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Aaron Eckhart Spills Dark Secret of Two-Face's Fate Fred Topel
Thu Sep 4, 7:37 AM ET



Los Angeles (E! Online) - Aaron Eckhart has had a good summer. He can
take credit for some of The Dark Knight's awesomeness, with his
Harvey Dent/Two-Face baddie getting almost as freaky as Heath
Ledger's Joker. But $500 million later, we have to ask him: Two-Face
could survive that deadly fall at the construction site, right?

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"No," Eckhart told E! News at the junket for Towelhead yesterday. "He
is dead as a doornail. He ain't comin' back, baby. No."

The fans want him back, and the actor wants to come back, but
ultimately director Christopher Nolan is the bad parent.

"I asked Chris that question. He goes, 'You're dead.' Before I could
even get the question out of my mouth, 'Hey Chris, am I...' 'You're
dead.' "

But death has never been a problem for comic book characters! "I'm
not coming back," he said. "Unfortunately, Heath was supposed to go
along."

Eckhart knows, too, that there are plenty of Batvillains waiting for
spots in the sequels. He's even jealous about one rumor. "I heard
Angelina Jolie was going to be Catwoman," he said. "I thought that
was a great idea. I'd like to be in that one."

Oh, but sorry. Didn't you hear? You're dead.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080904/en_top_eo/27196

Meet Vivienne & Knox Jolie-Pitt
Originally posted Sunday August 03, 2008 07:00 PM EDT

They are just 3 weeks old, but twins Knox Léon and Vivienne
Marcheline are about to take the world by storm.

In an exclusive interview and photos, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
offer PEOPLE an intimate look at their growing family.

"It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time,"
Jolie tells PEOPLE of daily life at the Château Miraval in Provence,
France, where the couple's four older children – Maddox, 6, Pax, 4,
Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2 – have been enjoying a summer of outdoor
play (hide-and-seek is a favorite) on the château's sprawling grounds.

Adds Pitt: "[It's] still a cuckoo's nest."

Fortunately, they already have some household helpers. "[Shiloh] and
Z pick out [the twins'] clothes and help change and hold them," says
Jolie. "It's sweet – they are little mommies."

For the complete story, including 19 pages of intimate family photos
and the full interview with Brad and Angelina, pick up this week's
issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Monday
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20216352,00.html

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Jolie and twins slip out of hospital in Nice By JENNY BARCHFIELD,
Associated Press Writer
Sat Jul 19, 8:55 AM ET



PARIS (AP) — Angelina Jolie has left the building. Oh, and so have
the twins. Before dawn Saturday, the Hollywood superstar and her
newborn twins left the French Riviera hospital where she gave birth a
week ago, the hospital said in a statement.

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"The mother and her babies are doing very well," reported the
Fondation Lenval hospital, located in the southern Mediterranean city
of Nice.

Jolie slipped out at 4 a.m. Saturday with the twins, Knox Leon and
Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, deftly evading most of the paparazzi
who have followed the family for months in southern France, ever
since Jolie arrived for the Cannes film festival in May. It was not
immediately clear if the twins' father, actor Brad Pitt, was with
them.

AP Television cameras outside the hospital filmed a large white van
with tinted windows leaving one of the hospital's back entrances at
that time. No other vehicles left the hospital for the next several
hours.

Jolie, 33, checked into the hospital on July 2 and delivered the
babies by Cesarian section ten days later. Knox Leon weighed 5.03
pounds and the Vivienne Marcheline 5 pounds.

Jolie's obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, told reporters after the
birth that the 44-year-old Pitt was at Jolie's side during the
delivery, which he said had been pushed up from its originally
planned date "for medical reasons" so the babies could be born "in
the best conditions."

The Jolie-Pitt clan had rented four rooms on the fifth floor of the
maternity ward of the Lenval hospital, appropriately located on
Nice's beach-front California Avenue. The hospital had treated the
mirrored blue windows of Jolie's room, which looked out the
Mediterranean, with a special material that blocked telephoto lenses
from peering in.

Jolie managed to check into the hospital unobserved, reportedly
arriving by helicopter on the hospital's rooftop helipad. That fueled
rumors she would also leave the clinic by helicopter,

In its statement, the Fondation Lenval thanked the Jolie-Pitts for
choosing its hospital. It also thanked the hospital staff "for the
attention and care they paid to the family" and the "journalists
around the hospital who did their best to respect their privacy."

The Nice-Matin newspaper has reported that an unnamed U.S.
publication has paid $11 million for exclusive rights to the first
photos of the Jolie-Pitt twins and that the proceeds will go to
charity.

Jolie and Pitt have four other children — Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara,
3; and Shiloh, 2. Before Jolie checked into the hospital in Nice, the
family set up a household in Correns, 60 miles away.

Jolie's latest film, the thriller "Wanted" with James McAvoy, has
racked up $112 million in its first three weeks in the United States.
The action flick — about a secret society of assassins stars Jolie as
a gun-toting sexpot — opened last week in France.

The new mother also stars in director Clint Eastwood's "Changeling,"
a 1930s-era drama about a kidnapping that premiered at Cannes this
year. Jolie also did voiceovers for the animated comedy "Kung Fu
Panda," which has brought in over $200 million this summer in U.S.
ticket sales alone.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_en_mo/france_jolie

Angie Delivers! Two More Jolie-Pitts Are Born
Today 7:15 AM PDT by Natalie Finn


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  Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's latest joint dropped ahead of
schedule.

The supercouple welcomed a son and a daughter Saturday evening at the
seaside Fondation Lenval in Nice, the actress' obstetrician tells E!
News.

Twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline were delivered via Cesarian
section about 6 p.m. local time.

"Brad and Angelina are extremely happy and everything went
perfectly," Dr. Michel Sussmann tells E! News. "Both of the babies
are adorable and in excellent health and everyone's content and
getting some much deserved rest.

"[Brad, Angelina and the twins] are all tired but very, very happy."

Knox arrived first and weighed 5.03 pounds, per Sussmann; Vivienne
followed at 5 pounds.

Pitt was on hand to witness the womb exodus, which took place earlier
than expected (conventional wisdom had the C-section taking place
this Tuesday). Sussmann told the Associated Press the procedure was
pushed up "for medical reasons," but declined to elaborate.

Jolie should be allowed to leave within a few days.

There's been no official comment from the couple's camp.

The Oscar-winning actress checked into her $500-per-night private
room-with-a-view nearly two weeks ago for some prescheduled R&R.

So, the world stood by, as Jolie grew increasingly uncomfortable
behind windows coated with paparazzi-blocking insulation and an Angie
impostor happily modeled her expansive tummy through the window of
her own room for the looky-loos down below.

"Any pictures released are either posed fakes set up by paparazzi,
or, they are pictures of other patients," the hospital said in a
statement Wednesday. "We hope this is clearly understood out of
respect for all patients in this clinic."

Well, this clinic wasn't caring for just any patient—as far as the
media were concerned, at least.

An international cordon of shutterbugs dutifully chronicled hospital
visits from Pitt and their kids and Jolie's brother, James Haven, and
waited for word of that inevitable first contraction, even after
Sussmann announced that she might not deliver until mid-July.

The actual arrival comes weeks after it was erroneously reported that
Jolie and Pitt had welcomed twin girls, Isla Marcheline and Amélie
Jane, named in honor of the A-listers' own parents (Jolie's late
mother was named Marcheline; Pitt's is Jane).

Earlier Saturday, reports surfaced indicating Jolie had given birth
to twin girls, but a hospital spokeswoman said the stories had "wrong
information."

Meanwhile, the ever-expanding clan—which, along with the newest
additions, includes Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2—have
been hunkered down for the past couple months at their 1,000-acre
chateau in the south of France. The other children, who have been
under the care of Haven and an army of nannies, are expected to meet
their new siblings on Sunday.

And judging by the 32-year-old mother of six's take on pregnancy,
Knox and Vivienne may not be the last Jolie-Pitt progeny to be
welcomed to the fold.

"I love it," a pre-popped Jolie said in the July issue of Vanity Fair
of being pregnant. "It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel
that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason.

"It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside
you is amazing."

And two lives, while no doubt taxing, was even better for Jolie,
thanks in large part to her 44-year-old better half.

"I'm fortunate," she said of partner Pitt. "I think some women have a
different experience depending on their partner. I think that affects
it. I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy. So
that makes me feel very sexy."

Let the countdown for No. 7 begin.

(Originally published July 12, 2007 at 11:35 p.m. PT.)
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Doctor: Angelina Jolie gives birth to twins By JOHN LEICESTER,
Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 51 minutes ago



PARIS (AP) — The Brangelina twins are here: Angelina Jolie has given
birth to a girl and a boy.

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The obstetrician who delivered the twins, Dr. Michel Sussmann, told
The Associated Press that the actress, the babies and Jolie's
partner, Brad Pitt, "are doing marvelously well."

Sussmann said Jolie gave birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl,
Vivienne Marcheline, by Caesarean section on Saturday night.

He told the AP on Sunday morning that the boy weighed just over 5
pounds and the girl 5 pounds. The 33-year-old actress gave birth at
around 8 p.m. on Saturday night, the doctor told the AP by telephone.

Pitt was there during the operation, said the doctor, who delivered
the twins at the seaside Lenval hospital in Nice in southern France.

"Everything is going well," said Sussmann. "The mother, the babies,
the father are doing marvelously well."

He said the Caesarean was moved forward from its originally planned
date "for medical reasons" so that the babies could be born "in the
best conditions." Sussman did not give details.

He said Jolie is expected to stay in the hospital for a few more
days. The doctor said he believed the baby girl's middle name was
chosen in honor of Jolie's mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who
died in January 2007 after a 7 1/2-year battle with cancer.

Jolie and Pitt already have four children: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara,
3, and Shiloh, 2.

Jolie had checked into the hospital late last month to rest and be
monitored by her doctor before the birth.

Before that, she, Pitt and their children had moved into a large
estate, Miraval, in the French hamlet of Correns, which is just a
short helicopter ride from the hospital. Correns is about 60 miles
from Nice, a resort on the Mediterranean.

Though the lenses of the world's paparazzi had been trained on
maternity wards across the French Riviera, Jolie managed to slip
unobserved into the clinic, which has magnificent views of the
Mediterranean, reportedly arriving by helicopter on the hospital's
rooftop helipad.

Pitt was seen coming and going after Jolie's hospitalization became
public.

The first photos of the new twins are expected to fetch millions of
dollars.

Paparazzi gathered outside the hospital in Nice on Sunday morning,
hoping for a shot of Pitt.

Local newspaper Nice Matin, which first broke news of the birth,
reported Sunday that the couple have sold rights for the first photo
of their newly enlarged family to a U.S. publication, which it did
not name, and that the proceeds would go to charity.

The newspaper gave no source for that information. But the doctor
told the AP the couple decided to announce the birth to Nice Matin
first because of its links to Nice. The newspaper called the
twins "the most famous babies in the world."

Earlier this week, the hospital said it had coated the windows of
Jolie's room with a special material to prevent paparazzi from taking
unauthorized pictures of the star couple.

The hospital said photos in magazines and on the Internet which
purported to show Jolie and Pitt in their room were fake, either
manipulated or showing other patients at the hospital.

Tourists and residents of Nice, a popular resort, welcomed news of
the birth. The city's mayor, Christian Estrosi, had previously told
the AP that the twins will always be considered honorary citizens of
the city, regardless of whether they opt to obtain French
citizenship.

Estrosi said it was a "very great honor" for Nice that the Hollywood
couple chose to give birth there.
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Doctor: Brangelina twins could be weeks away 1 minute ago



NICE, France - Angelina Jolie's doctor says her twins may take a few
more weeks to arrive.


Dr. Michael Sussmann says the 33-year-old actress, who is in a
hospital on the French Riviera, is doing fine.

Asked when Jolie is expected to have her twins, Sussmann replied, "I
can't give you a date. Let's say the birth will happen in the weeks
to come."

