Baby Zahara & Her Bracelets

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!
love the jolie-pitts

Dear Angie, you daughter is adorable. Love the bangles. Listen, I am available as a personal hairstylist to Baby Z. I can hook her hair up everyday. Will work for room, board and occasional tryst with Brad.

Very alert and observant girl, which in kids is a sign of intelligence.

Thanks Jared

Zahara has big beautiful eyes. I love the Afro. However, I know the Black Mothers (such as my own) are now reaching through their computers with bows and ribbons. Keep rocking Zahara. You are going to be a superstar one day. Best Wishes to BAMZS.

Zee and Brad! Love you!

Thanks J and A! Will sleep better 2nite!

Hi uys!
Hey Jared Long time no post!!!
Thank you for the great pics. You do an awesome job! Visited the new office…thought that i’d say hi!

Zee is so damn cute!!! i love this little girl. I wish they’d let me comb/braid her hair. I’m sure she’d cry but they are going to have to get her use to getting her comb. Hell my oldest still cries when I tell her to get the comb, brush and hair oil. and she’s 12

Ohhh she is adorable, she is making quite a bit of fashion statements lately, first the infamous pink shoes now the bracelets. Thanks Jared and Audrey. :lol:

oh, Z is adorable.

love, love this family

She is rockin that fro. I was hoping they would let her hair be natural.

Rica, how are you? how is LV?, are you all settle in?, did you see the old thread with Shiloh pic.?
( too many questions?) ….sorry, :)
Hey Guli, tell Cashmere there is 1 line for BP and 2 lines for AJ…. :lol:

I’m bringing this from the other thread as it pertains to the Lil Miss Zee….

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765 | to 758

I love Zee’s hair natural and I hope with the exception of pigtails or headband, I hope no one attempts to talk them in to putting chemicals in hopes of making it more managible. I think she looks a doll with her fro & bangles.

jpf

817 | Original jpf | 10/21/06 2:53 PM | Flag Comment
817 | Original jpf | ITA…. but people always try to push their ideals on other people… Angelina strikes me as someone who will find out as much as she can about Ethiopian women (hair etc) as well as AA culture in America since Zee is also American

818 | QQQQ | 10/21/06 2:56 PM | Flag Comment
780 | Somaligirl

With all due respect I seriously disagree with you. I have 3 friends who are Ethiopian, and although one is male, the other two are female, and they use products manufactured for hair identified most with blacks and their hair looks just fine. One has locks, and the other alternates between natural and straightend via a pressing iron (no perm). I also have another friend who lives in London but is the main distrbutor in pretty much every part of Africa and particularly North and West Africa for the black hair care company Carson Inc.

jpf

819 | Original jpf | 10/21/06 3:10 PM | Flag Comment
819 They’re having this dicussion on the Z thread

820 | deena | 10/21/06 3:15 PM | Flag Comment
818 | QQQQ

Exactly. I know there are tradtions and I respect that, but this idea that somehow her little hair folicles won’t adapt to anything other than the ancesterial preparation isn’t something I accept. Like you, Angelina is friends with Wyclef and his wife let alone many others who she’s probably comfortable asking, and they’re probably comfortable offering. Somebody told them about CAROL’S DAUGHTER and I rather doubt it was George Clooney lol.

jpf

821 | Original jpf | 10/21/06 3:18 PM |

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jpf

She´s sooooo cutie as a honey pie!

27 | The Gypsy Is In | Since its early in the thread i wont do my usual, but it starts with a
F and ends with OFF!!!!

OK–SHOOT ME BUT WHY SO MANY BRACELETS? WHATS UP WIT DAT? SHE COULD WHACK HERSELF IN THE HEAD AND HURT HERSELF. :(

#27 Gypsy is in
Maybe you can predict when you and Norman the dog will get together. Sorry fellow BAMZS fans.

32 | CANOODLE
She is a little girl. Ya have to have one to understand, they like to wear it all at once. It won’t hurt her. That is a little girl for you.

32 | CANOODLE | Please, for the love of GOD/GODDESS, UNLOCK THE CAP LOCK!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!

Also, since she is not your daughter, Angie and Brad can dress her anyway they want to…

31 | Somaligirl

What the hell is wrong with her having Afroish hair? Her Afro looks cool to me! I have curly hair and when I was little with short hair, it poofed out up into what looks afroish. We will really get to see what type of hair texture she has when her hair grows longer .

27/ The Gypsy is in /get lost plz we dont have room for your perverted comments here. Wot r you, a paedophile?

30 | QQQQ | I like that 4Q’s “F and ends with OFF!!!! “. So I am just going to say ditto. I am in too good of a mood to be bothered OSU won again, ALEX it is going to go down to the wire again, it’s going to ne OSU vs UM which is the last game to see if OSU remains #1…

Estelle, you are so correct there is a longer line for Angie how can I forget, heck even X might volunteer she has so much info on hair extensions and all :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ignore anyone who only uses caps lock in comments. Don’t answer them. Don’t respond. Let Canoodle SHOUT at herself.

We will really get to see what type of hair texture she has when her hair grows longer .
40 | Wth

THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE HAIR ISSUE. IF THEY DON’T TAKE CARE OF IT AND MANAGE IT PROPERLY, IT AINT GOING TO GROW VERY LONG. IF THEY PUT PIG TAILS NOW THEY ARE GOING TO BREAK IT. IF THEY DON’T COMB IT PROPERLY AND LET IT GO DRY NOW, SHE WILL NOT HAVE BETTER OR LONGER HAIR LATER.
GENETICS PLAY A BIG PART IN WHAT HER HAIR WILL LOOK AND FEEL LIKE BUT MAINTENANCE IS KEY AND THEY HAVE TO BE REALLY MINDFUL OF THAT.

Canoodle does it to be rude. Ignore rude people.

48 | CANOODLE

Are you deliberatly using the uppercase because someone asked you not to? How old are you?

jpf

46 | CAPS LOCK

You’re right and I need to practice what I preach about ignoring those who really have no interest in being anything more than an irritant.

jpf

44 | guli - You are bad bad bad… ok, I have to go now. See everyone later.

PS; SOMALIGIRL; Bantu dosent mean Black Race silly!

59 | Be sane

Please don’t feed the troll. Caps lock=troll

Wow, Zahara and her hair sparks of a debate about Africa and the different races and cultures. X’s hair inspires comments like “OMg I love her highlights”. LMAO

Z is precious and she looks cute in her daddy’s arm.

I CAN BARELY SEE. I NEED TO HAVE THE LETTERS AS BIG AS POSSIBLE.

NICE TO KNOW THAT IF ANY OF YOU DON’T HAVE THINGS YOUR WAY–THE KNIVES COME OUT.

NICE.

51 | bdj | AND 63 | rica |GOOD POINTS
Geez, she is like 21 months and people are worried about her hair. Don’t be….the day before was hair was washed; my mom would take out plaits (I wore plaits up until I was 12) and let me get jiggy with it = automatic afro puff LOL

Like most girls of African descent, she probably doesn’t want anyone combing her hair. Z is always turning her head so keeping still long enough to add oil, let alone style it, is probably out of the question. Maybe she cries or falls out on the floor when they grab a comb. Maybe she is tenderheaded. OMG the memories….LOL

I absolutely love the bangles. She is such a girlie girl…..I bet she has a pocketbook (purse) somewhere too….

BEING LEGALLY BLIND, YES I DO. THANKS.

but you can still read other people’s posts which are not in caps locks… how weird!

67 | CANOODLE |
When asked to remove caps lock non trolls would explain being legally blind. Trolls still use caps lock. Not buying what you’re selling and will take my own advice and ignore from now on.

Caps lock =trolls

The term “Somali Bantu” is a recent term referring to a grouping of small ethnic groups in Central Somalia. The commonality of these small peoples was their origins from diverse Bantu-speaking peoples, though some now speak Somali-related languages. Some are indigenous to the area, from before the entry of the Cushitic peoples now known as the Somali centuries ago.

Some are descendants of slaves brought from African territories further south. In the last decade or so these small ethnic groups have formed an alliance to represent their common interests. The term Somali Bantu refers to this grouping of peoples speaking several languages and of varying origins from Bantu-speaking peoples.

Bantu
First the term “Bantu.” This is a linguistic term, and refers to a complex family of languages all over Africa. It is also generally used in a loose way to refer to the culture groups or tribes of peoples speaking one of the languages classified as Bantu.

Thus the term “Bantu” refers to about 1500 or more languages. The Bantu languages and peoples are the majority of people living south of the Sahara and cover about 2/3 of the land area in the African continent south of the Sahara.

The Somali people are not among these Bantu peoples, and their language is classified as Cushitic, not Bantu.

