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Sean Penn And Robin Wright Penn To Reenter Hollywood Dating Pool
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 3:22 AM on December 29, 2007
In a disastrous Hollywood disunion tantamount to a massive, tectonic fissure erupting at Nichols Canyon, splitting our fair city in half and sending the two distinctive, autonomous land masses, rechristened Los and Angeles, their separate ways, divided by a blocks-long body of water that will eventually come to be known as the MidWilshire Ocean, Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have announced that their love, it is no more:
Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn are divorcing, their rep, Mara Buxbaum, confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
No other details were immediately available. The couple, who've been married 11 years, have two children together, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16.
Theirs was a love kindled under Hollywood limelight: While Robin had a bit part as Mall Patron #117 in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and was instantly smitten from afar with the tasty-wave epicure, it wasn't until her first big break, starring opposite Sean in Shanghai Surprise, that the slightly older and charismatic actor took notice of the fair beauty, whose acting skills weren't nearly as dreadful as he had been warned many, many, many times before shooting began. Their love grew on the set of The Princess Bride, where Penn's indelible characterization as Ennio "You murdered my father. Now I murder you, too." Motorola had an already-gaga Wright Penn giggling uncontrollably at his funny-accent antics. They were married soon after, an event that anticipated the coming tabloidization of our culture, with several dozen paparazzi-filled helicopters, submarines, and dirigibles invading the nuptials. (Penn famously hooked one of the whirlybirds with a 2000-foot grappling hook, singlehandedly pulled it to the ground, and proceeded to pummel the photographer piloting it beyond recognition.) The two were set to pair up again in the upcoming Harvey Milk biopic Milk, in which Wright Penn was far along in talks to play Sugar, the female sex-worker paramour the famed gay SF city councilman was secretly seeing on the side. What the sad dissolution of their marriage means for the future of Robin's involvement in the project is anyone's guess.
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TheBigDoggy
Posted 10:21 AM 28/12/07
Robin needs to hire a platoon of bodyguards. Sean did the work of a half dozen.
TheBigDoggy
Mr-BUSY
Posted 10:20 AM 28/12/07
Maybe she finally got a good look at him in the light of day...
Mr-BUSY
gwendolyn
Posted 10:17 AM 28/12/07
Hee.
This sounds like the Penn-Wright story as it would be recalled by my lovely, if somewhat age-addled, father.
Robin Wright Penn will always get the evil eye from me for participating in the cultural abortion entitled 'Forrest Gump' and Sean Penn is simply weird without being that incredibly talented. He is talented, but no Brando he, but you would think so from all the slobbery adulation he has received over the years.
gwendolyn
HellsWaitingRoom
Posted 10:15 AM 28/12/07
Who gets to keep the publicist? Mara's pretty good...
HellsWaitingRoom
CrankYank
Posted 10:14 AM 28/12/07
Maybe he's just going method for Milk.
CrankYank
SteamyMcFirecrotch
Posted 10:14 AM 28/12/07
All he'll need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and he'll be fine.
SteamyMcFirecrotch
Razzler
Posted 10:08 AM 28/12/07
Hopper Jack? What the fuck?
Razzler
Kdoggy
Posted 10:03 AM 28/12/07
Another Hollywood couple calling quits, wow. Since bad news comes in threes I'll betcha we see at least two more Hollywood couples surrender by next year this time.
Kdoggy
yourfriendandneighbor
Posted 9:53 AM 28/12/07
Well, Mystic River was pretty crappy.
yourfriendandneighbor
ginger rant
Posted 11:57 AM 28/12/07
Can I just cut to the chase and say that the real tragedy here is the horrible, horrible (by turns trendy and obsequiously tributary) names they've given their children? Maybe it's a good thing Sean and Robin are splitsville: can you imagine the nomenclatural carnage if they spawned again?
ginger rant
Nomi Malone
Posted 11:54 AM 28/12/07
@pumpkinsoup: i love you!
and to quote princess buttercup herself: "i will never love again."
well, maybe.
Nomi Malone
moyle1forskin0
Posted 11:43 AM 28/12/07
Wasn't INIGO Montoya played by Mandy Patinkin? Or is this an attempt at humor that went way over my dulled-by-two-Perocets (but-honestly-already-overmatched) intellect?
moyle1forskin0
Go Like Hell Machine
Posted 11:29 AM 28/12/07
Is that first paragraph a single sentence?
Go Like Hell Machine
Shumina
Posted 11:11 AM 28/12/07
Buttercup is free!
Shumina
InkStainedWretch
Posted 11:04 AM 28/12/07
@gwendolyn: Thank God someone besides me hated Forrest Gump. The theme of that movie was be a retard and you'll be a success, merit has nothing to do with it. Kind of explains the trajectory of America in the last 20 years, that such a message would be so widely embraced.
Wait, what were we talking about? Robin Pinkright or something?...
InkStainedWretch
pumpkinsoup
Posted 11:03 AM 28/12/07
@gwendolyn: No dissing Princess Buttercup!
pumpkinsoup
CrankYank
Posted 10:46 AM 28/12/07
@gwendolyn: That's an excellent on Forrest Gump point, it may have turned me to Team Penn. However, I did love her on Santa Barbara.
I do think they should adopt the narrative above as their actual life history. Somebody tell Mara.
CrankYank
IBentMyWookie
Posted 1:05 PM 28/12/07
She's an underrated actress, probably because she's so beautiful you want to faint.
