Posted on 04/22/2005 9:03:24 AM PDT by Cool Chick
“The Interpreter”: Sean Penn’s U.N. Mash Note April 22, 2005 By Debbie Schlussel
The last time I wrote about Jeff Spicoli a/k/a Sean Penn, he sent me an e-mail calling me the c-word.
In the past, Penn reportedly shot reporters with a squirt gun filled with his urine, so I got off easy. Classy guy.
I critiqued Penn’s absurd interview in the thankfully defunct Talk Magazine. It was just months after 9/11, and Spicoli was deluded from smoking too much pot, again. He didn’t just insist that President Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Howard Stern, and Bill O’Reilly were as bad as Osama Bin Laden and Hitler. They were worse.
Since then, as we now know, Penn transformed himself into failed emissary to Iraq—a Baghdad Spicoli a la Hanoi Jane.
But now Penn’s gotten smarter. His propaganda doesn’t work when he’s playing himself in real life.
So he’s turned to the silver screen to do it for him, in “The Interpreter,” debuting in theaters today. The United Nations is the setting, but it’s also the main star of the film. Penn and Nicole Kidman are merely the co-stars.
As for promoting the U.N., Leni Reifenstahl (Hitler’s propagandist) couldn’t have done better—even if it’s hard to believe Spicoli as Secret Service Agent. (When he tries to fake crying, all you can hear is his yearning for “tasty waves and a cool buzz.”)
Just when the U.N.—the bizarre confab of Third World republics and America haters—is getting its due in the media, Director Sydney Pollack comes to the rescue. “Interpreter” portrays this fraudulent former League of Nations as the idealistic body it never was and nothing close to the International House of Bozos it’s been for at least half a century.
Kofi Annan is one smart cookie.
(Excerpt) Read more at debbieschlussel.com ...
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
They say they're going to quit, or leave the country, but they never do.
What was Sean Penn"s last great movie, can remember any past fast times.
Great work by Debbie.
Dead Man Walking
"International House of Bozos"
Bump
Schlussel needs an editor. That just rambled along like a drunk at the bar.
Sorry, I despise Penn...but thought his acting was very good in Mystic River, Sweet and Lowdown, State of Grace, 21 Grams, The Falcon and The Snowman.
Which gets released on DVD Next month.
The idiot is an amazing actor. Sort of like a thespian Rainman, or a monkey who can work a rubic's cube. He's very good at one thing, and one thing only. Fortunately for him, that one thing pays very well.
Actually, I like "Crooks are Us" as the UN's alternate title.
Sort of like a one trick jackass.
The extreme lefty "New Times" magazine (at least the south florida version) hated it, and made everyone feel stupid for even breathing Pollacks name as if here were a great or even good director.
Rex Reed is a complete and utter disgrace to anyone who values film and film criticism. What a fraud!
Are you thinking of 'Dead Man Walking' as the anti-death penalty film? I thought it was very fair and empathetic to the victim's families. R. Lee Ermey was in it!
Penn sucks.
I agree...
...but he can act.
BTW did he ever lock up his weapons, or does he just let people steal them?
Mystic River
I've never seen DMW. I did know what it was about tho.
Mystic River
Dip wads don't need my money, BTW I do make exceptions for Sgt York and 1776.
You write where you want to and let her write where she wants to.
Thin Red Line. He played a "battle-hardened" First Sgt. Implausible for those of us who served. But I suppose he did a decent job.
Mystic River was pretty good.
I don't expect good politics from actors or good acting from politicians.
I put Arnold firmly in the politician category!
Hmm, The International House of Bozos, eh......
All in favor of this being the new official name for the U.N say aye.
IHOB?
I like it.
Aye.
"The plot mystified and bored super lefty Rex Reed."
It must be REALLY bad if it has a leftist message and he STILL hated it.
True. The astounding thing is that if they played it straight, showed the terrorists as Arab Muzzies, and showed the UN to be the corrupt cesspit it really is, they'd have one of the year's greatest blockbusters. Then I'd gladly go to see it; now, I won't.
Great read; I love Debbie!
"What was Sean Penn"s last great movie"
I think it was that "Mystic River" piece-of-garbage
I always enjoy Debbie's take on issues.
many actors are like that: savants! Richard Gere can't put 2 words together without a script to read.
My husband did a movie promo with Gere years ago, and he came home saying what a jerk the guy is.
I just don't get what people saw in Mystic River. It was depressing and worst of all for me, predictable. Oh well.
If I had to choose between showing Sean Penn or Nicole Kidman I know who I would pick every time too.
I guess for me it had to do with the fact that Penn was very convincing as the father of a 19 year old. At the time i was the mother of a 19 year old daughter so i was able to relate to how a parent would feel if their 19 year old daughter was murdered.
Right. Kidmans a LOT prettier than Penn. But i wonder if they're deliberatly hiding Penn's appearance in the film because that's a dead giveaway that the films a propaganda piece.
I have never heard of an actual case like that. Can you provide a link or reference?
No i can't provide any proof of that. it's something i saw reported on once or twice. I could be mistaken. Maybe they're still looking for a case of this nature.
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