Penn To Play Clark In Movie

Ugh.  That is all I can think to say about Sean Penn playing Richard Clark.  No.  Wait.  Ick.  Okay, now I can't think of anything else to say about it.

Comments

[Falcon05]

Lorie, I think it's safe to say that movie won't be a box office blockbuster. BTW, besides "Ugh" and "Ick" you forgot to add "Ewwwy!!"

There. That should just about cover it :)

[DocNeaves]

Well, at least it's a scumbag playing a scumbag, this time. Better than a scumbag playing a Republican, like usual. Of course, wait for it, he'll make Dick look like a saint. I say we give him the same nickname as The Donald. Just put a "The" in front of it.

[COgirl]

It's probably the role of a lifetime for him.

Count me out. I won't go see it. Of course, I don't like to see anything from the Hollywood left anyway. Don't feel like I should do anything to line their pockets.

[Republicanpundit]

A total idiot playing a total idiot. What hutzpah. No, I won't be seeing it.

[The Listkeeper]

So long as he's playing Richard Clark, and not John Clark, that's believable to me.

[Julie]

This will definitely be an Oscar winner. When I saw United 93 they were showing a Sean Penn preview. I don't even remember the name of the movie. I just kept thinking how Sean Penn disgusts me.

[Wes S.]

"Uggh?" "Ick?" "Ewww?"

How about "Who cares?" It's not as if any of us were planning on watching that pile of cinematic dreck anyway...

Love your site, Lorie. I didn't even know you had a blog of your own until after you left Poli(tburo)pundit, and I think I'll be surfing your site instead of Poli's from now on.

For one thing, the company's better... ;)

[Diva]

As for Penn playing Richard Clark - I think the casting director got it right. He was looking for an actor who could convincingly convey Clarks disgusting lack of morality, inability to tell the truth and pompous inflated sense of self-worth. Sean Penn fits the bill.

[LibraryLady]

I can't see Sean Penn hosting American Bandstand. (sarcasm)

Oh not that Dick Clark?......nevermind

[JannyMae]

I can still see that pic in my head, of him bailing the boat in New Orleans! What a loser! Another movie I can ignore...

[paul a'barge]

Did you see Penn's work in "The Interpreter"?

I think the guy is one of the best actors on the American scene today... and that his politics, well lets just say, leave something to be adjusted.

[JannyMae]

I did not see, "The Interpreter," but I have seen Penn in a few of his earlier movies. He was a lousy actor, then, though I suppose he has improved over the years.

[eeoowww]

The lastmovie I paid to see was the first Matrix. I suppose that tells ya how often I care to give up that much money for something that worthless.

Anyway, every movie that has ever been made has wound up on broadcast TV eventually and I have a geat deal of patience wainting for them to come around.

"The Dick" apropos description.

[Evan3457]

I think it would more appropriate if Sean Penn played Ramsey Clark. The ideological fit is tighter.

Richard Clark still believes in defending the United States some of the time. I think.

Oliver Stones WTC trailer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/wtc

just wait till down the road when they make the movie "Dubya" or "W" about Bush.....probably be similar to JFK

[DocNeaves]

I gotta tell ya...I don't agree with most of them politically, I actually donated money to get Baldwin to leave America, I think it was in 2000....we sent a dollar to something, they said they were going to offer it to him to get him to fulfill his promise...But I gotta tell ya, I like Johnny Depp in almost everything I've seen him in...well, everything I've seen him in, but I've purposefully missed a couple of them caused it frankly looked like I would overdoze if I went, and we've just never seen it in the fifty cent bin yet. Don't like most of his politics, but he actually went up in my eyes when he moved to France. I mean, I disagree with him, but Baldwin made noise, Depp just moved. Gotta respect that. Disagreed with him, but gotta respect someone who follows through, especially without bragging first.

[DocNeaves]

We should make a comedy, maybe something along the lines of meatballs....all about a day in the life of liberal movie stars...put a bunch of caricatures of all their antics in it...Sean Penn's boat ride, Rosie's WalMart look (when she's worth thousands of dollars, I hear)...Susan Sarandon running around being eloquently irrelevant.....I bet I could beat Ishtar on the first ballot....any takers?