Sussmann says Jolie checked into the hospital for observation, not
because of any medical emergency.

"Her hospitalization at this stage in her pregnancy is totally normal
for a patient who had a Caesarean during her first pregnancy,"
Sussmann told a news conference Wednesday. "She is very well and she
is OK."

Sussmann wouldn't reveal the sex of the babies.
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Angelina Jolie's obstetrician to give report By COLLEEN BARRY,
Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 45 minutes ago



NICE, France - Fabulous views of the shimmering Mediterranean, tufty
palm trees, all bathed in a July sun. In short, a royal place for
Brangelina's twins to make their much-awaited entrance.

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Angelina Jolie's obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, who is watching
over the 33-year-old actress at a French Riviera hospital where she
is expected to give birth, called a news conference for later
Wednesday afternoon.

Would he announce that her twins had been born? That remained a
mystery; the hospital wouldn't say.

Jolie's partner, Brad Pitt, was seen leaving the seafront Lenval
hospital Wednesday morning with one of their four young children.

The hospital announced Tuesday that Jolie had checked into its Santa
Maria maternity clinic to be kept under doctors' watch and rest
before she gives birth.

A hospital spokeswoman said the births were "not for right away," but
spokeswoman Nadine Bauer said Jolie would almost certainly stay in
the clinic until then.

Nice Matin, the local newspaper, reported that Jolie has the best
room in the hospital, on the fifth floor, with an "unobstructed view"
over the Bay of Angels. It said she arrived by helicopter, landing
Sunday afternoon on the hospital's roof. The newspaper said the
actress reserved four rooms on the maternity ward, with a bodyguard
keeping watch.

The Lenval hospital, a boxy-looking building with a white exterior,
mirrored blue windows and set among palm trees, looks out over the
sea.

The Brangelina clan has been settling into a new home in the south of
France, in Correns, about 60 miles from Nice. The town's mayor
confirmed that the couple had moved into the Miraval Estate villa,
and a helicopter has been spotted taking off and landing from there.

___

Associated Press Writer John Leicester in Paris contributed to this
report.
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Jolie goes into French hospital for birth of twins By JOHN LEICESTER,
Associated Press Writer
49 minutes ago



PARIS - Brangelina's twins aren't here yet, but the big day is
drawing closer. The seafront Lenval hospital in Nice in the south of
France said Tuesday that Angelina Jolie had checked in at its Santa
Maria maternity clinic to be kept under doctors' surveillance and get
some rest before she gives birth.

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"There's no urgency. It's been planned for a long time," said Nadine
Bauer, a hospital spokeswoman. "She's very well. Everything is fine."

"She is not on the verge of giving birth, not at all," she
said. "It's not for right away."

The 33-year-old actress will almost certainly remain in the hospital
until she gives birth, Bauer said. She said Jolie was admitted
recently but would not say exactly when.

Jolie has said the babies are due in August, but twins are often born
early. She and her partner, Brad Pitt, have four children: Maddox, 6;
Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.

The Brangelina clan has been settling into a new home in the south of
France. They recently moved into the Miraval Estate villa in the
French hamlet of Correns, in the Provence region. The town's mayor
has said the couple have moved in, and a helicopter has been spotted
taking off and landing at the site.

Correns is about 60 miles from Nice, a resort on the Mediterranean.
Bauer said the hospital faces the sea, is "very modern" and
specializes in caring for children.

The hospital is named after Baron de Lenval, who in 1884 donated part
of his fortune to start the facility, in memory of his only son, who
died in Nice at age 11, the hospital's Web site says. It says the
hospital was rebuilt in the 1990s. Photos show a boxy-looking
building with a white exterior and mirrored blue windows set among
palm trees.

The hospital's address is fitting for the American couple: It's on
Nice's California Avenue.
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Check out an exclusive action sequence from 'Wanted'! Starring Angelina
Jolie!
Jun 13, 2008, 12:01 AM | by Simon Vozick-Levinson

Categories: An EW Exclusive!, Film

Common has always struck me as an easygoing kind of guy, so it
definitely threw me for a loop to see him putting a gun to a cubicle
worker's head last week. Then I remembered that Common is a talented
actor as well as a dope rapper, and that I was watching him in a
trailer for the movie Wanted. Moving on! All the gravity-defying
assassin action in that trailer got me looking forward to Wanted's June
27 premiere. In the meantime, here's another little taste you'll find
only at EW.com: An excerpt of a chase sequence involving James McAvoy
and Thomas Kretschmann on a hurtling train, Angelina Jolie in a car
nearby, and the spectacular collision that ensues. (Though sadly for
me, there's no Common in this scene.) Check it out below, and weigh in —
  how psyched are you for Wanted?
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Jack Black breaks the news: Jolie expecting twins 48 minutes ago



LOS ANGELES - Angelina Jolie is indeed expecting twins, and it was
Jack Black who let the news slip with a "Brady Bunch" crack. Long
rumored to have two children by Brad Pitt on the way, Jolie confirmed
the news during a side-by-side "Today" show interview with Black,
her "Kung Fu Panda" co-star. The two are in Cannes, France, promoting
the animated film.

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The twins will be the 5th and 6th children for Jolie and Pitt. She
didn't volunteer the information until Black dropped the hint, joking
that the couple will "have as many as (the) 'Brady Bunch' when you
have these."

"It's confirmed?" followed "Today" interviewer Natalie Morales.

"Yeah, yeah, we've confirmed that already," Jolie said. "Well, Jack's
just confirmed it actually."

"Is that true?", Black said jokingly.

"Yeah, you did," Jolie replied.

"Sorry," Black said.

Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on "Access Hollywood,"
with the full interview airing Thursday on NBC's "Today."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_en_ce/people_jolie_pitt_twins

Hellomagazine.ca readers declared Angelina the most stylish mother of
2008 in a special online reader poll!
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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take part in this if you can, it is tomorrow. Regardless
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This Saturday, March 29th, 8 P.M. - 9 P.M. take action against climate change.
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Report: Angelina Jolie is pregnant

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at the 2008 Film Independent's
Spirit Awards.


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(AP) — Angelina Jolie isn't just looking pregnant these days — she
really is.
The actress created a stir at Saturday night's Spirit Awards when she
showed up with partner Brad Pitt on her arm and a noticeably pregnant
belly beneath her waist.


SPIRIT:'Juno' wins indie Spirit top honor

Jolie ignored reporters' questions on the awards show carpet, but
People magazine reported on its website that a source close to the
couple has confirmed that she and Pitt are "thrilled to be adding to
their brood."

Pitt's publicist, Cindy Guagenti, declined comment to The Associated
Press.


Jolie and Pitt are parents of a 1-year-old daughter, Shiloh, and
three children adopted from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam. Their
adopted children are Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; and Zahara, 3.

Jolie's appearance helped give a theme to Saturday's Spirit Awards,
where the big winner was the teen pregnancy comedy Juno, taking
awards for best independent film, best actress for Ellen Page and
best first screenplay for Diablo Cody.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-02-24-jolie-report_N.htm?
csp=34

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(November 13, 2007, Burbank, CA)  Warner Bros. Records will release the BEOWULF
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on November 20, 2007.  The soundtrack CD
features original music composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri (Night at the
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Idina Menzel and the film's Robin Wright Penn.

Groundbreaking director Robert Zemeckis offers a unique vision of the Beowulf
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first worked together on 1983's Romancing the Stone.  One of the most productive
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the most beloved films and soundtracks during that time, including the Back to
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Castaway.

Actress Robin Wright Penn performs two songs on the CD, "A Hero Comes Home" and
"Gently As She Goes".  Tony Award® Winner Idina Menzel (Wicked) also performs
the track "A Hero Comes Home", which was composed by Silvestri and Glen Ballard.
Her forthcoming album "I Stand", produced by Ballard, will be in stores January
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Beowulf stars Ray Winstone in the title role, Anthony Hopkins as the corrupt
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Gleeson, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother. 
Neil Gaiman (Mirrormask, the Sandman graphic novels), and Academy Award®-winning
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Paramount Pictures, in association with Shangri-La Entertainment, an ImageMovers
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Tabloids Line 'Em Up, Brangelina Knocks 'Em Down
by Gina Serpe
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:50:00 AM PDT
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It's no wonder Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have maintained such a
low profile of late, what with a wedding to plan, a child to keep
from his birth mom, a kidnap plot to thwart and an eating disorder to
foster.

That is, if the influx of tabloid reports surrounding the Hollywood
couple are to be believed.

As it happens, absence may make the heart grow fonder, but it also
seems to make the tabloid coverage grow even more implausible—and
makes the PR rep earn her keep in denials.

At the top of Pitt spokeswoman Cindy Guagenti's debunking list is the
report that the Mr. and Mrs. Smith costars are planning on becoming
Mr. and Mrs. Pitt in the very near future.

The rumor got started when the wordsmiths over at Britain's OK!
magazine took it upon themselves to announce that the twosome would
tie the knot in an intimate ceremony in the Dominican Republic over
the Easter holiday, with the publication claiming that Jolie fell in
love with the area last year while filming The Good Shepherd on
location.

Never mind that the once-divorced Pitt made the widely publicized
announcement to Esquire last fall that he and the twice-divorced
Jolie would only consider retying the knot once "everyone else in the
country who wants to be married is legally able."

But despite Pitt's equal opportunity stance, and the lack of progress
made in civil unions in the past few months, the report gained more
traction this week, when George Nader, an art dealer and promoter who
helped Pitt troll the tropical island for property last year, spoke
out, seemingly corroborating the rumor.

"[Pitt] asked me by email if I could investigate marriage laws for
foreigners—but just that," he told the Associated Press. "He didn't
tell me they are coming to marry or when they would do it."

The couple did tell Guagenti, apparently: never. The rep has
vehemently denied that any such vow swap is in the works.

Which, sadly, denies the tabloids a stab at an Incredible Shrinking
Bride story.

Luckily, Jolie's own brother beat them to the punch.

James Haven recently got up close and very personal with Britain's
Mail on Sunday, telling the paper that his sister has become
startlingly skinny in recent months not because of an eating
disorder, as has been alleged, but because she is still grieving the
January death of their mother, Marcheline Bertrand.

"Angie has become very thing because she's grieving," he said. "It's
even difficult for her to eat. I keep saying to her, 'Don't forget to
eat.'"

"But you know, she doesn't pay much attention to food anyway and
she's been going through a process of grief like me. She has not
wanted to eat, nor has she been able to."

What she has been able to do, according to the ever-reliable Life &
Style, is thwart a $100 million kidnap plot. Not too shabby for
someone working on a limited caloric intake.

According to the checkout counter staple, Jolie's newly adopted
Vietnamese son Pax was the target of a "credible" and "meticulously
planned" plot to kidnap the three-year-old once he touched down in
the states.
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Brangelina Talk Babies, Benevolence

by Gina Serpe

Most couples keep their baby talk within the confines of their own
home. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie—who, needless to say, are not like
most couples—prefer to take their baby talk to the nearest national
publication.

The matriarch of the now four-strong Jolie-Pitt brood has spoken out
yet again on the joys of mothering both biological and adoptive
blobs, saying she and Pitt have yet to put the finishing touches on
their ever-expanding family.

"Yeah, yeah," she told Reader's Digest on the prospect of increasing
the world's share of Jolie-Pitts. "More biological, more adopted."

Expanding the family on both those fronts was a prospect that, pre-
Pitt, Jolie says she never would have contemplated.

"Before I met Brad, I always said I was happy never to have a child
biologically. He told me he hadn't given up that thought. Then, a few
months after Z came home, I saw Brad with her and Mad, and I realized
how much he loved them, that a biological child would not in any way
be a threat. So I said, 'I want to try.' "

Viewing a new addition as a threat is something Jolie said she is
acutely aware of, particularly in terms of sibling rivalry amid her
brood. When the 31-year-old brought home the family's newest
addition, three-year-old Pax, earlier this year, she said the
transition, while not exactly seamless, was natural.

