage, the couple filed for divorce in December after 11 years of marriage and two children.
Extra reports that sources revealed the couple was together at an Eddie Vedder concert last night. Sean dedicated a song to Robin in honor of her birthday! -- Awwww!!!!
Best of luck, Sean and Robin!
We caught Sean out with Petra Nemcova in February at an Oscar's after-party. Guess he's been there, done that! Hope he's finished doing that!
Estranged couple Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have just reconciled. The couple filed for divorce last month amid rumors that Sean had been cheating. Sean was photographed with model Petra Nemcova at various Oscar parties, but apparently he’s had a change of heart. At a recent Eddie Vedder concert, Sean and Robin were seen together, and Sean even dedicated a song to her. I guess those lame moves actually work on some women, because that same day, Robin dropped her divorce case.
Sean Penn’s divorce to Robin Wright Penn has been called off.
Court officials confirm to Extra that a dismissal was filed and granted on Tuesday.
The same day, Extra reported the pair hit an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco, where Penn, 47 — who flirted with Petra Nemcova at the Oscars — dedicated a song to his wife, 42, on stage for her birthday.
He originally filed divorce papers in Marin County December 7, his attorney Mindy Ross told Usmagazine.com, but the petition was dismissed December 18.
On December 21, she filed her own request for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Penn’s divorce papers listed November 30 as the date of their separation; she listed the split date as December 1.
The couple, who have been married for over 11 years, have two kids: Dylan Francis, 16, and Hopper Jack, 14.
Sean and Robin have a reputation for being emotional, volatile and up-and-down with each other, even when they are working together on a project. Famed director John Cassavetes, who directed the couple in “She’s So Lovely,” said that working with them was difficult. “The beginning and the end of every day is how Sean and Robin are getting along,” the director said during shooting in 1997. “If they have a bad morning, Sean’s broken up about it.”
I hope it works out for the couple this time. But I can’t help but wonder if maybe Sean went divorce-attorney-shopping after the papers were filed, and found out what it would cost him to divorce his wife of 11 years in the State of California. Yep, I’m romantic that way.
Let’s be honest: the best part of awards shows are all the little bits of gossip you hear afterwards. Like Jon Stewart was actually drunk as a skunk during the whole ceremony last night. Or Jack Nicholson and Javier Bardem got in a fistfight, and Javier sat on Jack’s head. Okay none of those things actually happened, but how much would it rock if they did? Well a little bit of juicy gossip that does appear to be true: it seems Sean Penn and Petra Nemcova are hooking up.
Newly single Sean Penn and supermodel Petra Nemcova slipped out of LA’s Villa nightclub at 3:10 a.m. this morning–clearly Hollywood’s hottest new item.
The pair followed up an appearance at a CAA event two days ago with a full-on assault of coupledom tonight at Elton John’s Oscar Party (above). Sean, 47, and Petra, 28, posed on the red carpet at the singer’s AIDS Foundation fete and danced to his many hits before heading to Villa.
[From Page Six]
Further confirmation comes from People. While they say there was no “clear cut PDA” when Petra was asked about Penn, she noted, “Yes, we are friends. He is on the advisory board of my charity.”
I can’t really explain why, but somehow this pairing strikes me as odd. Penn is nineteen years old than Nemcova, but I don’t think that’s what really seems odd. He just looks like he should be out living in a tree somewhere, while she looks like her image should be chiseled in marble or something. He’s very rustic and asymmetrical. And she is highly symmetrical. And since I can’t think of any other way to explain why I don’t think these two go together, I’m going to rely on symmetry (and a lack thereof) to be my main argument.
Sean Penn split from wife Robin Wright Penn right after Christmas; with both parties citing the traditional “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their divorce. The San Francisco Gate reports that Robin is now dating her ex-boyfriend from the 90s, Jason Patric. It seems fast, but they’re both moving on with their lives and that’s probably for the best. And Jason Patric is much more symmetrical than Sean Penn.
