I love a good cup of crazy. I find that if I am at a dinner party or even at a store the crazies flock to me. Perhaps they think of me as their spiritual leader? (Note to self: start a religion and make lots of money). Crazy people tell me things and I think it could be because:
1. I grew up surrounded by crazy people, so I understand their language and nervous tics.
2. I listen and ask questions, a gateway drug of sorts to someone needing validation. (i.e. Courtney Love or David Arquette in any interview).
3. I look harmless. My Beetlejuice head and ubiquitous ballet flats must make me appear wise and calm.
So you can imagine my delight at reading about the life and times of Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn. Two people with a few screws loose who spent a couple months involved in a torrid love affair. Is there anything better than two movie actors with an unrealistic view of the world and themselves? Love it.
US Magazine reports this week that Penn, 50, broke up with Johansson, 25, after five months because he has not wanted anything "serious" since his 2010 divorce from Robin Wright, adding, "Scarlett pursued him." Problem was ScarJo wasn't able to completely let go. Last week at Spike TV's Guys Choice Awards in L.A., she scrambled for face time with the Oscar winner. "She pushed herself into his conversations," a witness tells Us. "She sat down between him and Robert De Niro. Robert was like 'What?' and made a face." She also made sure they were snapped together. "A photographer asked for a shot," the source says. "Before Sean could say no, she said yes."
Not accepting the relationship is over by pretending you are still a couple before photographers? Crazy meter says 3. Wedging yourself into a conversation with Robert De Niro? Crazy meter says 8! Nice work, Scar.
Then National Enquirer reports this week that a "heavy-handed Sean Penn wrecked his relationship with Scarlett Johansson when he went overboard with his controlling ways - telling her she should go back to school. It was the last straw when Sean disparaged her lack of education about politics and urged her to go to school,” revealed an insider. The romance began to unravel, they say, when she admitted she felt a little out of her depth intellectually when she recently attended a White House gala. “Sean suggested Scarlett take a political science course,” revealed an insider, and it rubbed her the wrong way.
Doesn’t he know the carried on a make believe friendship with then Presidential candidate Obama during the 2008 campaign? She told Politico.com at the time “you'd imagine that someone like the senator, who is constantly traveling and constantly 'on' - how can he return these personal e-mails?" she said. "But he does." But Obama later told reporters Johansson didn't have his e-mail address. "She sent one e-mail to Reggie, who forwarded it to me," Obama said, referring to his personal assistant, Reggie Love. "I write, saying, 'Thank you Scarlett for doing what you do,' and suddenly we have this e-mail relationship."
What really is the clincher for me is Sean Penn thinks someone should take a few classes in political science? Did he even graduate from high school? The same guy who meets with foreign dictators suggests someone else needs to take a few courses in political theory? Remember the time he flew to Venezuela to chat it up with Hugo Chavez? How about that trip he took to Cuba where he met with and interviewed President Raúl Castro? Or the time he was a "freelance reporter" in Iran? Which completely makes sense, right? If you act in a few films you are more than qualified to speak on behalf of U.S. interests. Which is why Shia Lebeouf would make a terrific Secretary of Treasury. Didn't he do a bang up job in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps?
Also, are we sure Sean Penn is sober?
Crazy meter says 10. Solid work, Penn. Solid work.
-Kate Casey
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