Deep Thinking

Just when you think the ultra-left, America-hating, rooty-tooty fresh and fruity liberals couldn't lean any further left all it takes is some brilliant political analysis from a doper like Sean Penn.

You know Sean, we all laughed at you when you were Spicoli, but now we are laughing at you—well, because you're Spicoli.  Like gnarly dude!

Report: Spicoli Withdraws from Movie Because of Scene Critical of Iranian Culture

In 2005, Sean Penn traveled to Iran. He wrote little dispatches designed to prove to all how progressive and open-minded he was. He was hoping for American people to come to Iran and get familiar with the Iranian culture. According to this report, however, Penn doesn't want Americans to know everything about that culture.

Sources say Penn, who traveled to Iran in 2005 and sent wordy dispatches to the San Francisco Chronicle, demanded to be removed from "Crossing Over" because he objected to an "honor killing" scene of an Iranian woman slain by her brother.

The Weinstein Company flick on the immigration issue, budgeted at $20 million, is a multi-plotted drama, like "Traffic" and "Crash," starring Harrison Ford and Ashley Judd. Although Penn shot scenes playing an enforcement agent, sources told Page Six he insisted he be cut from the movie, which has grossed a paltry $292,254 since its release three weeks ago. The Post's Lou Lumenick panned its stereotypical characters who "spout tin-eared dialogue."

A rep for Weinstein, who tried to salvage the remains of the picture in the editing room, declined to comment as to why Penn was cut from it.

Sean Penn's Marxist Chickens are Coming Home to Roost

Yeah. Imagine that Sean. Not too many people are as fond as socialist dictators as you.

SEAN Penn is getting worried that his cozying up to Marxist dictators might cost him an Academy Award. We reported last month how Penn was smacked by the gay Advocate magazine over his visits to Fidel and Raul Castro, whose regime murdered and imprisoned gays. Last week, Penn called José Miguel Vivanco, head of Human Rights Watch's Latin America division, and asked for a meeting. Vivanco flew to San Francisco to dine with the star Thursday and brief him on the situation in Cuba and Venezuela. Vivanco was thrown out of the latter country by Penn pal President Hugo Chavez. "Tom Cruise let Scientology make him a household name for weirdness. Sean is entering into similar territory as a p.r. stooge for left-wing dictatorships," said a Hollywood insider. "It's never too late to do the right thing," says Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation. "Political prisoners in Venezuela and Cuba could use the help of someone like Sean Penn."