The New York Post ran a blind item last week detailing an actor on the brink: "Which actor is on hiatus due to a drug relapse? He claimed he needed time off because of the heartbreak of his public split, but he's actually headed to rehab."

A blog called Spielster put two and two together before Variety's announcement, as rumors had been floating around for a few days that the actor's involvement in Cartel and the gloomy-sounding Three Stooges was tenuous at best.

If he his having problems with his wife (and, really, when isn't he?) or doing too many drugs, now is a perfect time to lay low for a while. He's so awash in the Milky glow of the industry's respect that he really doesn't need to do anything right away to capitalize on a moment. No, people will wait around for him, as they have since Fast Times. Plus, the Three Stooges thing will likely be a disaster, so walking away could prove a wise decision.

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1. They already have a sex tape.And it's a cartoon! The two already played on-screen love interests in the Richard Linklater druggie film A Scanner Darkly, and though we barely had a clue which drugs Winona's character was on and when, we do recall a midnight seduction scene in which Keanu sleeps over. Sure, he has some kind of nightmare involving dead blondes in the bed, but all that matters is the fact that these two have no need to film their own inevitably released sex tape.
2. They can both fuck up as much as possible. Let's face it, each of them has made a lot of dumb moves in their lives and their careers. From the shoplifting scandal to Street Kings, they both know what it's like to be judged by others, so they probably won't pass untoward and unreasonable judgements on each other.
3. We really need a reason to go see their movie.As much as we adore Daniel Day-Lewis and his wife Rebecca Miller, her last directorial attempt came in the form of The Ballad Of Jack And Rose, a movie we wanted to love desperately but found ourselves sleeping through. She's currently directing Keanu and Winona in an adaptation of her novel The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee, starring Robin Wright Penn, essentially her acting equivalent in both talent and watchability.

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Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn are divorcing, their rep, Mara Buxbaum, confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

No other details were immediately available. The couple, who've been married 11 years, have two children together, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16.

Theirs was a love kindled under Hollywood limelight: While Robin had a bit part as Mall Patron #117 in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and was instantly smitten from afar with the tasty-wave epicure, it wasn't until her first big break, starring opposite Sean in Shanghai Surprise, that the slightly older and charismatic actor took notice of the fair beauty, whose acting skills weren't nearly as dreadful as he had been warned many, many, many times before shooting began. Their love grew on the set of The Princess Bride, where Penn's indelible characterization as Ennio "You murdered my father. Now I murder you, too." Motorola had an already-gaga Wright Penn giggling uncontrollably at his funny-accent antics. They were married soon after, an event that anticipated the coming tabloidization of our culture, with several dozen paparazzi-filled helicopters, submarines, and dirigibles invading the nuptials. (Penn famously hooked one of the whirlybirds with a 2000-foot grappling hook, singlehandedly pulled it to the ground, and proceeded to pummel the photographer piloting it beyond recognition.) The two were set to pair up again in the upcoming Harvey Milk biopic Milk, in which Wright Penn was far along in talks to play Sugar, the female sex-worker paramour the famed gay SF city councilman was secretly seeing on the side. What the sad dissolution of their marriage means for the future of Robin's involvement in the project is anyone's guess.

• Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn Divorcing [People]