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SEAN PENN shares an onscreen smooch with a male co-star in his latest movie role, playing one of America’s first openly gay politicians.
Penn’s co-star Mark Martinez claims the Oscar winner embraced the kiss, and threw himself wholeheartedly into the liplock.
Penn plays San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk in the Gus Van Sant directed Milk.
Martinez, who appears as cross-dressing disco singer Sylvester James, tells PageSix.com, "I’m performing, and (Penn) comes onto the dance floor.
"He grabs me, and he just slaps the biggest kiss on me…It felt like the kiss was forever. I’m like, is he going to stop? I had to close my eyes, I couldn’t believe it." He was so taken with the kiss, he asked Van Sant to reshoot the scene: "I’m thinking, we gotta do this thing again. We just didn’t get it right. But Gus was like, ‘It’s perfect, perfect, perfect.’ I said, ‘No! It’s not perfect! Sean was laughing at me!’"

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Actor GEORGE CLOONEY is reportedly set to make a comeback on the long-running US medical drama ER for its final season.
The series’ producer David Zabel is desperate to get characters old and new together for a one-off special to celebrate the hit show ending - namely Clooney, who would reprise his role as Dr Douglas Ross.
The TV drama, which will close after its 15th season, catapulted the 46-year-old star to the Hollywood A-list after his run on the show from 1994 to 1999.
Zabel says, "We want to revisit characters that have existed on the show over the years and say where they are now.
"We’d love to get them all back in some way - that doesn’t mean we are going to but we are going to try." And bosses at the show’s U.S. network NBC are also eager to bring back actor Anthony Edwards - despite the fact his character Dr Mark Greene died of a brain tumour.
Zabel adds, "There are ways to do it that we’ve thought about - even if it were like a lost episode from 1996."

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TORI SPELLING is desperate to land a starring role in the planned BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 spin-off series - playing a sexy mum.
The actress found fame playing Donna Carter in the hit high school drama, which ran from 1990 to 2000.
Now 34-years-old and a real-life mother, Spelling is convinced she could play a part in the new show being put together by U.S. network CW - as a ‘mum I’d like to f**k’.
She says, "They should give me a call. Every teen drama needs a M.I.L.F., right?"

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KATE BOSWORTH is a secret party animal who can outdrink her new movie co-stars, according to 21 castmate JOSH GAD.
The pair celebrated St Patrick’s Day 2007 on the Boston, Massachusetts set with other cast and crew members - and Gad was stunned to discover the pretty actress is a wild woman with a strong constitution.
He says, "Kate can drink anyone under the table. Get a couple in her, and she’s definitely a very fun and crazy girl.
"We went out on St. Patrick’s Day. Not only did she pick the place, but she picked the rowdiest place. And it’s like, ‘OK, she’s one of us! Let’s get s**t-faced!’ But Kate is always one step ahead of you. She had a blast, and everybody was just enamoured of the fact that there’s a superstar singing and dancing and going nuts. But she was also the first one to be like, ‘OK, I’m out of here.’"

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LATEST: WALLACE AND GROMIT creators Aardman Animations have swept the board at this year’s (08) British Animation Awards.
The British production company won gongs in all four categories it was nominated, including Best Short Film for The Pearce Sisters, as well as Best Children’s Series and Children’s Choice for Shaun The Sheep: Still Life.
Aardman was also recognised with the Best Commissioned New Media Animation for The Peculiar Adventures of Hector at London’s National Film Theatre.
Animator Suzie Templeton, who won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film last month (Feb08), took home the Best TV Special award for her creation Peter And The Wolf.
The judging panel said the "intensely moving film has outstanding character design, cinematography and animation that create a palpable sense of place".

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THE PIXIES star KIM DEAL has resorted to medication in a bid to quit smoking but the drugs are turning her emotionally numb.
The bassist kicked her damaging habit in November (07), and credits a drug called Cantrix with nullifying her cigarette cravings.
However, she is convinced the pills are having an adverse effect on her brain - because she’s feeling less "remorse" and "empathy with people".
She says, "I quit smoking in November and I’ve been freaking out ever since.
I’ve been taking this drug called Cantrix for three months and it’s meant to stop the neurotransmitters in my brain from craving nicotine. OK, I’ve stopped wanting to smoke.
"But I think it’s done something to my brain. I’m having way more vivid dreams. Also, I have less empathy with people."

