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Brad & Angelina: Water Fountain

Brad & Angelina: Water Fountain

Photogs’ appetites whetted: ‘Most anticipated baby since Jesus

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have an entire government on their side in the latest celebrity vs. paparazzi skirmish as they await the birth of their child in seclusion at a resort in Namibia.

The Namibian Embassy in Pretoria tells journalists seeking visas for Namibia to cover the birth of the eagerly awaited celebrity baby that they must have permission from Pitt and Jolie in writing before they will be allowed into the country.

The government, which has seen its profile as a tourist destination increased by the celebrity visit, has arrested photographers, confiscated film, set up large green barriers on the beach to shield the couple and their children Zahara and Maddox, ringed the hotel with heavy security and threatened to expel any journalist trying to cover the birth without the parents’ permission.

"This lady is expecting," Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula was quoted as telling South Africa’s Sunday Times last month. "You guys are harassing her. Why don’t you allow her some privacy? Harassment is not allowed in Namibia."

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Interest has heightened in recent weeks as photographers anticipated the due date was near. It escalated Tuesday when an e-mail Pitt sent to the Cannes Film Festival and read to reporters there said he was unable to attend because of the baby’s "imminent arrival."

Darryn Lyons, the chairman of Big Pictures, which runs Mr. Paparazzi.com, said in London that the two stars are certain to gain more attention by taking up residence in a poor corner of Africa then they would in the United States.

"I don’t think they could have given the people more of an appetite to see the new creature," said Lyons, referring to the decision to hole up in Namibia. "It is the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ."

"They would have been more discreet sitting in Malibu," he said. "I don’t know why they’re going to all this ridiculous trouble."

Before Pitt and Jolie took up residence at a luxury hotel on the Namibian coast, the government never required that journalists get permission from private citizens — foreign or otherwise — to obtain a visa.

John Liebengerg, a South African magazine photographer, was arrested Wednesday for a second time in less than a week for trying to take pictures of the couple at a restaurant.

The arrest was condemned by the South African National Editors Forum.

"The forum believes citizens have a right to privacy, however journalists also have a right to be able to do their jobs without unfair hindrance or intimidation," the forum said in a statement.

South Africa’s Sunday Times said last month its own photographer and three French photographers were ordered to leave Namibia or face arrest.

Lyons said he has a team in place in Namibia, but that none of his photographers have been arrested. He added someone — perhaps even the midwife — with a small camera or one built into their mobile phone stood to make a lot of money.

"You could probably buy Namibia with that picture," he said, estimating the first picture of Pitt and Jolie’s baby would be worth $5 million.

Namibia, a country half the size of Alaska, is rich in diamonds and strategic metals, but most of its 1.8 million people are poor. – AP

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Although, I ‘ve great doubt on Intouch mag, but I hope its true . I ‘m as anxious as Brad .an’t wait for the baby.

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 10:42 pm

# 171 | stardust - If people think we are nuts, then that is fine with me I rather be nuts about this family than anyone elses

#168| Hi Guli! thanks for the welcome. Yeah Im a bit of a night owl myself. I plan on being around um, working..cough cough til 12. #170 Alexanderina Yeah every now and then my bf says it is a good thing B and A are in Africa.. away from their crazy fans.. he thinks it a bit much.. UNTIL i remind him of his obsession with the 70’s rock band Fleetwood Mac esp. Stevie Nicks. He was just a baby during the height of their fame but somehow he became a fan.. soo whenever he starts to dog me about my Bamz+1 obsession, I just start singing "dont stop thinking about tomorrow.." and that usually shuts him up.

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 10:44 pm

I meant "when is he going on vacation?, I can’t freaking type right now

# 150 | Passing Through | LOL!!! Star mag is ridiculos though…

Alexanderina, he stated on the other thread that he wont be back until Tuesday.

