Brad Pitt: Ocean's 13 Set

# 1093 | Original jpf JPF - I don’t get TCM. I’m too cheap to pay for digital cable!That Mary Astor story in Hollywood Babylon? I remember it vaguely. It’s been donkey years since I read the book and I lost my copy in a move about 10 years ago. "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is another of my favorite Bogart movies. I love the way Bogart’s character slowly goes insane from gold-dust fever. And of course that movie has one of the all-time classic lines of dialog, "Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!"As for "Casablanca". My sisters are all big Bogie fans, too, and we used to watch Casablanca and recite the dialog along with the characters! What a riot because that entire movie was written as it was filmed. They writers would literally write a scene, give it to the actors to learn their lines and then shoot the scene half an hour later. They had no idea how that movie was going to end until the very last few days of shooting. No one working on the movie had a clue how it would turn out and it’s one of the all-time classics. They shot that movie in about 6 weeks and it was under-budget. Nobody could do that in the current HW. Nobody. Everybody’s too tied up in their "artistic expression" and all that bullcrap.

# 1101 | tabloids Dang…lucky you. All I get here is that annoying ET. I just want to smack everybody on that show!

Hey PT, I *do* teach adults, LOL! I work in a college. Teaching kids? Are you kidding? My idea of hell is to be locked up for 8 hours a day with other people’s kids! Nooooo! I love babies, and yeah, I loved working in Labor & Delivery, but once they get old enough to really be a pain in the ass I don’t want alot to with them, except my own two of course, and I can keep them straight. I wound up in academia because I loved all the patient teaching I did as a Labor nurse. I had a killer response to what we were talking about earleir today, and then our network went down, stupid Comcast!Anyhoo, does anyone else know anything about that Marilyn Manson mask thing I mentioned?Can ya’ll actually believe there are haters posting in the Maddox Birthday thread? UNBELIEVEABLE! I thought they would at least have enough decency to stay away from that thread in particular. Guess I was wrong. Geez, what can they have against a child that has never done anything to offend their moral sensibilities except simply exist? I. Do. Not. Get. These. People.

I love the Bogota dance in the video. I love the whole presentation and I’ve watched it several times. Brad has got moves and Angie just knows how to bring out the best out of Brad.

Hey PT, I *do* teach adults, LOL! I work in a college. Teaching kids? Are you kidding? My idea of hell is to be locked up for 8 hours a day with other people’s kids! # 1106 | dragonfly++++++++++++++++++Dragonfly….I know you teach college…that’s why I called them "kids"! I don’t know about your school, but the kids that come through our department act like they’re 12 and still need their noses wiped! They think we’re their parents and are going to take them by the hand and lead them through the perilous waters of graduate school! I look at them and shake my head. The undergrads are even worse. I definitely couldn’t teach for a living. Those kids would all flunk out!

October 9, 2000 - eYada.com’s Chaunce Hayden was commenting with Steppin Out’s Colleen Christian that after Jennifer Aniston cut her hair she looks awful and that he’s sure that Brad Pitt doesn’t like it. He said the hair was the only good thing about her. [We haven’t seen the new hairdo yet, but we’ll post pics when availableFebruary 17, 2001 - The Star reports that during a game of truth or dare at Brad and Jen’s Hollywood Hills mansion with friends, Brad was asked if he preferred Aniston’s hair long or short… Brad said long. Since then, Jennifer decided to get hair extensions, but will wait a few weeks so Brad wouldn’t feel guilty.Was the "extentions ruined my hair" another passive aggressive dig at Brad?