"We had a long talk with Mad about the fact that his brother is going
to be scared and that Mommy is going to have to give him attention.
And we've tried to figure out a lot of private time for each of them.
When everybody goes to bed, we give Mad time. When everybody is at
school, we give Shiloh time. In between, Z and Pax each get special
time."

As for Pax, the mother of four said his first two days in her custody
were filled with tears and translators, but that both eventually
eased.

"The first night, I slept alone with him. I was expecting him to wake
up and scream, but he woke and just stared at me. I handed him a
stuffed animal, and we walked around the room pointing at things. By
day three, he didn't want me to put him down. I think he got used to
the reality that somebody loves you and that's what a mommy is."

As for what a daddy is, the Oscar winning thesp said that Pitt is "a
strong father with the boys" and gives Zahara "pretty much anything
she wants."

"Everybody seems to be safe in his arms. He makes everybody laugh. He
helps everybody."

And even though production on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
prevented the 43-year-old from accompanying Jolie to Vietnam to pick
up Pax, she told the magazine that the twosome "got together very
quickly."

"I think Pax, after seeing how much Zahara and Mad and Shi love Brad,
understands that he's his daddy."

As for the whens and wheres of the duo's next addition, Jolie isn't
talking, though if history is any indication, it's likely Africa will
be their next adoption destination.

Jolie copped to the fact that zeroing in on Vietnam as a location was
definitely influenced by her desire for Maddox, 5, to share both a
cultural and physical identity with someone in the house.

"Something changed for me with Shiloh," she told the magazine. "We
had Mad and Z, and neither looked like Mommy or Daddy. Then suddenly
somebody in the house looked like Mommy and Daddy. It became clear to
us that it might be important to have somebody around who is similar
to the other children so they have a connection. Mad's been very
excited that his brother is from Asia."

However, Jolie said that her growing family does come with one
fallback: less private time with Pitt.

"We hang out. We try to talk over the swing set. We'll have a date
night once everybody is settled," she said.

A date night that's far away from the glitz and glamour—and prying
eyes—of Hollywood, no doubt.

Jolie took time out from waxing maternal to discuss some of the
decidedly less glamorous aspects of life in the public eye, including
the omnipresent rumors that there's trouble in paradise for her and
Pitt.

"Our first question is what paper is it in. The New York Times? If
not, do we really need to worry?"

As for one story about Jolie that did make it into the Times, her
perceived and much gossiped about frosty reception to E! News anchor
Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet at the Golden Globes this year, Jolie
says it was nothing personal—that is, nothing personal against
Seacrest.

"That was when my mother was about to die," she said in explanation
of her so-deemed dour behavior at the awards show. "We are people who
want a good newspaper and television report, so when it lies about
us, it makes us wonder what else are they not double-checking."

As it is, the first family of global do-gooding is doing their best
to fill the papers with positive reports.

While the family is currently holed up in Prague where Jolie is
filming her new action movie, Wanted, they are nonetheless reaching
across the globe with their philanthropic efforts.

Thursday marked the New Orleans ground breaking of Pitt's partnership
with Global Green USA to build environmentally sustainable and
otherwise eco-friendly housing for families rendered homeless by
Hurricane Katrina.

Though Pitt missed the opening, he issued a statement saying he
was "crying out for one of our leaders to really make this a
priority."

The twosome also announced this week that they would be donating $1
million from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation to a trio of humanitarian
groups assisting the crisis in Darfur, including the United Nations
Refugee Agency, the International Rescue Committee and SOS Children's
Villages.

Pitt's costars are also getting in on the benevolent action, with
George Clooney, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle all partnering with the
International Rescue Committee and the Website
www.notonourwatchgroup.com to raise funds to aid the Darfur conflict
by hosting several charity screenings of Ocean's Thirteen across the
country next month.
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Angelina Going Off the Grid
by Gina Serpe
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Tabloid editors may be going through serious withdrawal for the next
12 months.

Angelina Jolie has announced plans to take a year off from acting
duties and lay low with her ever-burgeoning family, once she wraps
production on a handful of projects.

"I'm working this summer. I'm in Prague for a few months, then I take
two months off, then I work for two months," she told reporters at
the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday. "And then I take a year off."

"We're getting work out of the way at the moment."

The 31-year-old Oscar winner failed to reveal whether her use of the
word "we" meant that partner Brad Pitt would be joining her in the
temporary unemployment line, though it's not likely. The actor has
five projects in the works.

As for Jolie, the time off announcement is hardly a surprise—just
slightly delayed.

Back in March, the mother of four announced that she would not be
taking on any more projects in the immediate future to focus her
newest addition, son Pax. However, just a week after making the
announcement, Jolie signed on to star in the action flick Wanted,
which she is in the midst of filming in Prague.

Jolie will now finish up her year with the Clint Eastwood mystery
thriller The Changeling, as a woman whose kidnapped son returns home
only to begin suspecting that the boy is not hers. Then she will take
her leave.

As it is, Jolie, Pitt and their brood—five-year-old Maddox, three-
year-old Pax, two-year-old Zahara and Shiloh, less than one week shy
of her first birthday—have been getting a head start on their quality
bonding time this week in the French Riviera for the Cannes Film
Festival.

The family arrived on Sunday to promote two films: the Jolie-starring
and Pitt-produced A Mighty Heart, about Mariane Pearl, the widow of
the slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and Pitt's
significantly lighter and much more blockbuster-friendly fare Ocean's
Thirteen.

For Jolie, the role of the pregnant widow hit close to home, not only
because she had befriended Pearl in the months before signing on to
star in the biopic, but because she found herself six months pregnant
while filming the movie, exactly how far along Pearl was when her
husband was killed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002.

"It was something that haunted me through the whole thing and
haunted, I think, everybody involved," she told NBC's Ann Curry in an
interview airing on both Today and Dateline Tuesday. "Nobody ever
really voiced that and nobody ever really talked about it, but I'm
sure it was something that she did become a friend.

"What that took away from this time in their life, this is the
happiest time in their life. And what that must be, I just can't
imagine. I thought about that when I was breastfeeding. I thought
about that all through kind of the birth of...you know, that haunted
me."

Other things that unfortunately seem to haunt Jolie is the incessant
tabloid coverage of her and Pitt's private lives—the story du jour
being that the genetically blessed duo is teetering on the brink of
separation—though the actress told Curry that the rumors, which she
opts not to read, are simply not worth setting straight.

"I know there's a cycle of certain things that they keep writing or
whatever, but I can assume things are made up. But no, I haven't a
clue. And why would I, you know? There's nothing I have to hide or
defend. You know, I'm gonna live my life. And there are gonna be
times when people wanna try to attack me and I don't know why, but
they will. And that's okay."

For Jolie, she said her only concern is her family—the reason for her
hiatus.

"My kids are healthy. I have a lot I want to do in this world. Before
I do, I wanna do a lot of things as a woman, as a mom, and that's my
focus. At the end of the day, I'm gonna be dead...and what people say
about me is gonna be what I accomplished and what I did in my life
and how my children are."

It's a sentiment that appears to have rubbed off on partner Pitt, who
told Curry in a separate interview that, as far as his livelihood is
concerned, "it's just not enough anymore to say that 'it's
entertainment and enjoyment.' "

So, no Ocean's Fourteen?

"For me personally, I'm saying, in my life, if you can move the ball
forward a little bit...that's what this is about. Where is it going
to go? The interesting thing is how it evolves for me individually
for myself, and watching the same with Angie."
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Angelina Gets Naked and Talks
by Natalie Finn
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Obviously, Brad Pitt understands the virtues of a nice, warm bath.

"I don't know how he does it, but…I talk a lot in the bath," Angelina
Jolie says in the July issue of Marie Claire. "It's easier to talk
when you're naked…Get naked with me, and I'll talk!"

While Jolie was presumably fully clothed during this interview, and
during another she gave for next month's Esquire, that circumstance
did not prevent the Oscar winner and mother of four from baring her
thoughts on Brad, her babies, her career, the crazy world we're
living in and the self-proclaimed crazy things she's doing to make it
a better place.

"Brad's more—well, he doesn't get angry with me. He just gets
concerned," Jolie tells Esquire, referring to her habit of exploring
the property she bought in Cambodia, where she adopted five-year-old
son Maddox in 2002, that needed demining before they could live on
it. "He's much more—well, maybe he's smarter about it. The attitude
being, 'Let's not just be walking around here, let's be cautious in a
healthy way.'

"I'm brave to the point of stupidity sometimes. He's asking if the
property can be demined again."

But contrary to popular belief (or tabloid headlines), she does not
lead two lives.

"I have the great good fortune of being able to have a fun job,"
Jolie told the men's magazine. "It's a job that allows me to travel
and that allows me, sometimes, to get out of myself…I try to make
sure that my relationship with the man in my life is solid and
complete and we're very connected and having a great life together
and enjoying our children and being part of the world.

"So that's my life. It's not split in half. It's not one side taking
over the other."

And, apparently, you can toss those breakup rumors out the window, as
well.

After spending as much time facing down gossip that she's a home
wrecker, a bad mom, a weird mom or a fair-weather do-gooder as she
has basking in the glow of her success, Jolie says that she and Pitt
have reached their comfort zone.

"I think we both went on a lot of faith—we really did," she told
Marie Claire. "Our family has grown very quickly, and we have a lot
of responsibility together, and we acknowledge that we are lucky we
turned out to be for each other everything we'd hoped. We could have
been very wrong, but every challenge we hit has brought us closer. It
has been that kind of relationship."

To Esquire: "The phone rings every day. I say, 'No, of course it's
not true,' and hang up. We joke about it, because it's usually when
Brad and I are running after the kids and changing diapers. The fact
is, we don't do anything. We hardly ever leave the house. We try to
schedule time when we're alone…Brad and I are starting with the
children and are planning to have our time together in our later
years."

The 32-year-old star of the upcoming Daniel Pearl biopic, A Mighty
Heart, in which she plays the slain Wall Street Journalist reporter's
widow, Mariane, also said that work—despite the fact that she says
she doesn't want to be remembered as an actress after she dies—is a
great outlet for dealing with life's problems.

It was Mariane Pearl who suggested that Jolie, whom she had
previously bonded with over their interest in Buddhism and
motherhood, play her in the big-screen adaptation of her memoir.

The actress-activist read the book and has since become very close
with Pearl (her first friendship with a journalist, she told the Los
Angeles Times last month), whose husband was beheaded by terrorists
while he was on assignment in Pakistan.

"Focusing on that story on a daily basis, you certainly don't worry
about your life," Jolie told Marie Claire. "I mean, there isn't a
better film to make you hyperaware that you should complain about
nothing."

A Mighty Heart premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21 and
opens in U.S. theaters June 22.

Meanwhile, Jolie told reporters in Cannes that as soon as she's done
shooting the thriller Wanted in Prague, she's planning to take a year
off to spend with her family, which in addition to Pitt and Maddox
also includes three-year-old Pax Thien, two-year-old Zahara, and the
couple's biological daughter Shiloh, who just turned one on May 27.

"That's my job and I'm really happy to have it," she told
Esquire. "But when I die, do I want to be remembered as an actress?
No. I recently had an op-ed published in a newspaper. And at the end,
it didn't say I was an actress. It said that I was a UN goodwill
ambassador—that's all.

"I said, 'Hey, Brad, I'm not just an actress anymore.' "
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Angelina Dives into Think Tank
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Angelina Jolie is one step closer to her posthumous goal of being
remembered as something other than an actress.

The Oscar-winning humanitarian has been officially approved for
membership in the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, a think
tank that counts former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and journalists Diane Sawyer and
Tom Brokaw among its ranks.

Jolie was nominated to join CFR earlier this year in recognition of
her work as a United Nations goodwill ambassador, a post she's held
since 2001.

