Sean Penn

By Marshall Fine It's been more than two years since Sean Penn cast Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild - but Holbrook is still singing his praises. "Sean... It's been more than two years since Sean Penn cast Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild - but Holbrook is still singing his praises.

By Joseph A. Palermo Poizner's latest call for additional tax cuts came after he already proposed cuts in personal income and corporate taxes, and (of course) reducing the capital gains tax by 50 percent. Poizner's brain-dead proposals are worst than "voodoo" economics. He's telling California voters he c...

By John Farr This So-Called Disaster (2003) provides an astonishingly intimate glimpse into the intense rehearsals leading up to the 2000 San Francisco production of The Late Henry Moss, a play written and directed by Sam Shepard, based partly on the author's recollections of his own alcoholic fa...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Moore, 55, whose nonfiction projects include the television shows "TV Nation" and "The Awful Truth," is thinking he wants to return to fiction. He wrote and directed one fictional film, the 1995 comedy "Canadian Bacon," starring John Candy in his next-to-last role as an American county...

By The Huffington Post News Editors But six months later, the reconciliation ended with Wright filing for divorce Aug. 12. According to the legal papers in Marin County, Calif., the estranged couple "agreed to division of all property" and "[shared] custody" of son Hopper Jack, 16. They also have a daughter together, Dylan, 1...

By John Farr That's a bit of a cop-out, isn't it? I don't think you can blame technology for making movies less important. I think you must blame the movies themselves. It makes you think: no wonder movies seem less important- the ones Hollywood really pushes aren't even intended for anyone over 21!

By The Huffington Post News Editors SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Robin Wright and husband Sean Penn have already agreed on how they will divide property in their divorce, according to court records. The couple met on the set of the 1990 Irish mob movie "State of Grace." Penn had previously married and divorced Madonna, and Wright was ma...

By The Huffington Post News Editors LOOKS like the reconciliation didn't work. Sean Penn, who turned 49 yesterday, withdrew his application for a legal separation from long-suffering wife Robin Wright Penn in June, calling the filing an "arrogant mistake." More on Celebrity Splits

By Charles Karel Bouley I posed that question to actor Alan Cumming during an interview for an upcoming story in the Long Beach and Orange County Blade. He is openly gay, comes from a Scottish and European background, but became an American citizen so he could vote for Barack Obama. He missed that by three days, but s...

By William Bradley If there is to be an initiative to bring back the right to same-sex marriage -- established by the California Supreme Court last year and overturned by California voters last November -- ballot language is due by September 25th. The Political Consultants. Gay marriage advocates Equality...

By Jonathan Kim While Sean Penn and Gus Vant Sant's film Milk got a lot of well-deserved attention last Oscar season, there's a better film about Harvey Milk that had already won an Oscar -- the excellent 1984 documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. Watch my ReThink Review below.

By The Huffington Post News Editors If there's anyone who might just want to focus on his family for awhile, it's Sean Penn. The Oscar-winning star has pulled out of his next two scheduled film projects, including the Farrelly brothers' Three Stooges update, E! News confirmed Tuesday. More on Sean Penn

By The Huffington Post News Team Are Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn reconciling again? The Oscar-winning actor filed a request Thursday to dismiss his legal separation case, Marin County, Calif.,... Are Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn reconciling again? The Oscar-winning actor filed a request Thursday to dismiss his le...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Natalie Portman has taken the unusual step of releasing a statement about her personal life to shoot down rumors that she has or has had a romantic relationship with Sean Penn, newly split from wife Robin Wright Penn. More on Sean Penn

By The Huffington Post News Team CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival faced a problem this year _ how to replace passionate, attention-grabbing actor Sean Penn as jury president? For... CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival faced a problem this year _ how to replace passionate, attention-grabbing actor Sean Pen...

By Sean Penn I know President Chavez well. Whether or not one agrees with all his policies, what is certainly true of Chavez is that he is a warm and friendly man with a robust sense of humor. To treat such a man coldly is akin to spitting on him. As a country we've done enough of that. Say what you will, but it has o...

By Tom Gregory Just a few days ago I bought a suit Sean Penn wore during his Academy Award winning performance in MILK. For the highest bid to two charities (Variety, The Children's Charity of Southern California and New York's Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of Harvey Milk High School), I won the covete...

By David Flumenbaum But perhaps the greater responsibility of networks like STAR and CCTV is to present the Academy Awards truthfully to their viewers and give them an honest view, in this case, through the lens of Hollywood, of the issues -- gay or otherwise -- affecting America and the rest of the world.