FROM FAME TRACKER The Mediator for August 5, 2005"Jen Finally Talks!"And so we turn to the September 2005 issue of Vanity Fair. Let’s see — is there anything in here that might appeal to the Fametracker reader?Graydon Carter’s monthly conspiracy rambling, complete with a bonus picture of the month’s featured starlet in her underwear…a short spotlight on a good-looking polo player and what products he favors (jeans: Diesel; watch: Rolex; car: Porsche)…Christopher Hitchens on those bewildering Red States (Nascar? Whaddup with that?)…James Wolcott on porn bios (porn stars! They can’t write!)…a piece about crooked Marine recruiting…Karl Rove is a big fat liar…hmmm…anything? Anything?Oh. Yes. There’s some piece in here about Jennifer Aniston.Let us say straight off that we can’t blame Vanity Fair, or the writer in question, Leslie Bennett, for the article on Aniston presented herein. Any way you slice it, this exclusive interview is a formidable coup — so much so that tabloids from the New York Post to the US/Star/People triumvirate — or, as we like to call it, Ustarple — have trumpeted snatches of quotes from the piece as though they were radical new translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls.This issue will no doubt fly — fly — off the newsstands. When I stopped in a Manhattan magazine store earlier this week to see if the issue was yet on sale (for I too needed to devour it! Pronto!), the weary clerk answered my panicked query with a testy "Tomorrow, tomorrow," clearly indicating this was not the first or fourth or fortieth time that someone had come looking for the magazine that day.And so: a tip of the hat. This article is less…well, an article than a tremendous publicity coup. The only person who stands to benefit more from its publication than does Vanity Fair — Jen Finally Talks! — is, of course, the finally-talking Jen herself.For those of you who’ve yet to read it, or may be inclined to skip it altogether (pagans! Luddites! Communists!) here’s a short summary:Jennifer Aniston: Plucky, tough, sexy, modest, maternal, valiant, wronged but not a victim. Most definitely not a victim.Brad Pitt: Lying, conniving, *****-*******, emotionally stunted, two-faced, hard-hearted ****.Now you may get on with your day.It should be pointed out, however, all this preamble not withstanding, that there’s nary a sentence — not a paragraph, a word, a quote — in this piece that could not have been blissfully written by Aniston’s publicity team. We at Fametracker would love to know what veto power Team Aniston had over the photos, the layout, the quotes ("Why, none! None!," we imagine VF protesting) but, in the end, it probably didn’t matter. There’s no agenda here except to present Jen’s side of the story: airbrushed, polished, and stridently advanced, in the places where she discretely demurs, by her friends, allies and, occasionally, anonymous sources, who may or may not have been prodded to participate by the industrious Team Aniston itself.It is not our place to question the veracity of this account. It is only our place to point out excerpts such as these:On Angelina Jolie: "the twice-divorced Jolie — previously known as a tattooed vixen with a taste for bisexuality, heroin, brotherly incest, mental institutions, and wearing her husband’s blood…"On Brad Pitt: "Pitt could have done more to refute the mean-spirited rumor that his wife wouldn’t bear a child…"On photos of Pitt with Jolie and her son Maddox: "As Pitt publicly flaunted the instant family he had created…"On Aniston’s friends: "Her friends are filled with admiration for the way she’s handled the whole mess…"On Aniston herself: "Although she isn’t talking to Pitt these days, Aniston remains in regular contact with his mother, whom she loves dearly…Aniston is struggling to find a deeper meaning in the debacle…Aniston remains calm and thoughtful…she still has faith in the redeeming power of love itself…’I believe in happily ever after.’"In this corner: Twice divorced! Bisexuality! Heroin! Mental institutions! Mean-spirited rumors! Public flaunting!And in the other corner, wearing the saintly trunks: Mother loving! Admiration! Deeper meaning! Calmness! Thoughtfulness! Happily ever after! The redeeming power of love!Why, it hardly seems like a fair fight at all.Damn that vicious vixen, Angelina Jolie, who’s blinded the world into believing she’s a caring mother and strong woman, through shameless stunts such as, er, appearing in a flattering photo spread with her son in Vanity Fair just a few months ago.Damn that duplicitous Brad Pitt, who will no doubt never again grace this magazine’s cover, shirtless, dripping, smiling, with a movie to promote!Let us denounce those villains and sweep Aniston into our understanding arms, as she comes to us, wounded, in her, um, pajama top and black undies and professionally tousled hair.In fact, if there’s any message in this article — besides the, you know, Aniston = angel, Pitt = devil, Jolie = homewrecking heroin-fiend brother-******* Delilah message — it’s that, while Aniston may well have the best publicists in the world, she could sure use a better joke writer. Of Pitt’s spiky blond hair, she’ll "toss off a crack" with a "sly smile": "Billy Idol called — he wants his look back." Ho, snap! No you did not!Wait, there’s a call on line two. David Spade called, and he wants his joke back.And when the writer, Bennett, helpfully prods Aniston for a quotable quip, citing Nicole Kidman’s totally-not-scripted remark on Letterman, after splitting with Tom Cruise, that she was looking forward to "wearing high heels again," Aniston throws out a jab of her own, complete with a "wry smile" (not to be confused with the sly smile): "I can have a comfortable couch."You what? Comfortable who?Oh, yes. Because Brad likes harsh, uncomfortable modern furniture of the type never featured in Vanity Fair. The *******!Is Brad Pitt even a human being?Needless to say, nowhere in this moving paean to the tug and tumult of the human heart does Bennett mention that Aniston is, like, the eighth richest woman in the world. Instead, it’s all "it was so hard for them to find time together," with very little "they’re so rich they could take ten years off and vacation in Bali full-time if they so chose." Because, you know, the only thing more gruelling than the schedule of a sitcom star — those brutal, twenty-four-week work years! — is the schedule of an ex-sitcom star, forced to survive on her syndication millions.And so it goes. But did we rush out and grab our copy of the issue off the quickly dwindling stack on day one? Yes, we did. Did we read this Puff the Magic Profile in one orgiastic sitting on the hot and stuffy subway ride home? Yes, we did. Do we now feel like we’re one iota closer to understanding the "real" story behind Brad and Jen’s break-up? No, we do not. Do we care one whit, as we toss Vanity Fair aside, barely sated, and grab at the nearby mound of salty and salacious Ustarples, gobbling them up like roasted peanuts and pausing only for a quick look at brave Jessica’s new beach-ready bod? (Nick! What Are You Thinking?!)No. No, we really don’t. - MFF SUMS IT UP DOESN’T IT?