Z is so cute - I wonder why she isnt covered in a blanket like baby shiloh?

Zahara is so adorable! Loving the bangels! ***

As a Black American it’s normal for us to obsess about hair. So I don’t think this topic will go away, it’s just a fact of life.

Zahara might be tenderheaded and that’s why Angie is not combing her hair or she might be going for the natural look…hopefully Angie will answer these questions. Since she is using Carol Daughter products they are aware and have products for Zee hair.

I would love to see Angie braiding Zee hair but I don’t think Angie is a ribbon and bows person. She seems more laid back and only with jewerely or tattoos do I see from her.

Zahara is a “cutie pie” I just love her bracelets and I can’t wait to see what she will do next. Each one of Angie children have a personal signature that expressing them.

78 | Be sane |

Then it’d be like “they only got that role because of their parents” These kids are going to hear sh*t like that their whole lives, maybe thay’ll try to stay out of the spotlight?

thats my daddy….hello all!thanks jj.

So Lovely to see… Zahara on Daddy Brad’s arm!

Much Love the Jolie-Pitt’s Family ..4Ever!

Jared & Audrey, many thanks for loving the BAMZSers Fans!

I remember that Angelina always put jewelry on Maddox too and I thought that was adorable. I think it may be a cultural thing. I knew a Korean woman who put jewelry on her newborn daughter.

I like Zahara’s hair natural. I hope it grows in thick and bushy and she has a nice full afro. I’m not joking or making fun. As long as it is clean and brushed. She’s has such big eyes and a doll-baby face. I think she’ll look cute.

Zahara has her whole life to worry about her hair–getting perms, straightening it, etc. Angelina can let it rest for now.

86 | Renee

You me, on the do? likethis lol

jpf

Its not my name - its the author my econ text…

You guys are such hypocrites…well I prefer JA to AJ but her children esp mad and z are def cute! I am in the right thread, btw ntt!

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend!Zahara is such a cutie!Her eyes are gorgeous!#86 Renee reguarding People,turn to page #96.Look whose picture is on the wall.PLEASE ignore Jen!

87 | Original jpf - Thanks for the comments on the last thread. Hope you see my response to you.

BBL - in laws here,,,,

88 | Jen | F - OFF

90 | Willard G. Oxtoby

oh brother. So Shiloh is not cute?

HAHAH WHAT???? IS A JOKE??? SHILOH IS TEN TIMES, MORE CUTTER THAN ZAHARA,JAJAJAA AND THAT IS FACT!

Oh I just love her, she’ so cute. I swear Brad looks more and more sexy every time he hold one of his kids. LOL

92 | The real lou | THANKS, now I won’t throw the whole issue out. LOL. I would love to put those pictures on my wall too but I am 40 and never mind….ROTFL “she’s my love” get in line Tye, GET IN LINE…

BTW: I love those black and white photos of Angie. I wish those pictures would come out as a book. I would buy atleast two…

Off Topic…sorta

So cool. Brad Pitt is producing WITH Johnny Depp the movie SHANTARAM. There are 4 producers, but two the other two are the distributors. It’s only a matter of time before we get a Johnny & Angelina flick……I feel it……but not WUTHERING HEIGHTS. I see her as Cathy but just don’t see him as Heathcliff. I think Joaquin Phoenix has that tender/brut/vulneralbe/meanie thang and would be great.

jpf

Hi gals and guys, I would like to thank all of you who wrote fanfics on EA. You are great storytellers and I loved reading everyone of them so far. I am working on reading all the stories. Have a great day!

Missouri Fan, I don’t know if you saw this in the last thread so i’m positng it here.

Heheh, I think Jon already does show his love for her even when she’s not there lol In 2003 or 2004 (really can’t remember which year it was), when she went to the economic forum (Sharon Stone was there also) he, like always, made fun of Sharon. But when Angie was on the screen he said that he couldn’t pay attention to what she was saying because her hotness distracted him lol

I have a “Jon Heart Angie” playlist on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=9E3CD4E527F9D9DF

US mag
article called “spin cycle” –Aniston appearing on Oprah

p.52 Did Jen lie to Oprah
excerpt:–

…..”The toughest people to read are actors”, Jack Trimarco, a former FBI polygraph expert tell US . “Most things they say are scripted”. Indeed Aniston’s acting coach Leigh Kilton-Smith was in the fron row.

(note the last sentence, Jen brought her acting coach to tape Oprah)

#111 jen’s acting coach

Jen has an acting coach? Heck, she should ask for her money back!!!

hmm…too bad, i dont know about African American hair to join in the conversation.

108 | wow |
Not to gang up on you, crybabyAniston, but I do agree with wow. AJ shouldn’t have to engage in a Q & A about how she is raising her children. You’re sounding like a poster from a previous thread who demanded that BP answer 40+ questions about his marriage/separation/divorce. Besides, if the kids are happy and well taken care of, the route that got them there shouldn’t be questioned.

As for the hair debate, I hope they won’t put chemicals in her hair. Chemicals shouldn’t be in the debate at this point; she’s barely two. And although there are relaxers designed for children, that always struck me as wrong somehow. Most of us had to endure pressing, which could be painful, especially to the tenderheaded. I hope they allow it to be natural as long as they can. Z may experience peer pressure when she’s a teen and push for chemical intervention; I say, let B and A instill a healthy pride in Zahara.

Braids could be cool, but it depends on who’s doing it. Some people braid way too tight and sometimes it takes hours; the concept of torturing a barely two year old for hours isn’t appealing. And you all know that if BA let Z in for hair braiding, there will be those claiming that they are looking for an out to dealing with black hair, or that they are ashamed of Z-nevermind black parents have to deal with their and their children’s hair issues. Then again, they would bash BA for ‘allowing’ Z to have an afro, as if an afro is an unnatural hairstyle.

As long as BA doesn’t cop out like some negligent parents do… I knew some black parents who shaved their kids’ heads, regardless of gender, to duck the trials associated with black hair… now, that’s a shame.

114 | BCBG

Not really sure of your question, but Infinitum Nihil is Johnny’s production company, and of course Plan B is Brad’s. These are the two listed as the producers of the movie SHANTARAM in the movie company credits.

jpf

Thanks Jared for the new thread, Z is so adorable and cute, love her little bracelets, she is such a little daddy girl and of course daddy little princess

Hello ladies, what is going on here? I can’t believe people are talking about Zee’s hair. So, what her hair is not comb in the picture, big deal, there are more important thing in the world to worry about that Zee’s hair not been combed in one picture; people just like to complain about much to do about nothing, leave B&A to raise Z the way they want too.

is anyone having trouble with this site?

I had an issue with the hair a long time ago. Of course I was one of the mothers with the ribbons, ponytail holders and barettes-my girl was (and is) a girly girl. Ribbons on the hair matched the ribbons on the socks. . . It is obvious that Z won’t be raised to be frilly and that’s Angie’s choice. I do agree with Rica however, I don’t care who you are and what you know and don’t know. NO child should leave the house with hair like that. Plait it, braid it or whatever. Most ppl I know need some sort of moisturizer. It wouldn’t hurt to brush the hair on a regualr basis also. But hey, that’s Angie’s kid. She represents Angie when she leaves the house-if Angie is okay with her precious little princess’ hair looking like that-then hey- so am I. To each his or her own. But for me, when my kids leave this house they are well groomed and polished!

127 | malibumom | Well good for u, like someone said, they were in a beach town, and they might have just returned from the beach and headed on the plane. There is NOTHING wrong with how Zee looks!!!!!

Wow! Great accessory!

BCBG, you are CORRECT!

I think people are disrespectful calling her an “African-American.”

It shows people don’t even care to learn this sweet babies lineage. They just label her and run with it. When Maddox was first adopted if people didn’t know what he was they were like “Cute Chinese baby.” I remember when I was younger, every Oriental person was called Chinese!

damn! It just struck me. It’s so surreal. Zahara’s daddy is Brad Pitt. And Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are together and have three kids together.
So VERY VERY surreal. It’s been almost two years and yet people are still having difficulty with that concept. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are mommy and daddy. I wonder if they have to pinch themselves to make sure all of this is really happening.

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I have the same reaction, I am too still in shock that these two are together and so happy.

I think that’s the reason the curiosity of the media is sooooo big . People cant believe that this is happening, lets not forget that in january of 2005, Brad and Jens were still a reality and now, less then two years later Brad and Angelina are the most famous family in Hollywood.

The first post did not go through - Anyhow, I simply love Zahara’s hair. It works for her. She looks adorable in this picture with her dad Brad. The bangles are working as well.

Zahara looks very secure in this picture with her dad. She looks very content. I love this picture. Also Brad is a professional with carrying children and diaper bags.

