SEAN PENN

Stars such as Liev Schreiber and Sean Penn have also visited Ukraine to show support during the war with Russia.

Celebrity photographer Ron Galella has died at age 91.

Kim Kardashian shut down the Met Gala red carpet Monday in one of Marilyn Monroe’s most iconic dresses.

Anderson Cooper File photo of Anderson Cooper speaking at the 3rd Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cooper announced Monday, April 11, 2022, that he tested positive for COVID-19. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff /Invision/AP) (Colin Young-Wolff/Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)Anderson Cooper has tested positive for COVID-19. It was not immediately clear if the “Anderson Cooper 360″ host plans to work from home, People magazine reported. Other celebrities who have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks include, but are not limited to, Daniel Craig, Miley Cyrus and Lin-Manuel Miranda, ET reported. Anderson Cooper CNN anchor Anderson Cooper confirmed Monday, April 11, 2022, that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky surprised quite a few Grammys viewers when he made an appearance for a message on Sunday night.

For 30 seconds, the Oscars went silent for Ukraine.

The actor and activist has denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine as “a most horrible mistake for all of humankind.”

Actor Sean Penn has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19, which caused him to skip Saturday night’s Directors Guild of America awards ceremony. Paul Thomas Anderson announces Sean Penn tested positive for COVID and that’s why he couldn’t make it tonight to present medallion for Licorice Pizza. “Sean tested positive for COVID, which is kind of crazy considering what he’s done for all of us,” Anderson told the audience at the Beverly Hilton. More coronavirus pandemic coverage:>> Coronavirus: How long between exposure to the virus and the start of symptoms? This tool will tell you>> How to not let coronavirus pandemic fatigue set in, battle back if it doesExpand Autoplay Image 1 of 49 Sean Penn In this March 27, 2018 photo, author-activist Sean Penn poses for a portrait in New York to promote his novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff."

Penn’s representatives declined to say why he had traveled to the Polish border or whether he would return to Ukraine. Last week he was seen in Kyiv, including with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as Russian troops were intensifying attacks on the capital. He was also seen in Lviv, the western Ukrainian city located close to the Polish border. “Myself & two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our car on the side of the road,” Penn wrote on Twitter. Myself & two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our car on the side of the road.

On Twitter, Penn called Ukraine "the tip of the spear for the democratic embrace of dreams. If we allow it to fight alone, our soul as America is lost."

"Milk" actor Sean Penn warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be making the "most horrible mistake for all of humankind" if he does not relent and stop Russia's invasion of Ukraine."Already a brutal mistake of lives taken and hearts broken, and if he doesn't relent, I believe Mr. Putin will have made a most horrible mistake for all of humankind. President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people have risen as historic symbols of courage and...

The Oscar winner has been involved in numerous international humanitarian and anti-war efforts over the years.

Penn attended a press briefing following Russia's "full-scale invasion" of the country. The office of the Ukrainian president said he is there to document the invasion.

Ukraine Sean Penn FILE - Sean Penn arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Flag Day" in Los Angeles on Aug. 11, 2021. Penn is in Ukraine to continue work on a documentary about the country’s conflict with Russia. The Office of the President wrote in a Facebook post Thursday that Penn attended press briefings, met with Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk and spoke to journalists and military about the Russian invasion. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) (Jordan Strauss)NEW YORK — (AP) — Filmmaker and actor Sean Penn is in Ukraine to continue work on a documentary about the ongoing Russian assault. “Sean Penn demonstrates the courage that many others, especially western politicians lack,” the president’s office wrote on Facebook.

Filmmaker and actor Sean Penn is in Ukraine to continue work on a documentary about the ongoing Russian assault.

Anderson Cooper File photo of Anderson Cooper speaking at the 3rd Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cooper announced Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, that he is now the proud father of a second son, Sebastian. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff /Invision/AP) (Colin Young-Wolff/Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)Fatherhood suits Anderson Cooper. The “AC360″ host announced the birth of his second son, Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper, during Thursday’s episode, followed Friday by an Instagram post sharing a photo of the CNN anchor cuddling with the newborn the day he was born. >> Related: People names Anderson Cooper’s son, Wyatt Morgan, the Cutest Baby Alive for 2020Congratulations @andersoncooper! “The sacrifices she and her family — her entire family — made, and the love that they gave Sebastian this past year has been extraordinary,” Cooper said.