InTouch Weekly is reporting that on December 8th - nearly three weeks before filing for divorce - Sean partied at the Homestead bar in San Francisco with frat packer Vince Vaughn!
An onlooker alleges that the actors, who've been friends since filming Into The Wild, were "drinking heavily" and dancing with several women.
While Vince ended up making out with one girl, Sean's attention was a little more fickle - observers reported seeing "various ladies dancing around him, trying to get his attention".
Sounds like there's a little Spicoli left in Sean yet!
Good thing Vince didn't have his bodyguards rough InTouch's source up!
Star magazine is claiming that the impending divorce between Sean Penn and wife, Robin Wright, is the result of Sean getting caught red-handed with in bed with two women on what was supposed to be a romantic weekend for the couple. They were both staying in two different suites shortly before Christmas in Lake Tahoe, CA at the Squaw Valley. A source revealed that the couple appeared to be spending their vacation separately and when Robin had finally had enough of staying in her own suite, she went over to Sean's, where she "found him drunk with two Russian girls!" And that exclamation point is quoted, I didn't add it for emphasis.
Reportedly, Sean was unaffected by his wife's discovery and resumed his festivities with his two guests. Later, he responded to questions of Robin's whereabouts with "Who cares?" Seriously, when isn't this guy in a sour mood? Robin should have known that the fact that she's neither an independent film, nor a third world country meant that he'd start hating her eventually.
Photos: Bauer-Griffin Online
Apparently Sean Penn decided to end his marriage with a bang. So to speak. According to MSNBC and various media outlets, Penn had a threesome with two drunk Russian girls. He had gone on vacation with wife Robin Wright Penn right before Christmas, but had booked separate suites for each of them. So clearly things weren’t exactly cozy before all of this. Robin Wright hardly saw Penn on vacation, and was pissed that she was spending all her time alone. When she went to Penn’s room, she found him in bed with two drunk women. Penn supposedly didn’t care, and continued to party into the night.
Sean Penn was served with divorce papers by his wife Robin after the actress allegedly found him in bed with two other women. Magazine Star has revealed details of the couple’s last weekend together and claimed the Mystic River star was caught being unfaithful to his partner of 11 years.
The actors were reportedly staying at the Squaw Valley resort in Lake Tahoe, California, days before Christmas when the incident is said to have occurred, according to MSNBC.com. A source tells the publication, “Sean didn’t spend much time with his wife - he booked her a separate suite - and when Robin got fed up with being alone, she went over to his suite. (There, she) found him drunk with two Russian girls.”
Penn married Wright in 1996 and they have two children together, Dylan Frances, 16, and Hopper Jack, 14. Wright filed divorce papers in California on December 21, citing irreconcilable differences as a reason for the split. The couple are said to be seeking joint custody of their teenage kids.
[From Starpulse]
There’s always been something about Sean Penn that I’ve found distasteful. I thought it was the constant sneer plastered across his face, but now I think it probably has more to do with the sleazebag, ignoring your wife, having sex with strangers thing. Something tells me the two have a prenup, but if they don’t this could get pretty messy for him.
Update by Celebitchy: The Star article doesn’t say that Robin found Sean in bed with two Russian woman, just that she found him drunk and hanging out with them in his room. The article is being misquoted:
“Sean didn’t spend much time with his wife - he booked her a separate suite - and when Robin got fed up with being along, she went over to his suite and found him drunk with two Russian girls!” says a source. “He’d already finished a couple of bottles of champagne.”
Robin, 41, went nuclear, but Sean “just told her to leave and continued drinking,” reveals the source. Sean, 47, even flirted with the women in front of Robin, whom he married in 1996 after the birth of their children, daughter Dylan, 16, and son Hopper, 14. “He was acting like he just didn’t care,” says the source.
[From Star Magazine, print edition, January 14, 2008]
The article goes on to say that Penn tried to order champagne from room service at 3 am and then had someone drive him to a 7-Eleven when there wasn’t room service available at that time. He then found that he wasn’t able to buy booze after 2 am. That hardly sounds like someone who’s having a threesome. If you’re busy having sex you’re not about to get antsy over not getting booze.