Ethiopians are gorgeous people with beautiful skin and hair…i love that supermodel from ethiopia liya kebede….picture below

http://www.bellafashionista.com/uploads/liya.jpg

Can we please understand the definition of “African-American” Zahara is not an “African-American” She is an “Ethiopian-America”

The term African America is used for the ancestors of slaves. Like Oprah is African America. Northeast Africans are not “African-American”.

124 | AngieFan
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This too is untrue.

‘African American’ is used for one reason only because descendants of slaves, had no place to pinpoint from whence they came in Africa and still wanting to include a point of origin and identity in the descriptive…the term ‘African American’ was begun. That doesn’t mean, if someone from Kenya comes here, they cannot call themselves ‘African American’ THEY CAN…as they ARE…but knowing their cultural background, they could also call themselves ‘Kenyan Americans.’

There are no hard and fast rules to any of this.

I recalled Tracy Morgan on SNL, doing the opening monologue with Charlize Theron (South African) - and she referred to herself as ‘African American,’ she was joking…but the point is the same…this isn’t a matter of LAW or anything…you can identify in whatever the f* way you want to, bottomline.

137 | Aleezah

Yeah, she looks very secure. She’s come a long way, baby!

Don’t you LOVE it?

Hi everyone!! I’ve had a hectic couple of weeks, and so glad to
have time to come to JJ’s, and look!! A pic of my favorite — ZEE!!!
I just love the regal look she has, she is soooo cute and as
someone pointed out, obviously intelligent. Always looking at
everything.
#110 dina
LOVE your post!! You sound like someone I’d like to sit and chat
with.

So the discussion is about hair? My mother, a white woman,
worked in an area where she was the only white woman. She saw
black kids and black women’s hair a lot and would tell me how
important hair was. The women would wear hats if they couldn’t
get their hair right that day. many times the kids would wear
hats. Sometimes, just letting it be as an afro was okay, giving it a
break, or if they didn’t have time to fuss with it, but it wasn’t a
general thing, and if the hair was neglected regularly, “nappy
headed” was used as an insult. So Zee has poofy hair here —
doesn’t mean that’s always the case.
And even if it is, maybe they are letting her hair be an afro for a
while, like Macy Gray, but it is still combed.
I agree about maddox having a Mohawk out of how it grew. I
remembeer when he was a baby in an interview Angie saying she
had to laugh because his hair grew in as a mohawk, and stood
straight up in the back. I had a friend whose granddaughter was
half Filipino and the baby was a girl and did the same thing! Stood
straight up, and grew like a Mohawk until she was almost two.
Maybe Angie just let it be natural, to find its own style, and is
doing the same with Zee.

LOVE the bracelets! Zee is getting to that age where she is aware
of clothes and girl’s accessories. Until age five, she will likely go
through a big I’m A Girl stage. This is the age that Disney
markets its Princesses to, and a little older for those who remain
girly girls. It’s so fun to watch, and the boys are definite about
wanting to show they are Boys, and looking up to Daddy and
other male role models in their lives and copying them. So cool
that they have Brad for them, and Angie is letting them find their
own style and be themselves and express themselves.

Z’s hair looks fine to me. Just because it’s not braided doesn’t mean it’s not combed, or taken cared of. They have a nanny, remember? And her name is Patricia, not Agniezks.(can’t help to name drop :lol:)

Yes, and all this stuff about ethnicity and hair texture and blah blah blah….

I forgot to say, I think Zee’s hair looks adorable…they could keep it short just like that, and ina little curly fro’ and she’d be rockin’….it probably just looks a little unkempt their because for all we know the child had been napping for a few hours on her Daddy…give the baby a break please.

Lord, black folks and their hair issues….

I can just hear Zahara being interviewed on TV one day by an old @ss Katie Couric, laughing at how her Mama and Daddy had a time with her hair.

The child is adorable, period.

#151, great points - thanks for making us think about something that would ordinarily escape us. I hope Canoodle continues to post - and the caps are fine with me. I find myself making mistakes w/ this tiny @ss font and little box, and I’ve got good vision, so I can’t imagine how hard it must be for someone who does not.

sorry, I meant #69, not #67 re: explain being legally blind.

146 | remember da truth

Hey there rdt! I’m loving your post so much. I love that Angelina & Brad arent tied to convention about their kids. They aren’t fad fed children and I love it so much. This are kids who will not be spending alot of time or moola along Roberston st, or Rodeo drive…..hopefully.

jpf

I love ZAHARA ,she is so cute!

Zahra’s going to grow up and be a beautiful black queen, a wonderful addition to any family.

P.S. don’t squint for it adds more wrinkles (isn’t that the saying?) ;)

Re: 157 Just a suggestion and #161 Anna,
I just clicked on “largest” on my computer and it didn’t make the “leave a reply” box font any larger…any other suggestions? Isn’t Passing Through the computer expert, is it something to do with the configuration of a particular computer, are you out there PT?

I have no idea which post of mine you are talking about since I was watching OSU game all day long, but since you dragged my name in to it?
Here is my response, I am being nice and you should be too…..

151 | first and last post | OK how do you think we all felt when we started at JJ’s, the same way. I was a lurker for the longest time, Cindy2 could just rip people apart with her facts and wisdom, so I kept on reading and eventually I had the guts to throw my self in with the big gals/guys who had been around at JJ’s for awhile, and they accepted me. Because we had the common denominator ,our love for this family….If new folks can do as I did almost 2 years ago they will have no problem joinning in on the band wagon and have fun :lol: So please don’t give up, we really are a very loving group of people, but had so many nasty posts from haters which toughened us re the haters, so we have become more protective of each other and our beloved family……I hope this makes any sense to you ……

is it something to do with the configuration of a particular computer
164 | first and last post |
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I suppose so. But as for me, I get that leave a reply box with large/bold font when I chose LARGEST. So i suppose you may be right about certain computers. :idea:

Hey, I’m legally blind and I’ll happily explain for someone if they
legitimately want to know what it means.
Even with contacts, I do not have 20-20 vision, and never will.
Without, I qualify for the white cane with the red tip, but not a
dog. I am not entirely blind, I can see, but without contacts, I am
seriously impaired. If I set my glasses down, I literally cannot see
them on the nightstand next to me and have to feel for them. I
am near-sighted to the point where (without contacts) only right
in front of my nose is legible. Even with contacts, I cannot
distinguish facial features at a distance of, say the back of church
or a classroom to the front of the room. I can drive with contacts,
but cannot read small street signs from many blocks away as
other people in the car seem to be able to do. Many time I find
where to turn as I’m too close to slow down and get in the correct
lane. I am the Queen of the U-turn!! This tiny type is hard for me,
too. But, caps are difficult to read once posted, so that’s why
people were asking Canoodle not to do it all caps. But I can see
whwat Canoodle means about it being easier in this “leave a reply”
place.

Z’s got a wild hair but she’s cute though hihi n mind u, she’s a fashionista, u go Z…..

164 | first and last post
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It’s not the computer-it’s the browser that allows that. I use Internet Explorer 6.0

~Zahara is beautful,well loved and has a promsing future. When she is older,I would love to see her with one of those beautiful Angela Davis Afros. Her hair has not filled in completely. When babies are born their hair sheds, especially in the back,the hair on the front is usually longer than the back ,it take a little while before it fill in and even out. She is beautilful. The whole family is beautiful.
Peace~

It could be. Well, famous parents are indeed double-edged
sword. On the other hand, you really can’t escape the fate and
blood of ‘heritage’. Who knows Jolie-Pitt kids might all end up
being doctors and engineers helping the world’s needy. Or at
least their parents will educate them to be aware, unlike those
loser Hiltons etc.

172 | Be sane | 10/21/06 9:13 PM | Flag Comment

Yeah, Brad would bust a button if any of his kids became architects! And Doctors Without Borders, how cool would that be, or a soccer team LOL

from bradfans….

QUOTE(queenbee @ Oct 21 2006, 08:15 PM)

Credit to Fati@ BAFans

First Annual Benefit Gala
October 24th 2005

Worldwide Orphans Foundation’s first annual benefit gala at Capitale in New York City drew a sold-out crowd of over 600 supporters, helping WWO to raise more than $800,000.

Watch a video of the gala ( warning the Angelina part
is very emotionnal )

http://www.orphandoctor.com/wwo/media/galamovie.wmv

I can’t wait to see this year’s Video with Angie and Z.

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178 | COLD HARD MATH | - Hiya CHM, isn’t crazy how people are talking about Z’s hair, personally I think it is cute the way it is, plus my little cousin hair is like Z’s and her mom don’t combed it and groomed it everyday; people should just leave Z’s hair alone, a while ago I saw pictures of Eddie Murphy’s kids and also Will and Jada Smith’s daughter and their hair wasn’t all combed and groomed, and they were out in public.

