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	Musician finds second act -- and Second Life - CNN.com
		So Penn, 48, was surprised when he received a call from Legacy, the archival arm of his former record companies, now merged into Sony/BMG.
		In one sense, it probably was to be expected that Penn would seek a career in the spotlight.
		Penn, you see, has an interest in skeptic Charles Fort and Fort's study of unexplained phenomena, a subject that infuses "Magnolia." "Fort's an old favorite writer of mine and I find him incredibly entertaining," Penn explains.
	www.cnn.com /2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/25/michael.penn (1034 words)

	Michael Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Penn (born August 1, 1958, in Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American singer and songwriter.
		He is the son of actor/director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, and the brother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.
		Penn met fellow singer-songwriter Aimee Mann in the late 1980s, and during the recording of her album I'm With Stupid (to which Penn contributed vocals), the two struck up a friendship, which blossomed into romance and their 1997 marriage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Penn (470 words)

	Michael Penn: MP4 ---Ink Blot Magazine
		In 1989, Michael Penn helped usher in the new decade with his refreshingly original debut album March, and he just might have helped change the standards for what we expect from popular music.
		Penn is less concerned with setting new standards than perfecting his current style, which is no small feat for a musician whose previous work elicits superlatives.
		Penn, as an artist and a man, appears to have lost all tolerance for subterfuge in his life-personal and professional.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Michael_Penn.htm (388 words)

	Michael Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Penn's father is a director and mother is an actress, Penn's brothers, Sean and Chris are also actors.
		Michael acted for awhile in a number of television shows (including St. Elsewhere) but his original love was with music.
		Penn is the newly named Producer of The Wallflowers upcoming third album.
	www.the-wallflowers.net /people_pennm.htm (238 words)

	Michael Penn - Biography - AOL Music
		In the early 1980s, Penn formed the group Doll Congress, which garnered a fervent local following but never expanded their fan base outside of Southern California; frustrated, for a time he even left music, following in the family tradition by appearing as an extra in a number of television series, including the classic St. Elsewhere.
		In 1987, Sean Penn hosted Saturday Night Live and brought Michael along as a musical guest; the performance revived his interest in music, and he soon reunited with ex-Doll Congress keyboardist Patrick Warren to begin composing the songs which comprised his 1989 debut, March.
		In the wake of his initial success, Penn went on a lengthy hiatus; when he returned in 1992 with his sophomore effort, Free For All, he met much greater commercial resistance than he faced with March, and after only a few weeks, the album fell off the charts.
	music.aol.com /artist/michael-penn/5126/biography (499 words)

	Michael Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Michael Penn is the son of director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan.
		In the 1980s, Michael Penn played a small part in an episode of the TV series "St. Elsewhere" but music was his forte.
		In the late 1990s, Michael Penn began collaborating with Paul Thomas Anderson scoring films for the young filmmaker including Boogie Nights.
	www.harrynilsson.com /about-michael-penn.html (140 words)

	Michael Penn
		Penn brings his bag of musical tricks with him, including strings, tambourine, choruses of harmony and a Chamberlain - a Mellotron-like keyboard which activates taped sounds of instruments like oboe and cello.
		Penn's clever lyrics recall Paul McCartney (if McCartney weren't so damned silly), and most of Penn's music is drenched in Beatleisms.
		Like his pal Charles Fort, Penn based his song on a newspaper article about an unexplained phenomenon: a woman found to have toxic yellow crystals in her blood caused an entire emergency room staff to collapse.
	www.citypaper.net /earshot/earshot.0997/zoom.penn.shtml (871 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - Critically acclaimed, commercially snubbed: Michael Penn tries again - April 25, 2000
		Penn, clearly, has some battle scars, just as his wife's well-documented skirmishes with the recording industry have left her bruised.
		Penn: The overwhelming theme is just where I am in my life and trying to sort through all the issues I find important.
		Penn: He met Aimee through me. We would all have discussions about all types of topics and he was starting to sort of get themes in his mind what the songs were going to be.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/25/michaelpenn/index.html (1273 words)

	Michael Penn MP3 Downloads - Michael Penn Music Downloads - Michael Penn Music Videos
		The oldest son of director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan, he was born August 1, 1958 in New York City's Greenwich Village area; within a year, the family relocated to Los Angeles, and there Penn's younger siblings Sean (later recognized among the...
		Michael Penn’s wife, Aimee Mann, released The Forgotten Arm earlier this year.
		Michael Penn has never quite matched the success of his debut album...
	www.mp3.com /Michael-Penn/artists/4401/summary.html (223 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes: Michael Penn Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Michael Penn is more than just another pretty face.
		Penn's able to let the nostalgia do the talking without interjecting modern politics and messages into the darkly uplifting track.
		History repeats itself more than we'll ever know, and Michael Penn seems to not only understand the principle, but grows from it.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/p/michael_penn.htm (414 words)