So it's fairly obvious that things weren't well in the Penn/Wright-Penn camp before the official divorce petition. Sean was out on a dinner date with a "very young, very attractive" brunette at San Francisco's Café de la Presse restaurant on Dec 17, four days before The Princess Bride filed for divorce. Sources say he looked "nervous" and "on edge". It could have been because she was just a studio executive, and he didn't want people getting the wrong idea. Or it could have been his anxiety over what's going on in our war-town world, because he rolls like that. Or it could have been because he was messing around on his old lady. I'll leave it up to you. In other weirdness around this sitch, Sean originally filed for divorce on Dec 7 but those were dismissed on Dec 18. So he took another chick to din-din and realized he wanted to stay married? Too late, because Robin Wright-Penn filed herself on Dec 21. December was a CRAY-ZAH month for these two! Sean and Robin were married for 11 years, and have two kids. They're both talented actors (except for that movie where she was like sending Kevin Costner messages in a bottle or some bullshit) and this is the sadness. But let's be real, marriage to that dude couldn't have been a walk in the park. You know he has a mimeograph machine in the basement ready to start printing out his conspiracy theory 'zine the second the film roles dry up. He's radical like that.
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There may be more to the Sean Penn/Robin Wright Penn split than just "irreconcilable differences!"
Page Six is reporting that Sean was seen "wining and dining" Helena Christensen, Eve, Sienna Miller, Naomi Campbell and even Paris Hilton in the last year alone!
Robin, who shot to fame playing the titular character in The Princess Bride, is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood - it's a shame Sean had to go looking into the wild for other women!
Well, they never seemed like a perfect fit, anyway. Wonder if Madonna's laughing?
Sean Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn have both filed divorce papers -- Sean's filing was later dismissed, but Robin's stands, according to People.
They are both cited "irreconcilable differences" and both seek joint legal and physical custody of their two children, Hopper, 14, and Dylan, 16. Sean and Robin were married in April 1996 -- they'll celebrate what would have been their twelfth anniversary with an April 2008 hearing.
Who's next for Sean???
In another story of failed Hollywood marriage, actor/actress couple Sean and Robin Wright Penn have filed for divorce.
The couple has been separated since November 30th, according to official court paperwork. Initially, the Mystic River actor filed for divorce on December 7th, but the petition was later dismissed.
Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn are divorcing after eleven years of marriage.
Their spokesperson, Mara Buxbaum, confirmed the news to People magazine.
The power Hollywood couple have two children together, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16. Penn, 47, and Wright, 41, began dating in the early ’90s and married in 1996.
“Marriage ain’t easy, but it’s great most of the time,” Penn told Entertainment Weekly in 1997. “I love Robin. I’ve always loved her.”
I love Sean Penn. He was one of the first celebrities who fought back against paparazzi in the late 80s when he was married to Madonna. He was photographed taking swings at the paps before they had stable jobs.
Sean has always been a bad boy, and even though he has grown up, he’s still got that bad boy vibe about him. And hello…I find that sexy! And as for his acting skills…they are off the hook. Almost every movie this guy does is awesome.
Hopefully he and Robin can work things out to where the kids don’t have to suffer much. And maybe, just maybe, he will bury his nose into work and it will be a pleasant gift to those who are his fans.
Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have confirmed through their rep that they are divorcing, after 11 years of marriage. It’s sad that they aren’t quite managing ’til death’, but 11 years is a Hollywood lifetime, isn’t it?
One of Hollywood’s longer lasting unions, between actor Sean Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn is over, as the couple confirmed they are divorcing.
The couple, who married in 1996, have two children together, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16.
According to People Magazine, the divorce was confirmed by the couple’s spokesperson.
Sean and Robin have acted in movies together, and started dating in the early 1990s shortly after his divorce from Madonna. They split briefly in 1996 and he dated Alaskan singer Jewel, and that relationship inspired several songs on her album Pieces Of You.