I just got home from Church and the Cardinals are putting a hurting on the Tigers. Who are you rooting for?

GO Cardinals !! GO!! 7 to 1

Amazing woman.. Love HER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFFAy0PCxZw&mode=related&search=

enjoy….

179 | from bradfans… | Thanks for posting

from bradfans….

QUOTE(queenbee @ Oct 21 2006, 08:15 PM)

Credit to Fati@ BAFans

First Annual Benefit Gala
October 24th 2005

Worldwide Orphans Foundation’s first annual benefit gala at Capitale in New York City drew a sold-out crowd of over 600 supporters, helping WWO to raise more than $800,000.

Watch a video of the gala ( warning the Angelina part is very emotionnal )

http://www.orphandoctor.com/wwo/media/galamovie.wmv

I can’t wait to see this year’s Video with Angie and Z.

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179 | from bradfans…

Thank you for bringing this video here. I am in awe of all that the World Orphan Foundation does and the level of commitment not just Angelina but by all the women featured. Sometimes I lose sight of the most important reason why I am a fan of Angelina Jolie’s and I thank you for reminding me. I am a fan for life.

Jesus H. Christ on the cross! What the hell is wrong with people here? Two week ago it was The Great Thigh Debate and today it’s The Great Z’s Hair Debate! Sheesh. People need to get a freaking grip on it! Everytime new pictures come out someone fixates on one thing and next thing you know there are a thousand posts about it. I’m just thankfuly that you people can’t see MY HAIR right now!

190 | Passing Through | :lol: :lol: :lol:

192 | Missouri Fan | - ITA MF, and how are you doing? And how is little Bradley?

Do you guys remember the report that Brad and Putrid would be acting together again in the movie “Dirty Tricks”? According to the Entertainment Weekly that’s not exactly correct. They said Brad is PRODUCING the movie and being courted to act in it, too. It’s written and directed by the same guy from Nip/Tuck that he’s teaming up with to do the transgender tv show. Personally I hope it happens because I’d love to see Angie beat the snot out of Putrid for even breathing the same air as Brad! Actually from the way it sounds there are going to be so many people in that movie that it’s doubtful that Brad would even have any scenes with Putrid.

http://img313.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ew102706dealae5.jpg

To see Brad with Zee breaks my heart. I remmeber when they picked her up in Ethiopia. Two thumbs up for these couple. 2 thumbs up for Jared too.

Thank you Passing Through. I was going WTF about her hair. My child would never leave the house looking like that? Some say. To those, I say good for you, do you want a cookie?

This tiny type is hard for me,
too. But, caps are difficult to read once posted, so that’s why
people were asking Canoodle not to do it all caps. But I can see
whwat Canoodle means about it being easier in this “leave a reply”
place.

169 | remember da truth
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RDT - Don’t use the comments box to type your comments. Open Notepad or Write and type comments there and then copy and paste them into the comments box. That’s what I do…for 2 reasons…First that comments box is too damned small and secondly if you copy and paste using the right mouse button the character counter isn’t activated because that’s only activated with a left-click. And, since the character counter doesn’t start your post can be as long as you want and you get around Jared’s character limit! (Er, sorry Jared…you know I luv ya!)

BTW - I’ve got bad eyesight, too. I’m not legally blind, but let’s just say that anytime I’m around and people are griping about how bad their vision is, I just tell them I can top them all and then hand them my glasses to prove it. I can usually win that contest hand’s down.

193 Hey Alex.. I’m happy, how about U ? would you like to watch this video.?.. great song… Here..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-69QKNZJ4

202 | Maniston

Thanks for sharing that. I was just about to go to Perez to look at some other pics. Jared - you’re still the best! Ok so either Perez reads this site or probably one his readers from JJ’s saw the link and emailed it to him.

203 | stardust | - :lol: :lol: :lol:

Paltrow doesn’t bother me. She could live forever or die tomorrow and it would no difference to me. *shrugs*

Plus, I know they’ve met since Brad and Angie got together, so it’s not like Angie hasn’t seen the two of them interact.

209 | Passing Through
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Wait…when did this happen?

202 | Maniston | - Hiya Maniston, thanks and I say that he definitely got it from JJ, because I believe that JJ was the only one that had that pic of Brad as a baby, I guess that PH have his spies over here on JJ

215 | Amaya

:lol: LOL…so I guess it’s well known that she’s pretentious. I don’t think I mind her as much I would like to believe…she actually provides a lot of material for jokes.

204 | Missouri Fan | - Thanks MF, I saw that video before and I loved it, such a great video and a beautiful song, and I love the picture of her and Madd, he is so adorable and that smile of his face is priceless

ignore the typos

Angelina Jolie vs Jennifer Aniston:
http://www.ebaymatchups.com/matchup/view/angelina-jolie-vs-jennifer-aniston_10401

221 | mickey | 223 | Niecy | thanks for your input

Common people…..enough with the voting already. Don’t bring up this trival measurements…it’s an insult to the woman that Angie is. She doesn’t compare herself to anyone. Stop trying to measure her to anyone, yes even Aniston. Love her for who she is not because you think she is better. Stop the freakin voting business

Jared, thanks for this cute picture of Brad and Zahara. I think maybe Zahara was asleep right before this picture was taken because of an earlier picture on another thread. She is beautiful and I think she loves being carried by Brad. Angie has given her children the father that she never had and always wanted. It must fill her heart with joy to see Brad with all three children.

225 | Passing Through

Thanks for the info.

Stardust,

I still can’t get over Brad playing “Will Colbert” lol It’s just freaky!

Have you seen Brad’s guest star appearance on King of the Hill? He was really great and I know Angie’s a fan of the show too. Maybe that could be their next project together….

Good Night to all my fellow BAMZS Fans, I had a great day today picking Apples and now I am so freaking tired, talk to you all manana

233 | first and last post

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I am using IE6 and Anna’s suggestion works for me. I hope for your comfortable reading/posting in everyway.

227 | first and last post | Hey !!! you really made my day,I really mean it, cause w/o knowing or intending we BAMZSers might sometimes turn real fans away because of all what we lived through, and trust me I was one that got a little as opposed to Elena, but it hurt. So ITA we do get defensive but, if you ever read the things (do you want me to call them X fans or haters, you can take your pick) they posted here, such as death wishes for the whole family, maybe you can better understand why we are so protective of each other, all of my cyber-friends enjoyed recently my daughters fisrt home-coming dance and it meant alot to me ….See we all somehow someway(in an odd way) became to cyber-families……………..OK I am getting too mushy, philosophical here but, you know what I mean right :lol:

Hi BAMZS fans, good morning…someday I might learn to contribute more than just comments, but until then I want to thank the many who take the time to link on stuff just to share:
Amaya, # 128: Thank you for the interviews with Jon Stewart an Angelina. I had not seen either one. She is absolutely adorable and so quick, so friendly. What if Brad and Angelina decide to appear together one day. Wouldn’t it be great if they did on Jon’s show? Ratings would be ridiculous!
#179, thank you so much for the video of The World Orphan Foundation, and Angelina’s speech. If anyone wbo isn’t a fan of Angelina’s would just take a few minutes here tonight and click on that link, you will change your mind, I promise you. She is extraordinary. Please don’t close your mind about her.Give her this one chance…watch that clip. Thank you.
#105, Original jpf…wow! I love your casting of Joaquin as Heathcliffe. Brilliant. He is the essence of brooding. Hate to admit it because I love Johnny Depp to death, but he is like Brad in some ways…too good a guy, even a “goofball” and clown. I might let him do a screentest for the part, however. Never know…
Whoever shared the video to the song “I’ll Fly With You”, thank you so much. Really, really good. I get lost every time I go there with the Brad and Angelina videos. I’m a grown woman. Why am I so taken with them? I never, ever get tired of watching them, especially the dance scene. Sigh……. |

I am just 11 years old & I growing up to be a big ***!

A big Homo alright, right Ethan?

OK I am checking out, hubby wants me in bed to watch some highlights of the games today, says he)….Dragonfly don’t say a word re: stiffys . :lol:

OK , on a serious note please vote on NOV 3rd…… Please if you live in US VOTE!!!!!!!

#248

Hahah, no. It’s about Jon and Angie’s friendship, how it came to be and how it is today. The first chapter is how I envision her 3rd appearance on the show would be like…
http://intothegray.blogspot.com/

232 | Amaya

Lol .. first the similarities between Jon and Angie..now Brad and Stephen. Too freaky!

