All posts containing the tag: "Fidel Castro"
Posted Oct 25th 2009 12:41PM by TMZ Staff
Sean Penn likes extremes ... he got a taste of Las Vegas Friday and Saturday and then took a flight to Cuba. The question -- is Sean gonna light one up with Fidel Castro?
We got these pictures of Sean and company boarding a private jet from Sin City bound for Havana yesterday.
We've learned Sean is going to the land of Fidel as a journalist, writing a story for Vanity Fair about how the Obama administration has affected Cuba.
Sean took Diana Jenkins along for the ride. Actually ... it's her plane ... she's married to the head honcho at Barclays bank.
Barclays sources say Sean and Diana are going to meet Castro -- presumably because that's what Diana told them. Sean's rep tells TMZ even though the meeting is possible, there is no appointment scheduled and no current plan to chew the fat with the dictator.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Photo Galleries, Exclusives
Tags: cuba, fidel castro, FidelCastro, havana, sean penn, SeanPenn
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 4:45AM by TMZ Staff
From the completely obvious file -- the comments Aubrey O'Day made about Hitler and Fidel Castro on "The Sean Hannity Show" Monday night immediately struck a chord with members of the Jewish community.
TMZ spoke with Rabbi Chaim Cunin of Chabad House who gave us the following statement:
"When a woman like her uses public airwaves, with access to millions of wonderful citizens of America, and calls some of the most despicable, unspeakable hate mongers of history brilliant, then something is lacking with her intelligence.
This is a constant reminder of how careful we need to be when we talk about hate, because hatred is always present. We need to make sure we are careful and that hatred doesn't rear it's ugly head.
'I'd like for her to think about some older Holocaust survivor having that comment beamed into their home while they are enjoying the freedom that this beautiful country provides and having to listen to her disgusting comments."
Filed under: Exclusives
Tags: aubrey oday, AubreyOday, fidel castro, FidelCastro, hitler, the sean hannity show, TheSeanHannityShow
Posted Sep 1st 2009 1:05PM by TMZ Staff
In an attempt to clear up the "Hitler and Castro are Brilliant" controversy -- Aubrey O'Day just issued the following statement to TMZ:
"Murderers and dictators generally are some of the smartest people out there - they just use their brain power for evil purposes.
I don't condone any of their evil behavior, but I was asked about their intellectual firepower... and in my opinion you can't have a low IQ and wreck [sic] that much havoc on the world.
What Hitler succeeded in doing, was deplorable... And I hope we never see such an abusive use of power again."
As for O'Day's claim that she met Castro in the past, Aubrey told us:
"I was a college student on a program called Semester at Sea, through that program chosen political science students attended a half day seminar of Fidel Castro and his thoughts on basically everything except Cuba's relationship with the US, lol. It was very interesting."
Filed under: Exclusives
Tags: Aubrey ODay, Fidel Castro, FidelCastro, Hitler, Sean Hannity, SeanHannity
