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Smoking at Cannes

posted by Jason Kottke   May 22, 2008

Taking in the scene at Cannes:

Defying France's strict new antismoking laws, Sean Penn, right, president of the jury at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, lighted a cigarette at a news conference yesterday, Agence France-Presse reported. After a couple of puffs in defiance of rules that banned smoking in enclosed spaces since January, he put the cigarette aside and returned to answering reporters' questions. But a jury member, the Iranian writer and director Marjane Satrapi, prompting laughter, then asked if anyone minded if she smoked "for medical reasons." She lighted a cigarette; Mr. Penn and the French actress Jeanne Balibar joined her.

Meta-Free-Phor-All

posted by Jason Kottke   Apr 25, 2007

Sean Penn and Stephen Colbert competing in a metaphor competition:

Good lord that's funny.

The Interpreter

posted by Jason Kottke   Jun 26, 2006