News on Sean Penn

APTOPIX Haiti Earthquake

2010-03-14T19:31:19Z

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, listens to US actor Sean Penn during his visit to a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors set up at the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, March 1...

Penn spends serious time helping post-quake Haiti

2010-03-15T04:30:15Z

<div id="subtitle">Sean Penn pitches in as full-time aid worker at camp for survivors of Haiti's earthquake</div><div><p>Look closely at the foreigners buzzing around a hospital tent above one of Haiti's biggest earthquake-refugee camps and a face stands out: There, carrying the box of supplies, that's Sean Penn.</p><p>Now he's guiding a Haitian girl to waiting doctors....

Haiti Earthquake

2010-03-14T19:31:16Z

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, listens to US actor Sean Penn during his brief visit to at a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors set up at the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince, Sunday...

Chavez thanks Sean Penn for slamming his critics

2010-03-12T01:15:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Venezuela's Chavez thanks actor Sean Penn for defending him against US media critics</div><div><p>Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is grateful that actor Sean Penn has defended him against his critics within the U.S. media.</p><p>In ...

Oscars - Show

2010-03-11T13:03:59Z

Sean Penn presents the award for best actress during the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Sean Penn slams those who question his Haiti aid

2010-03-05T07:46:43Z

<div id="subtitle">After helping in Haiti, Sean Penn slams critics who question his humanitarian motives</div><div><p>Sean Penn has strong words for those who think he's showing off with his aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.</p><p>In an interview airing on this weekend's "Sunday Morning" on CBS, the outspoken ...

Sean Penn charged with battery in Los Angeles

2010-02-22T08:11:52Z

&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Prosecutors charge Sean Penn charged with kicking photographer in Los Angeles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actor-director Sean Penn was charged Friday with battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer in Brentwood last fa...

sean penn

2010-02-19T19:18:21Z

**File Photo** * PENN CHARGED WITH BATTERY & VANDALISM Actor SEAN PENN has been charged with criminal battery and vandalism following a violent run-in with a paparazzo. Penn was captured on video attacking the unnamed photographer, who was following him in Brentwood, California last October (09). It was later broadcast on website Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn was slapped with criminal charges on Friday after allegedly attacking a photographer in Los Angeles last year, city prosecutors said.</p><p>Penn, 49, was charged with misdemeanor battery and vandalism following the incident involving the photographer in the upmarket distric...

Sean Penn charged in clash with LA photographer

2010-02-22T08:08:08Z

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winner Sean Penn, as infamous for problems with paparazzi as he is famous for acting, has been charged with two crimes after a run-in with a photographer last year and could face jail time...

People Sean Penn

2010-02-19T13:01:38Z

FILE - In this March 3, 2009 file photo, actor Sean Penn talks during a press conference lobbying the state of California to recognize Harvey Milk Day in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)

Sean Penn witnesses Haiti devastation, shares aid

2010-02-22T16:16:04Z

<div id="subtitle">Sean Penn tours medical clinic and food-distribution site, distributes aid in Haiti</div><div><p>Hollywood actor Sean Penn visited a medical clinic, toured a food distribution site and passed out water filters Friday as he sought to get a firsthand glimpse of the devastation wrought by a deadly earthquake in Haiti.</p&gt...

The Hollywood A-list behind militant anti-whaling group

2010-02-23T00:13:41Z

<div><p>A militant animal rights group locked in a bitter high seas battle with Japanese whalers have the support and funding of a Hollywood A-list including Sean Penn and French screen siren Brigitte Bardot.</p><p> One of the world's best known and more extreme marine activist outfits, the not-for-profit Sean Penn and French screen siren Brigitte Bardot.</p><p>One of the world's best known and more extreme marine activist outfits, the not-for-profit LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Forget lavish junkets and expensive gifts this awards season.</p><p>Whatever over-the-top campaigning Oscar organizers haven't managed to rein in, the recession and corporate downsizing have seen to: It's no longer cool to throw a splashy, public event to hype a contende...

Marriage and Divorce: When Are Differences Irreconcilable?

2010-02-23T21:23:05Z

CNN recently reported that divorce has a permanently bad affect on your mental and physical health. In my case, NOT getting a divorce would have been bad for my mental, and his physical, health. Sometimes we just blow it. Maybe we were too young to get married, we looked for love in the wrong place, or we didn?t know when to just say, ?No!? Then, we come to our senses and divorce is the answer.<br&g...

Hollywood's mansion of magic celebrates 100 years

2010-02-24T00:16:51Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One hundred years ago, a wealthy couple built a mansion in Hollywood and installed a speaking tube allowing them to order a Scotch whisky from their servants -- a handy trick, but nothing compared to what the home's later occupants would conjure up.</p><p>Today under the name The Magic Castl...

Chavez: Sean Penn may make film in Venezuela

2010-02-24T12:59:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Hugo Chavez says Sean Penn may shoot movie based on Cuban novel in Venezuela</div><div><p>President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may f...

Sean Penn wants to shoot film in Venezuela: Chavez

2010-02-24T12:44:34Z

<div><p>Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn may film a movie in Venezuela, according to the country's firebrand President Hugo Chavez.</p><p>Penn "told me was very interested in a film project ... that would most ...

Sean Penn arrives in Cuba to interview Fidel Castro

2010-02-24T14:32:26Z

<div><p>Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn arrived in Cuba hoping to interview its revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, Cuban government-controlled television reported.</p><p>The report showed Penn walking in the town of