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SOCIAL SECURITY'S ROBIN HOOD...
...understand my obscurity," he says, "unless you have infrared vision." Actually, Eddie, the flailing loser played by Sean Penn in the new lower-depths romance She's So Lovely, is as easy to read as the funny papers. He loves the mouthy Maureen (Penn's own wife Robin Wright Penn) and will do anything to keep her or get her back. Penn, though, is a more challenging read: Studs Lonigan, say, rewritten by Brando's tougher kid brother...
...most frighteningly talented pug--Oliver Stone calls Penn "the ultimate anti-all- American Boy"--yet he relishes the role of father. "Family," he says, "makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive." The perennial wild child also plays disciplinarian to his and Wright's son and daughter. "Robin is there for the battles," he explains. "I come in during the war settlements. Then there's no negotiations; I'm basically the atom bomb...
...script by the impresario of improv, directed by his son, should become a tight, slight, goofy romance. As the lovestruck Eddie, Sean Penn denounces his wife's perfume as "a good smell to cover up bad smell." John Travolta, as the second husband of Eddie's beloved Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks, and the mouth of a randier Damon Runyon...
...full 6.2% on every cent of their meager wages. And this is a merciless tax--no exemptions, no deductions, no credits. (One exception in the new tax bill: the working poor will get the $500-a-child credit. Big deal.) Taxing the poor to give to the rich throws Robin Hood into reverse...