Brad Pitt's Parents in Namibia

# 70 | bradsnotm&z’sdad |Brad IS there dad in everyway that counts. He personifies the true meaning of the word dad, and will soon have the legal papers to prove it. Angie has stated that Brad is a great parent. The name change and the soon to be adoption is proof that she has no doubts about "giving up control of them" It takes more than a piece of paper to be a dad to someone. This is a family.. GET USED TO IT!

#33 / Aveeno1I agree with it’s nice that the Pitts are there. At least the rift in the family rumor can die a quick death. I don’t understand why people think an eX wife can come between a mother and her son or that it’s unfair to the parents they had their baby in thousands of miles away. When my sister in law was pregnant, my mama was on the phone with her almost everyday….the woman did not care about the time difference, she’d call anytime…my brother had to warn her off. He told her if she didn’t stop, they’ll stop picking her calls. You know what she said, "well is a good thing you’re in America with all the nice technology, I’ll just get one of your siblings to connect me" The woman is relentless. She came to the US a week before my nephew was born. I understand about the frictions with mother in law but as long as the new mama is given her space, I don’t think it will be an issue. When my mum was leaving my sister in law cried…..she wanted my mum to extend her stay. #34 / FriedafloLol….I just had the image of the older Pitts trying to be all sneaky with the paps, in order to be under the radar…poor folks, they’re not as spry as the young ‘uns. #35 / Original CuriousHey OC, She’s my oldest sister and I’m telling you right now, she is sweet to a fault. My other sister is too but the other first one is something else. They think I’m sooo westernized and so up in your face. A few yrs back, my sister got her purse stolen and by miracle they got the guy who did it, when they contacted my sister, I was so happy. I mean, there I was going on and on about the punishment the guy should get and my sister says, she’s really over it but her husband persuades her to just go to the police station. So she went, found out the boy was only 17 and learnt more about him….then she made up her mind that she wasn’t pressing charges, you won’t testify and will have absolutely nothing to do with the "poor boy" being punished for circumstances. She’s a family counselor and is very onto the "motivation" crap. Asking questions like what will motivate you to do that, when you know it is wrong" In her book, everyone is inherently good but things beyond our control makes us walk on the dark side. Oh if I want to get her all riled up, I tell her some people are born on the dark side…I mean they have to be, how else do you explain the nasty posters raining curses on children? I showed her one of that silly handicapped head’s post and she felt sorry for her……imagine that, said the person must be motivated by too much anger to write these things. Then she wondered what could have happened to this idiot….I’m standing looking shocke likeare you kidding me, this person is evil pure and simple, child of the devil, satan worshipper. She says she doesn’t believe that. *Shakes head* When they heard what she did at the station, my brothers were upset, you know going on about it being idiotic….her husband was like "hey I’m fine as long as she didn’t give him her business card" he said it so matter of factly, we all bursted out laughing. I bet my sister went in her head "Oh snap! how could I have forgotten"

Geez…WE GET IT…X fans think the movie is great…blah blah blah…shouldn’t you be posting that on an X thread!!! Go convince someone else she’s worth watching….LOL…you’ll have absolutely NO LUCK, here!

If TBU does have a moderately good opening this weekend, it is only because people are curious about the alleged relationship between the leads and all the tabloid hoopla surrounding them AND brangelina. If the movie is really as crappy as reviews state, then by word of mouth, next weekend it will have like a 70% drop off! So there you go, perhaps a glimmer of hope opening weekend, only to be burried by superman and the rest of the summer box office.

