The UK’s Jewish Chronicle spotlights the kinda-Jewish Sean Penn this week. His grandfather was a Lithuanian immigrant who ran a kosher deli in New York before his parents moved him to Malibu, where he perfected the stoner dude impersonation that made him famous. But he’s all about serious acting and even more serious political stances these days, so don’t expect him to revive his humor skills:
“When you’ve got a stern, crooked face, with an over-pronounced nose as I have, you don’t get sent a lot of comedy,” he says.
And although he once played a balding, neurotic heeb in Carlito’s Way and was married briefly to everybody’s favorite Kabbalah poster girl, we’re not going to hold our breath to see him at synagogue