Brad 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 For her part, Leibovitz draws on the library of art-historical references she must have in her brain.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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And that witch had the nerve to crack about his lack of a sensitivity chip Bah!
I’m actually getting smarter by going on these threads, I just looked up “the Death of Chatterly” painting by Henry Wallis I can see where Annie Liebovitz got her inspiration for this pose. Now a history and art lesson for the day.
Sexiest man alive, I saw this picture in the Washington Post yesterday.. Love it.. Thanks JJ
Guys you know what its all OK. After Jen on Oprah and the new people magazine I thought it’s over. brad and Jen are no longer connencted. She has moved and and he has moved on. It’s all good. I think that jen is fine and happy and I think the same for Brad. all this stuff about jen and Brad is what like two years old now? time to move on. I
really think that as a group she should move on from all this crazy stuff always connecting Brad and Jen. do you think that you guys can move on. Really I think that the life that Angie and Brad live now was not what Jen wanted. Lots and lots of kids are not for everyone and brad wanted that obviously. I think that he is very happy and I think that Jen is also very happy. Neither of them are living in the past why should we? Let’s all move on. I realized that this is getting old and it’s just not there for me anymore. Oh well I think that all parties are happy now. I think that Brad and Angie can have a great life and so can Jen.
Let’s stop the hate on both sides. Let’s move on. good luck with this. I am so glad that I have moved on and I think that everyone on this board can to. Forget about what was said in the past and look ahead.
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Outstanding Post, I agree, Brad is getting better and better with age, And now he has all his dreams coming ture, Thank You Angie, for giving Brad is personnal dream, now is professional dreams are also coming true,, He is Hot Hot Hot.
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Alexanderia, thoes were some of my fav. quotes too.. It is amazing what a good woman, can do to make a man as much as he can be… God I love this couple, the compliment each other like no HW couple out there.
doubt, you sound really nice. So I will answer you honestly by giving you a few things that Jen Aniston needs to do to make me not loathe her very being…..
1) Apologize for the Vanity Fair debacle. Say it wasn’t fair to Brad or Angelina, and admit her vengefulness came from her jealousy at Brad’s ‘moving on’ with another person, and not from him ‘cheating.’
2) Admit that her marriage had been on shaky ground for quite some time, hanging on by a thread, and that they had been apart for most of 2003 and 2004.
3)Tell Brad she’s happy that he’s happy, and wish him the best with his kids and his new life with Angelina.
I really feel that if Aniston were to do this (even if she only did number 3) publicly - the people that assume that she is holding a grudge, is a walking wounded, is being vengeful, or that she hates/dislikes the Jolie-Pitts would immediately dissipate. They’d understand TRULY, that she has moved on. Because right now…what’s being fostered (most likely and in my opinion by she and her agent Huvane) is that the two camps are still at odds, or make that, that SHE and her camp are at odds with Brad (Brad’s could care less).
The fact that close to two years later, she refuses to do any of this - she could have let it leak out that she had congratulated Brad on his becoming a father upon Shiloh’s birth - and belatedly for Mad and Zee- but she has never not in any of her multitudes of press since VF…that let’s me know that Huvaniston is not interested in clearing any of this up….
It let’s me know that this is THE GAME…this stokes the fire, and it keeps interest in her alive….as long as people believe there is bad blood (her camp feels), the more interested they will be in seeing her attain the best revenge, some type of happy life ‘post-Brad.’ The interest is there to compare/contrast with Brangelina. Brangelina is the bell-weather for them…a kind of nah nah nah Jen’s got this or that TOO.
But if she would just say, hold up — I’m not playing. I’m happy for Brad. THAT angle would be useless and over.
But so would the interest in her…because who is she, if she isn’t Brad’s disgruntled unhappy victimized X?
That is why she will never do it. That is why she will continue being shoved down our throats (her personal life covered incessantly in the hopes she gets what Brad has..blah blah)…
…hence my loathing.
106-deena
ITA - The Pitts threads takes us around the world and into history and art like you just said.
Thanks also to lylian , stardust and many more posters giving us more info about India and the places the Pitts are visiting.
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To Alexanderina- METS
Count me in with a sad face today.
