IT'S easy to see why film stars, ego-driven as many of them are, might feel that it's not enough to captivate the world for a couple of hours at a time – one must also change it, irrevocably, in a way that doesn't fade as the memory of a movie does.
Both Sean Penn, right, and Angelina Jolie have recently been mocked for their attempts to do this, the subtext being that instead of fooling around in foreign politics, they should just stick to acting.
Jolie, the mother of six children, long-term UN Goodwill Ambassador and one half of the global golden couple known as Brangelina, has directed a moderately controversial film about the rape of women during the Bosnian conflict. Sean Penn, meanwhile, waded into a brewing row over the impending 30th anniversary of the Falklands war, by lending his support to Argentinian claims to sovereignty of those islands, and accusing Britain of being "colonialist, ludicrous and archaic".
Hey, critics, leave those celebs alone
IT'S easy to see why film stars, ego-driven as many of them are, might feel that it's not enough to captivate the world for a couple of hours at a time – one must also change it, irrevocably, in a way that doesn't fade as the memory of a movie does.
Both Sean Penn, right, and Angelina Jolie have recently been mocked for their attempts to do this, the subtext being that instead of fooling around in foreign politics, they should just stick to acting.
Jolie, the mother of six children, long-term UN Goodwill Ambassador and one half of the global golden couple known as Brangelina, has directed a moderately controversial film about the rape of women during the Bosnian conflict. Sean Penn, meanwhile, waded into a brewing row over the impending 30th anniversary of the Falklands war, by lending his support to Argentinian claims to sovereignty of those islands, and accusing Britain of being "colonialist, ludicrous and archaic".
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Don't show me this again.