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Angelina Visits Mommy Dearest
Angelina Jolie took the time yesterday afternoon to visit her mom, French actress Marcheline Bertrand, at L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills before leaving the country. (Marcheline is reportedly battling cancer and undergoing chemotherapy sessions.) Angelina will be traveling to India within the next few weeks for a reported month-long trip to shoot the upcoming film A Mighty Heart — she plays Marianne Pearl, the wife of the slain Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl. Check out more pictures in the gallery!
Angelina was spotted chatting away on her cell phone in the car after visiting her mom. Brad Pitt was spotted visiting The Ermitage Hotel later on his motorcycle. Funny inset picture, no? (:
[Pictures via x17online]
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1684 | CLINIQUA - I agree. Who knows, the Jolie-Pitts are probably in Pune already… snuck in the middle of the night when the whole of Pune is asleep. I could see them doing that to avoid the regal welcome.
It is a little weird that the media already knows where they might be staying in Pune and when they were expected to be there. Let’s hope they have lots of protection including that bodyguard who was with them in Paris. What was his name … Mickey?
1681-Piyutra
Thanks for the article.
IMO ,they are now in India. Brad or whoever planned this trip did it in utmost secrecy, the way the Pitts arrived in LA from NAMIBIA.
Paps other than natives will probably have a hard time tailing the Pitts. They have to use heat seeking detectors cause the PITTS are so
HOT……..
#1656 Anna
I love those quotes. I love going to pittcenter.com and read all those interviews. It gave me an ingisht of Brad’s character, belief etc.
1684 | CLINIQUA - I agree. Who knows, the Jolie-Pitts are probably in Pune already… snuck in the middle of the night when the whole of Pune is asleep. I could see them doing that to avoid the regal welcome.
1686 | CCCC
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4C, you’re right — I forgot that what they typically do, is let a false time and arrival sneak out when they have already gotten their ahead of time. Brad is the master of that. He did it perfectly in N.O., I recall he was back home just as we were learning of his trip to go. lol brilliant! Pune/India however seems to be so connected that they might have trouble, unless they incorporated help from a few newswires/newspapers over there which is entirely possible.
Anybody know when the last time Brad and angie were pictured - was it the visit to Mom’s house up top on the 27th?
If they left that day, they may have already been in pune 2 days at least.
Anna;
thank you for giving us this URL.
I am pasting the whole interview from Reader’s Digest. Article was printed 11/04
RD: Did you always want children?
Jolie: I always felt that I wasn’t going to be a mother. I knew that to be a parent, nothing about me could be self-destructive, or unsure day to day. I never thought I could be that balanced.
RD: So your son helped you find the balance?
Jolie: He did calm me down, and I have a sense of peace. It made me tougher, because I changed my life overnight, to make our life better. It’s the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, my son.
RD: You first saw Maddox when you went to Cambodia for the UN. Did he pick you, or did you pick him?
Jolie: I think it was mutual. I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women — people would say, “Do you want to hold my baby?” and I was like “No … ”
There were about 14 kids in the orphanage, and he was the last child I saw. They put him in my arms, and he was still asleep. Then they put him in a bath, and he stayed asleep. Then I sat with him and he opened his eyes and just stared at me for the longest time. Then he smiled.
RD: How old was he?
Jolie: Three months when I met him, seven months when he came home.
RD: Was it a big adjustment?
Jolie: I felt like I needed to earn being a mother, so in some ways I made it overly difficult. In our house, no one helped me. I’d shower while Maddox was in a bouncy thing, or try to brush my teeth with him attached to me. A few times, I came down in a blanket without a shirt on, because I couldn’t figure out how to do it while I was holding him.
RD: Your marriage to Billy Bob Thornton was breaking up around then.
Jolie: Yes, it was a difficult time for my marriage, but it was the happiest time in my life as a woman.
RD: I read that Billy Bob said about you, “I was afraid of her. She was too beautiful, too smart. She had too much integrity. I felt small next to her.” Are men afraid of you?
Jolie: I’m not very settled. The positive side of that is I’m on fire all the time, to try anything. The negative side is there isn’t a lot of time for me to sit and watch a movie and hold hands. I tend to not be inside my relationships. I tend to be more focused on the world. It takes a certain kind of man to love those things.
