Angelina Jolie on the Beach

Jon Voight on MSNBC - He’s currently on a press tour promoting his new film. He’s got a lot coming up at the same time as Angelina. It’s not cashing in, he’s very much in the business right now. It’s about reinforcing his place in Hollywood as elder statesman. MSNBC’s bumper (tease) about why Angelina won’t see him is to get people to watch. They will probably mention it but the majority of the interview will be about him, his past films, awards and whats coming up with him. It would be rude to have him on and then talk about Angelina.Ted C: I don’t believe his latest post. There’s maybe one sentence in that column that’s correct and he made a whole article around it. I don’t think X really CARES about anything Brad & Angelina right now. She’s fighting for survival (careerwise) and has to concentrate on herself. I would suggest to her a hair or cosmetic contract like L’Oreal, Revlon, MAC.etc..If Nicole Kidman has Chanel, Halle has Versace and Queen Latifah has Cover Girl, why can’t she get her own? Oooops……Angelina has St, John. There will be comparisons LOL!!!! Too bad Jennifer. That’s what you get for being slow. Bradforums had super great posts & info but it would really be sad that they were run by secret fanistons who hate the thought of Shiloh being born. There are other Brad sites that are just as informative that haven’t crashed and Brad & Angelina sites that celebrate their union.

The Brangelina no-showBy CNN’s Robyn Curnow Thursday, June 1, 2006; Posted: 10:41 a.m. Paparazzi frustrated in Namibia. (2:39) SWAKOPMUND, Namibia (CNN) — To get away from the public scrutiny that befits one of the world’s most famous showbiz couples, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie decamped to Swakpomund — a sleepy little town on the southwest coast of Africa.Not that you would know it by walking around town.Hardly anyone here has seen their famous neighbors and if they have, it has been a sneaked glance from a distance or a chance glimpse in the street.The press have been even more unlucky. British paparazzo Steve (he wouldn’t give his last name) told us this assignment was the worst he has ever had to cover, saying it was "impossible" to get a photograph of the couple and their children. But he’s trying.Most foreign paparazzi and foreign media didn’t even make it out here, to the edge of the Namibian desert.There is a conspicuous absence of a press pack, even though the birth of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt last weekend was one of the most eagerly awaited celebrity births this year.The Namibian government has gone out of its way to protect the privacy its famous visitors, by restricting press visa into the country.Swakopmund is small town, nestled between soaring red sand dunes and a cold, wild Atlantic ocean.It has not experienced an influx of media hounds with long lenses and sharp elbows, in spite of world-wide curiosity about the birth of the Hollywood couple’s first baby.Instead, just a handful of foreign paparazzi like Steve hang out at the windy shore or in the town’s modest hotels each day — trading on rumors, conjecture and speculation that Brad and Angelina will: a) Have a water birth in their hotel b) Have a caesarean birth at a Walvis Bay hospital c) Be discharged from a Swakopmund clinic d) Have a celebratory birth party at a beach restaurant.All are possible photo opportunities. All create a sense of panic and competition. All amount to nothing, except the small media contingent covertly running around in circles chasing their tails.Brad and Angelina must be chuckling away in their beachside resort, thinking "Brangelina 1, Media 0."The local press is also unhappy about the lack of access to Namibia’s famous visitors.The editor of the Namib Times, Floris Steenkamp, recounts what he calls a "low point" in the relationship between the stars and the media.This came when the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation news crew accompanying the First Lady was refused entry into the Burning Shore resort when she made a courtesy visit to the Hollywood couple.In Africa, hospitality is important. Not inviting people into your home is considered rude — even if you are People magazine’s Most Beautiful Person in the World.The local press has been eagerly waiting a "meet the local children" photo opportunity or even just a "hello and thank you" interview. Steenkamp and other local reporters say neither has happened, much to their disappointment.But still, the local press and public remain supportive of the Hollywood superstars sequestered in their midst.They are grateful the couple’s presence has put Namibia on the the world’s radar screen and hope the country’s heightened profile will help boost tourism.No longer is the old German colonial town of Swakopmund one of the few places in Africa where you can order a Wiener Schnitzel in German, drive along Kaiser Wilhelm Strasse or have a dental check up at the Bismarck Zahnartzt.Oh no, Swakopmund is the birthplace of one of Hollywood’s most famous newborns — Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. Perhaps a Shiloh strudel or a Nouvel cocktail will lure more visitors to Namibia’s remote coast? The Namibians are counting on it. CNN TV CNN International Headline News Transcripts Advertise with Us About Us

# 555 | remember da truth Yeah, but you can’t blame X for striking while the iron’s after Friends endedOffers were pouring in.She had the most promiseIf any of her movies had been successful, noone would say she should have taken time off ,so we could all forget RachelShe made some bad film choices. She obviously doesn’t know a good movie script from her ass, but I think her idea was goodBrad sure did feel differently about that though didn’t he. How lond after she left Friends did everyone start talking about them breaking up?Does anyone remember?

