Subject: Sean Penn

• Spicoli Brokers Obama-Castro Gitmo Hookup?

  No, that headline is not just a hallucination brought on by the tryptophan-induced haze you've been stumbling around in since stuffing that turducken down your gullet yesterday.It's just, quite simply, the strangest post-Thanksgiving news on the planet. Somehow or another, Sean Penn, the liberal wunderkind who will forever be remembered as America's favorite surfer-dude stoner at Ridgemont High no matter how many Oscars he wins, scored an interview with reclusive Cuban leader Raul Castro. 

  November 28, 2008

• Twinkies and Milk

  Until I saw Milk yesterday, the biopic starring Sean Penn as gay activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, I'd forgotten all about the Twinkie Defense. Fellow supervisor Dan White shot and killed Milk and Mayor George Moscone in their offices at San Francisco City Hall in 1978 and got off with essentially a slap on the wrist: White was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years (he ended up serving five, and committed suicide two years after he was released.) The def

  December 1, 2008

• Dade Gets Shout-Out in Milk

  In movies, Miami gets a bad rap. It's always cocaine smuggler this, and mafia murderer that. It's like come on, Hollywood. You're making us look bad.  So when Riptide heard Dade County got a cameo in Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, we bought some trans fat-soaked popcorn and got comfortable next to two cute, twinkish, super-excited gay dudes this past weekend. The flick, which tells the story of the martyred gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, was spliced with actual footage from the

  December 2, 2008

• Mickey Rourke Must Beat Two Fidel-Loving Dirty Communists

  We haven't seen any of the performance that will likely be honored with an Oscar nod (except possibly Heath Ledger's Joker), but the race is tightening up. Local crazy person Mickey Rourke is still in the running for his turn in The Wrestler, but Sean Penn jumped into the lead with his performance in Milk. Now we like to pick our Oscar favs like John McCain picks running mate: we prefer the long shot, unstable picks. Which is why, job unseen, we're already rooting for Rourke. And, ugh, we h

  December 4, 2008

• Mickey Rourke Is a Golden Globe Nominee! "Che"? Not So Much

  Miami's very own actor/nutcase extraordinaire Mickey Rourke just got himself nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe for his work in The Wrestler. Hell yeah, we'll be drunk scooter-ing in celebration tonight! Rourke will be up against Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, and Frank Langella come awards night. Conspicuously absent from the list? Che, the biopic that caused a local uproar. In other locally minded nods, Miami-set Dexter took nominations for best dramatic series and actor. Read t

  December 11, 2008

• Mickey Rourke Campaigns for the Oscar by Calling Sean Penn a Homophobe

  The Daily Beast obtained text messages by our favorite local comeback kid Mickey Rourke trashing Sean Penn's performance in Milk and calling him a homophobe. It's ironic that Rourke is freely castigating people as homophobes when he was the one caught on tape calling a reporter a faggot just a few months ago. But it's not surprising. Rourke knows he'll be the best actor runner up for his role in The Wrestler in the awards show race, and spreading the idea that Sean Penn is a homophobe may be the

  December 30, 2008

• Rourke's Oscar Hopes Take One Step Forward with Globes Win, One Step Back with Steroid Rumors

  Excuse me for covering this Best Actor Oscar race like a political election, but I need some horse race drama in my blogging life, and the 2010 elections are just so far --too far-- away. That being said, the Golden Globes are kind of like the 2008 Florida democratic primary. They don't really matter, but interesting nonetheless. Our main man and fellow Miamian Mickey Rourke scored a minor, but not shocking, upset against favorite Sean Penn (who didn't even bother to show up) last night, and wal

  January 12, 2009

• Mickey Rourke and Bai Ling: A Match Made in Worst-Dressed-List Heaven

  We know, we know. We've already met our Mickey Rourke post quota for the day, but when you commit to covering the phenomenon that is the Rourke comeback, you really have to commit. Seems Mickey may have found love or something like it with another confounding Hollywood phenom, Bai Ling. Officially Ling's career is taking bit parts in one B movie after another, but really she's known for showing up on any red carpet that'll have her, looking like something that exploded out of the closet of an ea

  January 15, 2009

• News Roundup

  Esteban ''Steve'' Bovo and Marco Rubio are doing things that might raise a few ethical eyebrows? Who could have imagined? [Herald]"I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat. Everybody look at me cause I'm sailing on a boat. I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat. Take a good hard look at the Mother F*ckin' Boat  ..." Oh, um, the Miami International Boat Show hopes more people say that despite the recession. [Herald]In a time when every other shop on the block is going out of business, there's one industry that is

