Spicoli, You Magnificent Bastard: I Read Your NY Times Advertorial!

Perhaps in a bid to play Norman Mailer in a biopic, actor Sean Penn explained his thoughts on Iraq in a May 30 NY Times advertorial for himself. (News travels slowly to those of us living outside the daily delivery range of the Grey Lady.)

Story and excerpts here.

It's easy--and perhaps obligatory--to mock the rageaholic thespian, but he's putting his money where his mouth is (and where his career used to be).

And his bit here compares favorably to hunky has-been Alec Baldwin's latest bravura performance for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.