OlderBrad Pitt By: Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz photographs are on view at the Brooklyn Museum starting this week through January 2007. The exhibit is aptly titled Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005 and will contain more than 100 photographs. Annie has the knack for making her subjects look irresistible, which is why they are her greatest fans. Check it:
Leibovitz’s 1994 shot of Brad Pitt for Vanity Fair is a case in point. The screen star sprawls across a bed draped in a velvety orange counterpane, in a room with custard-yellow walls and rust-colored floors. He wears leopard-skin pants, cowboy boots and a multi-hued striped shirt open at the chest and unbuttoned at the wrists. With one hand he strokes his long blond hair, while the other lies languorously across his waist. The pose suggests abandon, while the faraway expression in his stunning eyes signals absorption in some deep thought.
Leibovitz and Pitt collaborate on the tableau. The actor’s reverie reveals nothing; he may be trying to remember whether he watered his plants, for all the viewer can tell. He’s a professional, playing the role of “Brad Pitt,” vulnerable and wistful yet comfortingly macho artiste. For her part, Leibovitz draws on the library of art-historical references she must have in her brain. Here, she has posed Pitt to resemble the dead Thomas Chatterton, as rendered by the Victorian painter Henry Wallis.
Check out one more Brad article after the jump from USA Today!
The Golden Boy
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
These days, it’s good to be Brad.
To pay the bills, he stars in and produces films, some artsy (Running With Scissors, which he produced, opens today; Babel, in which he stars, is out Oct. 27) and some slick (Ocean’s Thirteen just wrapped filming).
To give back, he helps with Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts and speaks out about global warming and poverty.
And at the end of the day, he goes home to Angelina Jolie and children Maddox, 5, Zahara, 1, and Shiloh, 4 months.
The actor, 42, once dismissed as a hunk with chiseled abs, has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most compelling leading men.
“I saw him go from this gawky kid to this unbelievably very solid, confident guy,” says celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, who shot Pitt years ago and saw him recently during a shoot with Jolie. “I feel like he has an inner life now. Not that the other fellow wasn’t attractive — he was very attractive — but he was a kid. I just think he has grown up.”
Those close to Pitt say he’s riding high, at work and at home.
“I saw Brad two weeks ago,” says pal George Clooney. “He’s in such great spirits. He’s a really smart man who has grown into someone I’m really impressed by all the time. He’s a good friend. And what an amazing dad.”
Though Pitt’s looks still wow the ladies, his appeal now is more than skin deep.
“People love him,” says Entertainment Tonight’s Leonard Maltin. “He’s in a great place and seems to be doing everything right.”
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I’m bringing my comment from the last thread over over …hopefully Amaya will see it.
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1638 | Amaya
Hi Amaya. I’m reading backwards so I caught your post. I’m sorry I didn’t see your earlier comment about the simalarities between Jon and Angie. There are so many posts here so I had to skim through many of them. I must have skipped it. Sorry.
But yes getting back to the point…I never knew there were so many things Jon and Angie had in common or that Jon was estranged from his father. One mor thing to add to that list is that they were in the same movie together. How could you forget?
You know , I always thought people become fans of actors that somehow reflect themselves. I think the fact that Jon has worked with her and because he has a lot of things in common with her, he can understand where she is coming from.
I’ve also found from reading the comments here at JJ’s that the overall impression I got of Brad and Angelina fans were that there are intelligent, open - minded, culturally and politically informed, and have a great sense of humor. So the fans have a lot in common with Angie. I guess the sayings “You are what you attract” or “you attract what you are” applies in this case.
Jennifer Tilly scared the cr*p out of me. I’ve never seen someone so hyper! Jon couldn’t get a word in. But I’ve also never seen him that young..that’s the only reason I watched that video.
don’t like the pants, but Brads handsome as evah, Angie is 1 lucky lady, am so jealous hehe
Alexanderina :)
Thanks for the latest on our couple.
Aww….reading about them being closet in the hotel…….they sure need some time to rest and be together.
17 | Alexanderina | Me too Alex, it was a great read…. Thanks Maniston
“I saw Brad two weeks ago,” says pal George Clooney. “He’s in such great spirits. He’s a really smart man who has grown into someone I’m really impressed by all the time. He’s a good friend. And what an amazing dad.”
“He’s fantastic with his kids,” producer Jerry Weintraub says. “He’s totally involved. He takes them around; he takes them every place he goes.
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I hope all these could stop tabloid lies that he fainted, exhausted , escaping from Angie, miss chinnifer. blah, blah,blah….. Truth will always prevail.
