Brad Pitt Shirtless

Hollywood is an unpredictable business. Who is hot today may just be the next has-been tomorrow. Fortunately for Brad, he has managed thru the years to stay on top of the A-list and maneuver his career the way he wants it to be. Last year was another proof of how he survived the tabloids and along with Angie made Mr. and Mrs.Smith one of the top grossing films,almost a half billion dollars worldwide notwithstanding the DVD and rentals for the movie. Hollywood analysts did not even forsee that success and how a year later, Brad and Angelina are more popular than ever. They are the real deal, so in love and raising wonderful children. They are wisely using their star power to draw attention on their humanitarian causes. Because of them, they made doing charity cool and some stars are following in their footsteps. Hopefully, this celebrities are doing it sincerely. I think that George Clooney has the right intentions to help promote awareness on the genocide in Darfur and he said that the worst thing we can do is not to do anything!

Everybody thought they were in Namibia for the birth of their baby, but it’s obvious she was there for the education project . She already filmed a documentary and gave Ann curry an interview … these things STAR mag couldn’t tell us because they don’t have any Angelina & Brad insiders. I don’t think she’s going to have the baby in Africa!

Excertp From Rolling StonePETER TRAVERS Yes, that is Jennifer Aniston tarted up as a sexual fantasy: the ooh-la-la French maid clutching a phallic vacuum hose so her boyfriend can get off when she bends over. No, Friends With Money is not that kind of movie. Far from it. The keenly observant writer and director Nicole Holofcener isn’t about to settle for giving jocks their jollies. She’s interested in the shifting dynamics among real women. Listen up, guys, you might learn something. ……In Holofcener’s 1996 debut feature, Walking and Talking, the threat to female closeness is impending marriage. In 2002’s Lovely and Amazing, the issue among sisters is body image. And now, in Friends With Money, the obstacle comes in the form of wealth. Olivia (Aniston), Franny (Joan Cusack), Jane (Frances McDormand) and Christine (Catherine Keener) have been friends since forever. Now Olivia is feeling isolated. It’s not just that she’s single and her three pals are married (that she can deal with) — it’s that she’s cleaning houses for sixty-five dollars a scrub, and her friends are filthy stinking rich. ……It turns out money is a hell of a subject for a movie, especially one rendered with decidedly un-Hollywood nuance and intimacy. Smart, witty and alert to the buried resentments that poke through the shiny surface of affluence, Holofcener’s film recognizes that money is the new sex. Buying your kid the right kind of shoes, the expensive kind, is better than an ******. The main characters, all living large in Los Angeles, are a bit ashamed of how much they’ve got. Rub it in people’s faces and they’ll think you’re a *****. ……..IT’S A KICK TO SEE ANISTON CUT LOOSE and break her big-screen losing streak (Rumor Has It, Derailed, Along Came Polly). As Olivia, she gets to show off her gift for giving a character shades of light and dark, recalling how strong she was in The Good Girl and The Object of My Affection. Aniston has a friend indeed in Holofcener, who lets her mix it up with a seasoned ensemble cast. Except for McBurney, the men don’t have much to chew on. But the film is a field day for actresses. And their teamwork is a thing of beauty. When the film premiered at Sundance in January, nit-pickers wanted more narrative drive and clear-cut motivations. Know what? For lots of back story and no loose ends, watch TV. For a movie rich in hilarity, heartbreak and a sense of life in all its

Holly (Angie assistant and friend) is not always with Angie. She was not with Angie in Canada when Brad was fiming (AOJJ) nor was she with Angie the first month when they went to Berlin and Paris. Of course this is all based on pics. I think Angie and Brad have had a working vacation. Thus when it was time for Angie to get back to work ie in Paris the photoshoot and in Namibia for the interview with Today show and the documentary, Holly came back into the picture.

#108 What documentary are you talking about?

Always love the couple. Wish them all the best! Currently I am saving my hard earned $$ so I can see their future movies. More power!

I am puzzled as to why someone would publish a review of "Friends with Money". That ship has sailed. The movie has made $5.5 million so far. For every decent review of the movie there was one like this–from the New Yorker: "… The trouble with Holofcener’s scheme is that the center of the movie is dead. Olivia has no drives or hopes or powerful regrets. She has nothing to say, and Aniston does most of her acting with her lower lip, which she wrinkles and tucks under the upper one—it’s a technique, of sorts. She pulls so little out of herself that we lose all interest in her by the middle of the picture."

Passing Through, I think George Clooney didn’t get involved in field work in Africa or even spoke much about it because his focus was on other subjects. Like Brad and Angie, he believes in being an active citizen, but he’s had different causes. He has looked at the role of government, and citizens’ roles in their own government, and made films and many television appearances talking about it, from making Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to Goodnigh and Good Luck, to acting in Syriana, all about making your government accessible and accountable, because in a democracy, your government does not just repesent you, it IS you, it is comprised of what you elect and how you make those politicians act. Here it is government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people, but most people don’t want to have a say in it, they just accept whatever happens and a great number don’t even vote. His main focus for many years has been apathy, simply because we are an affluent nation that doesn’t have urgent needs. But to just swallow what we are fed by the government, or by media, and not think it through or get the facts and make the media report the facts and make the government answer its people is not only dangerous, but it’s not taking full advantage of democracy. He sees duty in being a citizen, and not duty as in forced drudgery, but as in responsibility and honor. If he is now looking at what can be done in Africa, that is indeed a shift in his priorities, and I would bet it has to do with Brad and Angelina, who he has been impressed with. I think once he made Good Night and Good Luck, and did all the press for it, he felt like he had said what he wanted to say on that subject and is now moving onto something else that is also about being a good citizen, this time about being a citizen of the world.

# 30 | JOf course money is important, but this can’t buy all the happiness you want. family, kid, health. another few more year, Jen will understand this.

# 102 | em Agree, when the scandal break-up last year, with most of the media going anti-Brad and Angie, specaulation it is over for Brad until the world wide box-office hit of MMSmith that the tide start turning. what a relief. I’m a fan of Brad since legend of the fall.

Gossip Alert from Paris Match magazine. Credit to JaylaVan at Bradforums:"Alchemy is perfect. Last summer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Director of Babel, entrusted to Paris Match : "One evening, after one day of shooting, Brad and me discussed in his room, He was like a little boy which discovers Love. He told me how He fell instantaneously and passionately in love with Angie. He was regreting to make suffer Jen (Aniston) for which he has a sincere affection, but he cannot fight, Angie makes it insane…."I choose to believe that this is true. :) LOL

I know what you are going to say about my post: "we are talking about something else here, why did you write that?", okay, I know… but I thought it was something to be said. Love Angie and Brad, and their children. I admire them for what they are doing, helping people, helping poor nations, and open the eyes of a lots of nort americans about important issues.