	hip online: artists: michael penn
		Penn's wife Aimee Mann and brother Christopher sang backing vocals, as did Grant Lee Phillips (Grant Lee Buffalo), Buddy Judge (the Grays) and "Lucky One" producer Brendan O'Brien (Rage Against The Machine, Penn's Resigned).
		New York City-born, Michael Penn was reared in a milieu of film and art: his mother Eileen Ryan a stage and screen actress, his father Leo a director fllisted during McCarthy's notorious Red Scare and an actor in such venerated pictures as William Wyler's The Best Years Of Our Lives.
		Michael began playing in a cover band as a teenager; by the mid 1980s, he'd joined up with Patrick Warren in the post-new wave group Doll Congress.
	www.hiponline.com /artist/music/p/penn_michael (768 words)

	Franklin & Marshall - Michael L. Penn, Ph.D.
		Dr. Michael L. Penn is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a licensed Clinical Psychologist at Franklin and Marshall College.
		In 2004 Professor Penn was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Administration by Governor Edward G. Rendell.
		Professor Penn was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 1986, is a former Ford Foundation Fellow, a former Aspin Institute Fellow, and is the recipient of several academic awards, including the John Russwarm Award for Scholarship from the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.fandm.edu /x5111.xml (433 words)

	Michael Penn: Mr. Hollywood, Jr. 1947 (2005): Reviews
		Happily, this structure is as mercifully loose as Penn's melodies are tight.
		Penn's precision in balancing melody, mood and texture throughout nicely counters the often-depressing subject matter.
		Michael Penn views the year 1947 as a turning point in modern history.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/pennmichael/mrhollywoodjr1947 (571 words)

	Michael Penn - Free For All
		Michael was born in Greenwich Village and moved to California when he was a year old.
		Someone at RCA heard the stuff and was ready to release it in demo form, certainly the ultimate compliment for an unknown songwriter.
		Instead, Penn chose to augment his bedroom demos with the help of Warren and Berg.
	home.gwi.net /~drrknrl/reviews/mpennffa.html (882 words)

	Pause Magazine - Music Review: Michael Penn "Resigned"
		(Michael Penn is the older brother of actors Chris and Sean Penn. He is very empathic about not riding on their coattails)
		It's 1997 and five years later, we see antoher Michael Penn album (some time was spent dealing with record companies and contracts).
		The rest of Penn's band is very tight, with producer O'Brien on bass and Dan McCarroll on drums (listening to the ballad "Out of My Hands" shows an intriguing mating of fuzzy bass and acoustic guitars).
	www.pause.com /music/reviews/mpenn-resigned/Default.htm (500 words)

	Jenna Bush and Michael Penn: Joined In the Curse of the More-Famous-Relative - Wonkette
		Apropos of nothing (much), I was at a Michael Penn concert at Iota a while back and Michael spent a good portion of the evening ripping on Bush during his show.
		After his show, Penn was told by the owner that Jenna was there (the Secret Service was surprisingly unobtrusive and unless you KNEW that was Jenna, you wouldn’t have noticed them) and he remarked that he had no idea and that she was an awfully good sport about it by staying.
		Michael Jackson = Kid Toucher Jenna should just be glad she has a semi-normal name and isn't getting felt up at Sunday dinner.
	www.wonkette.com /politics/jenna-bush/jenna-bush-and-michael-penn-joined-in-the-curse-of-the-morefamousrelative-169760.php (583 words)

	Mount Holyoke College :: Michael Penn
		Michael Penn is a specialist in biblical studies and the history of early Christianity.
		Before coming to Mount Holyoke, Penn was a postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University and taught religion at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, and Duke University.
		Penn's class offerings include courses in the Hebrew scripture and the New Testament and seminars such as What Didn't Make It into the Bible, Women and Early Christianity, and Sex and the Early Church.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/misc/profile/names/mpenn.shtml (289 words)

	Michael Penn - Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947: Silent Uproar
		Gotta give him all the credit, and I have to admit, he might just be my favorite Penn simply because no matter what happened in the interum, he hasn't changed his attitude - it's still all about the music.
		Penn's guitar playing is skilled and organic, and his vocals are both powerful and understatedly even.
		Penn even brings in the artistry of Aimee Mann on a few tracks to play bass.
	www.silentuproar.com /showreview.php?ID=1347&fromarchive=yes (350 words)

	Michael Penn: Mr. Hollywood, Jr. 1947 - PopMatters Music Review
		Like all of Michael Penn's records, it's delicately tailored and meticulously polished pop -- look closely and you may see your reflection in the sound waves.
		Penn bares his eager Macca tendencies here, buttering the reflective singer-songwriter fare with oodles of aching melody.
		Inspiration must run in the family, for Penn's wife Aimee Mann also released a concept album this year (The Forgotten Arm); however, where Mann sustained a stylish character arc over the course of her record, Penn allows everything to be swamped by the set-up.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/p/pennmichael-mrhollywood.shtml (675 words)