"Angelina Jolie is accomplished in her field and has demonstrated
serious interest in issues such as Darfur, international education
and refugees," CFR Vice President of Communications Lisa Shields told
People magazine. "As such, her profile fits very well with other
young professionals we've selected as the next generation of foreign
policy leaders."

The honor represents a personal victory for the mother-of-four, who
recently told Esquire magazine that she wants her legacy to reflect
her philanthropic as opposed to onscreen endeavors.

"When I die, do I want to be remembered as an actress? No," she
said. "I recently had a column published in a newspaper and at the
end it didn't say I was an actress. It said that I was a UN goodwill
ambassador--that's all. And I was really proud."

The actress isn't the only member of the Jolie-Pitt clan determined
to make a difference.

Her partner, Brad Pitt and his Ocean's Thirteen cronies, George
Clooney, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Jerry Weintraub, made a $750,000
donation to Oxfam America this week through Not On Our Watch, an
organization they founded to raise awareness about the genocide in
Darfur.
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Angelina: Mighty Protection from Reporters "Excessive"

by Natalie Finn

Angelina Jolie didn't mean to wield such an iron fist when it came to
A Mighty Heart interviews. Her lawyer did, though.

It was the fault of "a boneheaded, overzealous lawyer," Jolie's
attorney, Robert Offer, told the New York Times Thursday, referring
to his role in the agreement journalists were asked to sign before
the premiere of the actress' latest film that stated they were not
allowed to ask Jolie anything about her "personal relationships."

Meaning, lay off the questions about Brad and the brood.

Jolie, not one for red carpet announcements (see 2007 Golden Globes),
but who recently gave lengthy interviews to Esquire and Marie Claire
(family and relationship talk, included), said during an appearance
on The Daily Show yesterday that she too found the precise do's and
dont's to be a little much.

"I think people are always looking for, unfortunately, for the most
negative story," she told Jon Stewart. "But it was not mandatory and—
again, I didn't put it out there. It was from my representatives
trying to be protective of me, but it was excessive and I wouldn't
have put it out there."

Paramount Vantage, the studio behind A Mighty Heart, said that most
media outlets, including USA Today and the Associated Press, opted
not to sign.

Fox News' Roger Friedman said that his network, which first reported
the existence of the red carpet clause-and-effect on Thursday, and
all Fox News affiliates were banned at Jolie's request from covering
the premiere—which was also a benefit for the nonprofit Reporters
Without Borders—Wednesday night at New York's Ziegfeld Theater.

A Paramount spokeswoman denied that claim, however, calling the
conservative-minded outlet's original omission from the press
list "an honest mistake."

The 32-year-old actress (currently the 14th most powerful celebrity
out there based on earnings and visibility, according to Forbes)
never directly addressed Stuart's question about the Fox News ban,
though.

"This was my creating something to protect her from the press'
talking about personal matters, a document that would limit
discussion to the film," Offer said. "But it was drafted overly
broadly. It was well intended, but I understand how it was received."

Before they were allowed to do their thing, journalists in attendance
Wednesday were presented with what Jolie called a "memo," which
required that they leave Jolie's personal life alone and focus on the
film.

"In the event, Interviewer does ask Ms. Jolie any questions regarding
her personal relationships, Ms. Jolie will have the right to
immediately terminate the interview and leave," the agreement
stated. "The interview may only be used to promote the Picture. In no
event may Interviewer or Media Outlet be entitled to run all or any
portion of the interview in connection with any other story."

Moreover, "the interview will not be used in a manner that is
disparaging, demeaning or derogatory to Miss Jolie."

Offer told the Times that reporters covering the premiere of Mr. &
Mrs. Smith—Brangelina's first project together, which opened in the
midst of tabloid madness about their relationship and the demise of
Brad Pitt's marriage to Jennifer Aniston—were asked to sign a similar
agreement, and that most of them did.

Jolie "is an incredibly candid, honest person, who is undeterred
herself in answering questions," Jolie's manager, Geyer Kosinski,
told the Times, adding that the memo—or "mission statement," as Jerry
Maguire would call it—was more "guide" than rule book.

"Our collective intention was to protect her," he said.

Questions about Jolie's relationship with estranged dad Jon Voight
were probably off-limits, as well, even in light of the actress'
somewhat conciliatory remarks made that week to Britain's Evening
Standard.

"I am hoping my relationship with my father is more private in the
future," said Jolie, who hasn't spoken with Voight since at least
2002 when he said in a TV interview that he hoped his daughter would
get help for her "serious mental problems."

"At the end of the day, we both wish the best for each other and
we'll try to start communicating in some way," she continued.

After Jolie had cleared the air on The Daily Show, Stewart, at least,
got to sneak in a few behind-the-scenes questions, including one
about just how many feet she might want to hear the pitter-patter of
one day.

"It fluctuates between seven and 13 or 14," the current mother of
four said. (That's between 14 and 28 feet!)

To which Stewart replied, "I admire that, because two is kicking my
ass."

"Four is kind of kicking our ass, too," Jolie said, "but we feel
like, damn it, we're up to the challenge."

A Mighty Heart, produced by Pitt, in which Jolie plays Mariane Pearl,
the widow of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and
murdered by terrorists while working in Pakistan, opens in U.S.
theaters June 22. After the press tour is over, Jolie heads back to
Prague to finish shooting the action thriller Wanted.

And, proving that she's a friend to the media, paparazzi and all,
Jolie reportedly gave a cycling shutterbug a lift this week when one
of his bike tires sprung a leak.

Splash News and Pictures photographer James Ambler told his outfit's
Website that he was pedaling after Jolie's chauffeured ride in New
York when he ran over a nail and punctured a tire. To his surprise,
Jolie asked her driver to stop and asked the British-born Ambler if
he wanted a ride.

"I happily accepted," said Ambler, who had been trailing for Jolie
for a few days. Once inside, Jolie—who had already nicknamed him
Lance, he said, because of his penchant for bicycling, "was really
curious about the other photographers and what we all do...She was
just really sound, really down to earth and really lovely."

  "No, it doesn't happen on a regular basis, not with A-list
celebrities like Angelina," Ambler said.
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Angelina's Iraq Tour
by Julie Keller
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:45:10 AM PDT
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Angelina Jolie's never-ending world tour continues.

The actress and activist made pit stops in Syria and Iraq Tuesday as
part of her role as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.

"I have come to Syria and Iraq to help draw attention to this
humanitarian crisis and to urge governments to increase their support
for UNHCR and its partners," Jolie said in a press conference. "My
sole purpose in both countries is to highlight the plight of those
uprooted by the war in Iraq."

The actress, who was in the Hamptons over the weekend with baby daddy
Brad Pitt to raise funds for his New Orleans housing project, flew
from New York to Syria on Monday. There, she visited with Iraqi
refugees in their homes, then crossed over to Iraq Tuesday to meet
with an additional 1,200 refugees.

"It is absolutely essential that the ongoing debate about Iraq's
future includes plans for addressing the enormous humanitarian
consequences these people face," she said after a meeting at the Al
Waleed camp in Iraq.

In addition to meeting with refugees, Jolie also visited with U.S.
troops and other international forces in the area.

This is just the latest leg in what has been come an increasingly
wide world tour for the actress. Most recently, she's been in Prague
and Chicago, filming her upcoming flick, Wanted. Earlier in the year,
she jetted to Vietnam to adopt Pax, the latest member of the Jolie-
Pitt brood that also includes Maddox, Zahara and biological daughter
Shiloh.

Up next for the actress is a run as railroad exec Dagny Taggart in
the film version of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. After that, she says
she'll be taking a break from movies to raise her family and,
presumably, continue her world travels.

http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=faf47b7c-ddc9-4eaf-
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Jon Voight: Heartbroken Over Angelina, James
by Natalie Finn
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:24:13 PM PDT
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Jon Voight is apparently no closer to resolving his longstanding
estrangement from daughter Angelina Jolie and son James Haven.

In response to his 34-year-old son's remarks to Marie Claire about
the alleged mental abuse Voight inflicted on Haven and Jolie's
mother, Marcheline Bertrand, the Oscar-winning actor said that he
found it "heartbreaking" that his children "want to paint a bad guy
portrait of me."

"I feel it comes from their inability to let go of years of
programmed anger from their mother, who understandably felt quite
hurt when we divorced," the Midnight Cowboy star said in a
handwritten statement obtained by E! News. (View the letter.)

Bertrand and Voight were married for seven years before divorcing in
1978. Bertrand died of cancer in January at 56.

"In all truth, I tried to give him and their mother continuous love
and support and large sums of money," Voight continued. "God knows,
for years I've tried to mend this relationship. Perhaps the trauma of
their mother's passing has made it worse. I continuously send them my
heart and love and am always available to them for whatever they need
from me."

Although Voight could be seen tearfully applauding his daughter when
she picked up a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for the 1998 HBO movie
Gia and an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted in 2000 and then later
appeared as Lara Croft's father in the first Tomb Raider film in
2001, the 68-year-old actor and Jolie have been on the outs since her
divorce from Billy Bob Thornton in 2002.

At the time, Voight said that Jolie needed treatment for "serious
mental problems" and that she wasn't responding to his attempts to
get in touch with her because she knew he was "trying to reach her to
get help."

In June, Jolie told Britain's Evening Standard that she hoped that
their relationship could be "more private in the future," and that
some sort of reconciliation was a possibility.

"At the end of the day, we both wish the best for each other and
we'll try to start communicating in some way," the 32-year-old
actress said.

Haven partly echoed those sentiments in his sit-down for Marie
Claire's November issue, but he also had a point to make.

"I don't want to constantly berate my father—I wish him well, and I
hope he finds peace—but he put my mom through years of mental abuse,
and it made me care especially for abandoned women and children," he
said. "So, that's my religion—helping widows and orphans."

Aside from the home environment he grew up in, Haven also attributes
his sister's activism as a motivating factor for his altruistic ways,
which include being an activist for AIDS and human rights causes. He
is also on the board of Artivist, the sponsor behind an upcoming Los
Angeles film festival focusing on projects about human rights and
environmental issues.

"Angie was the catalyst," Haven said. "She'd say, 'I just heard this
is going on in Darfur, [etc.]', and I'd want to be involved."

The actor is also enjoying his latest role—uncle to Jolie and Brad
Pitt's ever-growing brood.

"They're unbelievable," Haven said, reminiscing about some of the
foursome's more charming antics.

Haven then had to answer the inevitable question about the Kiss, the
notorious smooch he and Jolie shared when she won her Academy Award.

"So long ago!" he said. "Can we please move forward? Somedoay I'll
get married, and on my wedding day they'll be saying, 'Okay, we have
to ask about that infamous Oscar kiss.'"
http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=49968c88-fb5e-45e1-
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No Baby-Mama Drama for Brangelina
by Gina Serpe
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:10:29 AM PST
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Don't believe everything you read, especially when it comes to
Brangelina.

Despite recent reports to the contrary, Angelina Jolie and Brad
Pitt's 2005 adoption of daughter Zahara was "legal and irrevocable,"
the head of adoption agency Wide Horizons for Children said Thursday,
calling bunk claims that the girl's birth family is seeking her
return to Ethiopia.

"The controversy is media hype by unethical journalists exploiting
the poverty of the grandmother," Tsegaye Berhe, the head of the
agency that facilitated the A-list adoption, told Reuters.

Berhe spoke out to clarify the legitimacy of Jolie and Pitt's
adoption in the wake of reports that members of two-year-old's
family, including her presumed-dead birth mother, want Zahara back.

Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, a 24-year-old Ethiopian native, made the
challenge, claiming to In Touch Weekly she was Zahara's birth mother.
On the adoption papers filed two years ago, it indicated that
Zahara's birth mother had died of AIDS and that the identity of her
birth father was not known.

Both Lebiso and another woman claiming to be Zahara's aunt also said
they didn't fully understand what it meant to put a child up for
adoption and that they believed Jolie and Pitt would be bringing the
child back for frequent family visits. Berhe said that even if their
account were true, the stars would be under no obligation to keep in
touch with the family.