Love more of Brad. Angie as well!
he is not aging well…
27 | Willard G. Oxtoby
by the way this picture is from 1994. So?
he is not aging well…
27 | Willard G. Oxtoby
don’t like the pants, but Brads handsome as evah, Angie is 1 lucky lady, am so jealous hehe
29 | aycaramba|
You do realize this picture is from 1994, right?
This is such a great article I wish Brad had agreed to speak to this reporter. Thanks for posting.
Bless BAMZS
Bring up Pitt’s name to anyone associated with him, and you hear stories of personal thank-you notes, congratulatory e-mails and a level of thoughtfulness unusual in a star of his caliber.
“Brad is not pretentious. There’s nothing artsy-fartsy about him,” says Running With Scissors director Ryan Murphy. “Brad is incredibly enthusiastic. I heard he’d liked the script, and I met him at the (production) offices, and here come these handmade Prada shoes with Brad Pitt attached. He said something to me like, ‘You’ve got wicked skills.’ ”
That unaffectedness, says Simon Kinberg, who wrote the 2005 hit Mr. & Mrs. Smith, “is kind of an amazing thing. It’s not a game or strategy with him.”
In particular, Kinberg remembers one long day of shooting when the exhausted cast and crew had worked into the night and saw no end in sight.
“Brad, out of the blue, started doing jumping jacks, calling out to the crew, getting everyone’s spirits up at 4 a.m. at some awful diner in downtown L.A.,” Kinberg says. “He was the guy who would cheerlead for the movie — and he didn’t have to. He’s the top, and the energy flows from the top down.”
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I love this part. And it makes me frustrated to know that such a great person gets bashed not only by the haters but also by the bitter queen X herself. Sorry..I won’t bring her up again..I had to get it out of my system. I just don’t get what the f–k she was thinking!
37 | stardust | I feel the same way, and I dispise her more each day.
1 | Hope
Thank you Hope for this great article. its a real gem for us living outside North America.
Still missing Jen ? Axx !
38 | QQQQ
Me too.
27 | Willard G. Oxtoby
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Wow, are you dumb. The picture’s from 1994 you stupid f**k. But i guess that doesn’t matter, you had your “insult” set on autopilot and would’ve said it no matter what the picture was. Drop dead you idiot.
Thanks Jared for the new thread.
What a beautiful Man. Then, and even more so Now.
I love love love the USA TODAY article.. How lovely to read all the quotes and wonderful impressions of the people in his circle.. I also LOVE what Matt Damon said of Brad and Angie recently..
I love this part. And it makes me frustrated to know that such a great person gets bashed not only by the haters but also by the bitter queen X herself. Sorry..I won’t bring her up again..I had to get it out of my system. I just don’t get what the f–k she was thinking!
37 | stardust
ITA, And yet he never sued any of this nasty tab.
Aww….reading about them being closet in the hotel…….they sure need some time to rest and be together.
30 | BeeLoved
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I agree, time away from the kids and just to be together for some mommy and daddy time, so sweet
Thanks JJ for the new thread, we really needed it :lol:
31 | QQQQ | - Yes it was, some of them, I haven’t rad before.
I am off to bed good night 4Q
correction to my last post: I meant “read” not “rad” :lol:, damn I really need to go to bed.
he is not aging well…
27 | Willard G. Oxtoby
THIS WILLARD IS AN ANUSTON FAN. HE/SHE/IT IS ON THE ANISTON THREAD & BASHING THE BAMZS FANS! YET ANOTHER ANUSTON FAN WITH A NEW NAME!
34 | hmmm
LOL!!! you busted them so good. I love it so much. Bravo hmmmm, bravo.
Alexanderia :)
Where is this report from? Any pics from the article? i love how this part too “Sources said Angelina and Brad might take some time out to select a location for their next film” :) So we r gonna see their collaboration again!! Yippee!!!
what time is it there? For me it 1p.m. - lucnch time and i am at work :)
don’t like the pants, but Brads handsome as evah, Angie is 1 lucky lady, am so jealous hehe
29 | aycaramba |
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Aycaramba, as it’s said in the article below the pic, they wanted to create a “tableau” like a painting by that Victorian painter Henry Wallis. I don’t know about the painting or the artist himself, but I guess the dominant color in that painting must be the same in the photo. I don’t think BP, who is known for his good taste in clothes, would wear that kind of outfit in real life. But then again, I don’t really know. i only started to pay attention to him since MaMS.
What great articles those are about Brad in USA Today. Just great. Yiou know they’re legit because Brad’s friends and collegues are talking.
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