I never saw that show King of the Hill. Since I’ve started to pay attention to Brad and looked through his past..I’ve noticed he has a great sense of humor. His appearance on Conan where he drives off in some random car, his appearance on Jacka s s , and King of the Hill. And there was some random funny youtube video where some people run upto him and rip his sleeves off. I have no idea what it was about ..but the guy likes being part of some pranks and has a good sense of humor about himself.

I never knew Angelina was a fan of King of the Hill. Add that to the long list of things Brad and Angelina have in common. Lol.

254 | Anna — I was just reading that.

Stardust,

That’s one of the things that I love about Brad. He’s able to laugh at himself. In the King of the Hill episode, he plays sucha pig lol

I’m off to bed. Good night all!

good night..Amaya. I off too.

176 | remember da truth
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There’s a malware (browser hijacker) in your machine. If you have either one of these two free (FREE) programs, Spybot or AdAware, they find it when you run them.

In case you don’t have them, AdAware is from
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and Spybot is from

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Amaya, ah, I see now! Thank you. I loved your writing, you’re terrific. Good night everyone…

shes a cutie! i love that baby and her parents are doing what they can about her hair…she is feed and clothes everyday and thats all that matters, leave the baby’s hair alone…if ya’ll would see is that Z was born with straight hair so i think her parents are getting use to it…

Like I said they are using products to manage it because they are aware that some African hair needs a lot of taking care of in this society…

“Just because rich westerners are seeking out children in developing countries doesn’t mean that past crimes are being repeated. Madonna may not be seeking a fashion accessory. Neither might Angelina Jolie, who has adopted an Ethiopian child. Maybe they are just trying to help. It’s not fair of us to project our sordid history onto the philanthropy of rich Americans, whose only crime appears to be being rich Americans. ”

” Inter-country adoption gets dreadful abuse. Do-gooders complain about children being removed from their culture. The fact they are also being removed from economic and emotional deprivation seems to be beside the point. What do they think a child actually wants? The right to grow up in an orphanage competing for a scrap of affection or the right to a healthy life in a happy home? I know what I’d do if I visited an orphanage in Malawi. I’d sign over the SSIA and then figure out a way to bring home at least one of those children and hold them and love them. To hell with “culture” and self-flagellation over our imperialist western values. ”

A very good article-the rest of it is:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-2415544,00.html

229 | lula29

Personally I think it’s a write of passage of every black woman on the planet to get smacked upside the head for dodging away from your mother as she’s trying to comb your hair. I’m old enough to have feared Sunday nights. Why Sunday nights? Because that was hair-washing and pressing day because you had to go church and then school on Monday. Ahhhh…the memories….many a Sunday night I got whacked on the head after my mother burned my ear while “straightening” my hair. I can hear my mother now…”Your ear wouldn’t have gotten burned if you hadn’t been flinching away from me! Now sit still!”
There’s just nothing quite like the smell of a straightening iron as is sizzled when it hit the Dixie Peach hair grease. Ahhhhh…just thinking about it makes me flinch to this very day. The reason why I always ducked when my mother straightened my hair is because she wasn’t very good at it and I knew I was going to have a few new burn marks on my ears or the back of my neck by the time she finished. I wanted to kiss every member of the Johnson family when they came out with the first affordable relaxer kit. But that brought up a whole new set of problems…my mother then had CHEMICALS to burn me with….

176 | remember da truth
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There’s a malware (browser hijacker) in your machine. If you have either one of these two free (FREE) programs, Spybot or AdAware, they find it when you run them.

In case you don’t have them, AdAware is from
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and Spybot is from

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

261 | Anna
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I missed RDT’s post, too! If those 2 programs don’t fix the problem, then I’d suggest paying $30 for a program called Spyware Doctor. It works better than AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy. HOWEVER…when you get spyware there is no one program that cleans everything. You’ll need multiple pieces of software to get your machine back to normal. I’ve found that Spyware Doctor finds the most obscure stuff that Spyboth & Adaware miss, so I usually run Spyware Doctor first and then use the other two program to scan a second time. Spyware Doctor is put out by a company called PC TOols (pctools.com).

Also - If you don’t have an anti-virus, get Symantec AV pronto. I like it better than McAfee because McAfee has a bunch of crap in their suite that you don’t need and is very annoying. Like their firewall software. Symantec will monitor your system for spyware and viruses. However, Symantec can’t clearn a lot of the spyware, but it’ll pop up a message that it’s there or that they were able to quarantine it. Then you can run the Spyware Doctor or any anti-spyware software and clean the machine that way.

BTW - I’m not getting kick-backs from either PC Tools or Symantec. Dammit.

272 | Passing Through …hey PT…though i don’t believe LS aka Lies and ****….hope that this so called “news” is not true…i don’t want my chickie babe to get sick…..or if she really fainted maybe just maybe that she is pregger again, non??? i need to hide now and duck before everyone will throw/pelt me with rotten tomatoes…. :)

Missouri fan,
Sometimes youtube acts stupid lol So here’s the link again. …I hope it works for you if not, I’ll try to attach the videos to you through private messages.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9E3CD4E527F9D9DF

“You playing you” “No I dont!!!!!” Thats great :-))

273 | jjoy

JJoy…personally I was proud of the Life & Style for showing some inventiveness with this story. When I started reading it I just knew they were going to say the feinting was proof that she’s preggers! Instead they went with the “heat stroke” angle. I’m really proud of them for resisting the obviously and showing a little initiative in taking the story in another direction. I’m still not going to buy the sucker…but at least it wasn’t their usual “Angie’s preggers again!” bullsh!t.

Watch a video of the gala ( warning the Angelina part
is very emotionnal )

Thank you so much. That video is wonderful as wonderful as Angelina.

Zahara has been blessed to go from a baby left in an Orphanage and barely alive at 6 months, to this world famous baby where people debate about her hair. You Go girl. God has a plan for you. B and A will figure her hair out. They have plenty of friends from all races and countries. This is only 1 photo. Give the child time to grow. I am sure all their busy body friends will put in their advice and the next time you see Miss Zahara she will be rocking a new style. Peace to all.
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I agree! Great post!

*(My comments were awaiting moderation in a previous post due to the links/sourcing I provided - so I am re-posting, but this time removing…if anyone needs the links to these articles just ask and I will post…you can post one link at a time I believe…anyway - read on, and enjoy…)

A couple of interesting quotes from from ‘Putrid,’ as some call her, and Paltry as I like to call her….surprisingly enough, though she says some wonderful things about AJ in this interview promoting ‘Sky Captain’……………..

1)Tell us about the relationship between your character and Jude’s character?
Paltrow: There’s a classic dynamic between Sky Captain and Polly. She’s always bossing him around, telling him what to do, and he’s always fed up with her. Polly is immediately unnerved by Franky because she’s very strong, very beautiful, and very together. She has a lot of power in all of the ways that. When Angelina Jolie came to set, it was like a breath of fresh air. She’s so beautiful and professional, she had her son with her and she was such a good mother. She’s serious about what she does. A typical day on set would be spent on this soundstage. It was just a huge cavern of blue. We were surrounded by blue, and there were these orange dots on the wall so that the computer could line up and calculate every thing.

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What an idiot….she means ‘calibrate,’ I’m sure.

Anyhoo - oddly enough, though she says some nice things about Angelina (pre-brangelina)up top while promoting ‘Sky Captain,’ when she was asked to comment on Angelina and ‘Brangelina’ a year or so later , she would say this…

“I don’t know ANGELINA at all. We did a tiny little thing together in SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW. But she sure seems intense and very captivating.” GWYNETH PALTROW is intrigued by ex-fiance BRAD PITT’s new love ANGELINA JOLIE. 12/23/05

I personally think it’s treading the line of being a ‘back-handed’ compliment, as she was much more effusive while promoting the film…where she also commented as if she did indeed know her…knew her enough to say some flattering things anyway. I think suddenly putting Brad Pitt in the mix, as Angelina’s man, and father to her children, made Ms. Paltrow a bit more reticent with the nice adjectives. Jealous much?? LOL

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Also, this excerpt of hers I found hilarious too - she talks about Brad here, AGAIN. By the way…take a look at the dates…the Sky Captain promotional tour was in the fall of 2004, I just wondered if Brad had every shared his former loathing and history w/ Paltrow while he and Angie were shooting Mr. and Mrs. Smith because it sounds as if they were shooting MAMS concurrently with AJ promoting this film. I can just imagine Brad sharing with Angie, and joking about GP’s silly ass.

By the way - check this clip, and what Paltrow says about Brad…does she sound hella snobby here, ridiculing her surfer boyfriend - then discussing Brad…and excuse me, but WTF does “Brad’s upbringing” have to do with anything??

