Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Don't Penn Me In

Kathryn Jean Lopez at the Corner, in Denver for the convention, this morning witnessed with approval the actor Sean Penn semi-politely declining a fan's request for a snapshot instead clocking the poor fellow over the head. Lopez presents that as evidence Penn has finally grown up some.

Perhaps so, but he could do better. Since Penn, like most of his peers, devoted every ounce of his being during his formative years to attaining the fame he now enjoys, a true sign of maturity would be his willingness to share a small fraction of it with the fans who gave it to him.

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