They probably get plenty of poison Penn letters

SEAN PENN DOESN’T MIND being mocked in the marionette-packed, politically tinged comedy “Team America: World Police,” which hits theaters Friday. But he’s not too pleased with comments the filmmakers, “South Park” masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone, recently made to Rolling Stone magazine.

They reportedly were “howling with laughter” over a letter they received from Penn in response to Stone’s remark that “if you don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no shame in not voting.”

“I never mind being of service, in satire and silliness,” Penn wrote. “I do mind when anybody who doesn’t have a child, doesn’t have a child at war, or isn’t or won’t be in harm’s way themselves, is encouraging that there’s ‘no shame in not voting if you don’t know what you’re talking about.’

“It’s all well to joke about me or whomever you choose. Not so well to encourage irresponsibility that will ultimately lead to the disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation and death of innocent people throughout the world. The vote matters to them. No one’s ignorance, including a couple of hip cross-dressers,’ is an excuse.”

A fitting tribute to Yankee Christopher

A computer-animated film Christopher Reeve was directing at the time of his death will continue.

“Yankee Irving” follows the story of a boy who overcomes personal obstacles to realize his large dreams.

IDT Entertainment had set up two large computer screens in Reeve’s rural New York home so the actor-director, who was paralyzed in a 1995 horse-riding accident, could monitor work being done in IDT studios in Newark, as well as in Canada and Israel.

Oh, the one with the kidney donation

Matthew Perry is coming back to NBC, but he won’t be visiting his friend “Joey.”

Instead, he’ll both direct and guest star in the Nov. 23 episode of the medical comedy “Scrubs,” as a man planning to donate a kidney to his father (played by Perry’s real-life dad, John Bennett Perry).

Maybe he was just passion by

A 34-year-old drifter barred from contact with actor-director Mel Gibson was arrested again after violating the restraining order.

Zack Sinclair, who repeatedly went to the “Passion of the Christ” director’s estate and asking to pray with him, was arrested again Oct. 7, one day after a judge ordered him to stay away from Gibson and his family.

We’ll wait for the paperback

Forget “Mommie Dearest” – when it comes to Hollywood tell-alls, it looks as if Tatum O’Neal‘s new “A Paper Life” might be the new classic.

O’Neal, 40, who won an Oscar at age 10 for “Paper Moon,” says father Ryan O’Neal was so jealous he “slugged” her.

She also details her early forays into sex and drugs (including “an opium-fueled orgy” when she was 12), her tempestuous marriage to tennis star John McEnroe, and her heroin addiction and subsequent recovery.

Quoteworthy

Jake Gyllenhaal, on getting out the vote: “Voter registration forms need to be places where young people are going to see them. Pornography and cigarettes and condoms – places where they can’t miss them. Things young people actually buy.”

The birthday bunch

Actor Roger Moore is 77. Singer Cliff Richard is 64. Singer Justin Hayward (the Moody Blues) is 58. Actor Greg Evigan (“My Two Dads,” “B.J. and the Bear”) is 51. Singer Thomas Dolby is 46. Actor Jon Seda (“Homicide: Life on the Street”) is 34. Country singer Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) is 30. Singer Usher is 26.