Dale Dickey tends to get “those crusty roles,” as she heard someone once call them.

The over-the-top parties and star-studded shows surrounding Miami’s Art Basel wrapped up this weekend with performances by Rosalia, Lizzo, Cardi B and rocker Lenny Kravitz.

Sean Penn, who has a habit of turning up in dangerous places, arrived in Ukraine amid concerns about a buildup of Russian forces nearby.

The couple tied the knot last year in a “COVID wedding” after dating for four years.

Australian actress Leila George has filed for divorce from Sean Penn after nearly 15 months of marriage. Sean Penn's Wife Leila George Files for Divorce After One Year of Marriage https://t.co/Du6oqq2Wtr — E! “We did a COVID wedding,” Penn told Meyers. >> Sean Penn confirms ‘COVID-19′ marriage to actress Leila GeorgeGeorge is the daughter of actor-producer Vincent D’Onofrio and actress Greta Scacchi, USA Today reported. Penn and Wright have two adult children together: daughter Dylan Frances Penn, 30, and son Hopper Jack Penn, 28, E!

Sean Penn's wife has filed for divorce after just one year of marriage.

An abandoned city bus that people sometimes went on deadly pilgrimages to Alaska’s backcountry to visit can now safely be viewed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks while it undergoes preservation work.

But it has had few takers at some locations — a likely reflection, at least in part, of skepticism about vaccines in Georgia. On a recent weekday, one person came in to get inoculated over six hours at an Atlanta church where CORE was offering the Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer vaccines. Vaccine hesitancy is particularly challenging for CORE, which focuses on hard-to-reach communities with low vaccine uptake. In Georgia, the group plans to spend more time offering vaccines to employees at work sites, where turnout is better, said Margaret Herro, CORE’s Georgia director. It also has contracts with four Georgia counties and is finalizing a deal with the state to pay for vaccine events, Herro said.

A disaster relief organization founded by actor Sean Penn is boosting Georgia’s drive to inoculate people against the coronavirus.

“When are we going to stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get vaccinated?” Stern said on his show this week.

At the edge of a pile of rubble Michael Jules plunges an iron bar over and over into the crumbling concrete of his grandmother’s home.

Sean Penn is 61 now. He won Oscars in 2004 and 2009, and that seemed to inspire him to have an equally outsized impact off-screen. He went to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. One afternoon early last year, Penn was out in front of his house putting a decal on the door of his Toyota Tacoma. The sticker was for CORE, or Community Organized Relief Effort, the nonprofit organization he founded in 2010.

France Cannes 2021 Flag Day Portraits Sean Penn, left, and Dylan Penn pose for portrait photographs for the film 'Flag Day', at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, July 10, 2021. In the father-daughter drama, which MGM will release Friday in theaters, Penn plays a larger-than-life but often absent and sometimes imprisoned father to daughter Jennifer (played by Penn's daughter Dylan Penn). His last film, 2016’s “The Last Face,” with Charlize Theron, flopped, and was loudly booed at its Cannes Film Festival debut. Dylan, 30, is the star of “Flag Day.” She has dabbled before in acting but it’s easily her biggest role yet. In "Flag Day," Dylan is natural, poised and captivating.

Sean Penn is sort of done with movies.

APTOPIX France Cannes 2021 Flag Day Portraits Sean Penn and Dylan Frances Penn poses for portrait photographs for the film 'Flag Day', at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, July 10, 2021. On Saturday night, he premiered in Cannes his latest film, “Flag Day,” in which he also co-stars. And I’m very confident in the performance I’m most concerned about.”With that, Penn raises his hand and points toward where his daughter, Dylan Penn, is sitting. Variety said the film "reveals Dylan Penn to be a major actor." “She always strived to have this really honest, transparent relationship with her father which she never got it in return," Dylan Penn says.

In a story published July 11, 2021, about Sean Penn and the premiere of his latest film, “Flag Day,” The Associated Press erroneously reported the film's release date.