	Amazon.com: Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947: Music: Michael Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Instead Penn details his retro-L.A. landscape via the emotional states of his song cycle's rich cast of characters (which includes the bewildered returning vet of "Walter Reed" and the shadowy film-noir protagonist of "Room 715, The Apache"), a gambit that effectively bridges the decades: Their pensiveness and wistful anxiety seem all too contemporary.
		Hollywood Jr., 1947, Penn weaves historical, political and social events and themes into 12 meticulously crafted songs that tell a series of inter-connected stories of human relationships and romance set against the backdrop of post-World War II America.
		Fans of Michael Penn will likely be enthralled by his latest CD, as he continues his tradition of presenting the listener with thoughtful, intelligent lyrics supported by memorable pop hooks.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009WFFRM?v=glance (1864 words)

	Michael Penn - Mr Hollywood Jr 1947 - Mimeograph/Spinart - CD
		His ancestors, wordsmiths Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello, turned their attention to new sounds and ways to present their knowing, sometimes snarky, tales, but unlike the tantalizing title, this recording honestly has nothing to do with the year 1947, and the pretense that couches this presumed concept recording is completely unfounded.
		It is, nonetheless, Penn’s unmistakable songcraft that buoys as much as weighs down.
		But one gets the feeling Penn is holding back, like he sees the next phase looming in the distance but is hesitant to go there.
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/PennMichaelMrHollywoodCD.htm (492 words)

	MTV News - Free At Last, Michael Penn Attempts A Comeback With Mr. Hollywood Jr.
		NEW YORK — The message conveyed at Michael Penn's performance at Joe's Pub a few weeks back was simple: He's back, and he's got a new record.
		Penn's 1989 single "No Myth" ("What if I was Romeo in fl jeans?") propelled the singer/songwriter brother of more famous Hollywood siblings Sean and Chris into the top 20 and garnered him an MTV Video Music Award.
		Penn stayed busy behind the scenes through the late '90s and early '00s.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1501076/20050502/penn_michael.jhtml (934 words)

	Amazon.com: March: Music: Michael Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Michael Penn still delights years after the release of the original album.
		Apparently (and I don't know this for sure), Michael lived in the Los Angeles area when he wrote the songs (I don't know if he is still there or not), and the lyrics are littered with LA references (street names, LA history, etc).
		Lyrically, you know Penn is saying ~something~, and you have the feeling it's profound, but when the melody sucks you in and you start singing along, you find yourself saying, "What am I saying?".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RDCF?v=glance (1538 words)

	JR.com: Michael Penn - MP4 (Days Since A Lost Time Accident) in Music: Pop: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Penn's fourth album, recorded while he was working on film scores, finds the singer/songwriter building adding to his impressive canon of well-crafted pop nuggets.
		This time around, Penn sings of humanity's lack of progress (the Spectorian "Lucky One"), as well as relationships both unhealthy (the sweepingly grand "Beautiful") and dying (the Smithereens-flavored "Out of Its Misery").
		Not surprisingly, Penn also brings in the requisite L.A. pop ringers (Grant Lee Phillips, Mann) to create a record that successfully merges solid songwriting fundamentals to an equally entrancing compositional bed.
	www.jr.com /xs-michael-penn-mp4-in-music-pop--pi!3737617.html (367 words)

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	tickets.travelape.com /event-by-city/michael_penn/usa/ma/boston.html (202 words)

	NPR : Singer Michael Penn Travels to '1947'
		Michael Penn has written film scores in addition to his solo work.
		Penn's career has taken interesting twists and turns over the years, sometimes intersecting with the world of Hollywood.
		While his brothers Sean and Chris have pursued acting, Michael Penn has worked with director Paul Thomas Anderson, writing music for several of his movies, including Hard Eight and Boogie Nights.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4753476 (215 words)

	Acoustic Guitar Central: Michael Penn, Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947, page 1
		Michael Penn’s music has always seemed to spring from another time.
		Whereas his wife, Aimee Mann, used characters to steer her latest concept album, Penn roots his in a specific year, 1947, which served as the inspiration as he was writing the songs.
		Penn says, “The events set in motion that year were resonating for me more than ever.
	www.acousticguitar.com /article/155/155,6659,PLAYLIST-1.asp (408 words)

	Announcements
		In the meantime, check out these two updates from Michael himself -- one from June 14, 2004 and another much more recent one from October 26, 2004.
		Michael is also reportedly recording a second leg to his upcoming album, and an Acoustic Vaudeville CD may also be in the works.
		I will do my best to keep the site updated, especially when Michael's next album is released (later this year, hopefully).
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/tfl1/penn/announcements.html (844 words)

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