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.