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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had two big backers in Hollywood in Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, and each released a statement following Chavez's death on Tuesday."Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion," actor Sean Penn told The Hollywood Reporter. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela." Penn had attended a candlelight vigil for Chavez in Venezuela in December.Oliver Stone, who championed Chavez in his 2009 film "South of the Border," went even further in his praise.''I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place," he said. "Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history. My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned."...
The Hollywood charity Cinema for Peace honored -- and raised money for -- the Sean Penn-founded J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO) on Saturday. George Clooney...
Sean Penn was officially made an ambassador at large for Haiti for his relief work for the country, which is still reeling from a devastating earthquake two years ag...
Sean Penn tried to turn the conversation at the Cannes Film Festival to Haiti, hosting a fundraiser for the earthquake-ravaged and poverty-stricken country.It was th...
Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock...
Harris Faulkner, Andrew WK and Chris Barron discuss Sean Penn's son's run-in with the paparazzi
In the days, months and years that followed Haiti's powerful earthquake, the condemned National Palace slowly sunk upon itself. The white presidential building becam...
Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn gave an emotional speech Wednesday urging the world community to help Haiti as he accepted an award from a gathering of Nobel Peace Pri...
Sean Penn | Steven Soderbergh | Bo Dietl | Christopher Reeve | Tori Amos | In the Bedroom | FNC Beats CNN Sean Penn Gets Shanghai'd by The BeatlesA movie made in 19...
Madonna, ex-husband Sean Penn and Mark Hamill in the force we call The Foxlight.With her summer tour Madonna wants her picture everywhere right? Not everywhere. A Ne...
They say Washington, DC, is " Hollywood for ugly people," but the Beltway got a major infusion of good looks Saturday night at the annual White House Correspondent...
Actor Sean Penn is urging Americans to continue to support Haiti following a devastating earthquake earlier this year.Penn was among the first on the ground in Haiti...
LOS ANGELES -- Sean Penn says he thinks Charlie Sheen could do a lot of good in Haiti , both for himself and the nation struggling to recover from a devastating eart...
Like father, like son.Sean Penn's 19-year-old son Hopper apparently has a lot in common with his dad when it comes to his feelings about the paparazzi.Sean, who famo...
The nonprofit aid group founded by Hollywood star Sean Penn in the aftermath of Haiti's deadly 2010 earthquake demolition of the wrecked National Palace, the Haiti...
The nonprofit aid group founded by Hollywood star Sean Penn in the aftermath of Haiti's deadly 2010 earthquake will oversee demolition of the wrecked National Palace...
After a brief fling in 2008, actor Sean Penn and model Petra Nemcova appear together in Haiti--a month after Nemcova's split from fiancée, according to new reports. ...
Even if they have no interest in watching it, celebs like Michael Moore and Sean Penn may soon be getting copies of the movie "Hating Breitbart" in the mail.The film...
Sean Penn and Cuban actress Maria Conchita Alonso were once Hollywood co-stars -- but they had an angry bust-up at LAX airport, with Alonso branding Penn a "communis...
Actor Sean Penn says the Tea Party wants to "lynch" President Obama , launching the latest celebrity attack on the conservative grassroots movement that has grown in...