"The court in Addis Ababa approved the adoption after studying the
document her grandmother wrote...saying her daughter, the mother of
Zahara, had died and she was too poor to bring her up," he said.

"The grandmother brought three witnesses to court who testified that
Zahara's mother had died and that her father was unknown...The court
also investigated the social status of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
before approving the adoption."

Berhe said the claims were drummed up by reporters attempting to
create a story where there was none, saying they had likely paid poor
relatives of Zahara's to raise the dispute.

For their part, a spokesperson for In Touch told E! Online the
magazine stands by their story, saying they do not allege that the
adoption was illegal, simply that Zahara is not an AIDS orphan, or an
orphan at all. They maintain that Zahara's birth grandmother told
authorities that Lebiso had run away, not passed away.

Jolie formally adopted Zahara as a single parent in July 2005, though
Pitt accompanied her to pick up the child. In January 2006, a
California court approved his request to legally adopt both Zahara
and Maddox, whom Jolie brought home from Cambodia in 2002.

In May 2006, the couple welcomed their first biological child,
Shiloh, and last March welcomed a fourth child into the mix, Pax,
whom they adopted from Vietnam.
http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=338cf14e-a076-4723-
9587-1e579b9510ab&entry=index

Adoptive mums Angelina and Meg join forces at media awardsSEND TO A
FRIEND31 OCTOBER 2007

When organisers for the International Women's Media Foundation awards
were looking for two inspirational, high profile women to act as
presenters this week they couldn't have done better than turn to
Angelina Jolie and Meg Ryan. Both known for their public campaigns to
highlight women's issues across the globe, the philanthropic
actresses were clearly the perfect choice to help honour female
journalists who have shown courage while reporting under duress.

The duo, both elegant in top to toe black for the Beverly Hills
event, have not only their stellar careers and philanthropic works in
common. Each has also adopted from abroad. Meg, who has a 15-year-old
son Jack with former husband Dennis Quaid, adopted daughter Daisy
from China last year.

Angelina, who has a biological daughter Shiloh, has over the last few
years adopted three children from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam.

And according to reports circulating in Italy, the Tomb Raider star's
family could be about to increase again. The 32-year-old, who is
currently filming Clint Eastwood flick The Changeling, last week
pulled out of making a speech at a conference in the country focusing
on the future the world's children.

Local reports claim she decided against attending at the last minute
as she is pregnant with her and partner Brad Pitt's second biological
child.

The Hollywood heart-throb recently spoke of his desire to add to
their brood saying, "We're ready for another one."
http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/2007/10/31/jolie-ryan-media/

No more kinky sex for Jolie
10/08/2007 20:49  - (SA)









Jolie furious over Paltrow film

Jolie, Pitt 'putting on a show'








Los Angeles - Angelina Jolie gave up lesbian and kinky sex after
falling for Brad Pitt.

The actress, who has admitted to having same-sex romps and
sadomasochistic experiences in the past, has left her wilder
tendencies in the past since settling down with the actor.

She revealed: "I've never hidden my bisexuality, but since I've been
with Brad, there's no longer a place for that or S+M in my life."

Angelina, who previously dated former Calvin Klein model Jenny
Shimizu, insists Brad is entirely comfortable with her racy past.

The 32-year-old screen beauty - who has three adopted children,
Maddox, Pax and Zahara, and a biological daughter, Shiloh, with Brad -
  claims the star trusts her 100% and is happy for her to socialise
with whoever she wants.

Dominatrix dens

Angelina, whose relationship with Brad is said to be going through a
rocky patch, added in an interview with French magazine Public: "He
lets me talk to whoever I want. He has complete blind faith in me."

Angelina's ex-lover Jenny previously claimed the pair - who met in
1996 when they played lovers in the movie Foxfire - had visited
dominatrix dens together.

She revealed: "I once visited a dominatrix den with Angelina. She
loved it!

"We started off visiting strip clubs and there was this tension.
After the second week of filming we kissed." - Bang Showbiz.com
http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Celebrities/0,,2-1225-
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Brangelina to adopt baby no.4 from Africa?
The London News.Net
Tuesday 14th August, 2007 (ANI)

London, Aug 14 : Angelina Jolie is reportedly planning on adopting
another child, this time from Africa.

Jolie and partner Brad Pitt already have three adopted kids - Maddox,
Pax and Zahara, as well as a biological daughter Shiloh.

After adopting second son Pax Thien from South Asia - the same region
of the world as elder son Maddox, Jolie is said to be keen to add
another child from daughter Zahara's continent Africa.

And, reports state that the new addition to the Jolie-Pitt family
will come from Zahara's nation Ethiopia.

"Brad and Angie have made no secret of the fact that they are keen to
extend their rainbow family," the Daily Mail quoted a source, as
saying.

"But they've always been very careful to ensure that they leave
enough time between kids so that that each child fully integrates
into the family and feels truly settled.

"Angie in particular feels very strongly that while Shiloh will grow
up seeing the family resemblance between herself and her natural
parents, and Maddox and Pax will feel a connection through their
birthplaces, Zahara has no such close-knit bond.

"They hope that by finding an Ethiopian brother or sister -
preferably sister - for her, it will help Zahara feel more
comfortable and happy in her own skin.

"Both Brad and Angelina are incredibly excited about the latest
addition to the Jolie-Pitts and if anything will bring them closer
together, then this is it," the source added.

The couple are said to have planned a visit to Ethiopia's Wide
Horizons agency in November, the same adoption agency that helped
them get Zahara.
http://www.thelondonnews.net/story/273296
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08/13/07
  14:49:23, Categories: Celebrity News Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie's
Show Of Unity
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have tried to kill rumors their
relationship is on the rocks by partying together at a Chicago
nightclub. In recent weeks gossips have reveled in reports
Hollywood's hottest pair is close to splitting, three years after
they met on the set of movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Jolie has even been spotted viewing a California villa on her own.
However the couple held hands early on Monday as they left a night-
time hot spot in the Windy City, where Jolie is shooting a new movie
Wanted.
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/13/brad_pitt_and_angel
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What I'd tell Angelina
If I ran in to her -- which I won't -- I'd ask for my $9 back

August 12, 2007
BY NEIL STEINBERG Sun-Times Columnist
Opening shot
This newspaper is encouraging the fantasy that the average Chicagoan
might just bump into movie star Angelina Jolie while she is in town
to film yet another high-quality cinematic entertainment.
Frankly, I'm in terror of such a possibility, slim though it is.
Because what would you say to her?

I have a sinking feeling that I'd blurt out, "You know, I dragged my
entire family to 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,' based
entirely on your fabulous eye-patched babehood, and not only was it
was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life, but to this
day, three years later, if I suggest to my family that we see another
film, my children will laugh in my face, and mock me, bringing up the
almost incomprehensible tedium of 'Sky Captain' and the eager way I
shepherded us to the theater, all out of misplaced devotion to you."

Not that I'd have the chance to actually say those words.

I'd get as far as "You know ..." and a beefy goon with an earpiece
would press his forearm against my nose and the next thing I'd know
I'd be sitting on the sidewalk watching three big black SUVs roaring
away. If you ask me, they can't leave town quickly enough.


Hire a vet
I was reluctant to try to find jobs for unemployed vets. It's one
thing to float a snarky comment that might cause a socialite to
sputter in her gazpacho. It's quite something else to meddle in the
lives of struggling ex-soldiers. But I decided it was worth the risk.
Only a handful of unemployed vets stepped up -- it's tough to
announce that you're looking for a job. Sam Raines, a fourth-
generation U.S. Marine, was one of them.
I told his story at the end of June, and he was snatched up by
Weatherguard Construction, where he has worked for nearly a month
now. "He's already been very productive," said Marshall Boyle, a
senior field supervisor. "I'm thrilled, as a former jarhead myself,
to be able to help out a returning veteran because the country
doesn't do enough. I've had a hard time finding quality people, but I
read your article, and thought I gotta call this guy. One thing I
know about my Marines is they're going to work hard. I have hired a
lot of people, and Sam is very motivated, very responsible and very
honest."

"I wanted work, and I got it," said Raines, a claims specialist,
putting in 12-hour days but happy to be working again after three
years without a job. "My supervisor was a staff sergeant in the
Marine Corps, so I kinda feel like I'm back in the Corps."

Weatherguard is still looking for a few good men, and Boyle says that
qualified ex-Marines who need a job should call him at (630) 688-
2778.


Done with your lunch?
Whenever I'm tempted to run something truly gross, the ghost of Nigel
Wade, our long-departed (though very much alive, pottering about the
South of France) editor-in-chief looms up in memory, in all his
silver-haired, bespoke-suited, Fleet Street glory.
"STEINBERG!" he thunders. "I was eating my poached egg when I read
that!!!"

But this is one of those awful things that one must share, if only to
palliate the shock. I thought I had heard just about every horrible,
disturbing medical condition. But this one is both unfamiliar and off
the scale. . . .

Enough foreshadowing. The New Yorker this week ran an article by
Richard Preston about a genetic condition called Lesch-Nyhan
syndrome, and it compels its victims (last warning, you could flip to
the comics and be spared) to gnaw off their own fingers, or lips. But
that isn't the really bad part. Sometimes it prompts them to gouge
their eyes out or, in one case ... and this was the worst ... tear
out their own upper palate.

The condition is quite rare, obviously, afflicting several hundred
people in the United States. As if it weren't disturbing enough,
Preston paints it as the far end of a spectrum of human behavior,
beginning with biting your nails, on to biting your cuticles, all the
way up to, well you get the picture. Sorry.


The lady in the Jaguar
Last week, I wondered whether people who advertise their concern for
Darfur were at all humbled by the scant impact their efforts have had
on the situation. I got my answer below. I had to truncate it, lest
it fill the column -- but she makes her position clear:
"I am the person who drives the Jaguar which has the Save Darfur
sticker. I am furious at your presumptuous article. I am an active
member of the Chicago Coalition to Save Darfur. I have done more than
just 'attach a sticker' to my car. I have done everything in my
capabilities other than go to Darfur myself to raise awareness to
help put an end to the genocide. Telephone activism, volunteer at
events, e-mail campaigns, recruit other members and the list goes on.
Yes, the government has not shown adequate concern regarding this
horrible situation but I believe sitting idly by and allowing it to
continue is not an option. Because of my dedicated efforts hundreds
of people who were not even aware of this situation are now educated
about the atrocities. Maybe, hopefully, someday if enough people
raise their voice the government will act. Calling for action is a
mockery? Shall I stand by and do nothing because I drive a luxury car
and this alone minimizes my dedication? I am hardly lunching,
exercising and shopping as you indicate in your article. I am a full-
time mother who is also dedicated to her special needs son, a nurse
in the newborn intensive care unit and Darfur activist. How dare you
assume from what I drive and where I exercise that this increases my
self regard. That is so offensive."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/507118,CST-NWS-stein12.article
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  18:15:04, Categories: Celebrity News Brad Pitt Dismisses Adoption
Reports
Actor Brad Pitt has denied reports he and girlfriend Angelina Jolie
are planning to adopt a fourth child from Africa.

Earlier this week, a British newspaper claimed the Mr. & Mrs. Smith
co-stars are hoping to adopt a baby girl from Ethiopia - the same
country they adopted two-year-old Zahara Marley from in 2005.

The couple are also adoptive parents to Cambodian-born Maddox, five;
Vietnam-born Pax Thien, three; and biological parents to 15-month-old
Shiloh Nouvel.

When they adopted Pax Thien earlier this year, Jolie admitted they
chose a boy from south-east Asia so Maddox could see the physical
similarities between them, and hoped to find another African child
for Zahara to identify with.