Lived in NY for more than 20 yrs.. I am still a NYorker by heart. Tears still well my eyes thinking of 9/11. Worked at #4 WTC for 14 yrs.
Will wait for the parade next year.
Nothing will take away the NY pride wherever we are. ….
Off to work. have a nice day to you all.
He still loves Jen” BS that the tabs print all the time.
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That is why I hate the tabs and love reading articles of people that ACTUALLY know him and Angie. It seems that they all just have glowing things to say. He wants X back like he wants a hole in the head,,The man probably thanks God every day, that he left that shallow life. for a life with substance and meaning with a women that can compliment him, and is on his level.. Not to mention drop dead gorgeous…. Just beautiful
Good Morning All,
Thanks hope for post the USA today article. It’s very refreshing to read something without the usual dramatics. Although I don’t hear anyone giving props to my man GC for the wonderful things he said about BP…..why is that?
Syd
Loved….loved your post. We have been trying to unravel the mystery behind that for months now…..when did the desire to want children become a bad thing? I believe this one will go down in the books as an unsolved mystery.
#108 / Doubt
Amen to that!
A plea to Bamzs Fans - if the ghost of the last thread shows up for another haunting session….please ignore her. Seriously, what does she hard to the table? Absolutely nothing. Thanks in advance :)
Thanks Jared!
Donna Freydkin-USA TODAY wrote about Angelina last June’05. She did good with stating quotes and facts instead of sensationalizing tabloids. Excellent job by Donna ! here’s an extract from the Donna’s article about Angie :
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Fortunately for her, Jolie never reads the tabloids that follow her life and loves, says Smith’s Goldsman, and in fact knows nothing about pop culture. Instead, “she’s more interested in the kind of books we read in high school and college and then stopped reading.” “Jolie sat around on the set and hung out with the cast and crew between takes. “She doesn’t gossip, and she’s weirdly culturally removed,” Goldsman says. “She doesn’t waste her energy on silliness. You’ll never find common ground with her based on what’s on TV or what’s in the tabloids.”
“I don’t think she realizes how genetically blessed she is,” says Marie Claire editor Rebecca Shalam, who has known Jolie for four years and has watched her get dirty with Maddox in the park. “I don’t think she’s aware of the effect she has on men and women. She’s thinking about getting aid to Ethiopia and not necessarily about, ‘Oh, are they going to say I have a 26-inch waist or do I need liposuction?’ ”
As a result, Shalam says, “people are fascinated by her confidence, her independence, her total lack of pretension, her genuine desire to help people who aren’t in position to help themselves.”
Shannon Boyd, manager of the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and Special Events Programs, has worked with Jolie for four years and calls her “very engaged” and “courageous.” The actress is in contact with the U.N. on a nearly daily basis, and as soon as her schedule opens, is willing to go on another mission, she says. “We treat her as a colleague. She sleeps on colleagues’ sofas, and if all we have is a spare floor, she does that. She gets her half-liter of water to go on a long jeep ride in 100-degree weather if that’s what everyone else has.”
In addition to her 20-plus missions, Jolie has donated substantial amounts of money to the organization and “has paid her own way since day one,” says Boyd.
But she’s no ponderous pontificator you dread sitting next to at a dinner party.
“For someone as dedicated to very serious things in the world, she has the ability to really laugh,” Kinberg says. Her sense of humor is mature, sophisticated. She understands irony and has wryness ……
Good Morning All!
Gosh, I’m late again!! That bed. The colours. The man on the bed — YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMY!!!
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Alex: Sweetie, I’m so sorry about the Mets! I finally got over the shock and went to bed around 1:30 AM this morning. I thought once that amazing catch was made the game was ours, but that didn’t happen. So sorry Alex! They’ll be back next year — you just wait and see.
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Freidaflo: You can take the girl out of New York, but you can’t take New York out of the girl!! HA! HA! OUR poor Alex is hurting this morning. We’ll need to cheer her up a bit today. It’s raining in The Apple, so the City is sad the Mets didn’t make it as well. Next year!!! With Willie managing them, they’ll be back next year.