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Porn star RON JEREMY has blasted sex tape celebrities for acting horrified when their saucy films enter the public domain - insisting they’re the ones who orchestrate the release of X-rated footage. The legendary porn performer is a fervent endorser of celebrity sex tapes, claiming the explicit videoed antics of stars such as Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson have revitalised the adult film industry. However, he refuses to accept celebrities are the innocent victims of sex tape scandals - and believes they sneakily leak their naked frolics to boost their ailing careers. He says, "Paris Hilton’s sex tape’s very good, by the way. It helps (the industry). It helps it a lot. It gives it a real boost. "I love the excuse they use: ‘Oh, I don’t know how they got a hold of it!’ It’s such a big joke now. Any celebrity that’s not doing so good, they jump by having a good sex scandal."

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Rapper SHAWN ‘JAY-Z’ CARTER’s headline slot at Britain’s Glastonbury Festival has caused a downturn in ticket registrations for this summer’s (08) event, according to organiser MICHAEL EAVIS.
Eavis admits demand has waned - based on the numbers of those applying for tickets early - but blames this on his decision to assign an artist of "middle range" popularity to a headline spot, as opposed to festival crowd pleasers such as Radiohead, Coldplay or Oasis.
Eavis says, "There’s not as many as last year because we haven’t got the super, big, big, big sort of headlining act anymore. We’ve gone for something middle range, although Jay-Z is huge in America.
"But it’s not like Radiohead or a Muse or a Coldplay or an Oasis, is it? So we didn’t expect the demand to be quite as high." Muse and The Verve are the other two headliners at the Somerset, England event, which takes place 27-29 June (08).

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British rockers MUSE have shocked fans by hinting their latest album will be their last - because they want to release their music on a track-by-track basis in future.
The Starlight band - whose last LP, 2006’s Black Holes & Revelations, garnered emphatic critical and commercial success - are toying with the idea of ditching the album format in favour of releasing individual songs as and when they record them.
Frontman Matt Bellamy says, "I don’t think we’re going to approach the next album like we’re making an album.
"I like the idea of releasing a series of songs, every month or every couple of months - just putting songs out there. Almost like making the single a more prominent format, and then every few years doing a best of from that period and that would be the album. So in other words, throw out songs every couple of months and see how people like them."

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Rocker BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN stunned his musician pal STEVEN VAN ZANDT when he took to the waves to show off his surfing skills - and knocked his front teeth out.
The Born To Run singer developed a series of obsessions in the 60s and his hobby of choice in 1967 was surfing, according to the guitarist in Springsteen’s group the E Street Band.
However, Van Zandt quickly realised Springsteen’s talents were far from polished when the star’s face was involved in a high speed collision with his surf board.
He says, "To this day he makes me laugh. One day, for no apparent reason, he took up surfing, which was a bizarre thing to do in New Jersey. Surfing wasn’t cool at that point. "So we went to the beach so he could demonstrate it to me. He goes out. First wave, he gets up on it, falls off it, surfboard comes up and knocks out his front teeth. He comes in dragging the board, bleeding like he’s had his throat cut. I told him I’d take a raincheck on it."

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Rocker SHERYL CROW is in talks with musical legends FLEETWOOD MAC for a future collaboration.
The All I Wanna Do star and the veteran band are struggling to find a gap in their busy schedules to meet up in a recording studio - but she insists they "definitely have plans for collaborating in the future".
The 46-year-old is especially looking forward to working with longtime friend and frontwoman of the band Stevie Nicks, who she describes as a "true artist".
She says, "I don’t want to make any official announcements, but I will say that we definitely have plans for collaborating in the future, and we’ll see what happens.
"I’d love to do The Chain, I’d love to do Second Hand News.
"I think the person I learned the most hands-on from is Stevie Nicks because she allowed me not only to co-write with her but also to produce her, and she’s a true artist."

