Who says Sean Penn doesn’t like the press?
The Hollywood icon saved a stranded motorist – Variety’s red carpet maven Marc Malkin – after the Golden Globes pre-show host found himself stranded on the way back from the Palm Springs Film Festival over the weekend.
There was buzz at a Golden Globes pre-party Friday night that Malkin – who is co-hosting the awards’ official pre-show on Sunday – was driving back to Los Angeles from the starry Palm Springs, Calif., fest earlier in the day when his electric car unexpectedly ran out of juice.
Sources told that when Malkin managed to get his car towed to a charging station at an exit in Cabazon, Calif., “Marc looked to one side, and Sean Penn was charging his car – and he looked to his other side and saw Mara Buxbaum (Penn’s longtime publicist) charging her car.”
Penn, 63, had been in Palm Springs to introduce “Ferrari” star Penélope Cruz when she was honored with Variety’s Creative Impact in Acting Award at a Friday awards brunch.
Beloved reporter Malkin, who’s known for always being impeccably dressed, had worked the red carpet at the same event.
Another source told us of Penn and his PR guru, “All of a sudden, they saw a little flatbed tow truck with a car on it. They all forgot to charge overnight.”
But while Penn and Buxbaum juiced up their rides, Malkin’s whip would not charge, we hear.
A source said Malkin called the charging company and was told that his vehicle wouldn’t charge if the battery was totally dead – but Malkin realized he might be able to get some power if he moved the immobile car to another type of charger nearby.
That’s when Malkin went for broke and put his car in neutral, we hear, and hoped to maneuver it to the new charger.
“Mara came up to him and asked if he needed his car pushed,” said a source. “She said, ‘You need someone to push your car?’”
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