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Danny Glover Says Hugo Boss Not Fashionable for This Year's Oscars

In a letter sent to dozens of Oscar nominees and others in the film industry set to attend Sunday's Academy Awards, actor Danny Glover called on his fellow Hollywood elite and asked them not to wear Hugo Boss to the event.

Glover, in collaboration with labor union Workers United, is asking Hollywood to take a stand on behalf of nearly 400 Hugo Boss manufacturing workers in Cleveland, Ohio, who are set to lose their jobs if the company is allowed to close its plant there.

He is also asking attendees to wear a pin they were sent showing solidarity with the workers.

The pin reads: "Keep the Hugo Boss Plant Open."

Attendees who were sent the letter and pin include George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Sean Penn, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Renner, and Matt Damon.

Writes Glover in the letter:

"Please tell the world you won't be wearing Hugo Boss on March 7." 

Click on the link below to read the entire letter: 

http://seiumaster.3cdn.net/1c589c4e974dfc5b24_z8m6bxuwn.pdf

Through ads on celebrity news websites and Google search ads, as well as a campaign via email, Facebook, and Twitter, Workers United is promoting an online petition asking fans to join Danny Glover in calling on Oscar attendees not to wear Hugo Boss. The signatures will be delivered to attendees before Sunday night.

To read the online petition, click below:

http://action.workersunitedunion.org/page/s/tellhollywood

High School Class That Inspired "Fast Times" Reunites

The San Diego high school class that inspired the 1982 film, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, returned for a reunion with differing opinions on the film's realism.

The cult classic, directed by Amy Heckerling, was based on a book written by Cameron Crowe while he was undercover as a member of the class of 1979 at San Diego's Clairemont High School.

Robin Weaver, a Clairemont grad on whom Phoebe Cates' character in the film was based, told the San Diego Times-Union she recently watched and discussed the movie with her son.

"I looked at the movie and I realized we were young and stupid. There was no way around it. It was the essence of adolescence."

Mark Kenway - who during high school belonged to the surfer crowd - who was portrayed most prominently in the film by Sean Penn's character, Spicoli, said the character may have been a bit too much of a caricature:

"We could relate, but it was a little exaggerated as far as the stoner parts." 

Exaggerations or no, Kenway said he could understand why many of his classmates have barred their children from seeing the movie:

"We don't want our children to know everything we did in high school."

Sean Penn's Son Hopper Arrested at School

Hopper Jack Penn, the son of actors Sean Penn and Robin Wright-Penn, was arrested at his Malibu high school last week by Los Angeles police. 

According to a report by RadarOnline, the younger Penn was taken into custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department.

So far, details of the arrest have been sketchy. 

Robin Wright Penn Files for Divorce

According to court documents, actress Robin Wright Penn has filed for divorce from her Oscar-winning husband, Sean Penn, in Marin County, California. 

The pair wed in 1996 and have two children, Dylan, 18 and Hopper, 16. 

The couple have certainly had their share of ups and downs and have filed for divorce twice before, but always managed to work things out and reconcile.  It doesn't look like that's going to happen this time around.

In her August 12 petition, Wright Penn says that she and Sean have already agreed to shared custody arrangements of their son, Hopper, and have already agreed to division of all property. Their 18-year-old daughter, Dylan, is scheduled to begin college soon.

Wright Penn recently told More magazine she and her husband had no plans to continue working on their marriage:

"I hit that crossroad a while ago. I know what I don't want."