The Brangelina no-showBy CNN’s Robyn Curnow ——————————-That Robyn reporter is a tool. I saw her segment on the entertainment show at CNN. She and the one interviewing her were acting like BAMZ owes them something. Who is she to speak for the local Namibian press? And just like what PT says, the international press are just bitter. They are made to look like fools - chasing their own tail.

A painful split’The Break-Up’ cuts too close to the bone to be an enjoyable comedy6/1/2006Her name is Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. She is, as the entire world of infotainment knows, the child of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, whom, as the tabloids have it, Jolie stole from Pitt’s former wife Jennifer Aniston.Shiloh was born in Namibia last Saturday.Or, on the Hollywood calendar, less than a week before the opening of "The Break-Up," in which Aniston, with apparent comedic intent, plays an employee of a chichi art gallery going through a particularly bitter break-up with her live-in boyfriend, a tour guide played by Vince Vaughn (whom Aniston is, of course, now said to be seeing in what’s laughingly known with these folks as real life).No doubt Shiloh will, in short order, grow up to be a real person with her own likes, dislikes, wants, needs, flaws and gifts. At the moment, she’s one of the cleverest marketing props in movie history.So advanced has the art of movie marketing become (it is routine for the movie hype to be more creative than the movie) that I swear all I could think of watching "The Break-Up" is that some marketing genius had an uncannily good idea when Shiloh would make her entrance among us and scheduled the summertime opening of "The Break-Up" to fall as close as possible to the general area of the Brangelina due date.Don’t get me wrong. There are a few laughs in "The Break-Up" - a couple pretty good ones, even. But this is a bitter downer of a comedy. Any man or woman who has ever broken up with a partner after a lengthy interval of constant verbal ugliness at high decibels will recognize too much of what goes on in "The Break-Up." So, for that matter, will any friend or relative of the misbegotten who has ever watched a break-up at uncomfortably close quarters.The premise is similar to that of Danny DeVito’s "The War of the Roses," the blackest, funniest and most brilliant comedy ever made about divorce in America. In "War of the Roses," you remember, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, while divorcing, fight bitterly and violently (and hilariously) over custody of the house.In "The Break-Up," Aniston and Vaughn aren’t married but they’ve gone in together on the purchase of a condo, which is now the focus of their affections as their revulsion for each other escalates into infliction of psychological pain by increasingly elaborate means.Here is the difference between the genius of "War of the Roses" and the misfire of "The Break-Up:"In "The War of the Roses," they’d actually been married. The hair-raising escalation of malice, therefore, remained utterly pure while they did increasingly awful things to one another to take possession of the house, even as they both lived in separate parts of it.In "The Break-Up," they both retain drippy romantic feelings for each other but are too pig-headed and attached to appearances to admit it. Their inflictions of pain and humiliation, then, are impure, ambiguous and, if you ask me, mostly not all that funny.They’re just bitter and inept and "real" in a way that an intended comedy can’t afford to sustain.It isn’t Aniston’s or Vaughn’s fault. Quite the contrary in fact. Vaughn’s motormouth blustering is always hilarious. And Aniston is, as always, sweetly attractive as well as quite affecting sometimes. If anything, the two are so good at getting "into character" that the laughs often stop dead.They’ve fallen into the kind of "I’m With Stupid" relationship which is increasingly common in the era of gender polarizing a la "men are from Mars, etc." He’s a big loudmouth jerk who wears "Polish and Proud" T-Shirts, starts calling her "Tonya Harding" and bringing home hoochie mamas to smoke cigars and play strip poker with him and his buddies. She’s an uptown sort who gets a "Telly Savalas" bikini wax, parades around their condo naked and hopes to make him jealous with her set-up "dates."Their early split arguments have the sickening ring of authenticity. Why did he buy three lemons at the store and not 12, as she’d asked him to? Why can’t they have a pool table, as he wants?There’s a good and evidently willing supporting cast - Ann-Margret, no less, as her mother, Jon Favreau as his best friend, a flowing fountain of relationship misinformation and bad advice.A lot of the comedy that exists is provided by John Michael Higgins as her kung fu-ing sexually ambiguous brother who sings in an a cappella group he praises as a veritable "symphony of guys." And Judy Davis plays Aniston’s art gallery employer "Marilyn Deane," who likes to talk of herself in the third person and regally refers to her gallery as "The Synagogue of Marilyn Deane."As I said, there’s intermittent good stuff here - a few good, satisfying laughs.But the bile and pain of so much of it is just too much to be funny. Or moving either, frankly, despite the cast.I have little doubt that, one way or another, "The Break-Up" proved to be therapeutic for its cast.Bad aim, that. It’s the audience that’s supposed to find it therapeutic, not the cast.Out here, as the wrangles went on and on, I felt the way you might feel if you heard it all going on at an adjoining restaurant table.I kept on wanting to yell "check please!"Copyright 1999 - 2006 - The Buffalo News