Blech. Stupid holiday season making me all nice to people and such. Damn you Jesus, when will your reign of terror end?
IBentMyWookie
gwendolyn
Posted 12:54 PM 28/12/07
@InkStainedWretch: Your astute analysis of the meaning of 'Forrest Gump' is made even more astute when you know that Pat 'The Irish Were the Only GOOD Immigrants' Buchanan considers it his favorite movie. Not that he is a retard but a country full of people who cannot think critically makes his lust for fascism in America that much more likely to be achieved.
gwendolyn
Pomalina
Posted 12:48 PM 28/12/07
@yourfriendandneighbor: If Mystic River didn't kill it, that mustache certainly did.
More importantly, who gets the fab house in Marin County?
Pomalina
smithhimself
Posted 12:48 PM 28/12/07
@Razzler:
Hopper was named after Dennis Hopper, Sean's bud.
smithhimself
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 12:04 PM 28/12/07
@moyle1forskin0:
I was wondering the same thing, without the benefit of the Percoset.
NotReadyForPrimeTime
rubyred
Posted 12:02 PM 28/12/07
@moyle1forskin0: Way over, but you're excused as its Friday afternoon on a long holiday week.
rubyred
Sayser
Posted 2:19 PM 28/12/07
I'd like to see her land Clooney personally. She could do it. She always looked so pained around Sean, like he was about to strike her or something.
Sayser
Sayser
Posted 2:18 PM 28/12/07
@moyle1forskin0: You are correct. Sean Penn was NOT in Princess Bride.
Sayser
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 3:49 PM 28/12/07
@InkStainedWretch: The other message to Forrest Gump is that leftists, libertines and Northerners are evil, hypocritical or meant to be punished. Basically, Jen-nay represents the 60s, and she gets beat up by her hippie boyfriend, does so much coke that she gets suicidal and in the end gets AIDS. Suck on, baby boomers!
@WendyKroy: I think Penn directed her "you were meant for me" video, which I remember from VH1's Pop Up Video summer 1997.
Sweet Panda Love
WendyKroy
Posted 3:26 PM 28/12/07
@WendyKroy: And this article says he cheated with Kate Moss, too... [www.cinema.com]
(Yes, I'm slow at work today and have time to Google crap like this. And I wonder why I don't get a raise...)
WendyKroy
WendyKroy
Posted 3:22 PM 28/12/07
@Sayser: It was years ago - back when Jewel was at least B-list, if that makes you feel any better about his standards. I think it happened after Penn and Buttercup had been living together for ages, but before they got married.
WendyKroy
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 3:13 PM 28/12/07
@smithhimself:
That doesn't make it okay.
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Sayser
Posted 3:09 PM 28/12/07
@WendyKroy: Are you kidding? How long ago? That's so disappointing he went C-list.
Sayser
WendyKroy
Posted 3:03 PM 28/12/07
Considering that it was widely reported years ago that Penn had had an affair with Jewel ('member her? y'know, the shill for the pastel girl-razors?) - which indicates to me that Princess Buttercup is the forgiving type - I wonder what could have been the final straw? I mean, we know he likes cute blondes - so is HE Jamie-Lynn's mysterious babydaddy?
WendyKroy
WendyKroy
Posted 4:14 PM 28/12/07
@Sweet Panda Love: Yep, and she wrote a song for Penn's movie "The Crossing Guard," too. I know a lot of actors hate to watch their own movies, but I imagine it's especially un-fun when your husband's lover's voice is trilling in the background of your scenes...
WendyKroy
redreb
Posted 7:08 PM 28/12/07
@ginger rant: Is that you, Jason Lee?
redreb
Hez
Posted 6:42 PM 29/12/07
As if cheating with a snaggle-toothed yodeler from an Alaskan panel van wasn't bad enough, Sean was also very curiously the first person to arrive at the police station when rapperactor Eve was busted for DUI earlier this year. Shenanigans fo sho.
Hez
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
Posted 6:30 PM 29/12/07
@IBentMyWookie: I caught you! And I agree.
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
1974
Posted 11:21 PM 29/12/07
@Sweet Panda Love: The whole movie is a right wing revisionist fantasy. It one by one goes through the major moments of most war progressive milestones and says that they don't happen the way liberal boomers remember them. It's the most amazing piece of right wing propaganda since Riefenstahl stopped making films.
1974
IKnowThings
Posted 8:51 PM 30/12/07
I think it's out there that he had an affair with Sienna Miller, too. I hope Jen-nay gets all his Spiccoli money.
IKnowThings
scroll_lock
Posted 10:43 AM 31/12/07
@InkStainedWretch: @gwendolyn: I thought I was the only person in America who hated Forrest Gump and all it stood for. Not to mention that it beat out Pulp Fiction for the Academy award that year!!
scroll_lock
rowingrowingrowing
Posted 7:07 PM 31/12/07
I am so happy to have found my people. Forrest Gump is hands down one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I fucking hated that anthemic spool of bullshit. And, yes, Penn was sticking it to said opportunistic snaggle tooth a few years into his relationship with Wright (he "whisked" her off to the Venice Film Festival in 1995, according an early jewel interview...or was that in one of her "poems"?)...then *poof* they got married. I always wondered how they worked that one out.
rowingrowingrowing
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 7:20 PM 1/1/08
@scroll_lock: @rowingrowingrowing: I have fucking hated that movie since first viewing. Just couldn't believe the accolades that steaming pile of cinematic shit received. Rainman too, while we're on over-rated films.
Trixie from Toronto