Relax. Sean is at work

[Gonz]

There are so many false ideals in this story I thought I'd share.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Sean Penn, adopting the role of a journalist, scribbled in his notebook as Friday prayer worshippers in Tehran chanted "Death to America."

Penn, 44, in Iran on a brief assignment for the San Francisco Chronicle ahead of presidential elections on June 17, may be one of the best known faces in film, but he went unrecognized by the 6,000 faithful at Tehran University.

Working with a translator, Penn took copious notes as hardline cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati urged the congregation to vote en masse "to make America angry."

The actor, who visited Iraq before and after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and wrote an account of his second trip for the Chronicle, told Reuters he had decided to come to Iran because of growing tensions between Washington and Tehran.

The United States accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons and sponsoring terrorism. Iran denies the charges.

 

[paul_valaru]

We was more useful as spicolli

 

[unclehobart]

I saw that story and almost posted it... then I remembered that Sean Penn, like most of Hollywood, is worth less than a bucket of warm rat brains outside of the silver screen.

 

[Gonz]

I've been ignoring it. Out of morbid fascination I read it & instantly saw a whole load of bs, too good to pass up.

 

[chcr]

I saw that story and almost posted it... then I remembered that Sean Penn, like most of Hollywood, is worth less than a bucket of warm rat brains outside of the silver screen.

Frequently on it as well.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I saw that story and almost posted it... then I remembered that Sean Penn, like most of Hollywood, is worth less than a bucket of warm rat brains outside of the silver screen.

Sean who? Isn't he the idiot that almost got himself killed by LA gangs because he threatened an gang-banger for trying to take his picture?

 

[Gonz]

Hey, Sean, Iran has your freedom of the press [bronx]right here[/bronx]

Several hundred women at a sit-in outside the entrance to Tehran University demanded rights revoked after the 1979 Islamic revolution. As chants and taunts arose, police and plainclothesmen surrounded the demonstrators, pushing away those trying to join the group. Officials also cut off cell phone service in the area, and challenged reporters nearby.

In the process, they briefly seized the video camera of Penn, 44, who arrived in Iran as a reporter for his friend Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Penn was spotted on Friday with a notebook in hand covering a prayer service. He has also written about his visits to Iraq for the Chronicle.

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