However, Pitt's spokeswoman Cindy Guagenti has told website
CelebrityTruth.com reports Jolie and Pitt will return to Ethiopia in
November to seek another sibling for their expanding brood are false.
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/15/brad_pitt_dismisses
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Brad tames Jolie's lesbian libido
August 13, 2007 12:55am
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Jolie so satisfied with Pitt she's giving up on women
Former lesbian lover says it won't last

ANGELINA Jolie claims she is so satisfied with her partner Brad Pitt
that she is giving up women and kinky sex.

"I have never hidden my bisexuality," she told France's Public
magazine.

"But since I've been with Brad, I abandoned women. Now there is no
room for that or S&M in my life."

However, model Jenny Shimizu, Jolie's former lesbian lover, doesn't
think even Brad Pitt can tame Jolie's lesbian libido for too long.

"She loves danger and dabbling in the dark side," Shimizu, 40, told
Britain's News of the World.

"Angelina is an unbelievable lesbian lover. That's where she gets her
kicks - not playing happy families with one man."

But Public magazine quoted Jolie as saying she is still very happy
with Pitt because he believes in her.

"He lets me talk to whomever I want," she said. "He has complete
blind faith in me."

Jolie had a steamy long-term lesbian relationship with model Jenny
Shimizu, whom she met on the set of the 1996 flick Foxfire.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,22234503-
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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Spinning Through the Pain?
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By Jennifer Cox
Aug 17, 2007


Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are at war or at least battling each
other in nearly every country they visit many reports have claimed.
They have returned to the United States and specifically Chicago so
Angelina, who once bragged that she would be a "stay at home mom" can
continue to work. Is this what Brad wants? Is he a kept man?

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Spinning Through the Pain?

In Touch Weekly reports that an insider claims that Brad's emotions
seem to hold second-class status to her own as far as Angelina, 32,
is concerned. "Angie does what Angie wants to do, rather than putting
Brad's happiness first," a pal says.


***


Just months after announcing that she was going to take a year off,
Angelina has abruptly changed her mind. Instead of focusing on her
kids, her relationship and her humanitarian work, she's doing three
movies (Wanted, The Changeling and Atlas Shrugged). She 's working
and he's keeping the kids. He's certainly a hunky Mr. mom, but has
Jolie downgraded Brad?

He's now a designated tipper. Us Weekly Magazine reports that Pitt
made sure to show his appreciation to a security guard on August 11
at 5:45 p.m., when the whole Jolie-Pitt clan headed to Chicago's
Field Museum and were treated to a one-hour VIP tour (the museum
closes at 5 p.m. but stayed open for its special visitors). "They
were a nice couple," says one museum guard, who was tipped $300 by
Pitt for looking after the family during their visit.


***


Now it is being asked if they are just spinning through the pain. In
what many critics will call damage control People magazine reports
that Pitt's brother Doug, 40, who joined his parents and sister Julie
at nephew Maddox's sixth-birthday party in early August in Santa
Barbara, Calif., dismisses the speculation that there is really
trouble.
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272615484.shtml
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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Political Enemies - Fight Has Just Begun!
by Gia Cortina


Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are political enemies, claims Life and
Style Magazine.  According to their report, Angelina and Brad got into
a fight regarding the upcoming Presidential election.  With the
election not until November of 2008, it looks like the fight has just
begun!

Brad is reported to be an Obama fan, while Angelina prefers John
Edwards, reports Dlisted.

A source said, "Brad ended up calling her immature.  He says the next
thing he knew, Angie was cursing at him and throwing a glass of wine in
his face."

"He was left standing there with wine dripping down his face onto his
clothes."
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21295416.shtml

Oliver Stone wishes hed bedded Angelina Jolie


Hollywood director Oliver Stone is the latest celebrity to admit that
he wanted to sleep with actress Angelina Jolie, and his other leading
ladies.

London, Aug. 6 : Hollywood director Oliver Stone is the latest
celebrity to admit that he wanted to sleep with actress Angelina
Jolie, and his other leading ladies.

The 61-year-old insisted that the fact that though he had never had
an on-set romance, he wished to bed every actress he had worked with.

"Unfortunately I've never had an on-set romance, I'm too
conscientious. That's not to say I wouldn't have liked to, but
unfortunately my job description limits me," News of the World quoted
him as saying

"I wish I'd had all of them, goddammit! I like all the actresses I've
worked with in some way or another," he added.

The filmmaker also laughed off reports that claimed Jolie was very
thin, and said that the actress looked great.

Stone, who worked with Jolie on the epic 'Alexander Revisited: The
Final Cut', claimed that she had been "a delight from beginning to
end".

"She's always been on the - I wouldn't say skeletal - but thin side,
that's her nature. But she's a beautiful woman," he said.

Stone also said that 'Alexander Revisited' could have turned into a
fiasco if any of the actors had drug problems.

The director further said that he might consider working with Lindsay
Lohan if she were under control.

"She's certainly talented, she's got great screen charisma. If she
were under control, I would probably work with her. I wouldn't judge
her past against her, as long as she's balanced," he said.

"There are a lot of talented people in the world, I could work with
Paris Hilton, too. I wouldn't cross off anything off the list," he
added.
http://www.andhranews.net/Entertainment/2007/August/6-Oliver-Stone-
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Angelina Jolie Nude: Full Frontal Photos, Trailer From "Beowulf"
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By Christi Hall
Jul 30, 2007

Angelina Jolie goes full frontal in "Beowulf" and thanks to a whole
bunch of enhancement the star looks voluptuous once again.  The Tomb
Raider actress plays a seductive water demon in the big-screen
adaptation of epic Old English poem Beowulf. Jolie will appear in the
animated movie wearing just a long braid, covered in gold paint and
with hooves instead of feet.

Cinematical has this: The international trailer for Beowulf is being
hosted over at ComingSoon.net, and it's mostly the same as the other
trailer we recently saw, except that this one has a shot of Angelina
from behind, a couple of her from the side and one of her nude from
the belly-button up.

***

It's another lousy job by Jolie as she butchers yet another accent,
but the digital enhancement at least makes her look good again.  Ryan
Stewart adds, "Speaking of Angelina, someone really needs to talk to
her about the accents, because the voice she's sporting in this film
seems like Dracula again, which is exactly what we heard in Alexander
and even a bit in A Mighty Heart."

"When I spoke with her at the press day for Heart she talked about
working with a voice coach and how some accents were more challenging
than others, and I have no doubt she's talented enough to broaden her
accent range, but she probably needs someone to tell her that it's
necessary. We've heard Transylvanian Jolie -- let's hear something
else."

Trailer is here.

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272615103.shtml
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Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Split Rumors Heating Up
by Staff


Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's relationship is on the verge of coming
to an end following a furious fight between them, according to
published reports.
Jolie & Pitt, who have been dating since 2005, were allegedly
involved in an argument which saw the "Beowulf" star throw a glass of
red wine over her boyfriend after Pitt accused her of
being "immature" during a vacation in France.



There have also been claims that the do-gooder duo have discussed a
custody plan to be put in place for kids Maddox, Zahara, Pax and
Shiloh in the event of a break up.

A source tells America's Life&Style magazine, "Angie was cursing him
and ending up throwing a glass of wine in his face. Brad was
absolutely disgusted by her behaviour.

"Brad's had enough of doing what Angie wants to do and following her
around the globe." (c) WENN (c) tPC
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VOIGHT DENIES JOLIE RECONCILIATION REPORTS



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Veteran actor JON VOIGHT has again denied media reports he's made
amends with his estranged daughter ANGELINA JOLIE, after the actress
cut him out of her life for implying she was unbalanced.
The Midnight Cowboy star infamously claimed Jolie was suffering
from "severe emotional problems" during a tearful U.S. TV interview
in 2002. The pair haven't spoken since.
And despite speculation father and daughter are in contact again,
Voight, who has yet to meet his four grandchildren, insists no such
breakthrough has taken place.
He says, "There's been talk about that, but we haven't been in touch
yet.
"I certainly send her all my love, and I always wish the best for her
and the kids. I haven't seen them (the kids) yet."
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7/30/073:03 PMAngelina Jolie Gets Naked, Or At Least Naked Enough
"Angelina Jolie's ass" in Beowulf.
Courtesy of Paramount

In the new international unrated trailer for Beowulf, Angelina Jolie
is naked! Or, as the overheated movie blogs are clarifying, "a little
bit more naked." As in, "naked breasts." As in, "full frontal (and
behind) nudity." As in, "a HOT, nude water monster."

But to be precisely clear, Angelina Jolie is not exactly naked, so
much as she is dressed in a bodysuit, filmed with motion-capture
cameras and then reanimated on computers with great glistening thighs
and a deadly ponytail that has a life of its own.

The faces in the Beowulf trailer are every bit as creepy as those of
the nightmarish elves in Robert Zemeckis's previous CGI effort, The
Polar Express, but there's something additionally disturbing about
this simulated nudity. The new and improved Angelina surpasses in
creepiness the previous high point of digital motion-capture
animation: the bouncing-boobed pinup gals of Xbox games like Dead or
Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2.

Releasing this racy trailer at the tail end of Comic-Con is surely a
genius marketing move that will rope in teen boys. But it works for
Jolie too — and that's why we'll see more nude CGI sex scenes soon.
Stripping down to a green bodysuit might just be the perfect solution
for today's sexy, humanitarian mother who wants to titillate her
horny fans without actually baring all. In the so-called real world,
you can play saint while your avatars do your dirty work. —Logan Hill
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Here's the article and link...
Women We Love
Angelina Jolie Dies for Our Sins
A very beautiful woman who sees herself as the underdog becomes very
famous. Because of her fame, she suffers. Because of her suffering,
she becomes even more famous. Then she becomes virtuous. Very, very
virtuous.

By Tom Junod

7/ 9/2007, 4:32 PM
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1 of 4  Photograph by Marc Hom



This is a 9/11 story. Granted, it's also a celebrity profile -- well,
a profile of Angelina Jolie -- and so calling it a 9/11 story may
sound like a stretch. But that's the point. It's a 9/11 story because
it's a celebrity profile -- because celebrities and their perceived
power are a big part of the strange story of how America responded to
the attacks upon it. And no celebrity plays a bigger role in that
strange story than Angelina Jolie.

September 23, 2001, The New York Times ran a story about one of the
unacknowledged victims of 9/11 -- celebrity gossip. It started with a
scene at a New York restaurant famous for its hospitality to famous
people. A few nights before, Harrison Ford had walked into the joint
practically unnoticed, but when a fire truck drove by, patrons stood
up and cheered. This, the Times averred, was proof that in the
parlance of the day, things had changed -- that a culture dangerously
besotted with celebrity might be on the verge of righting itself.
Though written in the wake of fresh horror, the story was guardedly
optimistic until the very end, when it quoted a woman named Leslee
Dart. The press agent for Woody Allen, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and
many others, Dart spoke with the resigned serenity of a rehab
counselor listening to yet another junkie vow a fresh start: "We have
as a culture gone so far off the deep end, I think we have no choice
but to go right back to where we were."

She was right, of course, and she was wrong. She was right because --
more than any pundit, and certainly more than any politician -- she
captured the terminal nature of a culture that couldn't change even
if it wanted to, even if it had to. She was wrong because, although
many aspects of the culture remained the same, two things changed in
ways that no one could have predicted. First of all, the culture's
thralldom to celebrity did not remain the same at all; it intensified
into a kind of collective lunacy. Second, the celebrities themselves
changed: While the culture kept getting worse, its most famous
denizens kept getting better and better, until virtue itself began to
seem like one of fame's perquisites -- a fashionable trapping and
also, for some, an obligation.

In other words, instead of the things many predicted for America in
the terrifying yet hopeful days after the attack -- a moral
resurgence, say, or the death of irony -- we got a war against a
country that had nothing to do with 9/11, and we got Angelina Jolie.

One could make the argument that she is the most famous woman in the
world. Why not, then, just go ahead and make the argument that she is
the best woman in the world, in terms of her generosity, her
dedication, and her courage? The two arguments would seem hopelessly
disconnected -- the first being an objective assessment, or at least
amenable to fact; the second being subjective and sentimental -- but
in truth they have become inextricable. In post-9/11 America,
Angelina Jolie is the best woman in the world because she is the most
famous woman in the world -- because she is not like you or me.