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Singer PAULA ABDUL wants to settle down and start a family by 2013 - but won’t hesitate to adopt if she doesn’t find the right man in time.
The 44-year-old star, who is currently dating restaurateur J.T. Torregiani, is desperate for kids of her own and has resigned herself to the fact that adoption is a more likely option.
She tells Britain’s Now magazine, "I do (want children). I’ll probably adopt because I think it’ll be in the next three to five years. I wouldn’t necessarily adopt from abroad like some celebs. I just want a healthy baby." Abdul has been married twice, but didn’t have children with either actor Emilio Estevez or her second husband Brad Beckerman. Both unions were brief she split from The Breakfast Club star in 1994 after only two years of marriage, while her 1996 union with sportswear designer Beckerman ended in divorce in 1998.

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Rapper SNOOP DOGG is set to make an appearance on U.S. soap opera ONE LIFE TO LIVE.
The 36-year-old hip-hop star, real name Calvin Broadus, will make an extended cameo on the long-running series in which he will perform Sensual Seduction and Life Of Da Party - two songs from his new album Ego Trippin’.
He will also remix the programme’s theme song and act in scenes for episodes set to air on 8 and 9 May (08).
He says, "I’ve been a fan of One Life to Live since I was a baby. My momma always had it on the tube in tha crib growing up.
"The opportunity to change up the theme song and give it some of my flavour will make the show the Life Of The Party."

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RICHARD GERE has been cleared of charges of obscene behaviour after a lawsuit relating to a 2007 incident in India was thrown out of the country’s Supreme Court.
A court in the western state of Rajasthan, India, issued a warrant for Gere’s arrest last year (07) after he passionately embraced Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty and kissed her several times at an April (07) AIDS awareness event in New Delhi.
Displays of public affection are outlawed in the conservative country.
Prosecutors also wanted Shetty to appear in court over charges that she did not resist the actor’s advances, but they were later suspended by the Supreme Court.
Gere initially dismissed the row as "nothing", but later apologised for causing any offence.
And now a two-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan has quashed the case following an appeal by Gere’s lawyers, branding the charges "frivolous" and "cheap publicity".
Balakrishnan says, "Richard Gere is free to enter the country. This is the end of the matter." He also blamed the complainants for bringing "a bad name to the country".

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LATEST: A phone conversation allegedly between CHRIS ROCK and disgraced private investigator ANTHONY PELLICANO has surfaced - amid reports the comedian has been named as a potential witness in the detective’s ongoing wiretapping and bribery trial.
In the 31-minute tape recording of an August 2001 call obtained by U.S. blog site The Huffington Post, Pellicano tells Rock how he plans to help him fight a bogus rape charge from Monica Zsibrita, who allegedly had a one-night stand with Rock at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1998.
An apparently stressed Rock tells the detective, "Once you’re accused of rape, you’re just f**ked, you know?" reports New York gossip column PageSix.com.
Pellicano responds, "That’s why I want to blacken this girl up, totally. I want to make her out to be a lying, scumbag, manipulative c**ksucker… stupid bitch." Rock agrees, telling the detective, "I’m f**ked. I’m better getting caught with needles in my arm, way better, needles, with pictures. There’s Chris Rock shooting heroin - much better blow to the career." During the call, Pellicano reads the portion of Zsbrita’s police report that said she saved his semen on a tissue and put it in her pocket. Rock then says, "I’ve been so set up.
"I know the night we went to (Los Angeles restaurant) The Ivy she had on white pants. I only noticed cause my wife’s real classy and subdued and I’m out with a girl with big t*ts and white pants." Pellicano asks, "Does your old lady know what’s going on?" Rock answers, "No. She thinks it’s over. Put it that way: She knows of it." Rock was separated from his wife, Malaak, at the time of the romance.
Zsibrita later dropper her lawsuit.
The comic is one of 127 potential defence witnesses who allegedly had their phones tapped or names illegally checked against police databases on Pellicano’s order.
The 63-year-old private investigator, who is representing himself in his trial, has pleaded not guilty to charges, including conspiracy and police bribery, in a 111-count indictment.

