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Oscar winner Sean Penn picks right time to overcome shyness

LOS ANGELES -- Sean Penn didn't shy away from attending the Academy Awards this time. Good thing, too, since his name was called as the best-actor...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/03/02/mov_407477.shtml
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Q&A with actor Sean Penn

TORONTO - While Hollywood shied away from reminders of Sept. 11, 2001, Sean Penn figures the terrorist attacks added urgency to produce his film "The Assassination of Richard Nixon." Set in 1974, the film...

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Actor Chris Penn, brother of Sean Penn, found dead

LOS ANGELES - Chris Penn, a younger brother of Sean Penn who played supporting roles in films such as "Reservoir...privacy during this difficult time," Mara Buxbaum, Sean Penn's publicist, said in a statement. Chris Penn's credits...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/01/26/ent_49711.shtml
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Vintage cars star in 'Gangster Squad'

...mobster Mickey Cohen's reign over post-war Los Angeles to life, the director of this year's Gangster Squad employed Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and more than 100 irreplaceable vintage American cars.There's the light-blue...

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Gangster Squad

Now Playing Synopsis: An elite police squad fights to save the city of Los Angeles from a power-hungry East Coast mobster in this gritty police-detective film set in the 1940s, and based on Paul Lieberman's seven-part Los Angeles Times series "Tales From the Gangster Squad." Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Ryan Gosling star in a film directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), and featuring Nick Nolte, Michael Peña, Emma Stone, and Robert Patrick. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Michael Peña Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

'Wild' offers proof Sean Penn can work both sides of camera

...with exceptional performances and filmed on the locations that McCandless visited, Into the Wild is a step forward for Sean Penn, who directs his first feature since 2001's The Pledge . It's a clear, confident work that proves Mr. Penn to be...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/03/06/mov_189873.shtml
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This week's releases reveal directors, criminals

...what's new in DVDs and a calendar of what's coming: THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON (NEW LINE, $27.95): Sean Penn stars in the real-life story of a 1970s failure in business and marriage who sets out to kill President Nixon with an...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/04/28/mov_451572.shtml
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Subplots, details overtake real meat of 'King's Men'

...Louisiana politician and self-described "redneck hick," Sean Penn throws himself into the role as though his very life depended...junkies Credits: A film from Columbia Pictures, starring Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins and Mark Ruffalo...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/09/21/mov_97448.shtml
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Mini reviews

...Call theaters for times. For an online movie guide, check out augusta.com/movies. JUST OUT 21 GRAMS (***, R) Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts star in three interconnected stories, told by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu out of chronological...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/01/09/mov_400398.shtml
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Too little, much too late

...today's entertainers fell all over themselves in recent years to denounce our country and our president. But no one - not Sean Penn, not Barbra Streisand, not Martin Sheen, not the Dixie Chicks, not even Michael Moore - was daft enough or traitorous...

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