Certainly she doesn't look like you or me. Hell, she doesn't look
like anyone except herself, which is one of the reasons she's the
most famous woman in the world. I met her in a restaurant in
Hollywood. She walked in wearing a very short beige raincoat cinched
at the waist with a black belt and palomino-colored high heels. Her
waist was very small -- diminished, even -- and so the raincoat was
drastically tufted over her bare legs, like the white dress that
Marilyn wore over the subway grating. Indeed, there were all sorts of
cinematic meanings to ascribe to the raincoat -- it made her look
like a spy, the very essence of glamour, the kind of girl who says
goodbye in the rain -- but that's the last thing she wants. She does
not want the meaning of her life to rest on the meaning of her life
as an actress, a word she pronounces with some disdain, or her life
as a celebrity, a word she, like most celebrities, pronounces hardly
at all.

And so her meaning only became clear when the raincoat came off and
she sat at a corner table in a black dress with a plunging neckline
and a plunging back. She has always written her meanings on her body
and has always been famously tattooed. Now, however, she was also
extremely thin. Her body, once iconic for its comic-book
voluptuousness, has become iconic in a completely different way --
runic, in fact, both a symbol and a consequence of her absolute
dedication to her causes.

There is a question people ask when they hear you've met with
Angelina Jolie. It is not about her work in Darfur, her work with
children orphaned by AIDS. It's this: Is she...sexy? She has this
rep, you see. People talk about her as though she's a different
species -- as though they find her sexy in the way a dog might find a
wolf sexy. And there's some of that when you meet her. She is not
short, but she is very small, down to her bones, which are like
twigs. And yet her flesh -- her golden, mortified flesh -- is
extraordinary: Like the sheets on a barracks bed, there's no slack to
it. And it shines. The beauty mark splashed over the finial of bone
adorning her bare shoulder: It shines. She shines all over. Her eyes
and her lips are, as advertised, extravagant creations, but then, in
addition to all that extravagance, they also glisten like wet roads
in a car commercial. She entered the restaurant out of the sputtering
soundstage mist that passes for rain in Hollywood, but now that she's
sitting down, she doesn't dry off. She remains, well, moist. Her
brown hair stays damp, and she keeps grabbing it in her fist and
putting it behind her pillared neck. Her sexiness is supposed to be,
like her lips, larger than life, but in fact it's smaller, because it
shows through in her gestures and in the details of her beauty. And
so it's not the main thing when you meet her.

What is the main thing? Well, there was a moment when she unzipped
her dress for me. It was sort of a requisite celebrity-profile
moment. She was talking about her effort to restore the Asian tiger
to her wildlife preserve in Cambodia. She was saying that, as a
matter of fact, there is a rather large tattoo of a tiger on her
back. I asked to see it, and she obliged, reaching her hands behind
her back and pulling down her zipper. The black dress parted, and in
the conventions of the celebrity profile, I should have been
thinking, Hey, sexy. But I wasn't. I was thinking that if her effort
to save the Asian tiger failed, then the last one left in the world
would be printed on the back of Angelina Jolie.

Is virtue sexy? She's supposed to be making virtue sexy -- a sexy
topic, as the saying goes -- but she's not, and there's nothing even
she can do about it. If anything, virtue is making her less sexy.
Craziness, though: Now, that's a different story.

She used to be crazy, when she first started making movies, and,
although she was just a kid, her craziness made her a permissible
fantasy figure -- the kind of creature that consumes her mates, like
certain spiders. The cutting, the tattoos, the drugs, the self-
professed sexual dabbling, the spectacle with her brother at the
Oscars, and, above all, the vial of Billy Bob's blood she hung around
her neck -- she seemed carnivorously crazy, even though now, looking
back, she says she was just young and unfulfilled. "I entered this
business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very
unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I
didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was
a very empty time."

Then she grew up. In 2001, she went to Sierra Leone, a country that
has won "war-torn" as a permanent adjective, and, she says, "got into
some situations that were pretty intense and just realized how
completely naive I was to think I had a difficult life. I had no idea
what a difficult life was. It was as if someone slapped me across the
face and said, 'Oh, my God, you silly young woman from California, do
you have any idea how difficult the world really is for so many
people?' I got out of myself pretty quickly, being in the middle of a
civil war. I mean, you look around, there are arms and legs."

What happened next was not related in any way to 9/11, but it's the
representative story of the post-9/11 years. She called the United
Nations and became a goodwill ambassador for the UN's High
Commissioner for Refugees. She visited something like thirty refugee
camps in the world's most remote and forbidding and, yes, war-torn
places, and in so doing became what she calls "a citizen of the
world." At the same time, of course, she became a mother: first to
Maddox, from Cambodia; then to Zahara, from Ethiopia; then to Shiloh,
from Brad Pitt; then, most recently, to Pax, from Vietnam. She just
kept doing more, and although she didn't find peace, exactly -- it's
hard to describe a mother of four who routinely sends detailed e-
mails on policy issues at four in the morning as peaceful -- she did
find what the culture at large was supposed to find, or at least look
for, as a result of watching the Towers fall. She found meaning.

And yet she did not become the most famous woman in the world because
of the meaning she found in it. She became the most famous woman in
the world because the world -- well, American culture, anyway --
found a way to tell a different story from the one she was
experiencing, and this story is no less representative of the post-
9/11 years. She became the most famous woman in the world because
despite her willingness to take on the world's suffering -- no,
precisely on account of her willingness to take on the world's
suffering -- people suspected that she was still crazy.

The idea that Angelina Jolie is still crazy is central to the story
told to Americans week after week. Without it, there would be no
story; there would be only private virtue and public works and the
occasional movie, and she would more or less disappear. With it,
however, she becomes one of the four or five Americans who have a
chance of turning up on four or five magazine covers each week; with
it, she is still a permissible fantasy figure; with it, we Americans
can still use her for our own purposes, and our own purposes are very
specific. Recently, one of the tabloid magazines ran a cover story
about Angelina, with the following headline: HER TWISTED DOUBLE LIFE.
Of course, the same headline might have accompanied every single
story about her since she first became a citizen of the world and
first became a mother. She has a twisted double life because she
wrested Brad Pitt away from Jennifer Aniston. She has a twisted
double life because she adopted not one but three children. She has a
twisted double life because she treats her adopted children the same
way she treats her biological one. She has a twisted double life
because she is out saving the world instead of staying home and
making movies. She has a twisted double life because she is staying
home and making movies instead of going out and saving the world.
Lately, she has a twisted double life because she is losing weight,
and after this article is published, she will no doubt have a twisted
double life because she eats crickets. She has become a fixture on
the newsstand so that Americans can at once admire and be suspicious
of both her character and her causes; she has become both an exemplar
and an antidote for the need to create a meaningful life, and
Americans by and large don't read about her because they want to
learn more about the refugee crisis in Africa. They read about her
because they don't.

Now, it must be said that she doesn't seem crazy when you meet her in
person. She's frank, she's forthright, she's coherent, she's focused,
she's organized, she's determined, she eats, she smiles, she laughs,
she seems not just sane but disappointingly sane, because let's face
it, judging from the tabs, crazy is how we like our Angelina Jolie.
But let's say, for argument's sake, that she is still crazy, or at
least still empty, and desperately trying to fill herself up. Let's
say she didn't find a new identity so much as she found a new use for
her old one. Let's say her inborn extremism made it easy for her to
choose extreme difficulty, convenient for her to choose extreme
inconvenience. Let's say she chose to remake the world instead of
remaking herself. Should the world care? And does the question of
motive -- unfathomable in most human beings -- justify the cynicism
and outright suspicion that has accompanied Angelina Jolie's altruism?

Because the thing is, she pretty much admits all the above. She
pretty much admits she's still an extreme personality, but that her
extremism has found a purpose. How else could she explain the Maddox
Jolie-Pitt Project? I mean, it began as a house -- a house in an
exotic locale, for sure, on thirty-nine hectares in northwest
Cambodia -- and it ended as, well, an entire village, because that's
just the way she is. She bought the house after she adopted Maddox.
She wanted to make sure he never forgot where he was born, so she
bought what she calls a "traditional Cambodian house on stilts,"
right next to the national park that was supposed to be protecting
Cambodia's dwindling population of Asian black bears, Asian
elephants, and the tigers that came across the border from Thailand.
The only problem was that the national park was a national park in
name only, and so the first time she stayed there, she heard that a
tiger was found cut in half by poachers not far from where she lived.
She had this amazing backyard, but it turned out that her backyard
was a refuge not simply for endangered animals but for the very
people and the very forces that were endangering them, not to mention
land mines and bunkers left by the Khmer Rouge, which got its start
in what is now Angelina's Jolie's backyard, and made its last stand
there, too.

And so, yeah, what she wound up doing was crazy. Who but a crazy
person decides to take care of a situation in her own backyard by
expanding her sphere of influence from 39 hectares to 60,000, which
comes to 230 square miles? Who but a crazy person looks up Stephan
Bognar, a guy she read about in National Geographic because he was
trying to save the animals in Baghdad's zoo as well as the lions
abandoned by Uday and Qusay, and hires him to run a conservation
project involving the better part of northwest Cambodia, and then,
when she figures out that it can't work if it's just a conservation
project, goes to the big policy symposium in Davos so that she can
meet economist Jeffrey Sachs and learn how to turn her conservation
project into a self-sustaining Millennium Village, in accordance with
UN development goals? Sachs has been working to create Millennium
Villages in Africa, and there are about eighty of them. But Angelina
Jolie doesn't have a house in Africa. She has a house in Cambodia, so
that's where she -- or, to be more precise, the Maddox Jolie-Pitt
Project -- puts her Millennium Village. It's the first and only one
in Asia, the first and only one outside Africa, and in its purview
there are ten villages previously isolated from one another, about
six thousand villagers and seventy-two employees -- some of them
poachers now employed as rangers -- drawing their paychecks from
Angie and Brad.

Okay: Even she uses the word crazy to describe what she's wrought.
Because one of the things a Millennium Village needs to stay within
UN Millennium development goals is a school, so she built a school.
But how are the kids going to get to the school? So she started
building roads. But how are the kids going to get enough to eat once
they get to the school? It's not just a matter of feeding them out of
one's own largesse. It's a matter of feeding them in such a way that
they keep getting fed, long after one's own largesse is withdrawn. So
she built a soy-milk factory, which makes use of not only the local
crop but also the largesse of the local farmers. And so, in the three
months since milk from the microfactory started flowing, the number
of students at the school increased from 699 to 810...and that's just
one aspect of the village. Four times a week, she's in touch with
Bognar, helping him manage the water-conservation projects and the
soil-conservation projects and the biomass-for-fuel projects and
everything else that she has so far been paying for out of her own
pocket.

The house is still there, still on stilts, except that now it
functions as the field headquarters for the Maddox Jolie-Pitt
Project. And when she visits, Bognar says, "Angie roughs it. She
lives with us in the forest and eats the crickets and cockroaches the
locals eat without thinking twice about it. Whenever I read in
magazines about her 'glorious house in Cambodia,' I think, What? It's
a shack. I don't think people believe she has the ability to abandon
everything in the West and transpose herself to a situation with
malaria and dengue fever and the most extreme poverty. I read about
her 'Hollywood life.' Well, you can't live a Hollywood life in this
part of Cambodia."

And yet what kind of life does she lead, if not a Hollywood one? The
way she makes it sound, she and Brad function like any other couple,
even when -- especially when -- they're in Cambodia. She likes to
explore, and although they've had the place de-mined and installed
night-vision cameras on their property, Brad worries. "Brad's more --
well, he doesn't get angry with me. He just gets concerned. He's much
more -- well, maybe he's smarter about it. The attitude being, Let's
not just be walking around here, let's be cautious in a healthy way.
I'm brave to the point of stupidity sometimes. He's asking if the
property can be de-mined again."