1)Gwyneth in love
(Filed: 12/01/2004)Page 5 of 6

(Excerpt)…This is to ignore her romantic history. She is, she’s said, ‘very sexual’, and accounts of recent photo shoots suggest she and Martin can’t keep their hands off each other. Her first love was a surfer called Mike who was ‘really dim. Oh my God! He was really sweet - but he’d never read a book.’ And Brad Pitt, to whom she was engaged, came from the rougher side of the tracks. Judging by her rather opaque utterances, it seems that golden bond was sundered because she and Pitt couldn’t enjoy full love and full careers. Is that a fair summary?

‘I don’t think it’s quite fair. It was probably because I was young and… I just wasn’t ready for marriage. Nor was he the right person for me.’

Which means?

‘I just…’ There’s a long pause. ‘We were raised very differently and it was just, you know, a wrong coming together. And at that point, I did want to work a lot.’

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Bahaha - still LMAO at her “very sexual,” comment (…the visual itself gives me the heebie jeebies, lol) ….and oh yeah…this is the part where I scratch my head and ask everyone here how this B* has the audacity to chide and scold people on talking about their relationships?? The article I excerpt above, has her discussing Chris Martin in detail - how he’s like her Dad, how he was with her through her Dad’s illness, blah blah blah. WHAT a hypocrite, LOL! She’s almost too obnoxious for words.

Anyhoo…this has been a Paltry minute. Hope you’ve enjoyed. LOL

((((((HELLO ALL)))))
145 | remember da truth | HELLO. I hope all is well! I was thinking about you today. I was going to see if Jared would send my email address to you. Sorry, I missed you this time around. After the World Series, I will be able to post with some regularity. I hope to chat with you then…

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267 | Anna | Thanks for posting that article. Someone mentioned that ‘adopting Africans’ is the new thing. Personally, I am glad it is. David’s father (Madonna new son) said some thing that were quite heartfelt. Although David is not exactly an orphan as one parent is alive, but what parent wants to see their child suffer and potentially die? Especially when someone wants to give them a loving home. I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt. NO ONE adopts a child for publicity reasons or as a fashion accessory. I think that is just MEAN. Publicity comes and goes, is either good or bad and is not that consistent. Well, expect for B&A who are always in the news and gossip tabs for something or the other. I wonder what lies they will tell with this picture. - Brad is taking the kids from Angie and didn’t have the chance to comb little Z’s hair….LOL

oh God! she’s ****** ugly!

284 | karen|

You must be looking at your own reflection.

269 | Passing Through |
Yep, I lived through that too, only she used Queen Bergemont. My problem, according to my mother, was that I was tenderheaded and I sweated too much. H$ll, I sweated because I knew I was going to get burnt, and then yelled at. She always tried to press it to the brick, but it never really worked out. The only painfree pressing I got was done by someone else and did not dare tell my mother about it.

Fortunately, she was leery of chemicals, so I didn’t have to endure that. I went to her friend to get a relaxer and again, it never realy worked out. Not until I went to another beautician did I find out that my hair could’ve been blown straight. I do relaxers, but it’s rarely painful or traumatic because my hair is now in the hands of a professional. And the best part about not having my mother in my hair anymore is that I can sweat, get caught in the rain, and let it airdry after a shampoo.

Here’s hoping that Z’s hair will be cared for by non-psychotic!

Great article on Ellen Barkin….

A stormy sea of love
RUTH LA FERLA

YES, A SOFA IS FOR LOUNGING. BUT if you’re Ellen Barkin, you work it like a prop. In her trailer on the Warner Brothers lot, where she is filming Ocean’s Thirteen, Barkin settles into its cream-coloured leather cushions, shifting by degrees from an upright posture to a slouch, then kicking off her Louboutin slingbacks and sliding into full recline.

Interviews, Barkin announces, are an exercise in self-examination. “They force me to really think something through.”

Pensive and chatty by turns, she speaks with a candour more commonly heard on an analyst’s couch. She has plenty to talk about: the new film, in which she is the female lead opposite Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and George Clooney, and which reunites her with Al Pacino, her co-star in Sea of Love, the 1989 thriller that was a career-making showcase for her sex appeal.

Then there is her personal life, which has been turned inside out with the abrupt end of her marriage to the financier Ronald Perelman in January.

The breakup was a gift to the tabloids: Perelman’s lawyers surprised her with the news that he was seeking a divorce, and he had security guards stand by while she moved out of their regal New York townhouse. Much of the six-year marriage between the billionaire and the movie star seemed to play out in public because of the couple’s prominence, though its essence remained a mystery.

Now Barkin, 52, has chosen an equally public denouement by putting up for auction the extravagant jewellery Perelman lavished on her. Parting with more than 100 pieces valued at 15 million (£8m) represents a symbolic and literal purging of the union.

“These are just not memories I want to wear every day,” Barkin says.

The trove, to be sold at Christie’s in New York’s Rockefeller Center on Tuesday, includes a 32-carat apricot diamond ring that Perelman, who is the chairman of Revlon, gave Barkin weeks before their divorce; a pair of emerald and gold cuffs designed for the Duchess of Windsor, valued at up to 80,000 (£42,000); an emerald necklace that once belonged to billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke that could fetch as much as 350,000 (£185,000); and a selection of pieces by the cult Parisian jeweller JAR.

Only 80 to 90 JAR pieces are created each year. Francois Curiel, the chairman of Christie’s Europe, says: “When you have 17 pieces of JAR in an auction, it’s an event.”

For Barkin, the sale puts an end to her relationship with Perelman, whose wish to be single again caught her unawares, she says. A divorce granted by a Manhattan court a few weeks later left her with 20 million (£10.6 million) under the terms of their prenuptial contract.

That fortune notwithstanding, the rupture left Barkin feeling raw. Her former husband’s behaviour “was shocking,” she says. “What I thought was a commonality was a very different bond.”

Barkin say a confidentiality agreement prevents her from discussing aspects of the marriage. But in an interview meant to focus on the auction of her jewellery, she did not hold back her feelings about the break-up. Perelman, through a spokeswoman, declined to respond or otherwise comment.

Barkin says the marriage was founded on genuine affection. “I loved Ronald Perelman. I can say that unequivocally.” Perelman, she suggests, had struck a cooler bargain. In his mind, she says, “I was an accessory, being accessorised, the perfect one - age-appropriate, the mother of two children, successful in her own right.”

As an actress, Barkin was known for steamy performances in movies such as The Big Easy and This Boy’s Life. Yet she was also the attentive mother of two children by fellow actor Gabriel Byrne - Jack and Romey - and projected an aura of matronly respectability. “I was an actress who for 20-some years had never left her children once to do a movie,” Barkin says. “That looked good.”

Perelman’s previous wives include the Democratic fundraiser and society beauty Patricia Duff.

“And you know, I wasn’t a bimbo,” Barkin says, less with rancour than regret. “I was a good get.” She says Perelman did not want her away from his side for the months it takes to make a movie, so except for small parts, she put her career on hold.

“When I met Ronald Perelman, I wasn’t going to travel,” she says. “That made it more difficult to work, but that was kind of fine with me.”

Some 18 months ago, Barkin accepted a cameo in Ocean’s Twelve, requiring her to spend 36 hours on a film set in Chicago. Her part was later cut, but it caused a rupture in the marriage. “That had enormous repercussions,” she says. “After that cameo I moved out of the house with my children. So it didn’t go well. It never went smoothly when I worked.”

But the couple were reconciled, and she moved back in. And if things were sometimes rocky, she was nevertheless stunned by the suddenness of the break-up. “You don’t spend years with someone and they’re just Photoshopped out of your life.”

She sees a paradox: Perelman was attracted to her because she was a movie star, but objected when she wanted to keep making films. “It’s that old thing. You are drawn to a person for certain reasons, and then they try to change you,” she says.

Single again, she has started a film production company with her brother, George Barkin, and plans to channel the proceeds of the jewellery sale into that.

Friends say Barkin is resilient. Putting the baubles of the marriage up for auction is a way of bouncing back, says designer Diane von Furstenberg. “That was very healthy,” adds von Furstenberg. “Now she can be herself.”

Barkin has lost almost ten pounds since the divorce, and looks girlishly slender in a black Rick Owens T-shirt and Yohji Yamamoto trousers, swinging a leg elastically over the back of the sofa in her trailer.

Her expression, too, is in animated contrast to the fixed mask worn by many women in Hollywood. She has a habit of scrunching her features - lips compressed, eyes squeezed to slits - buying time to reflect before answering even innocuous questions.