111 | CLINIQUA
Great post CLINIQUA!
ppsst new thread !go now
110 | lookwhaticando | - Hiya lookwhaticando, ITA, they are so perfect for each other, compliment each other in many ways, they are soulmates. Brad has grown so much since he met Angie, he has become the man he was meant to be and I love that. I just love them
Thanks piyutra! :-)
Love the USA today on Angie too - thanks for posting! (#116)…
The best part about reading these wonderful things, is that you know Brad was probably reading everything he could get his hands on about Angie — like her Vanity Fair, with she and Mad, or this USA Today article….Maniston probably caught him a time or two….LOLOL
Yes go Now Angie is holding Shiloh!! YAY>
108 | doubt
You should preach this on Aniston fans.
Give it up for Braddy!
How refreshing to read something reliable that reinforces what you already suspect is true. It’s promotion for his upcoming projects, sure, but it’s also a tabloid smackdown that’s been a long time coming.
Between the info on Brad and Angie’s little “secret” amorous getaway and this new article, I say let the positivity flow!
All the best to the J-P’s!
CLINIQUA I know you don’t like her but let’s let it go. I don’t like Brad and Angie but it doesn’t matter to me anymore. I realized that I have been spending too much time at this computer and it is taking away from my family. I think that what happened two years ago is past. I really think that all parties have moved on now. whatever happened two years ago none of us will ever know. I just think that all of us should let go of all the hate on both sides. It really isn’t worth it. Brad and Angie are happy. Jen is happy. It’s all good. Let’s all move on and agree not to post nasty things about their Brad, Angie or Jen. I really think that these boards would be more productive and a much nicer place to be. I will not post any more nasty stuff and I hope that all of you will do the same. The three of them of moved on now let’s do the same!
111 | CLINIQUA |
I have to agree with you. I would love for there to be a truce but this whole thing is being prolonged by her insistence on being the injured party! Frankly I think Brad was among the walking wounded long before the public knew of trouble in their marriage. She obviously keeps informed about the tabloids since she so often makes a point of disputing them, so she has to also have noticed all the cr*p that Angie and Brad and their children have had to endure. Personally I think they had it much worse. If she can speak out about her boob job or lack of boob job then why cant she speak out and try to end some of this war? It would be so easy for her if she has indeed moved on.
I just re-read the USA today article and I have to say - with a nod
to Lainey and the conspiracy theory (I AM PART CHINESE, LOL) -
this “interview” is a master class in media manipulation.
Brad declined to be interviewed. How zen. but consider, Why
does he need to talk about himself? Not when he has high profile
friends who are happy to speak for him. Of course his friends
were primed to speak for him. Imagine if you were Weintraub or
Clooney and you get informed by your secretary or assistant that
some reporter he wants to do an article on Brad Pitt and could
they provide some quotes. I’d bet Clooney and the others would
have given Brad a quick call and asked if it was OK to speak to this
reporter. They are friends and they know how the game is played.
That would be a courtesy. Alternatively, it was Cindy Guagenti
who directed the show - coordinated the calls, the people to that
the reporter could talk to.
But of course, perhaps Brad didn’t prime everyone of them. The
reporter spoke to David Aronofsky - someone who could rightfully
be pissed off with Brad. He spoke to Pam Dashiell, from New
Orleans, someone who is not familiar with playing the media game.
and I can’t see her being in the habit of giving Cindy or Brad a
quick call about anything.
But notice how none of these people who gave quotes had
anything negative to say about anyone or anything. Just focused
on the present and the positive. The positive changes in Brad
and his life since he met Angelina - be it career, charity or
children. No need to be vindictive, to drag anyone down, to lower
yourself. This is how you use friends in an interview.
112 | freidaflo | - Hiya freidalfo, I am sad as well, it was a great game, but we had our chances and we did not take advantage of it, but that catch by Endy Chavez was INCREDIBLE, we had a great season, and I so wanted us to go to the WS, but it wasn’t meant to be, so next year here we come :)
when I first looked at this I thought it was one of those photo-shopped jokes. ewwww. Jolie has not been good for Pitt.
128 | sam |
Hey Einstein! this pic is almost 13 years old!!
Learn to read before you post and make yourself look foolish
117 | Maria | - Hiya Maria, I was in shock when they lost that game last night and I am still sad, but you know they had their chances, and did not come through, it was a great game though, and we have next year to look forward too, now I have to go to work and have this attorney rub it in my face that my METS lost
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