RD: Does a child need a father?
Jolie: I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.
RD: But you knew who your father was. You saw him sometimes.
Jolie: Yeah, but I don’t necessarily think that’s better. I didn’t have a good relationship with my father. Growing up, I saw my mother very stressed, often, and crying a lot. I didn’t want that for my son. I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child.
RD: Your father said recently that he wants to reconcile and repair the damage he’s done. Are you interested?
Jolie: No, no. I think it’s not something you tell the press; I think it’s something you do in your private life. Fortunately, I got to a place in my life where I realized that, no matter what he said, I was a good person, and a good friend, and I am a good mother. And because I’m an adoptive mother, I don’t see blood as family. I see time and love — you earn it. You can’t just call yourself a father.
I don’t hate my father. I don’t blame him for divorcing my mother, or having affairs. He went off path. I don’t respect the way he treated my family as I was growing up. But we survived, and we’re a good family. I just don’t want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.
RD: Your son has gone from being an orphan in a poor village to the adored son of a movie star. You know what the challenges are of being a movie star’s child. How are you going to deal with that?
Jolie: He will occasionally be a part of Hollywood, and visit me on the set. But he will know what the real world is, and how much his mother cares about that. He travels with me on all my UN trips. He’s already got two passports — his first one’s full.
RD: Do you want to adopt again?
Jolie: I have a dream of having children from around the world and letting them grow up together. I’m going to see how I handle two and three, because I’m a single mother, and it’s not easy. I’d love to have eight, but I don’t know if I could.
RD: Tell us about your work in the refugee camps, and your work with the UN.
Jolie: It wasn’t intentional. I went to Cambodia for Tomb Raider, and it dawned on me how much I didn’t know, that there was a country where I couldn’t walk in certain areas because it was riddled with land mines. Then I learned that my own country hadn’t signed a treaty to ban land mines. I traveled more and began reading. I read about the UNHCR — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. You realize there were refugees since the dawn of time. Nearly 20 million people are under the care of the UNHCR. I thought, How is that possible?
cont.
Reader’s Digest 11/04
RD: You’ve started foundations …
Jolie: I have the Maddox Relief Project, which deals with Cambodia, and my Jolie Foundation, which helps children in orphanages. Then there’s an animal orphanage in Namibia I work with.
RD: Do you work in places in the United States that have needs?
Jolie: I’m part Native American — Iroquois Indian on my mother’s side. I have an organization called the All Tribes Foundation that’s been trying to do a lot with Pine Ridge reservation, working through the elders. And I sponsor a poster contest every year in grade schools. Students draw pictures for Refugee Day in Washington. To get thousands of children thinking about that issue is great. If there’s a kid in school that’s from another country, instead of making fun, maybe they’ll be more open to where he came from, or what he fought through.
RD: Do you get puzzled stares in Hollywood for your involvement in this work?
Jolie: I’ll get, “What are you reading?” I’ll say, “Oh, something about Burma.” And they’ll say something like, “That’s great. Are you going on vacation?” There are a lot of good people, too, and I’d like to find a way they could help. I had a fund-raiser at my house for [banning] land mines a few years ago. There were 40 people and great speakers. I think the money raised by all those people, who had quite a lot of money, was maybe twice what I paid to put the event together. So if the party was $2,000, it raised $4,000. I know the money I have. I know what those people have. I was kind of disheartened that there was not as much generosity. So I haven’t had another fund-raiser. I’d rather just give it from my own pocket.
RD: Does being a celebrity give you a platform?
Jolie: It allows me to do certain things. If I do a movie like Tomb Raider, with a big audience, it probably helps me. If I decide to go visit a school in the middle of Kenya, or Russia, the kids will be excited. That’s better than having an Oscar.
I went through a depression when I was first famous, because what was I famous for? I didn’t do anything great. And I didn’t discover anything wonderful.
When I’m in a refugee camp, my spirit feels better there than anywhere else in the world, because I am surrounded by such truth, and family. I feel so connected to just simply being a human being. In these countries, they don’t know who I am. I am useful as a woman who’s willing to spend a day in the dirt. Maybe it was important for me to know that.