That signature expression is in place even while describing her jewellery, much of which she chose herself. Many of the pieces, such as a seven-strand natural pearl necklace and a 15-carat diamond ring, are chunky and audacious. They are “unapologetic, I guess,” Barkin says, “And I wasn’t precious about wearing my precious jewels.”

She routinely wore a 16.94-carat diamond pendant, valued at 600,000 to 800,000 (£317,000 to £424,000), in bed. Several years ago she was seen at New York fashion shows, absently fidgeting with a huge diamond ring.

Except for a diamond ring given to her by Joel Rosenthal, the designer of JAR and a friend, she is parting with all the jewellery from the marriage, eager to shed the image of a gem-freighted trophy wife. “I am not a fantasist,” she says. “And certainly, I was never the little girl who dreamt about some rich guy buying her jewellery.”

THE YOUNGER OF TWO CHILDREN IN A lower-middle-class Jewish family, she grew up in Queens. She has boasted in other interviews of fistfights with gangs of girls in the neighbourhood. “I certainly wasn’t a thug,” she says. “But my mother worked, my father worked. You learned how to take care of yourself. I was as tough as I needed to be.” Something of that scrappiness surfaced in her 20s, during stints as a downtown waitress. “I was feisty, sure,” she says, unabashed. “If somebody didn’t leave a tip for a waitress and that waitress wasn’t me, I would follow them out the door, yelling, ‘Was something wrong with your service?’ ”

Barkin was thorny on movie sets as well, known to flounce off in tears when her lines didn’t suit her, but fiercely intent, those who worked with her say, on giving every part her best. Her ferocity led Gordon Cotler, the writer and a producer of a TV movie in which she appeared, to predict in 1993, in a letter to the New York Times, that “if some producer didn’t strangle her first, she would be a star”.

Despite memorably sexy roles, and a reputation as an actor’s actor, Barkin never attained the A-list stature of Michelle Pfeiffer or Julia Roberts. Since marrying Perelman she has taken on only a handful of bite-size parts, notably in the 2004 film Palindromes, in which she played the anguished mother of a wayward teenage girl. She did not fight to land her latest role, as a curtly efficient assistant to Pacino in Ocean’s Thirteen. “I’ve never been ambitious,” she insists. “I’m a big believer in being in the right place at the right time.”

She ascribes her recent career upturn to luck and the generosity of the film’s director, Steven Soderbergh, and one of its producers, Jerry Weintraub. She was sitting on the beach at a friend’s vacation house after her divorce, mulling over her own contribution to the failure of her marriage, when the phone rang. “It was Jerry asking, ‘How are you doing?’ I said, ‘Not so good’,” she recalls, her eyes welling. “He said: ‘You’re going to feel better in about 30 seconds. You’re the female lead in Ocean’s Thirteen.’”

• Ocean’s Thirteen is released in June next year.

Z she’s cute!

71//JUSTSOYOUKNOW// Read my post on the “BANTU”.Stop giving people wrong info plz.Check for facts b4 you post. Thankyou

80//Angiefan// BANTU means people dont matter what color they are and the singular is MUNTU.

#284 Renee
I agree — Madonna has two children already, and knows what
being a parent is all about. She has been saying she wants
another child for two years now, and having been active in AIDS
charities for 20 years she is well aware of African AIDS orphans.
Does Madonna do anything on a whim, anyway? She has about as
careful and planned a life as anyone could!

As for having a parent still alive, how many babies and children up
for adoption in the U.S. have living parents?!?!? HELLOOOO!!! If
a child is available for adoption, it’s because the child was put
there, and the parent, if still alive knows he/she cannot take care
of the child. In fact, they even think an orphanage is better than
what they can provide, so you can imagine how thrilled David’s
father must be that his son hit the jackpot. A lot of these do-
gooders are worrying over nothing and not thinking it through.

Mia Farrow must be laughing at how adopting overseas babies is
now considered a trendy thing to do! Anyone able to give a baby
or child a better life and is willing to do so should be encouraged,
not ridiculed.

GOOD SUNDAY EVERYONE!

BEST WISHES TO THE JOLIE-PITTS!

BlueMystique:
Thank you so much for your patience! I have a reply Thank you message for you out there.
I finally got to EA FanFic destination!

How about you Guli?

Gone to church & movie theater with a friend.

jenna Aniston is a loser MOM too…of dolly & norman. Is that you jen a? Imagine letting Norm & dol on the loose. Sickening!

All your apologies and misty-eyed posts about cyber friends were then aimed at “First and last post” and not at Canoodle, who you and CAPS LOCK owe an apology too

298 | Kongo

Wait a minute. Canoodle was asked 6 or 7times over two threads to stop using caps. It was not until someone question if she was a “hater” that she wrote about her eye problems. She has some responsiblity in this misunderstanding. Canoodle ignored all the posts about the caps but responded to other posts. Just like a hater normally does.
So attacking Guil is not right either Kongo,

Don’t know anything about her type of hair, but I think Z’s looks nice, fluffy and natural.

You’ll probably think I’m being ignorant, but is it really necessary to braid or straighten her hair, either with irons or chemicals? So long as it is healthy and shinny, should not hair be left to its own natural flow, with a good monthly cut?

291 | Gussie |

I have been wondering the same thing. I will probably sound ignorant too, and I am.. I know nothing of how to care for hair for black people. My own experience as a child was having my mom shampoo my hair with baby shampoo every Saturday night, running a comb through it and that was it.. it dried on it’s own. She might put some barrets in it.. maybe.. or put it in a pony tail.. sometimes. On rare special occasions I might sleep in sponge rollers to give my hair some curl. I just cant imagine having regular rituals such as some have described. I love how BAMZS fans come from different countries and cultures, races and experience. I enjoy learning about people different from myself. But I will admit to wondering why all that straightening and ironing and chemicals and braiding are preferable to a natural style. I mean no offense, just curious. I hope I havent offended anyone by my question.

AND becca have you been to other blogs Femalefirst, Perez & Dlisted.
309| ***!!!!***

I think becca’s post, #312 answers your question. She probably lives at those sites.

I am not a black person and so I was wondering what the fuss is all about on Z’s hair.

I thought her hair is cute and healthy and suits her lovely face.

Becca..

All of your posts have been flagged because of your full language and they will soon be deleted. In your every post you called people “f**** idiots” and you have the nerve to call us rude. I admire the level of your stupidity and your courage to spread it to the world but we have plenty of cases like you here. So the next time you want to be taken seriously wash your mouth.

Good beautiful sunday morning, everyone. If you feel nasty in your heart, go to church, or go take a walk, it will do you a lot of good.:)

333 | i agree with becca |

Please just look at your mirror and say that straight to your face first. To agree with the person who she is ten times more rude and offensive when at the same time she accusing others for the same thing you are just as low as the person you agree with.

tried posting nice things several times to have my words twisted around

335 | becca |

Example please

#341 |becca|

so are you admitting to being Canoodle?

Angies kids will be cutiing and doing drugs.drawin blood by 13.,,,,way to go brad u dumb hillbilly. they will be river pheniox, paris,hilton and britney in the makin
312 | becca |

Exactly HOW were your words twisted? No matter if they were twisted like a pretzel.. they are vile, cruel., evil words.. regardless of their “shape”.

ERROR * ERROR* sp mistake

Sorry Kongo, didn’t mean to steal yo’ name, I meant to write Kongoright, not Kongo OOOPS

347 | Kongoright |

Becca, sticking to your own name will aleviate this type of error.

STOP
Everybody slowly back away from the computer. Get up get dressed go find somebodys CHURCH,TEMPLE,MASS what ever FAITH you be, and pray. Some of you need JESUS in the worst way. While some of us need him to be able to deal with the rest.The things some people write in here truely test my limits sometimes and i get tempted to reply back to the crazyness. There is no way im going to let these people who are so filled with hate make me become less than who i am by going so far down to there level.Pitty them yes, feel sorry for them yes,PRAY for them yes, become one of them in deed ,thought,or print NEVER.

Is today idiots free day or what ????

353 | el |

They don’t have a specific day.They can pollute the air anytime anyday.LOL!

I meant new. sorry.

My oh my. What ugliness in the morning. I’m surprised I wasn’t accused of being all the nasty people. Not yet, at least. Because i’m making a mention of it, i’m sure i’ll get knives thrown my way–which is fair, I guess, but you would be wrong.

Alas, i’ve lost the stomach for baiting everyone anymore. I’m just too tired. I come for the pics and do the quick skim.

Think Positive–Did Brad join the fam on the plane to Jodhpur or did he go separately? I’m having a hard time piecing the info together.

Think Positive - Be careful, she’ll soon attack you

Peculiar how all the dipsh^ts showed up at the same time hummmmmmm.

