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 For her part, Leibovitz draws on the library of art-historical references she must have in her brain.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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76 | alana |
alana I have tow words for you… Life&Style.
The trashiest tabloid after NE and Star.This tabloid wrote that Brad had a breakdown on O13 set and GC told him to take it slow but here we have George saying :
“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.”
What this magasine prints is just pure bullshit.
77 | Anna |
Great article.So they spend the whole Wednesday alone in the hotel.And Braddy daddy was working on Thursday while Angie was resting from the hot and steamy Wneensday night and getting ready for another one.HOT! LOL!
good morning all BAMZS fans over there!
i love that they were together for the add japanese commercial
they are great and they are living their lives
i love this couple
Thanks Just Jared. You have saved the sanity of the BAMZS fans. At least until this thread reaches 600 posts, then it is chaos again. Just kidding. Thanks Again. I have enjoyed reading all the articles about BP. He is really moving forward with his life and is happy with AJ and the children. Those articles are a good reason to ban the tabs. Best wishes to BAMZS and safe travel.
bless you, jared!
Good Morning All and thanks JJ and Audrey for the new thread. Great article, I love it.
Thank you Hope for posting the article.
Thanks Alana :)
i am even enjoying the Life Style Weekly even if it is not true. And why is that so….. ‘cos i see our hero in action : “Brad Pitt rushed to her side and called for a break so she could recover,”. It tells how much our Man feels for his love “Brad says it frightened the life out him.”
And definitely, how great an actress Jolie is : “Angelina really threw herself into it and was overcome with emotion”. i can’t wait to watch this movie.:)
Anna :) Thanks for the news……i just love how this pair continue to be together!! :)
85 | BeeLoved |
I know, even though the story is almost certainly bs, it still is romantic thinking of him rushing to her side like that… being so worried and devoted. LOL and of course I started thinking, hmmm what if a new baby is on the way with all this faintng supposedly going on!! :lol:
Thank you Jared and Audrey! We sure needed a new thread!
Re the L&S report - when I read Brad flew a doctor in I’ll believe it.
81 | bdj
ITA. It seems that most BAMZS threads start the same way: Jared posts new/old pictures, we all drool and ooh and aah, then by post 500 or so, some twit either from FF or the Maniston thread comes over and stirs trouble, either pretending concern for the children or out-and-out challenging us, saying we are blogging all day, we have no life, we need to wean ourselves from “worshipping” Brad and Angelina, etc etc. We all try to ignore but sometimes they really push the buttons. Now this positive article that is not from a tabloid will probably really send them over the edge. Hahaha — too bad for them!
Alana!! :)
My exact thought too!!! :)
Think Positive. :)
i love your comment that Angie is resting :) It’s not only the weather that is hot….right?!!! :)
Hmmmmm……. i am wondering where the kids are?
Well, you know what comes next - after a big ol’ huge fainting story like that one…the pregnancy stories shall commence once again! I say, bring em’ on.
Because first of all - I will tell you this much…if Angie were fainting that much (3 times in 3 days), she would not be in India now still filming, traveling, etc.
So the only way a scenario like that could be true, is if they KNOW WHY she’s fainting (preg), and it doesn’t concern them.
;-)
Hmmmmm……. i am wondering where the kids are?
89 | BeeLoved |
Brad and Angie are making India hotter! ;)
The kids are propably with Holly and the nanny back in Pune.I’m sure Mickey is with them too.
So the only way a scenario like that could be true, is if they KNOW WHY she’s fainting (preg), and it doesn’t concern them.
;-)
90 | CLINIQUA|
Yeah.. and then we will have to hear all these stories about how Brad convinced Angie to give him a bio baby boy!
86 alana
Loved the last part of your post. Might be too early , but guessing as we all are. What’s not to be happy about this loving PITTS….
89-Beeloved-
Hmmmm… I am wondering where the kids are?
I am glad they ‘ll have some days alone just the two of them….Need some lovin baby!!!!
Ok.. Maddox, ya know where your parents are?
Knowing this boy is smart, he’ll point north, south east and west. How to lose the paps. …..lesson 1
i am just sooooo happy they r having time together…….just the 2 of them. From the report, the people are also very co-operative. That good! :)
mornin all…i just love those articles that has jolies name.
Thanks Jared for the new thread. Love to hear that Brad’s colleagues are behind him.
Thank you Jared and Audrey for the new thread!! You guys rock! Thank you Anna for the news! Man you guys are quick!!! Have a great day to all. I am swamped today. TTYL..
Ah! It’s raining outside but inside I’m warm and toasty because JJ listened to us yesterday about the thread and THIS picture, I remember sometime around when I dropped out last night seeing this on some site, and someone saying Jared should get it over here and Voile! Thank you!
I really love the USA TODAY article!
Thanks you Jared.
God Bless The Jolie-Pitts : )
WOW!!!!!! I’m going to save this article and keep it close whenever I hear gossip about how he’s sorry he left X or how Angelina has an evil voodoo spell on him, or how he feels trapped and miserable. Not that i ever believe those things, it’s just that a lot of people do. This coming out from a well known newspaper, withou any manipulation or colaboration by Brad is wonderful news for anyone who’s been wondering how he’s been taking things in the past few months and weeks as the “hunted” Love hime love him love him.
No wonder X is hiding her face……………
she must be dying! Just dying!
STARDUST,
LOL Wow, I can’t believe that I forgot about Playing By Heart. My bad. Jon’s “relationship” w/ his Dad is similar to Angie’s. When he was 10 his parents divorced and his father basically left his family. As expected he took it really hard and he’s even said that he felt “inadequate”. He’s mother didn’t remarry, as I know of, and he’s even said on the show that she raised him on her own. He doesn’t talk about it in great detail when he’s being interviewed because he doesn’t want to publicize just like Angie said in VF.
Here’s another thing they have in common, they were both outsiders in high school. Even though Jon was the class clown he was picked on for being Jewish since according to him, he was the only Jew in his grade. Also, his birthname is Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.
ITA about the fans. :)
I loved TDS and TCR last night. But TCR won because I don’t like Kirsten Dunst…she’s a boring interview.
oh god i’ve got double vision reading backwards…help me!JARED THANKS A MILLION EY!GRACI,GRACIAS,MERCI,DONKEY,SOKRAN, AND SALAMAT.
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