The Less Surly Penn

Let's clean up some old news stories, finally. Chris Penn died this week. Who? Sean Penn's brother (or is Sean his brother?), who played Nice Guy Eddie in Reservoir Dogs. First Mr. Blue, now him. It's a sad day for Hollywood, or at least it was a couple of days ago when he died. I'd like to take this opportunity to made a snide comment about Sean Penn, but it doesn't seem right.

There will be no homicide investigation, and the coroner said it was a "natural death." The cause of death is unknown at this point. Which begs the question, "How do they know it was natural?" In any case, this will make a top-notch episode of The Investigators when they eventually figure out how he was killed. Or how he died. Maybe I've been watching too much Court TV -- I automatically assume foul play, even when the coroner says there was none.