Angelina Jolie Filming on the Set of ‘A Mighty Heart’

56 | Eyes

So…is Gala now the European J-P experts or what? Brad collapsed on the set of O13 in Vegas and NO USA TABLOID HAD THE STORY before Gala? Yeah…right…sure….

Report of yet another pap complaning about security “doing their job.” I personally think Mickey should get a bonus for each head he cracks since the paps don’t seem to respect anyones request yet want to _itch when they get their arses handed to them.

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Photographer: “I Was Punched on Jolie Set”

Published - Oct 13 2006 5:16PM EDT || AP

By JEEJA PUROHIT - Associated Press Writer

PUNE, India(AP) An Associated Press freelance photographer says security guards protecting a movie set where Angelina Jolie is shooting her latest film punched and threatened him at gunpoint Friday, in the second run-in between the star’s security and the news media this week. Jolie is in the western Indian city of Pune to film scenes for “A Mighty Heart,” a movie about the life of slain journalist Daniel Pearl.

Most of the scenes are being filmed inside a spacious bungalow in the Pune suburb of Aundh, chosen because the area resembles Karachi, Pakistan, where Pearl and his wife Mariane spent time.

The bungalow is located inside a gated community that has been largely closed to the media.

The photographer representing the AP, Guautum Singh, said he gained legitimate entry to the area and was accosted by security guards after giving Jolie his business card.

Singh said he was down the road from the bungalow when he spotted Jolie in the back of a taxi while filming a scene from the movie. When the filming paused, he said, he put down his cameras and approached Jolie to give her his card, which she accepted through the window of the taxi before it drove off.

At that point, he said he was approached by one American security guard and two Indian guards, all of whom verbally abused him. One of the Indian guards punched him in the face and he swung back, also hitting the guard in the face, Singh said.

Then, he said, the other Indian guard “grabbed me and the first guard punched me again.”

Singh said the first Indian guard then drew a gun and said he would be shot if he did not leave. The American guard did not take part in the scuffle, but witnessed the incident, the photographer said.

Singh said he was then let go, and he collected his equipment and departed. Jolie did not witness the incident, he said, adding that his face was bruised under his right eye but he was otherwise uninjured.

The altercation was not the first that Jolie’s security has had with a photographer since she and Brad Pitt arrived late last week in Pune, where hordes of photographers, television cameramen and reporters have followed their every move.

On Oct 8., as the couple was leaving the Le Meridian hotel where they are staying, one of their security guards manhandled a British photographer trying to take their photo, grabbing the man by his neck and verbally abusing him.

Video of the incident was broadcast on India’s CNN-IBN news channel, and the Hindustan Times newspaper identified the photographer as Sam Relph of Barcroft Media. The newspaper reported the security guard had shouted at photographers to stop shooting the couple and grabbed Relph when he refused to put down his camera.

The couple’s children _ Maddox, 5, Zahara, 18 months, and 4-month-old Shiloh Nouvel _ have accompanied them on the trip to Pune, about 100 miles south of Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment hub.

Dan Futterman portrays Daniel Pearl in the movie that will be co-produced by Plan B, a production company founded by Pitt and his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Aniston.

The movie is based on an adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s book, “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl.”

The Wall Street Journal reporter, Pearl, was abducted and murdered in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militancy.

We only hear one side of the story.

Remember, a judge has to hear both sides.
So I wont worry about this one-sided story.

#104 / FYI
Ugghhh! Can do stop with the co-owned with ex wife bit? Is too much to ask that they update their stupid files? Aaah….I guess the triangle won’t be complete with her.

By the way….I am laughing my behind at the Gala Mag Fic. Jeez, they made BP look as whiny as Ms. Whiner Aniston didn’t they? “Oh baby….I fainted at work today”. Thanks eyes for the translation.

Thanks Jared, Ell and Estelle. You guys are the best.

