THE INDIAN RUNNER, Sean Penn's first movie, was brilliant, and dedicating it to John Cassavetes and Hal Ashby was a compliment.
But dedicating this overponderous, boring ego-fest to writer Charles Bukowski was an insult, in my opinion.
"faith is for nuns and amateurs" ham tyler
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the irony is Bukowski held Penn in complete contempt and never considered him a friend just a rich boy playing at being a drunk, he had more respect for Rourke then he did fro Penn
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How do you know that? I have been, for the last twenty years or so, a fan of Buk Bukowski and I have always wondered why he would consider this little rich boy moronic fool Sean Penn a friend. Buk was straight as an arrow! He didn't take to pretention and I'm sure he could smell it a mile away! He knew what it was like on the real side of town! If Bukowski could only see Mickey "Bono Hewson" Mouse quoting his poems I'm sure kicking up dust in his grave. I remember Bukowski saying something true to life about Rourke and he found something familair in Harry Dean Stanton and Tom Waits.
My initial question tho is how do you know he felt that way about Penn. If it's available online in an interview or something, I certainly would love to read it.
Thanks.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? ~~ Jack Kerouac
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Plus, I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that Bukowski so hated Sean Penn that he set up hits on him numerous times but that somehow, Penn was always tipped off at the last second. So Bukowski then began a campaign that took him across America, to esablish a scholarship for anyone who publicly denounces Sean Penn. And as frosting on the cake, he had a picture of Sean Penn tattooed on his stomach, which he then repeatedly stabbed with a fork until he died of "complications".
sharethat should be made into a movie.
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