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Fists flew on the set of period film THE GOLDEN BOWL when THE QUEEN star MICHAEL SHEEN and fellow Brit JEREMY NORTHAM fell out over then-new mum KATE BECKINSALE. Protective Sheen, the father of Beckinsale’s daughter Lily, had dropped by the set of the 2000 film to visit his then-girlfriend and was taken aback when Northam started shouting at her. Sheen didn’t hold back and stepped up to defend upset Beckinsale - by thumping Northam.
Beckinsale recalls, "I was so mortified. I thought, ‘Now Michael’s going to jail, and I’m going to have to bake that cake and put the file in it.’" But the actress admits the warring men quickly patched up their differences.
She adds, "It all became very sort of British and gentlemanly between those two, with handshaking all round."

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The husband of murdered actress/director ADRIENNE SHELLY lost his composure in a New York court on Thursday (13Mar08) - telling his wife’s killer to "rot" in jail following his 25-year sentence.
Andy Ostroy couldn’t contain his fury as Ecuadorian construction worker Diego Pillco was jailed for strangling the Waitress filmmaker in November 2006 after she caught him trying to rob her apartment.
Appearing in Manhattan’s State Supreme Court, he ranted at Pillco, "You deserve no mercy. I want you to rot in that cell.
"For the last 499 days, I have been consumed by unfathomable grief. I will spend the rest of my days hating you with every fiber of my being for what you have done." In an emotional speech, Shelly’s mother Elaine Lang-Baum also spoke of the irreparable grief suffered by her family: "Now, I know sadness as I have never, ever known it before. You have taken her from us, and for that there can never be any forgiveness." She added Shelly’s own daughter, Sophie, who was just two-and-a-half years old when her mother was found dead, "will never again hold her mother’s hand, kiss her mother’s face, or feel her mother’s hug".
During his testimony, Pillco, 20, confessed to punching Shelly, knocking her unconscious. Thinking he had killed her, he then hung the 40-year-old to make her death look like a suicide.
The labourer, an illegal immigrant in the U.S., was renovating an apartment in the same West Village building where Shelly had an office. He said he panicked when Shelly discovered him stealing from her purse and threatened to call the police.
Pillco entered his guilty plea on charges of manslaughter in February (08) as part of a deal with prosecutors. Authorities decided to reduce the original charge of second degree murder to manslaughter after fearing he would be acquitted if he continued to claim Shelly’s death was a tragic accident.

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Oscar winner CHRIS COOPER hopes his new movie HURRICANE MARY gives belief to all parents of disabled kids - because it shows that doctors don’t always know best. Written by the Adaptation star’s wife Marianne Leone and based on the real-life battle of a mother who refused to listen to doctors, Cooper feels the film could be the feel-good movie of the year. And it’s a personal triumph for the actor and his wife. Their son, Jesse, died of causes related to his cerebral palsy battle in 2005. The twins in Leone’s movie battle the disease. Cooper says, "We met Mary (Somosa) through our mutual paediatrician and her twin daughters had varying degrees of cerebral palsy, as did my son (Jesse). "The film deals with the medical system, who we had to prove wrong. Early on we were told, ‘Your son’s cortically blind. Are you thinking about having another child?’ That suggested, ‘Get one that works’ to me. "It also deals with an educational system which doesn’t want to deal with children with disabilities… There are all sorts of tricks and I want to expose what the state of New York did to Mary Somosa and her family." The story has a very happy ending - Somosa’s disabled daughters are set to graduate from Georgetown University.
Cooper beams, "One of them is going to be a disabilities lawyer now. They are bilingual, with IQs of 130. "If Mary Somosa and my wife had taken to heart what the medical establishment thought was gonna be the outturn of these children then their potential would’ve been destroyed. "How many children live in a very aware mind trapped in a body, and are just dying to express themselves and they’ve been given this prediction that this child is of virtually no worth so why invest anything in it."

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