It's another five days before we know if someone from an under-represented group will take an unprecedented leadership role. So it's fitting--or smart marketing--for Focus Features, with the help of Sean Penn, to remind us that the Castro already did that 30 years ago.

Critics are already mouthing the word “Oscar” about the new film "Milk," about America’s first openly gay elected leader, Harvey Milk, who served on the Castro’s Board of Supervisors. The movie features scenes of the neighborhood during its heyday in the 1970s--before they decided to cancel Halloween.

Makes us wish for a time machine, but guess we'll have to settle for the cheap Virgin America flights heading to San Francisco instead.

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Vacations are hard work. (It's no surprise that Britney Spears' latest breakdown followed on the heels of the post-holiday custody hand-off.) But one star's efforts to kick back and relax probably granted him the worst holiday season ever. Whatever you do next year, don't be like Sean Penn, who's wife allegedly caught him in bed with two Russian women while they were on vacation.

According to reports, Sean and wife Robin Wright Penn, who just served him with divorce papers, were staying at the Squaw Valley Resort in Lake Tahoe, California in separate rooms. A few days before Christmas, Robin--best known as Buttercup in "The Princess Bride"--came over for a chat and caught Sean drunk and having a little afternoon delight.

If true, this is the craziest things Sean has ever done since "21 Grams." Threesomes and family travel; they just don't mix.

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· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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Sean Penn evocative puffing on a cigarette at a press conference last week cost Toronto's Sutton Place Hotel $540. Penn was at the hotel last week promo-ing his new film All the Kings Men, answering questions from reporters, and idly lighting up.

Little did he know that in the province of Ontario, smoking is banned in all enclosed public places. Penn somehow escaped the whole thing with a written warning, but the hotel had to cough up $540 to the Ontario Health Ministry. A spokesman for the ministry said, "We don't have a system in Canada where we have preferential treatment for someone who's famous or rich." Um, but Penn walked away paying nothing, so, um, it kinda seems like you do. Time to clarify, Canadians!

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·   Penn Escapes Smoking Punishment [SF Gate]
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