Penny For Your Thoughts

Never one to be coy about speaking his mind, Sean Penn unleashed another verbal spanking against Hollywood on Monday when, at a press conference for his latest film in Cannes, the actor/director criticised the industry and President Bush for their actions since the attack on 11 September. "In the film aspect as well as the political aspect we have always had a bloodlust," said Penn. "We have a president who indulges in terms like 'good and evil' and that's in a tradition of too many Hollywood movies. It's time to criticize these movies and it's more importantly time to replace them." Penn has long held the tradition of big-budget action movies in contempt, he told press at last year's Edinburgh Film Festival that