Haiti’s interim government says it has asked the U.S. and U.N. to deploy troops to protect key infrastructure as it tries to stabilize the country and prepare the way for elections following President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination.

Cannes is back.

On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival will reopen.

The Cannes Film Festival on Thursday unveiled a lineup of films from big-name auteurs — including Wes Anderson, Asghar Farhadi, Mia Hansen-Løve and Sean Penn — for its 74th edition in July.

Marc Maron always believed his long-running podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” should have gotten more award recognition over the years.

The Global Citizen fundraising concert advocating the importance of vaccine equity has pulled in $302 million, exceeding the goal for the organization’s campaign.

Paul Van Doren, who co-founded the footwear brand Vans out of a small retail operation in Southern California more than five decades ago, died Thursday. Van Doren and his partners, including his brother James Van Doren, dabbled in the retail world after founding the Van Doren Rubber Company in 1966, The Orange County Register reported. “It is with a heavy heart that Vans announces the passing of our co-founder Paul Van Doren,” the company said in a statement. The Van Doren Rubber Co. was the culmination of a lifetime of experimentation and hard work in the shoe industry. So sad to hear that Paul Van Doren has died 😢 pic.twitter.com/KkWFygxcg6 — william hugh potter (@whpotter) May 7, 2021Born June 12, 1930, in Boston, Van Doren left school at 16 to work in a local shoe factory, the Times reported.

President Joe Biden and Prince Harry were among several big names advocating for vaccine equity at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World.”.

Prince Harry and Meghan will serve as the campaign chairs of Global Citizen’s effort to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to medical workers in the world’s poorest countries.

The former Trump Plaza casino was imploded after falling into such disrepair that chunks of the building began peeling off and crashing to the ground. “I got chills,” Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said. AdOpened in 1984, when Trump was a real estate developer in his pre-politics days, Trump Plaza was for a time the most successful casino in Atlantic City. AdBut things began to sour for Trump Plaza when Donald Trump opened the nearby Trump Taj Mahal in 1990, with crushing debt loads that led the company to pour most of its resources — and cash — into the shiny new hotel and casino. Trump Plaza was the last of four Atlantic City casinos to close in 2014, victims of an oversaturated casino market both in the New Jersey city and in the larger northeast.

FILE - Actor Hal Holbrook appears during an interview in his New York apartment on Feb. 8, 1973. Holbrook died on Jan. 23 in Beverly Hills, California, his representative, Steve Rohr, told The Associated Press Tuesday. Holbrook died on Jan. 23 in Beverly Hills, California, his representative, Steve Rohr, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Holbrook’s material is uproarious, his ability to hold an audience by acting is brilliant,” said The New York Times. AdWhen he wasn’t portraying Twain, Holbrook showed impressive versatility.

Actor Sean Penn, founder of Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), is interviewed at a CORE coronavirus testing site at Crenshaw Christian Center, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)LOS ANGELES Sean Penn has expanded his fight against the coronavirus beyond his own expectations. The Oscar winners disaster relief organization CORE has gone from providing 6,500 tests in a couple weeks to administering more than 1.3 million within a five-month span. The organization, which started as an international relief group, had initially planned to operate testing sites in Los Angeles for three months. She thought CORE's virus testing would last only three months as a bridge until government-funded programs took over.

LOS ANGELES Spicoli is making a virtual return to Ridgemont High to raise money for a pair of non-profit groups. Sean Penn, a cast member in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgmont High," will be joined by Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and other stars in a socially distanced reading of the film's script. Penn is handing the role of stoner Jeff Spicoli over to another actor, with details about who's playing what part to be unveiled at next week's event. None of those actors, nor Roberts or Aniston, appeared in the original film. It will be available on Facebook Live and TikTok via COREs Facebook page, www.facebook.com/CoreResponse.

Cameron was cast in one of the starring roles in Pool of London, a 1951 crime noir movie that was the first British film to feature an interracial relationship. During the 1950s and 1960s, he supplemented his film work with frequent British TV roles, including two episodes of Doctor Who in 1966. Unless it was specified that this was a part for a Black actor, they would never consider a black actor for the part. I got mostly small parts, and that was extremely frustrating not just for me but for other Black actors. We had a very hard time getting worthwhile roles.In 1972, Cameron got to work alongside another Bahama-born actor who broke barriers for Black film actors.

