Cannes: Behind the Scenes
Taking in the scene at Cannes:
Defying France’s strict new antismoking laws, Sean Penn, president of the jury at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, lighted a cigarette at a news conference yesterday, Agence France-Presse reported. After a couple of puffs in defiance of rules that banned smoking in enclosed spaces since January, he put the cigarette aside and returned to answering reporters’ questions. But a jury member, the Iranian writer and director Marjane Satrapi, prompting laughter, then asked if anyone minded if she smoked “for medical reasons.” She lighted a cigarette; Mr. Penn and the French actress Jeanne Balibar joined her. [via link]
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smoking for medical reasons is one thing, but Sean Penn doing it to make a spectacle of himelf and to defy a law that is on the books (in another country to boot!)is shameless. Sean Penn the activist is given way too much credit. He is a brilliant actor for sure, but when it comes to matters such as this, he needs to think before he acts.