Dedicated to JA Fans & Brad/Angelinas’ Fans: "LETTING GO"I have learned about letting go, not just through books or ideas or from what others have told me about the need to do so, but from my own life experiences. I have discovered two very significant things: Letting go never seems to get easy, and growth will not happen unless I can really surrender. Sadly enough, I have to keep relearning this because I like to hold on. Just when I think I have finally come to the full realization of how necessary it is to let go, I see that I am once again holding onto something too tightly and there I am again, not free to grow!Oftentimes, when I have spoken about the need of letting go, I can see confusion and concern in the eyes of the people present. Questions are raised: Does this mean that I shouldn’t care anymore? Should I stop praying for my daughter’s marriage difficulties? Do I have to block out all the past from my memory of a loved one who’s died? What happens to my own will and my responsibility if I let go? Am I supposed to be completely passive and allow others to harm me by their decisions?To let go does not mean that we give up or that we do not care. Rather, it means that we choose to use our energies in another way, giving them another direction. Instead of concentrating on what has been hurtful, we look to what will be life-giving. We wish that life could have been otherwise or that things could be different. But it cannot be, so we accept that fact and move forward. We continue to care deeply but we also realize that we cannot change what is. All the struggling and grieving of our hearts will not bring back a loved one who has died, or erase a failure of ours, or keep a child from growing up or a parent from aging.lETS FOR TODAY WISH JENNIFER/VINCE’S BREAK UP MOVIE A HUGE BOX HITS AND PITT’S FAMILY & JOLIES FAMILY ENJOYS THE WELCOMING OF THE NEWBORN SHILO. Thank you to all readers & posters to this site.

# 85 | Going Down | - ITA with you, this weekend is going to big for it because of all the interest in the couple but after this weekend I believe it was drop way down, remember Damian(Omen) is coming out next week

The Break-Up (2 stars out of 4) BY ROGER EBERT / June 2, 2006 "The Break-Up" hints that the broken-up couple will get back together again, but that doesn’t make us eager for a sequel. The movie stars Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston as Gary and Brooke, a steady couple who have many reasons to break up but none to get together, except that they fall in love. Since the scenes where they’re together are so much less convincing than the ones where they fall apart, watching the movie is like being on a double-date from hell.Gary is obsessed with the Chicago Cubs and video games, and thinks if they moved the dining table into the living room, that would make space for a pool table. He and his brothers run a Chicago tour bus company, and he is the tour guide. Brooke works in a high-powered Chicago art gallery. They break up because she says he never listens to her, or appreciates all the work she does around the house, or how she cooks his meals and picks up his laundry. All true, but these are not merely faults, they are his essential nature, and he will never, ever, be interested in her world. Not when he thinks Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the "16th Chapel."True, their arguments are funny, at least while they’re still getting along. They have a fight right at the beginning that had me nodding my head and recognizing my own shortcomings. At the 30-minute mark, I thought the movie had a chance, but it grew dreary and sad, especially when they both receive spectacularly bad advice from their best friends (Joey Lauren Adams and Jon Favreau). There’s a stretch when Gary’s sleeping on the sofa surrounded by dirty underwear and she’s trying to make him jealous by being picked up at home by a series of handsome studs. Would any woman really do this? The way to make a guy jealous is by seeming to really like someone else, not acting like first prize on Match.com.Gary, on the other hand, tries to make Brooke jealous by hiring hookers to join his buddies in a strip-poker game. Believe it or not, this doesn’t work, either. By the time they have a heart-to-heart, it’s way too late because both hearts are broken, and it isn’t a pretty sight.What the movie lacks is warmth, optimism and insight into human nature. I point you to "Fever Pitch" (2005), with Jimmy Fallon as a schoolteacher and Red Sox fan, and Drew Barrymore as a business executive. It begins by showing them really and truly falling in love, and then baseball season starts and she realizes he is two guys: the guy she fell in love with and the Red Sox fan. If she can accept both of these personalities, and he can accept her needs, they can repair their problems.The problem with Gary is that he has only the one personality, and even if he starts listening to her and thanking her for picking up his dirty socks, they will still be profoundly incompatible. For the movie to work, we would have to like the couple and want them to succeed. Despite some sincere 11th-hour soul-searching by Gary, we’re sorry, but we don’t want them back together, we want them to end their misery.The supporting cast adds variety, to be sure, but of a strange kind. Occasionally, supporting actors will be so effective you want the movie to be about them. "The Break-Up" is filled with actors who seem to be auditioning for that role. John Michael Higgins, as Brooke’s brother, is the leader of a men’s choir and tries to turn a family dinner party into a sing-along; this scene might be funny in theory, but in practice it’s ungainly. Favreau and Adams, as the best friends, get whiplash from a plot that requires them to give one kind of advice at the beginning and another kind toward the end, as if they hadn’t been listening to themselves. And Judy Davis, as the art gallery owner, behaves as if she should be carrying a whip. The best supporting performance is by Vincent D’Onofrio, as Gary’s older brother: He does exactly what is required, finds the right notes and is so convincing we hardly notice he is cleaning his ears with separate handkerchiefs.That Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are such likable actors compounds the problem. They’re not convincing as sadistic meanies, and when the movie makes them act that way, we feel sorrier for them than for their characters. Their problems start in the first scene, at Wrigley Field, where Gary is a jerk who forces Brooke to accept a hot dog she doesn’t want and then insults her date. Why would a girl end up with a guy who acts like that the first time she meets him? We never find out. The next time we see them, they’re living together. Must have been some courtship.

