Fisking Princess Buttercup

Lloyd Grove of the NY Daily News has the low-down on Robin Wright Penn. Some good stuff:

TORONTO - For jaded journalists who ridiculed Sean Penn's rescue mission last week in New Orleans, his wife has a salty message.

"To them, I say 'F--k you!'" Robin Wright Penn told me yesterday at the Toronto International Film Festival, where she was hawking a very peculiar indie movie, "Sorry, Haters," in which she stars as a deranged but beautiful rap video channel employee who's seeking post-9/11 vengeance against a Syrian taxi driver.

Robin Penn Wright is known for two things - being Sean Penn's wife and for playing Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride. Not that I think anyone will actually pay to see her new movie "Sorry, Haters" but I do think she is in peril of being typecast as "deranged but beautiful."

"I think it's f-----g pathetic to be belittling him," Wright Penn raged - a blond, blue-eyed lioness protecting her mate (who was on hand for Friday's premiere, sitting with his spouse in the back row and well-positioned to gauge the expressions on the faces of a few audience members who walked out of the film early).

First off kudos to Grove for the people leaving early dig - nice work. Secondly, if anyone knows "f-----g pathetic" I guess it would be RWP. Here's a list of her last five movies, Sorry, Haters; Empire Falls; Nine Lives; A Home at the End of the World; and Virgin. F-----g pathetic indeed!

The 39-year-old actress was responding to news accounts of her husband's trip - to help children stranded by Hurricane Katrina - that said his boat sprang a leak and began sinking under the weight of his huge celebrity entourage (including pop historian Douglas Brinkley), and that the motor wouldn't start and regular citizens taunted him.

First kudos gain to Grove for labeling Douglas Brinkley as a "pop historian". That's perfect. Secondly should it have been "to allegedly help children"? I mean was there even room in the boat for a victim of the hurricane?

"Do we have to go to the bowels of infantile behavior?" she demanded. "Here people are dying, and if it wasn't Sean Penn going crazy watching CNN and saying, 'I have to do something' - but instead it was 'Joe Smith from Morgan City' - then those people would be thanking him, not attacking him."

Ummm... first off if hubby felt the need to do something he could have written a check for a million dollars like Nicolas Cage did (without any fanfare it should be noted). Secondly there were plently of "Joe Smith's from Morgan City" helping out. They were helping out from the goodness of their hearts though. If any Joe Smith from Morgan City had been pretending to help "the children" but instead sinking his boat filled with personal boigrapher and photographers - then they would have gotten their own thread on FARK with an "Asinine" tag to boot. Finally - at least she admits that her husband has gone crazy and that CNN is to blame. How many cases of CNN induced craziness will have to happen before the Center for Disease Control finally steps in?

F-----g pathetic indeed!