By Douglas MacKinnon In the meantime, the Gay marriage debate cries out for civil dialog and understanding. Two conditions that President Obama says are desperately needed across the board in Washington. The same President Obama who is on record against Gay marriage.

By The Huffington Post News Team Penn, in Giorgio Armani, also perfectly matched his wife, Robin Wright Penn. Vanessa Hudgens, in a black Marchesa gown with black and white tulle flowers on the bodice and dangling platinum, diamond and vintage coral earrings by Cathy Waterman, and Zac Efron, in Dolce & Gabanna, wer...

By Brad Balfour GVS: I've done a few films [with] gay characters, but not super-positive gay characters. I heard about this project through Rob Epstein, [the director of the electric, Oscar-winning documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk,] who had heard that [director] Oliver Stone was no longer going t...

By The Huffington Post News Team Ledger's supporting-actor prize for his sociopathic reinvention of Batman bad guy the Joker put the late actor a step closer to becoming just the second performer to win a posthumous Academy Award. The first was Peter Finch, the best-actor recipient for 1976's "Network."

By The Huffington Post News Team Actors considered longshots also sneaked in, among lead-actor nominee Richard Jenkins for "The Visitor," best-actress contender Melissa Leo for "Frozen River" and supporting-actor pick Michael Shannon for "Revolutionary Road."

By Paige Donner Hathaway was recognized with the Desert Palm Achievement Award for Rachel Getting Married. Sean Penn was recognized with the same Achievement Award for playing the role of Harvey Milk in Milk. Last year he won the Gala's Director's Award for Into The Wild.

By Steve Ralls In Gus Van Sant's film Milk, Sean Penn, portraying the slain San Francisco Supervisor, asks a young Cleve Jones (played by Emile Hirsch in the... In Gus Van Sant's film Milk, Sean Penn, portraying the slain San Francisco Supervisor, asks a young Cleve Jones (played by Emile Hirsch in the film...

By Chris Goldberg WTF? My first thought was maybe the Hollywood Foreign Press has an anti-gay slant, but I looked it up and they gave the Golden Globe for Best Picture to Brokeback Mountain in 2006 while Oscar voters -- to everyone's shock and many people's dismay -- pulled the lever for "Crash."

By The Huffington Post News Team Penn was chosen as best actor for his performance in the lauded film about Milk, the openly gay San Francisco politician who was assassinated in 1978. Josh Brolin won best supporting actor for his performance in the film. On Tuesday, Penn was chosen as best actor by the Los Angeles Film Criti...

By Steve Clemons What else can be said about Sean Penn other than that he is an unbelievably extraordinarily gifted actor with a sense of self and... What else can be said about Sean Penn other than that he is an unbelievably extraordinarily gifted actor with a sense of self and social conscience matched by ver...

By The Huffington Post News Team He's also drawn from Sean Penn one of the most glorious performances ever in the actor's long and varied career. Van Sant and Penn could have deified this man, who did so much for so many and worked so tirelessly for so long, and paid the ultimate price. And yes, we see all that _ the sacrifice and...

By Marc Malkin Bryant became the gay community's public enemy No. 1 for leading a movement to overturn antidiscrimination laws. I called her office to find out what she thinks about the upcoming movie. Sean Penn has some high-profile costars in the upcoming movie Milk: James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Br...

By The Huffington Post News Editors SAN FRANCISCO — It was only fitting that "Milk," the film about Harvey Milk's life and death, premiere Tuesday night in the Castro. He's an American hero," Van Sant said. "He's a great example of a man representing his community and his city."

By The Huffington Post News Editors Sean Penn's "Milk" costar James Franco has further dished about the pair's lengthy on-screen kiss. Franco told Out magazine, "After our [on-screen] kiss, Sean texted Madonna - his ex-wife, Madonna - and said, 'I just popped my cherry kissing a guy. I thought of you. I don't know why' . . . There's...

By Sean Penn The result tonight was another frustrating piece of American media that is at once far too polite, and at the same time, dismissive of an American public's need to know anything beyond jingoistic self-aggrandizement. Following Senator McCain's "barking poodle" stroll on Washington,...

By Sean Penn Despite recent boasts to the contrary, by the Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, (Bush's key bumbler of the Katrina debacle) our country is not safer. It is not safer from without, and it is not safer from within. The divisiveness brought on by the policies of George W. Bush and J...

Sean Penn will be receiving The 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award from The Creative Coalition this evening, December 18, 2006, in New York City, where he will deliver the following speech. Note for later: Non-stop U.S. war in Iraq Health care Education Job training