BBT in ‘05Thornton happy for Jolie and her new child August 1 / SourceBilly Bob Thornton is happy for his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, who adopted an orphaned baby girl, Zahara Marley, in Ethiopia last month. "I love it. I knew for a while that she was going to adopt," Thornton tells People magazine in its Aug. 8 issue. "She cares so much for kids who don’t have anything.""Any kid Angelina adopts is going to have a great mother," adds Thornton, who stars in the new movie "Bad News Bears."Before their split in 2002, Jolie and Thornton adopted a baby boy, Maddox, from Cambodia. Jolie is often seen carrying Maddox in her arms.Thornton says he doesn’t get to see Jolie and Maddox much."She’s all over the world and I live in California," he says. "I see them every time she comes to town, but that hasn’t been very often in the last couple of years."Brad Pitt, Jolie’s "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" co-star, accompanied the actress when she picked up her daughter."Nothing surprises me," Thornton said.

More old news:The long distance, jet-setting relationship between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may be taking its toll on the hunky actor if an item in the tabloid Celebrity Living, is to be believed. The mag reports that Pitt broke down while on the set of "The Assassination of Jesse James" in Calgary in an alleged panicked cell phone call to Angie."I can’t live without you," Brad reportedly pleaded to Angie in what is described as an animated cell phone call.Is this where one usually inserts the term whipped?Brad was reportedly distraught looking before getting Angie on the phone in the courtyard outside of the production office. He allegedly was struggling with his scenes before taking the break to make his phone call.Apparently just the sound of the sultry Jolie’s voice got Brad back on track as the actor then reportedly calmed down and was back to work on the set according to a "source" cited by the tabloid. "He seemed calmed," after the call an onlooker spilled to CI.One other note from the magazine: Brad apparently spent "months" away fro Jen -ex, his former wife of four and a half years. Perhaps he doesn’t want to go that route with Angie.Angie and Brad have been burning up the skies trying to spend as much time together as possible as he works on this film in Canada and Ang works on "The Good Shepard" in New York.

I just cannot read all these posts — I read the equivalent of 3 or 4 pages. But it strikes me — why does a then 40 year old man need to define himself and get marital counseling from a twice-divorced then 28 year old woman? Is Brad a total wuss? God, whoever said he morphs into his partners was right on. God help me if at 40 I would seek refuge and life advice from an impetuous 20-something. The energy does begin to go, the brain chemistry changes and you mellow out the ping-pong behavior in your mid 30’s. Hopefully with 3 kids Ms. Jolie will mellow pretty fast or they will not be on the same bio-rhythm/wave-length.

# 1119 | evangelica Maybe you should have kept reading because BRAD NEVER WENT TO ANGELINA FOR MARRIAGE ADVICE. It seems you may have skip some posts in those three pages because I certain a post after the one you read correct than infomation. Please in the future if you are not going to follow all the posts, then don’t make judgement.

# 1119 | evangelicaDid any of them ever said one of them asked for and the other one delivered marital counselling? If not, wouldn’t it be better not to make judgment on other peoples lives based solely on the writings of tabloids? If the said “impetuous 20-something” is someone that in her middle 20’s started using her impetuosity to bring awareness to some very worthy causes, causes that many times deal with life threatening situations, causes that deal with basic survival of human beings, causes that are completely overlooked by “normal” people in their 20-somethings (and even some older “normal” people) it would probably (in the least) be interesting to know her opinions, no matter your age.

This stupid Aniston fans just won’t give up. They will enter to any arguments & scenario of this whole saga. It’s HISTORY STUPID HATERS & ANISTON FANS! Move on & maybe your ***** will move on too & stop her no so obvious & sometimes so obvious whining. She gets to my nerves & her fans..they all go & jump in the lake!