Sean Penn to divorce.

[theaternut]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:18pm

I wonder if he didn't thank his wife at the Oscars because his lawyers adviced him no to? Remember when Tonya Pinkins Tony acceptance speech was used against her in court when she was divorcing her husband?

Penn Divorce Updated On: 4/30/09 at 06:18 PM

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:19pm

Oh no...

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:23pm

What did Tonya Pinkins say?

[theaternut]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:25pm

You might be able to find her tony acceptance on that other site. It was the way she thanked him . His lawyers played her speech in court during the trial.It was for winning in Jellys Last Jam.
Updated On: 4/30/09 at 06:25 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:35pm

I tried to find it. Couldn't. I will look to see which awards it was and search that way. How did she thank him?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:46pm

I was wondering why he didn't thank her.

To be honest, I thought they had split years ago and was surprised to see them still together. Shows how out of the loop I am.

[theaternut]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:52pm

From the New York Times regarding Ms Pinkins.

"'It had been the most exciting year of my career,' she said between sips of onion tea in her dressing room. 'I'd just won the Tony for 'Jelly's Last Jam.' I had two beautiful children and was married to someone I loved' -- Ron Brawer, a soap opera music director, whom she thanked in her Tony acceptance for taking care of their sons so that she could work. At the height of her happiness -- with no clue, she said, of what was about to happen -- she walked out of the Virginia Theater's stage door after a Saturday matinee, accepted what she thought was a request for an autograph and found, as she started to sign her name, that she had just been served with divorce papers. (Among other things, the suit cited Ms. Pinkins's Tony speech as evidence of her secondary parental status.) Thus began a seemingly endless legal battle in which she lost custody of her two young boys (despite being declared a fit parent), was ordered to pay $25,000 a year in child support, had her wages garnished for failure to do so, was barred from and eventually lost her equity in the couple's Manhattan loft and New Jersey mansion and ended up -- even as recently as two years ago, when she was already workshopping 'Caroline' -- on public assistance, all but homeless and dependent on her friends. Meanwhile, she had had two more children, whose fathers left her, and them, without a penny.

The legal case was so tortured and its outcome so unusual -- since when does a legally fit mother lose custody of her children? -- that it became the subject of news reports, feminist crusades and law journal articles. In Ms. Pinkins's retelling, it sometimes seemed too dramatic to be true. She willingly discussed her anger at the judge, who wrote of her 'palpably obvious anger throughout the proceeding,' but omitted, for instance, her handmade poster campaign against him. More than that, there was a question of extremes. How can you be a Broadway star one day and a deadbeat mom (as The New York Post branded her when she fell behind on her child support) the next?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/theater/theater-the-trials-of-tonya-pinkins.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 Updated On: 4/30/09 at 06:52 PM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:57pm

They talked about the fact that he wasn't going to thank her before the show.
Sean & Robin on Access Hollywood

[StockardFan]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:58pm

Whoa. That's terrible!

[theaternut]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 6:58pm

Yeah.. but now you know it is probably because there were issues.

[singtopher]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:31pm

I too thought they had divorced years ago.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 2:06pm

That sucks. They struck me as a great, smart couple.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 2:11pm

So sad. I wish them both happiness.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 2:31pm

good thing she got out before he killed her and the kids. dude has never been right.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 2:45pm

Well...now I know why Menzel won the tony!

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 2:53pm

I don't think this is sad. It's a good thing, if the marriage isn't working. And he is a little time bomb, although a great actor.

[Q]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 2:56pm

I guess papa isn't a commie, homo-loving son-of-a-gun.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 2:58pm

i have some guns. does that count?

[Q]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 3:00pm

Only if you use them for homo-lovin', papa

[DAME]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 3:01pm

I do think it is very sad when a relationship that has so many years vested in it doesn't work. Sure.. if it isn't working it is great that they are moving on and hopefully to a happy and peacefull state for both of them and their familys. But the failure of any relationship is always sad. As far as saying he is a time bomb... you don't know that. He is a very private man. Your going by a picture the press painted of him YEARS ago.

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 03:01 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 3:23pm

nope, i know seanny very well. he's a heartbeat from murder on a daily basis.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/1/09 at 9:40pm

" you don't know that. He is a very private man. Your going by a picture the press painted of him YEARS ago."

Um, yes I do and no I'm not.

"I do think it is very sad when a relationship that has so many years vested in it doesn't work."

I could agree if I knew the relationship was a happy one. If not, the divorce is a blessing.

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 09:40 PM

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 5/2/09 at 11:54am

I had heard that this was in the works before the Oscars, so I wonder why was she there in the first place?

[Q]

Posted: 5/2/09 at 11:56am

"why was she there in the first place?"

Photo op? Never miss an opportunity to get your face seen - and that's the biggest opportunity there is.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/2/09 at 2:39pm

"Um, yes I do and no I'm not. "

No you don't Jane. You don't know crap.



"I could agree if I knew the relationship was a happy one. If not, the divorce is a blessing."

Most people go into marriage happily and with good intentions at heart. It is obvious they were happy for a good period of time. And they have a family and children involved. Not taking away from the courage it takes to know when one puts a period in a relationship and moves on. But the deterioration of any family ( non abusive) always has sadness in it. Unless you are a cold heartless human being Jane.