Penn heading Cannes jury

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Sean Penn has been named jury president for next May's Cannes Film Festival, which will run from 5.14 to 5.25. What does this signify? Nothing. The Cannes people got in touch, Penn said yeah, off to France and whoop-dee-doo.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 2, 2008 at 8:43 PM

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BurmaShave says ...

Why did you even bother making this post?

Posted by BurmaShave at January 2, 2008 9:30 PM

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T. Holly says ...

Burma, I know you're ancient and mannered and live where people are decent to each other, like Malibu Gigolo, wherever he is, but the facetious-by-nature, like moi, are thinking it ain't nothing, it's oh-la-la, schwing, re-bound.

Posted by T. Holly at January 2, 2008 10:39 PM

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Rosebudsthesled says ...

BurmaShave pretty much articulated my thoughts exactly.

Posted by Rosebudsthesled at January 3, 2008 12:05 AM

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Marty Melville says ...

Say what you will, Wells does have a supernatural facility for writing quizzically obtuse posts which seem to be custom made for stirring all kinds of shit up.

Posted by Marty Melville at January 3, 2008 12:06 AM

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cute4u23 says ...

Congrats! I saw Sean's profile on millionaire dating site called http://WealthyRomance.com last week. It is said he is dating a young beauty on that site now.

Posted by cute4u23 at January 3, 2008 1:39 AM

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Fred Mounts says ...

I think that T Holly might be our new William Faulkner. Reading her posts are like reading the chapters in The Sound and the Fury that are written from a mentally handicapped point of view.

Posted by Fred Mounts at January 3, 2008 5:26 AM

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p.Vice says ...

What does this signify? I don't get it. They picked someone who, ya know, has some kind of talent. They usually do.

Posted by p.Vice at January 3, 2008 6:06 AM

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T. Holly says ...

From a guy who can't even pluralize his own name.

Posted by T. Holly at January 3, 2008 7:47 AM

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nemo says ...

The French named him because they hope it will annoy a few Americans.

And this is coming from someone who actually likes both France and Sean Penn, as hard as they both make it for me sometimes.

Speaking of the pissy French, whatever became of NYCBusyBody? He must of gotten fired from that job he was posting from all the time.

Posted by nemo at January 3, 2008 10:23 AM

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malibugigolo says ...

Hi T Holly!

Hope you had a nice holiday and I wish you a great '08!

I was skiing in the Swiss Alps if you want to know. Wow. I think I moving over there.

Posted by malibugigolo at January 3, 2008 12:10 PM

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T. Holly says ...

Oh hi, that sounds nice. I picked up The Little Girl and The Cigarette and, at the time, A View of the Ocean wasn't out on the shelves yet. Then I had to celebrate the holidays and got sidetracked, but I look forward to getting into TLGATC partly because it's put out by that little publisher in Hoboken I've been wanting to buy something from, partly because Hoboken's a place near and dear to my heart, since I used to live there and belonged to a sketching club. that met at a house, where we'd take turns modelling nude for each other.

(Fred Mounts: I eat Fred Mounts's heart out.)

Posted by T. Holly at January 3, 2008 12:46 PM

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malibugigolo says ...

Great to hear from you.

Melville? Yes. I like them very much, too.

They have a never before published novella of Proust coming out in Feb....The Lemoine Affair...a spoof. It sounds fun.

And yes, I've found out all the best meanings coming from the getting what you give spirit.

Posted by malibugigolo at January 3, 2008 1:20 PM

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T. Holly says ...

Sounds like Melville is run by very interesting people. I'll make some sort of announcement when "I'm finished" the book. 'Getting what you give' is a good way to put that.

Posted by T. Holly at January 3, 2008 1:53 PM

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