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- <text id=91TT2112>
- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: The Power of the Penn
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 63
- The Power of the Penn
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- <p>By Alexander Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Sean Penn used to be Hollywood's surliest young actor, but
- that's no longer true, since Penn is neither an actor nor all
- that surly anymore. He's given up acting, and fighting
- photographers, to focus on directing, and the switch from
- smashing cameras to sitting behind one suits him just fine.
- "Directing is seeing an original vision all the way through,"
- says Penn, whose impressive debut film, The Indian Runner, opens
- this week. "I don't want to act again unless it's for money I
- can put into directing." The new Penn can even joke about his
- stormy marriage to Madonna. Last week he told David Letterman,
- "That was only a rumor. She and I never met."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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