It’s always sad when a marriage ends, particularly when children are involved, the possible exception to this rule being when you hit Las Vegas and get married just for fun, and have to get an annullment. Then it is amusing for everyone, except possibly the couple who got married. For them it’s mostly embarrassing.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn are shown at the Into The Wild premiere on 9/18/07, thanks to WENN.
Sean Penn and his wife, Robin Wright, are getting divorced.
The pair lasted 11 years, which in Hollywood rarely happens.
No details are known about the split. She probably just got fed up with the crazy.
[Image via WENN.]
Penn Badgley may claim not to have much classical acting training, but he certainly knows how to pose mournfully for the camera. The "Gossip Girl" cutie, who plays Dan Humphrey on the CW show, made like a struggling New York actor/Calvin Klein magazine ad in this photo shoot that has him lounging around on a bare mattress. I think this might actually be the first time I haven't solely referred to him as the "Dashboard Confessional-lead-singer-clone" so congrats, Penn, on having had created your own identity with me. According to Badgley, he believes that all the training in the world can't make up for real-life experience, when it comes to acting. "I don't think it matters what you studied, I think working is the best training," is what the 21-year-old had to say on the subject. And with these monochromatic pix of the actor in front of me, I have to say that he's also still in the running toward becoming America's Most Prettiest Boy.
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It seems that I’m not the only one who has hazy memories of the eighties. Of course, that may be because for me the eighties were about pre-school and toilet training. Sean Penn is just trying to block out his marriage and divorce.
Sean was married to Madonna for four years after they wed in 1985, when she was absolutely huge. She dedicated her True Blue album to him, the “coolest guy in the universe.” According to Sean though, he wasn’t cool at all. He was vain and drunk.
He says: “She was a phenomenon, but nothing could have told anybody what would happen next. I describe that marriage as loud. That’s how I remember it. I don’t recall having a single conversation in four years of marriage.
“I’ve talked to her a few times since, and there’s a whole person there. I just didn’t know it. I was just living in my own head. Who was it that said: ‘Men are vain, particularly young men’? That was me, and I liked to drink a lot.
“I’m not saying it was meaningless. I’ve carried over the lessons to things more applicable now.”
I’m glad that the marriage had meaning, particularly given that Sean spent time in jail during it, after assaulting an invasive photographer. They were the Brangelina of the times, and dubbed the “Poison Penns”. Don’t you remember?
While looking up the dates of the marriage I stumbled across this gem on Wikipedia. When Sean was in prison during his marriage to Madonna for assaulting a paparazzo, he was asked for an autograph by another inmate. He wrote “Dear Richard, it is impossible to be incarcerated and not feel a kinship with your fellow inmates. Well Richard I have done the impossible I feel absolutely no kinship with you. Sean Penn.” Richard responded by telling Sean to “Stay in touch and hit them again.”
Picture note by Celebitchy: Header image is of Sean Penn and Madonna in 1988, thanks to IMDB. Stills from Shanghai Surprise thanks to DVD Active and Blogs.Tampabay.com. Other images from Schlampfie.de.
"Come on, Sean, it's not that bad, right? (*Nervous laughter*) Please smile--look how I'm smiling? It's really easy. Seriously, dude, you're bringing me down."
Poor Emile Hirsch is putting on a brave face as the director of his movie, "Into the Wild," Sean Penn, gives the entire group of paparazzi on the red carpet the best evil eye he can muster. Sean Penn has been getting warm critical reviews of the movie and has even snagged himself an award, Director of the Year, at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. More likely than not, Penn will be getting even more recognition for the film, as awards season progresses, and I have a feeling more headaches for the media weary actor/director because he seems to enjoy awards ceremonies about as much getting a public enema. The young star of the film, Emile Hirsch, is also up for honors at the event, for his role in the film. Poor Sean. All he wants to do is smoke his cigarettes and make his movies in peace and quiet and we refuse to leave him alone. Um, sorry?