I’ll be away for the long weekend, so don’t expect any new posts until Tuesday! PEACE OUT.j4r3d (from the Bullock:Pregnant? thread)

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 10:48 pm

# 178 | Ivy - UNTIL i remind him of his obsession with the 70’s rock band Fleetwood Mac esp. Stevie Nicks. He was just a baby during the height of their fame but somehow he became a fan.. soo whenever he starts to dog me about my Bamz+1 obsession, I just start singing "dont stop thinking about tomorrow.." and that usually shuts him up————————————————–That is so cute, it sounds like you guys have a great relationship that is good :)

African Girl @ 05/26/2006 at 10:49 pm

# 159 | Passing Through oh Bless You, Bless you Bless You. I’m going to do that right now. First, I have to print your post…lol. Thanks again.I was like whatever dude.. # 170 | Alexanderina Those are the exact words i say to my brother….what does this all mean? Are they right? but there a lot of us so it must not be that bad….lol

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 10:50 pm

# 181 | angelah - Thank Angelah, well Angie just have to hold that baby in until JJ gets back on Tuesday lol :)

#183| Yes, I finally got lucky. He is a great guy. Treats me well. (that is something new for me) and loves my son like he was his own. I was kinda like Angie in that way.. I said no way was I going to let another guy get close to me or my child unless he honestly loved my child as much as he did me. My son adores him.

# 173 | crybabyAniston | Yep! normally that is what all OBGYN’s say. However, my doctor had to eat his words since I told him ,my mother had all three of her kids within 3 hours after the contactions started. I even told him that I was born in an elevator while mom was on the stretcher. So, guess what an intern ended up delivering my first son since my doctor took his time coming to the hospital, he didn’t believe that it is also hereditary. My second two also came within 3 hours :) So you never know!!!

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 10:55 pm

# 184 | African Girl - No, they are so not right lol. We are not crazy fans, we are passionate fans and we don’t go overboard with our obsession, we don’t right :)

gosh guli within 3 hrs? IM envious. My son was a bit stubborn.. took him nearly 22 hrs. PLUS i wanted no drugs .. wanted a natural birth like my sister had.. the doc really wanted me to have an epi but i said no… unfortunately MY doctor was afraid i would take too long having it natural.. and insisted on giving me pitocin to speed things up! still took a long time but what the pit DID DO was cause me to have intense contractions with practically NO REST TIME BETWEEN THEM. I hate that doctor. if i hadnt been soo young and naive.. i would have insisted on no pit.and i would have gotten a midwife or doula. Ok , next time i know better.

