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April 3, 2006

The New Yorker cover for April 3, 2006

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profiles

Citizen Penn

John Lahr

John Lahr’s 2006 profile of Sean Penn. “He is warm but no hail-fellow, polite but without that come-hither thing. ‘You see me from ten feet away, everyone thinks I’m gonna bite or something,’ Penn says.”