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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 01/26/2006 : 02:04:36
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As you probably know, actor Chris Penn, the brother of Sean Penn*, was found dead by a housekeeper this Tuesday in his Santa Monica condominium. Chris Penn had recently acted in the movie, "The Darwin Awards."
According to the AP story carried by CNN...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/25/chris.penn.obit.ap/index.html
... an autopsy was performed, but found no cause of death. Blood toxicology tests have now been ordered.
I sincerely hope this story will not have an ironic conclusion.
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* I briefly met Chris' brother, Sean Penn in about 1984, when Sean was with the cast of the movie, "Crackers," one scene of which was being filmed on Treat Ave., on the block where I then lived in San Francisco's rundown Mission District. Despite his later reputation for combativeness, I found him polite and reserved. I was impressed with how Sean Penn (then smoking hot coming off his performance as the goofy surfer dude in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High") would give the late Louis Malle, the talented French director, his TOTAL attention whenever Malle spoke to him.
I was fortunate to also meet others in the cast and crew, Louis Malle, Donald Sutherland, Trinidad Silva, and Wally Shawn. Sutherland was a gentleman. During a shooting break, I got to talk with Wally Shawn (the little bald weasel in "The Princess Bride") for a wonderful half-hour. Brilliant guy, Wally.
"Crackers" was a comedy, a remake of an oldie named "Big Deal on Madonna Street." It was a flop. Despite a great cast and fine director, the movie just wasn't funny.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 01/26/2006 02:08:11
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