In this photo released by the Alaska National Guard, Alaska Army National Guard soldiers use a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to removed an abandoned bus, popularized by the book and movie "Into the Wild," out of its location in the Alaska backcountry Thursday, June 18, 2020, as part of a training mission. Seth LaCount/Alaska National Guard via AP)JUNEAU, Alaska An abandoned bus in the Alaska backcountry, popularized by the book Into the Wild and movie of the same name, was removed Thursday, state officials said. The Alaska Army National Guard moved the bus as part of a training mission at no cost to the public or additional cost to the state, Feige said. The Alaska National Guard, in a release, said the bus was removed using a heavy-lift helicopter. The long-abandoned Fairbanks city bus became famous by the 1996 book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, and a 2007 Sean Penn-directed movie of the same name.

In this photo released by the Alaska National Guard, Alaska Army National Guard soldiers use a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to removed an abandoned bus, popularized by the book and movie "Into the Wild," out of its location in the Alaska backcountry Thursday, June 18, 2020, as part of a training mission. Seth LaCount/Alaska National Guard via AP)JUNEAU, Alaska An abandoned bus in the Alaska backcountry, popularized by the book Into the Wild and movie of the same name, was removed Thursday, state officials said. The Alaska Army National Guard moved the bus as part of a training mission at no cost to the public or additional cost to the state, Feige said. The Alaska National Guard, in a release, said the bus was removed using a heavy-lift helicopter. The long-abandoned Fairbanks city bus became famous by the 1996 book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, and a 2007 Sean Penn-directed movie of the same name.

Peter Vincent, former senior officials and legal advisor to both the Justice Department and Homeland Security, says Sean Penn was an unwitting participant in Chapo’s capture.

Officials confirm Mexican authorities knew when and where Sean Penn was going to meet fugitive drug lord El Chapo. Bill Whitaker reports on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

On "60 Minutes," actor Sean Penn shared his motivation for seeking out an interview with the drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. In a part of the conversation that didn't air, Penn talks to Charlie Rose about the fugitive's recent capture.

Charlie Rose's interview with actor Sean Penn is gaining global attention. Penn broke his silence about his meeting with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Penn tells Rose he was not out to glorify Guzman.

In his first interview about his clandestine meeting with drug lord El Chapo, Sean Penn says the aim of his article was to begin a conversation about "the policy of the war on drugs"

The actor speaks to Charlie Rose in his first interview since his controversial, clandestine meeting with the Mexican drug kingpin known as “El Chapo." Watch Rose's report on Sunday, Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT.

In an exclusive interview on "60 Minutes," Sean Penn opens up about interviewing drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the most wanted men in the world before his recent re-capture. Charlie Rose spoke with Meg Oliver and Elaine Quijano about his conversation with the actor.

Sean Penn and Rolling Stone are defending his interview with drug lord Joaquin Guzman, known as “El Chapo.” They have come under heavy criticism for allowing the cartel leader to review the article before it was published in the magazine. Publisher Jann Wenner is standing by Rolling Stone’s decision to hand “El Chapo” what he called “story approval.” Wenner said it’s a “small price to pay” for the interview. In an interview for this Sunday’s "60 Minutes," Charlie Rose asked Penn about the controversial decision.

The actor is speaking out about his secret trip to Mexico to meet notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Mexico recaptured the cartel leader a week ago. Penn made headlines the following day when Rolling Stone published his account of visiting the kingpin in hiding last October. In an interview for this Sunday's “60 Minutes,” Penn spoke to “CBS This Morning” co-host Charlie Rose in Santa Monica to talk about his seven hours with Guzman.

Kate del Castillo, the actress who set up Sean Penn's interview with Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, says people are lying about the case. Newly released text messages from Guzman's phone shows how much he wanted to meet Castillo, yet had no idea who Penn was. Manuel Bojorquez reports.

CBS news legal analyst Rikki Kliemanv considers if Sean Penn may face any legal issues from the U.S. or Mexican governments following his meeting with drug lord El Chapo.

Sean Penn is the producer and narrator of a new documentary that calls into question untested chemicals in our household products and the potential health risks.