There are still elephants in their part of northwest Cambodia, and
there are still elephants to the south of them, in an area protected
by the organization WildAid, and so, Angelina says, "if we can get
our section connected with their section, it will be the largest
elephant migration in Asia. If we can get it so the animals feel
safe, we hope to be sitting in the house when the elephants walk by."

And so here's a question. There can be few ambitions more meaningful
than saving Asian elephants. Indeed, we're talking about meaning on a
grand, almost impossible scale: the largest elephant migration in
Asia! The question is this: Does the meaning change when we realize
that the people who get to watch the saved elephants migrate are Brad
Pitt and Angelina Jolie?

It would seem an impossible life to lead -- a twisted double life
indeed, suspended between extremes of meaning and meaninglessness --
except for this: She says she doesn't lead it. She says that the life
that means the most to the American public means the least to her. "I
don't live two lives," she says. "I have the great good fortune of
being able to have a fun job. It's a job that allows me to travel and
that allows me, sometimes, to get out of myself. So that's my job.
But it's not at all my life. Every day when I wake up in the morning,
I've been studying international law. I try to make sure that each of
my children has enough of my attention to feel equal. I try to make
sure that my relationship with the man in my life is solid and
complete and we're very connected and having a great life together
and enjoying our children and being part of the world. So that's my
life. It's not split in half. It's not one side taking over the
other. I have no animosity toward Hollywood or the demands of the red
carpet, all that silliness. That's my job, and I'm happy to have it.
But when I die, do I want to be remembered as an actress? No. I
recently had an op-ed published in a newspaper. And at the end, it
didn't say I was an actress. It said that I was a UN goodwill
ambassador -- that's all. And I was really proud. I said, 'Hey, Brad,
I'm not just an actress anymore.' "

Sure, reporters' questions are constantly relayed to her, trying to
confirm the latest rumors about her. "The phone rings every day. I
say, 'No, of course it's not true,' and hang up. We joke about it,
because it's usually when Brad and I are running after the kids and
changing diapers. The fact is, we don't do anything. We don't go to
parties. We hardly ever leave the house. We try to schedule time when
we're alone. Right now, Pax is sleeping in our bed. It's kind of
nice, him immediately knowing and feeling comfortable with us. Madd
slept with me until Brad and I got together. They're fun to sleep
with. We have family sleep on Sundays. Everybody sleeps together.
Some people have their lives together and then they have their
children. Brad and I are starting with the children and are planning
to have our time together in our later years."

There are a few ways to look at this glimpse of domestic comfort. It
might be the lie of someone leading a twisted double life. It might
also be the fantasy existence of celebrities privileged enough to
live out their daydream of normalcy. But then it might very well be
true. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may very well be just caring,
tired parents who simply don't care about celebrity and manage to
live outside its apparatus -- which would mean that the divide
between their lives and the lives of the Americans reading tabloid
stories about them is, on the one hand, very small and, on the other,
nearly absolute.

Does 9/11 still have meaning for most Americans? Does it have more
meaning than celebrity? Does it have more meaning than the very
specific message of meaninglessness contained in the weekly parable
of Angelina Jolie's twisted double life? Or have we reached the point
where its meaning is somehow inextricable from the meaning of
celebrity, as 9/11 recedes into the past and celebrity gives birth to
the future?

Certainly, it still has a meaning for Angelina Jolie. She was in
Pakistan a few weeks before it happened. She was going to Afghan
refugee camps, and she apprehended something in the misery she
witnessed there. "I was meeting people who had been displaced by the
Taliban, meeting people who been displaced since the cold war. People
had been displaced for so long that the camps were exhausted. They
were destroying the camps and moving into the cities, and there was a
lot of unrest, a lot of anger. I'd even gotten a memo from the UN a
few days before, warning that Osama bin Laden was in neighboring
Afghanistan. I'd had this kind of odd feeling -- again, I'm a twenty-
something-year-old actress at the time. The fact that I had any of
this information is just bizarre."

She was in Japan on 9/11. "It was this other strange thing for me,
because it was obviously a country where if you would have turned the
clock back, it was an enemy. And now, on that date, for me as an
American, they were my allies, my friends, taking care of me, giving
me sympathy for my country. I became immediately conscious of how
things shift, how the picture of the enemy shifts. I don't have any
answers, but to be aware of all these things as it's coming down --
it's not as simple as, Well, this is the bad guy."

So that's one kind of story, and one kind of meaning. Here's another:
A few months after 9/11, Mariane Pearl moved to Karachi, Pakistan,
with her husband, Danny. They were both journalists, they both
thought of themselves as citizens of the world, they both believed
that telling the truth trumped simplistic notions of good and evil.
Evil found them soon enough, however, when Danny went to interview a
jihadist imam for The Wall Street Journal. He was lured into a trap,
he was kidnapped, and then -- after being identified as a Jew and
accused of being an agent for Mossad -- killed. No, not just killed --
  beheaded on a video that went around the world on the Internet.

A year later, Mariane Pearl published a memoir of her marriage to
Danny and the terrible circumstances of his death. Called A Mighty
Heart, it was not a bitter book nor a book of broken faith. It was,
indeed, a book that put forth the notion that Danny and Mariane Pearl
did not lose to unimaginable evil but rather triumphed over it by
living as citizens of the world to the very end. Brad Pitt bought it
while it was still in manuscript and started to develop it as a
vehicle for his wife, Jennifer Aniston; and when Brad left Jennifer
for Angelina after the filming of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, it was Mariane
Pearl who suggested Angelina Jolie for the role of Mariane Pearl,
for, as it turned out, Angelina Jolie and Mariane Pearl were not just
kindred spirits. They rather startlingly drew the same meaning from
their different experiences after 9/11. They rather startlingly both
believed that the story of Daniel Pearl's death was about good people
coming together to fight evil rather than evil guys coming together
to destroy good. They rather inevitably became close. "I read the
book," Angelina says, "and Mariane and I got on really well as women,
and we've since become really great friends, and our kids have become
friends." And in A Mighty Heart, they joined forces on a movie that,
far from bemoaning the fact that some people are worse than others,
celebrates the fact that some people are just better.

All right, then:

Are they?

Is she?

This is the crux of the matter. This suspicion is why so many of us
have to think, in the back of our minds, at the bottom of our hearts,
that they are worse -- because we fear they are better and are self-
selecting themselves into a natural aristocracy, just like Angelina
Jolie and Mariane Pearl. Democracy looks worse and worse now that
Islamists have harnessed the power of the mob. The salvation once
inherent in the power of the people now depends on the power of
people who live onscreen or on the radio.

"These are people with the widest reach in the world, and not by
accident," Jeffrey Sachs says, and he should know, because he works
and travels with them -- with Bono, with Madonna, with Matt Damon and
Angelina Jolie -- in his campaign to eradicate global poverty through
the adoption of UN Millennium development goals. "Not only are they
leading artists and personalities; they are great leaders and
managers, and that's part of their success. When you consider what
Angelina does or Bono or Madonna -- these are real forces of nature.
It goes beyond their fan bases. They are able to speak to tens of
millions of people, and that goes back to how bright they are, how
well they manage across their artistic work, their work in music or
film. Their participation has been absolutely essential to the
mainstreaming of these global issues into American life, which is why
I find so ridiculous the cynicism, the pundits who disdain this. They
misunderstand how our society works, and they misjudge these people,
their leadership. No good deed goes unpunished, and it's certainly
true of this activity. Angelina goes at it with utter honesty, hard
work, and a deep feeling for the common fate of humanity. There's no
doubt about that or about her love for her children. And yet the
amount of chattering that goes on about it is endless and
preposterous, in my view."

And so: better, right? Angelina has to be better, or else she
wouldn't be able to do what Sachs says she does, what Stephan Bognar
says she does, what Erin Trowbridge -- Sachs's advisor and Angelina's
occasional travel partner -- says she does: connect immediately with
people who have no idea who she is. "For her, the dirtier she can
get, the better it is," Trowbridge says. "She'd prefer to camp at the
village where we're staying, if it's possible. She always wants to
know what she's talking about: 'This is what the morning looks like
in this village. This is what nighttime looks like. This is what it's
like to be a woman. This is what it's like to feed a family. This is
what it's like not to. This is what it sounds like if you can't.' We
work in deeply impoverished rural areas. It's a three-hour drive in
Ethiopia to the nearest town, and it's very hard work to get there.
The people have no clue who she is. And she's able to be herself in
that situation. You look at her, and you can see what life was like
for her before she got so famous. It's the same when she's with her
children. You know, she's the one who's carrying the backpack, she's
the one who's taking the kids off the plane. She has not chosen an
easy life."

Of course, Trowbridge would grant that Angelina is good -- a good
person. But better? No, because that's not even the source of her
power. "I was with Angie at the very first Clinton Global
Initiative," she says. "The most powerful men in the world were
there, and yet the world stops for her when she walks into a room.
After four hours with her, I said, 'I'm going to take a break and go
into the kitchen.' She said, 'I think I'll go back with you. I need
to breathe.' So we're back in the kitchen, and this busboy comes up
to her. He was really shy, but he said, 'Do you mind if I take your
picture?' She said, 'Not at all.' Then he said, 'It's for my
daughter. She's in the hospital. She tried to kill herself.' And
something in Angie changed. She said, 'I can relate. I know what it's
like to have a hard time.' And that's the essence of who she is. She
is who she was. She's that girl. She gets it from the tragic side of
things and relates to it from that side. It's about the underdog, and
that's how she sees herself."

It is an anecdote that invites sympathy, admiration, and, yes, a
ready and reflexive cynicism. A very beautiful woman who sees herself
as the underdog becomes very famous. Because of her fame, she
suffers; because of her suffering, she becomes even more famous;
because she becomes even more famous -- the most famous woman in the
world -- she fulfills her vision of herself as the underdog; because
she's the underdog, she connects to the world's genuine
underdogs...and so, in the end, finds meaning and a measure of
happiness. It is the kind of conversion encouraged by all of the
world's major religions, but because celebrity is the religion in
question here, the conversion of Angelina Jolie is regarded as out of
reach -- the function of fame and privilege. And Angelina herself
comes to be regarded as either better or worse, when it's pretty
damned clear that she's neither, when it's pretty damned clear that
the word that best describes her is a word the religion of celebrity
has made difficult to say, and more difficult to swallow:

Good.

Six days after Daniel Pearl died, Mariane Pearl gave an interview on
CNN. The interviewer, after agreeing in advance to refrain from
asking if Mariane had seen the video of her husband's beheading,
asked if she had seen the video of her husband's beheading. The
interview is included in the movie of A Mighty Heart, and it was
filmed six days after Angelina Jolie's mother died -- six days after
photographers swarmed her car to get pictures of the most famous
woman in the world crying. Her mother, who died of cancer, was fifty-
six years old. "There is no longevity on my mother's side of the
family," Angelina says. "My grandmother also died young, so my mother
always thought it could happen to her. But she lived to see her
grandchildren, lived to see both me and my brother in a nice place.
She was a real mother that way. She waited till everyone was okay.
Then she closed her eyes."

For a beautiful woman, Angelina Jolie doesn't necessarily look okay.
She looks fragile. She's been getting thinner and thinner ever since
her mother died. But she's strong, especially in the role she's
chosen to play, and she's in a hurry. The people who travel with her
are always amazed by how she bears up when she's barraged by
photographers. The people who travel with her are always blinded by
the flashbulbs and wonder if something's wrong with her eyes, for she
just stares at the photographers as if she's taking them all in, and
then moves forward, as if they mean nothing to her at all.
http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/Jolie0707
--- In turningtimesofangelina@yahoogroups.com, rhiannon102_44420
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> She's looking awesome on the cover of Esquire Magazine, which is on
> sale now. LOL, Tam
>