  February 9, 2009

• Swelter 47

  March 10, 1993

• America's Most Beloved Stats Nerd Predicts a Rourke Oscar Win

  Julian Schnabel for The Village VoiceNate Silver, the human calculator behind FiveThirtyEight -- the magic blog that predicted the presidential race -- has now moved into the Oscar-predicting biz for New York. He's predicting  in the Best Actor catagory a win for Mickey Rourke over Sean Penn, who at one time seemed a lock. How confidant is he in a Rourke win? Exactly 71.1 percent sure. Told you he was a human calculator. But he's leaving little room for doubt in the Best Picture and Best Dire

  February 16, 2009

• Swelter 1

  April 21, 1993

• Swelter

  May 12, 1993

• Rourke or Penn? Everyone Has an Opinion

  Fox Search LightThe Oscars are set to air this very Sunday! And finally we will get to see if our beloved Mickey Rourke walks away with a little gold man. We've already noticed FiveThirtyEight numbers God's prediction that Rourke will beat out his competition, Sean Penn, but other people who have somehow been allowed access to the Internet don't seem to agree. Heading over to the Yale Daily News now, where they've replaced actual content with copy/pasted G-Chat transcripts: Neither of them are

  February 20, 2009

• Swelter 14

  July 21, 1993

• Sean Penn, Expert Buzz Killer, Kills Mickey Rourke Oscar Buzz

  Sean Penn bravely took time out of his busy schedule of giving back massages to Hugo Chavez (or as Robert De Niro put it, "respectfully advising world leaders"), and managed to kill all of our Mickey Rourke Oscar dreams while simultaneously reversing Proposition 8 in the process. Hooray Sean Penn, you are truly a hero. No Seriously, who knew Spicoli would grow up to be such a stick-in-the-ass buzzkill? Or as he put it, "I want to make it clear I know how hard I make it to appreciate me." By whic

  February 23, 2009

• Swelter 15

  July 28, 1993

• 'Tis the Season for Oscars

  September 15, 1993

• Al's Way

  November 10, 1993

• Crossing Over Is Borderline Offensive

  February 26, 2009

• Mickey Rourke: Year of the Ram

  January 1, 2009

• Gus Van Sant's Milk Spotlights Gay Rights

  November 27, 2008

• Rufus Wainwright Croons at The Fillmore Miami Beach

  Check him out Saturday night.

  November 6, 2008

• Moving Pictures

  May 29, 2008

• Cannes: A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

  May 29, 2008

• Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

  May 22, 2008

• Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone.

  May 22, 2008

• Live to Tell

  January 5, 2006

• Oscar-Starved

  March 6, 2008

• Wide-Open Spaces

  October 4, 2007

• Turning Tricks

  September 14, 2006

• Another Look at a Legend

  October 6, 2005

• Skate Bored

  June 2, 2005

• Phantom Menace

  December 30, 2004

• Gore Wins! The Year in Carnage

  December 23, 2004

• Best Club To Close In The Past Twelve Months

  May 17, 2001

• Requiem for a True Original

  December 14, 2000

• The Bit Player

  August 31, 2000

• The Bit Player

  August 24, 2000

• Drunken Master

  January 20, 2000

• Dead Zone

  January 14, 1999

• The Waiting Was the Hardest Part

  January 14, 1999

• Stone Cold

  October 2, 1997

• Game, Set, Match

  September 11, 1997

• Father and Child Reunion

  August 28, 1997

• Choose One: This Movie or the Death Penalty

  October 17, 1996

• Executioner's Song

  January 25, 1996

• Swelter 32.10

  November 23, 1995

• Swelter 4

  May 11, 1995

• Hugo Chavez is in a Silent Cat Fight with Miss Universe

  ​Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez loves celebrities. He was Oliver Stone's date to the Venice International Film Festival, could probably convince Sean Penn to agree to be held captive and perform a stage rendition of his parts in Simple Jack I Am Sam, and is perhaps the only known person on the planet Earth who can actually stand Courtney Love. But he does not care very much for beauty queens, including current Miss Universe Stefania Fernandez, Venezuela's own.One theory could be that he just

  October 8, 2009