# 92 | brandingyawn…you bore me. Thanks for playing.

i dont care this film. i just hated PR form of the film.i dont like vince more than jen after the film.

# 92 | branding ROFLMAOPIMPwould you SERIOUSLY like us to come over to X threads and post? Most of us have made it part of our credo to NOT do that……just let us know…..

THIS IS WHY JEN FANS ARE IN A BAD MOOD THIS MORNING: FROM THEIR HOLY BIBLE THE NATIONAL LEDGERThe Break Up’ is Put Up or Shut Up for Jennifer Aniston ________________________________________By Laura C. MillerJun 2, 2006 The time has come for Jennifer Anniston to do a good movie again. Even a decent movie would be a welcome change from the dogs she has put out since ‘Friends’ ended. With the exception of ‘The Good Girl’, in which she was excellent, she hasn’t shined, lit up the screen or in any way shown cinema star power. The only reason she is a blip on the movie screen is from people complaining about her.From what I’ve read, the news about The Break Up is not good. Test audiences supposedly hated the ending and it was refilmed to reflect, hopefully, something that audiences won’t hate. I won’t know, because I’m not going. After ‘Derailed’, I vowed not to give Jen any more of my box office dollars. Against my better judgment I saw ‘Friends With Money’. One word can some it up – dismal. Her character was awful, as was her character in ‘Derailed.’ What’s more, she is not believable as any of these people. On the contrary, I totally believed her in ‘The Good Girl’.***Unfortunately, when actors/actresses get cast in a wonderful, long running television series, it can be very difficult for them to go on in other entertainment roles. The Seinfeld cast is a prime example of this curse. It will be interesting to see what happens with the cast from Will and Grace. Will Mischa Barton be able to break out of her Marissa chains? I don’t think she will have a problem. She got out while the getting was still good.My question is, who is choosing Jennifer Anniston’s movies? Does her manager read the scripts first then pass them on to her like E and Vince in Entourage? If so, Jen needs to review the management talent pool because frankly, with these movies she is doing, I think she is embarrassing herself.***I must say, I don’t blame her for falling for Vince. I’ve always found him to be cool and handsome and real. I considered seeing ‘The Break Up’ just to study their chemistry, but I’ve decided that I truly don’t want to contribute to Jen’s box office dollars, as, God forbid, she might think she is making good movies! I consider it my duty as a movie goer to show support by NOT going. Sometimes what you don’t do is just as telling as what you do decide to do.So put up or shut up Jen. It’s now or never.

Here is how TBU rated at rottentomatoes:Critics 32%Cream of the crop 18%Users 45%Rating: ROTTEN