I came upon this article while browsing imdb.comWhy Women Hate JolieBarbara Ellen Sunday January 16, 2005 The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1389480,00.html There’s something inevitable about Angelina Jolie being teed up as one of the reasons behind the break-up of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s marriage. It doesn’t really matter if they had an affair; if they were really caught muttering sweet nothings to each other over the phone as Aniston listened in on an extension; if in fact Jolie actually did anything wrong at all. Jolie, with her beauty, her strangeness, her defiant sexual independence, simply fits the bill as the Woman All Women Love To Fear: the woman their man will find more spellbinding than them if they could only get the chance to breathe the same air. As if it were somehow all Jolie’s fault that she is beautiful and interesting, and came along when a man was bored or unhappy with his relationship. One can almost feel the thought hissing in the wind: women like her should dilute their attractiveness. Just look at the trouble it causes, not least for all the women around her. A man once said to me: ‘I could never trust a woman who doesn’t have close female friends.’ His reasoning was that these women would be psychologically skewed, lop-sided in some way, too obsessed with men to bother with women; too competitive with other women to risk reaching out for friendship. ‘You think men who don’t like women are scary? They’re nothing to women who don’t like women,’ he said. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jolie pictured with a female buddy just moseying about shopping and having simple female fun. She always seems to be pictured completely alone or dandling her adopted son on her hip. Then, of course, there are those shots of her with her male co-stars, to whom she is, inevitably, romantically linked. One could be wrong, but there never seems to be any evidence that Jolie, for all her supposed interest in lesbianism, has any significant female interaction and, even in Hollywood, this must be rare. Where her own gender is concerned, Jolie seems to be a Woman Alone. But then, this might not be her fault. When I was very young, I knew a ‘Jolie’. She was incredibly beautiful, astonishingly clever, witty and, I thought, good at heart. The man who introduced me to her described her as ‘the loneliest woman I’ve ever met. She has no friends at all.’ Once I’d embarked on a friendship with her, I found out why - not only was she quite startlingly bonkers (which I didn’t mind), she was on my patch (which I did). Once I brought a new boyfriend over to her flat to meet her and, donned in a negligee at three o’clock in the afternoon, she took him off alone into her bedroom, festooned with incense sticks, to ‘get to know what he’s about’. Later I found out that she’d lolled on a beanbag, holding forth on art, literature, metaphysics and other things I knew nothing about. Once they finally emerged, him looking stunned and smelling faintly of sandalwood, I was furious, feeling betrayed but not really knowing why. What could I do? Rage at her for being exotic, and making me look mediocre? A little older and wiser and I might have talked it through with her. Instead I dropped her, one of the most interesting women I’d ever met, for a man who wore England shirts in bed. Is this what women do sometimes? I think we’ve all had those moments hesitating to introduce new partners to certain friends because they’re frankly too attractive and interesting (best to get our claws in properly first). Or, worse, we avoid making friends with these ‘Jolies’ altogether, rejecting and excluding them, and then bitching to each other about how they’re Men’s Women, not girly-girls, not someone you could trust at all. It is as if some women are too ‘hot to handle’ as friends. If you hang out with them, goes the thinking, you will be doomed to a second-string existence. They’ll get all the attention and you’ll just be this drab thing at the side fetching the drinks. While some people are evidently put on earth to highlight your essential mediocrity, there’s no reason why you should have to hang out with them. For all I know, Jolie could have a string of ‘bezzie mates’, but somehow I doubt it. Her detractors might argue that, as she’s clearly quite mad, only bedazzled men could put up with her, but I think it’s more complicated than that. Just as the intense, beautiful Jolie can’t help how men react to her, she can’t help how women react to her either, and few women would be strong enough or confident enough to take her on as a friend: which must surely lead to gender-loneliness, and the ‘lop-sided’ personality my friend was talking about. While some women are born ‘Men’s Women’ some, it seems, have the role thrust upon them. · barbara.ellen@observer.co.uk

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 11:07 pm

# 186 | Ivy - That is wonderful. I am so happy for you and your son, when you find someone that treat you well and especially your kids, to me that is like winning the lotto; you and Angie really do have something in common, you guys are great moms who loves your kids to distraction, and have real men in your lives, men who are responsible and caring..

Thanks Alexanderina.. I have a lot of things in common with Angie, especially the great beauty. LOL just kidding, I WISH.. no but I really have admired her cause she has overcome things that I have had to overcome too and she is an inspiration. and i have loved Brad for a long time. So amazing that my two fav celebrities have come together like this!!

hey, r all my peeps still here? Jpf, passing through, African Girl, angelah, guli etc. (you know who you are!) Cuz i just finished my first video for youtube and I wanted to premiere it to an audience, but alas it is a friday night, so if no one is here I’ll just wait til monday :(its pretty good though, i think, i hope; i believe it does BAMZ+1 justice

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 11:21 pm

# 192 | Ivy - Yes, she is an inspiration to all of us and especially to you because of the things you guys have in common. She is one great lady and so are you missy so don’t be putting yourself down :). It is so great to see them together and to see Brad with the kids it just melts my heart. I believe that they are going to be together for a long time. I have to tell you I probably watched MAMS like a zillion times, the chemistry between them is incredible. I just watched it again last night again. I can’t wait for the unrated DVD lol

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 11:23 pm

# 193 | Alicia - We all want to see it, can’t wait until Monday, we are all BAMZ+1 fans here, so you have to share :)

alright!! ^_^

Yeah Alicia.. we want to see… I CANT BEAR TO HAVE TO WAIT FOR ONE MORE THING!! waiting for baby Jolie-Pitt is making me impatient. ; )LOL

Alexanderina @ 05/26/2006 at 11:33 pm

# 197 | Ivy - so true lol

# 193 | Alicia | Are you kidding where is it, or I can give you my email… please…

its uploading/updating right now, might take a couple minutes it says, but i’ll post the link here and/or email it to whoever wants it :)

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