Penn Puts Career on Pause

Farrelly brothers film stars Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis

(NEWSER) - The Farrelly brothers’ new film, Hall Pass, tells the story of two men given a week off from marriage. Don’t expect any surprises:

• “The Farrellys are exploring nominally adult realms, like marital fatigue and cheating, but too often these apparent good intentions get the best of them and their timing,” writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times . Plus, they’re “oblivious to camera movement, blocking, lighting and all the filmmaking rest.”

Actor opens up about his work in Haiti

(NEWSER) - For the past five months—with only brief breaks for fundraising, testifying on Capitol Hill, and of course attending the Oscars—Sean Penn has lived in a tent camp in Haiti. Douglas Brinkley, who volunteered with Penn in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, talks to him about his experience for Vanity Fair :

• On Robin Wright: “She is a ghost to me now.”

Actor not pleased with critics of his Haiti relief efforts

(NEWSER) - Don’t get on Sean Penn’s bad side, or he might wish a very unpleasant death upon you. The actor responded to detractors who say his relief work in Haiti is just his attempt to take attention away from his divorce with the usual grace, the New York Daily News reports. “Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah,” says Penn in an interview airing on CBS this weekend. “But I'm not going to spend a lot of energy on it.” More»

Meg Ryan, Natalie Portman, Claire Danes? Say it ain't so!

(NEWSER) - Susan Sarandon's 23-year relationship with Tim Robbins may have been broken up by her affair with a much younger ping-pong player…or it may have been broken up by Meg Ryan. Yes, that Meg Ryan: "America's sweetheart." But she's not the only unlikely celebrity homewrecker. The Frisky found seven more:

• Alicia Keys: The seemingly sweet singer who found fame as a teen allegedly broke up fellow singer Mashonda's marriage to Swizz Beatz.

But Hopper may have been kicked out of another school for drugs

(NEWSER) - Sean Penn’s son, arrested last week at his Malibu high school, is not facing drug charges. Sources close to the investigation say he was picked up for drug possession, but tell Radar that the drugs—no names given—were medications prescribed to Hopper, and that the district attorney's office has shut the book on the case. Even so, Perez Hilton adds that the 16-year-old was rumored to have been kicked out of his San Francisco high school last year for drug offenses. More»