I'm not sure I agree with that statement about classy actors being gone, maybe its we have a few more screwy actors like Penn to notice. Too bad we do have so many terrific actors who have personal lives in shambles and their politics where the sun doesn;t shine. But we still keep them multimillionaire anyway. Everyone just say Jane Fonda. 🙄

I have mixed feeligns about sean Penn.

he's talented and smart..and generous, and humble, in a way

But he's also arrogant, vain, angry narcistic and stupid in a way

Guess that makes him human.

I think what he did and does for the powerless in this world is admirable..but feel the need to say that he can help those people all he wants and it still won't make right what he has done to his wiofe and kids..how he has wronged them..the only way to make that right..is to make that right

one thing does not make up for the other

Someone on a message board I used to go to once told the story of her wealthy sister. The sister felt herself a saint. She gave and gave to charities and headed up many a volunteer organization. BUT..She tended to be a 'know it all' and generally acted kinda bitchy to people in her precense that she felt were 'below' her. (service people and such)
This sister also blew off her family and tended to treat them like crap. Was stingy with them.

People compartmentalize.
They don't realize that the one aspect of their life does NOT equal out the other

God see's ALL.

Sean Penn is another Jane Fonda with outdoor plumbing. The clip I saw of him kicking the camera man, could put him in Jail for up to 18 months. It was a serious assault, unprovoked by any violence. When you are in the rich and famous, getting photographed is part of the game. I don;t see too many others doing what he did.

**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 TMZ.com. During the scuffle, the snapper's camera was damaged. Penn was officially charged with the two misdemeanour counts on Friday (19Feb10). He faces 18 months behind bars if convicted. The actor will be arraigned in Los Angeles County Superior Court on 22 March (10). It's not the first time Penn has been reprimanded for his violent outbursts - the 49-year-old Oscar winner was sentenced to 60 days in jail for punching a movie extra on the set of the police drama Colors in 1987. He was on probation at the time for punching a songwriter at a Los Angeles club. (JMA/WNWCZM&WNWA/KL) Sean Penn 2008 New York Film Critic's Circle Awards at Strata - Arrivals New York City, USA - 05.01.09
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1000 may applaud him, but only he kicked and assulted the cameraman. You may have sympathy for him, but just like Jane Fonda denouncing the nUSA in North Viet Nam, Sean Penn did the same thing in Iraq, and also with Hugo Chavez. Sean Penn is a very great actor, I even love his movies, but he is also a history of domestic volence, drugs, fighting, and going off. He is a jerk in simple terms. Suck it up when the camera is on you, expecially when controversay is your middle name, you are a target. Goes with the territory.