'Star power on the Hurricane Katrina help line ratcheted up a notch over the weekend when Sean Penn arrived in Houston with ambitious plans to charter a jet to fly to New Orleans and aid in the rescue of evacuees.
Friday night, Penn, Fox News' Greta Van Susteren , writer and professor Doug Brinkley of New Orleans and Daniel Schiller, a Houstonian who had plans to open a restaurant in New Orleans, head-huddled over drinks at the Four Seasons Hotel.
The Four Seasons has served as unofficial headquarters for the Fox network team.'
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/features/3339416
'Last night Hollywood star Sean Penn joined the desperate search for hurricane survivors in New Orleans.
The frantic actor begged rescue crews to take him out to a house owned by pals near the 17th Street Canal. He had not heard from them since the area was flooded by up to 20ft of water.
Mystic River hunk Sean, 45, refused to name his friends, but said he could not bear watching rescues from his San Francisco home, knowing they could be dying.
He said: “I’m really worried. I need to go out and find them.”
Rescuers ferried him to the canal area.
They insisted he wear a bullet-proof vest — fearing he may be shot by local gangs who refuse to be evacuated. '
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005410096,00.html