Hi everyone
the haters are the same person changing names;
Always the same thing , the Doctor’s office is closed today and they need medecine;
Sad they don’t have love in their life , if they had, they wd’nt be so hateful;

Zahara is a lucky girl and so adorable;

Good Afternoon.

Princess Zee is adorable. Loving her bangles. A girl after my own heart. Her baby hair? It doesn’t really matter what the style as this hair will be barely be a memory when she is 5, 6 or 15, 16 years of age. As long as it’s lightly groomed daily that’s all that matters because through experiences, babies seem to manage to get all kinds of doo dads in their hair. Her silky curly afro is perfect for her IMO. It just has to be evened out. As far as chemicals, no chemicals should ever be used on the head of a child under the age of 14. Any self-respecting stylist will tell you that. I hope Zahara will always keep her hair natural( without chemicals, like relaxers or hair color). She & Angelina should be able to manage without that stuff. She should stay away from cornrow braids and stilk to plaits with barettes if she wants to do “braids”.

Everyone in this family has an individual physical beauty that is like no other. They each look very different but are all beautiful. Physical beauty comes in many forms and this family is a perfect example of this.

LIPUNGA, Malawi - The father of the Malawian boy Madonna plans to adopt added a fresh twist to the saga, saying he never intended his son to be adopted by the pop diva, but only for her to raise the child on his behalf.

In an interview with Reuters Television in his home village of Lipunga on Saturday, Yohane Banda said Madonna asked that she be able to raise his one-year-old son on his behalf, rather than that the child should become her own.

Banda’s statement is a major shift from his earlier remarks last week when he railed against human rights groups that have gone to court to stop Madonna from adopting his son David.

“Had they told us that Madonna wanted to adopt my son and make him her own son, we would not have agreed to that,” Banda said in his local language of Chichewa.

“It would have been better for him to continue staying at the orphanage because I see no reason why my child should be given away forever when I can feed him,” he said, speaking at his village of Lipunga near the Zambia border late on Saturday.

Madonna, 48, has angered rights groups with her plan to adopt young David Banda, who left his native country on Tuesday last week for the entertainer’s home in London after she was granted temporary adoption rights by Malawi authorities.

The High Court in Lilongwe will on Friday start hearing the case lodged by the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), an alliance of 67 human rights groups, which argues current Malawi laws forbid international adoption, even by celebrities.

Banda told Reuters he signed papers he could not understand, but government officials assured him that the agreement was similar to what he had with the orphanage — to nurture and educate the boy but not take him away for good.

“I cannot read and write so I relied on what the (government) officials told me that the papers said Madonna would look after the child the way the orphanage planned to educate him and then he comes back to me,” Banda said.

Asked if he had any copies of the agreements he signed with Madonna, Banda said: “I am still waiting to get my copies.”

He said the copies were still in the hands of the government officials who mediated the agreement. Banda said he would wait to see them before deciding what action to take after consultations with his mother and other family members.

Neither government officials nor Madonna’s spokeswoman in London were immediately available for comment.

Mother died of malaria
Banda said he gave the boy to the orphanage mainly for medical care and breast-feeding after the boy’s mother died of malaria days after giving birth to him.

“We sent this child to an orphanage because at one month we could not look after him, we did not have a health center nearby and the orphanage was the ideal place for him,” he said.

The American singer, who is married to British film director Guy Ritchie, hopes to make David a brother to her 10-year-old daughter Lourdes and son, Rocco, who is six. She has denied cutting corners to speed the adoption process.

David will stay abroad with Madonna for 18 months and be monitored by Malawi officials before final approval can be given for him to officially join her family.

Banda said people did not give him a chance to explain his position better because the media was only interested in knowing about David and Madonna.

“What we agreed with Madonna was that she looks after my child until he finishes school, becomes independent and comes back home to us,” Banda said.

370 | Another problem for Madonna |

I wonder how Madonna will explain this on Oprah and the Today show this week.

http://photo.pps.at/index.xhtml

This site has some pictures of Brad at an airport on 10/19. I

282 | ritzygal

Jared can you get the new pictures please.

Testing

Is anyone having problems bringing up the posts?

Alas, i’ve lost the stomach for baiting everyone anymore. I’m just too tired. I come for the pics and do the quick skim.
360 | ritzygal |
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Wow, finally a confession. I will save this gem for possible future use. Hope I will never have to. ;)

377 | Winnie-the-Pooh |

I don’t think there’s another link or anyone have access to this site. :(

I am also surprised that Madonna, with all her resources, let herself into this mess. But, in a sense, I think it’s good to see the rough side of adoption as well, so people who want to adopt, have more realistic expectations.

Hi all. How’s everyone today?

I read the Madonna story and this is the part that bothers me about what David’s father said:

“Had they told us that Madonna wanted to adopt my son and make him her own son, we would not have agreed to that,” Banda said in his local language of Chichewa.

“It would have been better for him to continue staying at the orphanage because I see no reason why my child should be given away forever when I can feed him,” he said, speaking at his village of Lipunga near the Zambia border late on Saturday.

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So is he saying that if it had been anyone else besides Madonna who wanted to adopt David , it would be okay? And didn’t he give his son to the orphanage because he couldn’t feed him and take care of him? But now he wants to take care of his child? And if he’s saying that he made an agreement with Madonna to let her raise his child but that David would return to his country, then why is he saying that he doesn’t want Madonna to adopt his child? Either he wanted Madonna to adopt David, or just raise him but not adopt him, or not take him away from the orphanage at all. He seems to be claiming all three of these options. There seems to be a lot holes in this story.

150 | first and last post | Thanks for this. I was thinking this as well. I work with a girl who is legally blind, and we have to blow up textbooks to about 3 times their size, and she still has her nose on the page! I think in general we need to be a little less jumpy. On the other hand, I almost dread coming here these days because of all the negativity, so it’s not surprising that some “assume”.

I’m lost on the hair thing. I’m “hair retarded” in any ethnicity. I love the bracelets, and think in general Zee looks adorable as usual. I love the way she holds on to her daddy.

387 | Cher

great post , i too couldn’t help but cry when i saw the video

387 | Cher | Great Post

387 Cher
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Beautiful post Cher! :-)

I think Madonna’s problem started when she allowed herself to be filmed on her journey to adopt a child and to give money to a charity. When most celebs adopt, we don’t hear about it until the baby at home with his/her new family.

385 | alero
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Alero, great observation and point. I too think this is where Madonna messed up and allowed how she might be perceived to cloud her judgement. I think she was too concerned at how it would look just adopting a baby, having never set foot in Africa. So she decides to go and make a big production out of it - which in and of itself isn’t a bad thing…but Madonna wnating what she wants, NOW..had to do it all in one fell swoop. Hence the mess-up. Now we’ll have plenty of people, making comments and jokes and snide remarks about adopting children, period. That’s the sad part. We didn’t know Brad & Angelina had adopted Zee, until they were back in the states for a few weeks, and Zee was in the hospital in NYC where Dr. Aronson was taking care of her.

Madonna’s problem wasn’t the charity or the filming. It was choosing Malawi as the place to adopt. They have a history of not allowing many adoptions to foreigners period. Famous or not. If she wanted to have a baby for attention and publicity she could have easily picked a place where adoption is quick and easy.

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387 | Cher

Thank you for your post.

I LOVE THE BAMZS FAMILY AND MY PRAYER IS THAT GOD WILL ALWAYS PROTECT AND GUIDE THEM. WELL ABOUT ZAHARA HAIR SHE IS STILL A CHILD AND IF ANTHING IS DONE TO HER HAIR NOW SHE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BEAR THE PAIN. AM FROM NIGERIA AND WE THE AFRICA, OUR HAIR IS STRONG. WHEN THE RIGHT TIME COMES ANGELINA WILL KNOW WHAT BEST TO DO TO ZAHARA HAIR. MORE BLESSING TO THE BAMZS AND ALL THE FANS. I ALWAYS ENJOY READING EVERY COMMENT BUT IS A PITY THAT I CAN POST DUE TO THE COST OF BROWSING HERE. AM SCHOOLING HERE IN RUSSIA AND NOW IS 10pm. how can i join the BAMZS FANS ?

CLINIQUA…Very good point about the world not knowing any details or specifics about Zahara’s adoption until it was over and they were home. There was still a flurry if you remember about her having a mother, even pictures of the girl who claimed to be, but it was ignored pretty much and finally disappeared. I have such respect for Brad and Angelina, I know they would haven nothing to do with anything not upstanding.

Regarding the article about Gwyneth Paltrow speaking about the differences between her and Brad being related to “his upbringing” and background…what exactly was Chris Martin’s background? Is he royalty of some sort? I thought he was just an ordinary guy&#