RD: Tell us about your new movie, Alexander. What drew you to the character you play?
Jolie: She’s a very interesting mother. She won’t allow Alexander to grow up with any fear. She wants him to be extremely hard and brutal; she encourages violence. It was at a time in history when, if he wasn’t strong in battle, he could get killed. Today, we can raise our sons to do what they love, even if they’re not great at it. She had to raise a son for greatness, because that was how he was going to survive.
RD: You had a pretty rough youth.
Jolie: Like everybody, I went through a teen stage, mine probably in some ways worse than others.
RD: You once had an interest in cutting yourself, of drawing your own blood.
Jolie: I think it’s hard for average people to understand things like that. I forever wanted to feel more alive. I did turn to the cutting, and the blood, because then your heart’s pumping, and you’re bleeding. You’re alive.
RD: Was there a time when you didn’t want to live?
Jolie: Absolutely. I felt very empty inside. I felt like nothing mattered to me. I still have a long way to go in figuring out who I am, but I know I can be of use to others. I can help give a voice to people who aren’t as able to speak for themselves. I can be a mom — and I know what my son’s life would be like if I didn’t make that choice. I feel useful in my life.
RD: Did the refugee camps change your perspective?
Jolie: Oh, God, yeah. I really had no idea of the imbalance of the world, and how fortunate I was. My neighbors in Cambodia are land mine victims, and they never complain about anything. They play music; they smile; they raise their kids. They all work together. You put them next to somebody who’s stuck on the freeway on his way to his big office, and it puts the world in a totally different perspective.
RD: Is there anything you haven’t done that you’d like to do?
Jolie: I’m sure I will live a life of great adventure. I will help where I can. The one thing I am not sure of is if I will do it alone. I would like to believe that I’m going to share my life with somebody, one day. There’s something bittersweet when you wake up in the middle of the night, or something amazing happens — your son walks for the first time — and you don’t have that other person who’s going to remember that forever with you. That’s kind of the one sadness. But if I only get one great love in my life, him being my son, I’ll take him.
RD: And if you get another love, what will he be like?
Jolie: The kind of man I could be with one day would have to be an amazing father, a compassionate, strong, independent individual. I want somebody who demands I be better than what I am today. I don’t have that with anyone in my life except my son. My son somehow thinks I can do everything
1680 | piyutra |
Thanks piyutra! I’m completely sure that the Jolie-Pitt’s are already there! And of course everyone was asked to not say a word about them. The anticipation for their visit is huge and the situation would be chaotic if the public knew the arrival. When they went to Namibia we didn’t know a think(except Lainey) until the day they arrived there. And at first there was a denial that they were staying in Burning Sore although it was true. Plus I don’t think Brad want all that hoopla to effect the movie in anyway and of course the protection of the children. Sooner or later we will find out but I don’t think that we will see much of them this month. But that’s what we said about Namibia too. So I guess we have to wait and see then.
Brad is such a great guy and a great parent as per Angie. He even said to People magazine that he will just be hanging out with their kids while Angie films in India. Angie on the other hand is the woman that Brad was willing to fight for and risk for even with his movie career at stake. He sees her real beauty from the inside out.
1689 | CLINIQUA - It all makes sense because they have to get there, get settled and especially the children… familarize themselves with their surroundings without having hordes of people bombarding them and invading their privacy. Remember, when they left Paris for Namibia… no one found out for about a week where they were.
1690, 1691 l micro l
Thanks for posting the interview. It seems BBT really wasn’t the kind of man who could handle Angie - or be overshadowed by her. He didn’t care for Madd either..in the end, he just wasn’t the type of person who could truly be a good father to that little boy.
It’s amazing how much Angie’s turned her life around, how passionate she is, how many people she’s helped. It takes a strong woman to do everything she’s done, to face everything she’s faced alone, and she is stronger. Its why I, and a lot of other people really admire her.
“I would like to believe that I’m going to share my life with somebody, one day. There’s something bittersweet when you wake up in the middle of the night, or something amazing happens — your son walks for the first time — and you don’t have that other person who’s going to remember that forever with you. That’s kind of the one sadness. But if I only get one great love in my life, him being my son, I’ll take him.” - I’m glad she’s finally found the one she was looking for, someone who truly loves her and their children. Braddy! :)
Lylian, loved your letter to your rep, and thank you for bringing that article on Darfur here. Sometimes we lose focus of why we admire Angie and Brad, though some people think it is only because they are beautiful, though it doesn’t hurt that they are beautiful even more so on the inside.