104 | FYI
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There are all kinds of WRONG in that story. They must hire some second rate dumbed down ‘reporters’ at UPI….the photog that Mickey grabbed was shooting HIM not ‘the couple’ they weren’t even around. Plus, mentioning Maniston when she is no longer involved in any way, shape or form with the company - using the word ‘founded’ (which I have NEVER heard of EVER! - Plan B was Brad’s baby from the start, her sit-com *ss was just attached so she could get work!) — I mean come on, that’s Brad’s company, PERIOD…and in my opinion, this very BIASED ‘writer’ of this article just blew his/her cover….plus, if this guy is banged up - why not show a picture. I bet there are all sorts of poor eager ragtag pseudo photogs over there willing to step in front of a car, a bodyguard or whomever to rake in some bucks. I’m with a lot of folks that say India is just too much of a wild card…it’s not worth the frenzy and chaos, either of the crowds or of the security trying to control the crowds.

she looks happy wish her the best

angie 4 life!

102 | Passing Through

yes, that was what I was wondering too. Hmm,perhaps we should send Hassel(what’s his name again?) over to the Gala Headoffice to sing “Du biest alles was ich habe auf der weeeeelt”, that might be frightning enough to get GALA on the right track. :-)

115 | African Girl
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is good!

113 | FYI |

Yes.At least Mickey or anyone of the Jolie-Pitt’s private security wasn’t involved this time.The incident was between the pap and the tow Indian guards.

The bungalow is located inside a gated community that has been largely closed to the media.
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Paparazzis and the media know already that the shooting area is closed to them and yet they are provoking the security everyday to get into trouble and then whine to the press.There was an article posted here that said the they increased the police around the community and they know that as well.We already have seen pictures from the set.Brad and Angie went on that ricksaw ride and the paps took 1000 pictures.What else do they want.Greedy m*********ers!

The taming of the guards
Wednesday, August 16,

Till just a few years ago, even in the bigger cities, homes were guarded by the ubiquitous chowkidar, often a tough-looking fellow, carrying little more than a large stick.

Guns, usually old-fashioned two bore rifles, were only found with armed and uniformed — and often old — security men outside banks and such like. For the rest, we all banked on good policing.

No longer. The private sector has taken over maintenance of security, a reflection of the lack of faith in the state’s law and order machinery. But, are we any safer now?

The incident at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s bungalow, where one of his security guards shot another dead following an apparent altercation, underscores the vulnerability of the growing private security system. Both the guards were employees of a private firm, one of many who provide security to companies, individuals and housing societies.

Of the hundreds that come to Mumbai daily looking for jobs, it is often the unlettered and the unskilled who, unable to get other employment, end up as security guards.

Often their antecedents are not verified, to say nothing of their psychological state. Long working hours, usually at low pay and benefits, and a job without any kind of esteem, take their toll on them.

The government has tried to regulate this business which has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. But while the authorities say the security firms have not co-operated by registering their employees, the agencies claim it is only a few black sheep who are giving the profession a bad name.

Indeed, the employer of the two security guards involved in the latest incident has pointed out that such cases are extremely rare.

While the growth of the sector is inevitable, given the growing climate of insecurity in the city, there is need for strict regulation and even stricter compliance. A security guard has access to homes, financial institutions and other commercial organisations.

He is often armed. It is important that their employers as well as the clients of agencies have a good idea of the guard’s antecedents and his mental condition.

The latest incident should scare everyone. It also exposes the vulnerability of the person who expects to be guarded and is paying good money for it. The industry must clean up its act and the government must ensure this is done. Otherwise, this will not be the first time a guard uses his gun on the wrong person.

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1047628&CatID=19

119 | African Girl | AG that is too funny what the crap did you say… ROTFLMAO , heck come Nov 1st you are the next mayor of BAMZSville, please tell me what you said on YG, I am still laughing OK, OK I’ll stop….. :lol:

125 | Alexanderina

I totaly agree with you. I will feel much better when the family comes back to the US.