# 563 | remember da truth LOL - you’re clearly not a fan

#564 cherrylollll It’s funny, because I loved Friends, and still do in reruns! But I was indifferent to her — I liked Matthew Perry best. Actually thought Schwimmer was the biggest dweeb, didn’t like him, but was okay with her. But I haven’t liked her behavior since, and her snotty me-me-me interviews, or her shallowness or arrogance. I want to see Lisa Kudrow in something like Opposite of Sex, she was great in that. I think Perry is typecast, also, he is worse stuck than she is! But he’s not forcing his image into our faces on a weekly basis, either. Or lying to us, while trying to keep an image of sweetness. She has proven to be a selfish, bitchy, irresponsible woman, so no I turned away from her after how she treated Brad in the last years of their marriage (and i wasn’t a huge fan of his, either, just liked his looks and thought eventually he would get into a good movie!), and certainly by the time of the divorce. I wanted them to get back together, just because I wanted them to try harder, but she had been the first to "check out" of that relationship a long time ago. They just needed to move on and be happier apart. I’d like to see her hook up with John Stamos! He’s hot, and seems like a really good guy. He’s had enough time to get over Rebecca whatever her name is leaving, and the both understand having a big TV show and then struggling afterwards. I think together they could rise again and be a great couple, and maybe find some projects to do together.

from people:1-Jolie also provided another bit of news. Says her friend: "She said the baby is beautiful."2- The birth itself was "very touching," and everything went "absolutely normally," says Peter Sander, director of the Cottage Medi-Clinic. "(Angelina) was treated like any other mother-to-be. She had no special requests and ate the normal hospital food." A radiant mom and baby checked out three days after the birth. Before leaving, the new parents thanked the staff, says Sander: "Brad said, ‘It felt like home to us.’ "3-Shiloh – who is automatically a U.S. citizen with two American parents and also will be offered Namibian citizenship 4-Despite tabloid reports, Angelina’s brother James Haven was not in the hallway outside the delivery room, although he was in Namibia

I just saw a promo for Rita Cosby’s Live and Direct on MSNBC and they are going to have JV on tomorrow to discuss why he’s not allowed to see shi, and I guess his relationship with Angie. # 441 | Alexanderina+++++++++++++++++++++Egads, that fool just doesn’t get it, does he? The more he talks about AJ being mad at him, the fewer reasons she has to reconcile with him.

Man, check it out - here is what 2 of the 3 supposedly ‘good’ or ‘fresh tomato’ reviews have to say about Chin! With friends like these, who needs enemies: That is not to say Ms. Aniston is not good in this film. But when will she get some material? She tries hard and she is fun to watch but either she is stuck in a TV mode or she is stuck with second string TV writers because she can’t keep up the momentum. And how could we expect her to? Vince Vaughn is a big package to drag through an entire feature length film.Which leads us to the most remarkable billing boondoggle in years: Vaughn is credited over Aniston.And he isn’t funny. Not hardly at all. ..and two –It all matches reality, and despite the fact that I am still not a fan of Aniston (will she ever play a character that is something different from what she plays in every movie?), the film still clicked for me because it was set around a realistic situation to which many people can relate and was peppered with laughs and even some genuine emotion. See it with your better half and break up with them at the end of the movie for irony’s sake….mind you, THESE are the GOOD REVIEWS on Rottentomatos.Oh man! LOL

Does MSNBC have a board to post. I hope Jon Voight gives a live confessional about what he did to Angelina considereing he just played Pope John Paull II on television recently. I hope this is just to tase the audiennce like Meda chick said. If he hasn’t learned his lesson yet about talking about Angelina…..He’ll never learn.

morning all, # 571 | me –LOL i’ll buy People’sWhat could have happened is that she could have been a grown up and told the truthIn essence, she’s gotten exactly what she’s deserved, as THIS (the pity party, the triangle)# 478 | C.Exactly!! and now she has to pay the gruesome consequences—no box office hits, etc…all backfiring!!Could you please tell X to just SHUT-UP about BAMZS so that everybody can move on.# 540 | Not really Second that!!