1630 | Amaya |
I watched Jon Stewart’s remark again and each time it cracks me up. I know you and Stardust are such big fans of his, have you guys noticed that whenever he talks about Angie, he always says, THE Angelina Jolie, like she is one of a kind. Well, she is one of a kind.
Somebody posted upthread comments made by Simon Kinberg, the screen writer for MAMS saying that you will never find common ground or bond with Angie over pop culture or gossip because Angie does not gossip. There lies the essense of the woman. When her critics say she does not have many female friends, yes she does, just not the hollywood type that you go shopping and gossip with. Women are essentially gossips, check out the gossip blog site
. What is she going to bond with an actress over, who is the hottest director, how do you make yourself more fuckable, how do you slander your ex hubby and his new found family, was there a mention of me in people or US weekly magazines?
I heard her say in an interview once that she did not read even positive tabloid reports about her just because she did not want to polute her consciousness with their garbage. She seeks out older women who have the same interests as she does and she can actually learn something from them, granted we will never see them shopping, but for some people to actually see her not out and about in hollywood with other actresses as a problem is so idiotic. It is certainly not for lack of offers, I have seen Uma Thurman sying she would love to hang out with Angie because they are young mothers and might help each other out. If Jennifer Anniston and her clique is a good representation of how insecure and insincere that some of the women are, I’d say Angie is living right. She comes across as someone who does not suffer fools gladly, I can just picture her telling Anniston to go to Africa instead of paying another Shrink, when she sees what real pain is all about, she will never have another pity party.
1685 | CCCC | - Hi CCCC, I agree, I believe that they are already in Pune, nobody have any idea when the JPs left for Pune, it could have been right after Angie and Brad visit Angie’s mom, I believe that they sneaked into Pune, like the same way they sneaked into Namibia, without anybody knowing anything for a while, plus they have the kids and I am sure that they want them to be all settled in, and then all the craziness surrounding them and the media plus the people waiting for them to show up, I think they did a sneak in job, which I think was the best possible way .
I just want to wish the the best in India and for them to be safe.
micro, thank you for the Readers Digest article. Angelina’s interviews are always such a good read.
1697 | Indie | Great Post Indie….
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OT
‘I can’t stand those articles where people spill their life story. After awhile I feel like I know more about them than their best friend does — and that’s weird. It’s better when you don’t know everything.”
Scarlett Johansson
1693 | think positive! | - Hey TP, how are you girl? Great Post and ITA
#1701 / Asha
Come now, you just lambasted the entire movie industry. Just because you don’t like the movies or one dorector lied, doesn’t make mean they lack credibility
Indie
Thank you for that great post. You really went to the core of the issue…..on one hand, we have a woman who has shown strength in adversity and another who seems to fall apart easily…..of course, it’s no wonder we are drawn to AJ.
Micro
Thanks for the article. I’ve read it but it never gets boring. The woman is just AMAZING!!!
1701 | Asha | Brad’s own words
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1701 | Asha |
Sorry girl but all this articles are not coming from gossip blogs or Tabloids or something. Most of them are from local news of India. The examples you said is about Bollywood witch mean their inner movie industry. But this is something deferent. It’s not about a Bollywood movie but a Hollywood movie. There were rumours that the film was going to be shooted in Pakistan but it didn’t because of some difficulties. Brad is the producer of the film and I’m sure that if the movie was not going to be filmed in India we would have heard a confirmation or a statement from Plan B by now. Brad was the one who said that they are going to India next on People and don’t tell me that People is a tabloid because everyone knows that the Jolie-Pitt’s are giving quotes only to that mag. So I believe that they are in India under a high level of secrecy. They did exactly the same thing when they were in Namibia
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1702 | Spam the haters
Thanks for the link. I’ve always been a fan of BBT. I enjoy his uniqueness/weirdness. I’m glad that he and Angie and Brad are friends.
>:)
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