Brad & Cate Take ‘Entertainment Weekly’

175 | deena & 180 | think positive!

You’re welcome BAMZS Fans. I just want the Fanistons to understand that even if Brad doesn’t get nominated for Babel, The Departed probably will be nominated for Best Picture and maybe even win. This means as producer, Brad will be standing on stage with an Oscar in his hand while J. Maniston is sitting at home with her d*ck in hers.

BBL, I’m off to the office.

For the international fans, BABEL will be released in these countries today:

Israel 26 October
Denmark 27 October
Italy 27 October
Mexico 27 October
Sweden 27 October

I am expecting BABEL to do very well in Mexico.

175 | deena & 180 | think positive!

You’re welcome BAMZS Fans. I just want the Fanistons to understand that even if Brad doesn’t get nominated for Babel, The Departed probably will be nominated for Best Picture and maybe even win. This means as producer, Brad will be standing on stage with an Oscar in his hand while J. Maniston is sitting at home with her d*ck in hers.

BBL, I’m off to the office.

183 | Maniston | 10/27/06 9:50 AM | Flag Comment
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J. Maniston is sitting at home with her d*ck in hers.
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Don’t you mean with V’s d— in her hands?

and I LOVE that X is not mentioned anywhere,
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Why would he mention her? She is not part of his life anymore, she is a nobody.

When Pitt was married to the tv actress, I looked at him
differently. He was good-looking, but I assumed he had no
depth. Now, he looks like a grown man with compassion. I find
this incredibly hot.

172 | Maniston | - Hiya Maniston, you definitely set that dimwit straight

53 | Original jpf : Good Morning! I got your email address, thanks to Audrey & Jared.
Sent you an email with attachements last night.

184 | Maria | - :lol:, hiya Maria, what going on my fellow New Yorker? Are you seeing Babel today? I wish I was in New York, so I can see it today.

192 | Tracy |
Hi, Tracy. Sorry I can’t help you there, hope someone else can.

From the New York Post, a very good Review of Babel:

WHAT 3 YEARS OF ANGELINA WILL DO TO A MAN…AND OTHER JOYS OF ‘BABEL’
OLD BRAD SHINES IN INTERLOCKING DRAMATIC TALES Brad Pitt leaves his 1991 “Thelma & Louise” heartthrob image covered in gray hair and wrinkles in “Babel.”
Rating:
October 27, 2006 — IN the towering dramatic achievement that is “Babel,” fate and bad decisions bring disparate people together - and cultural differences separate them - with heartbreaking consequences.

That sounds a lot like the Oscar-winning “Crash” - which owes a lot to Mexican filmmakers Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s and Guillermo Arriaga’s pre-”Babel” collaborations on “Amores Perros” and “21 Grams.”

But the far more ambitious and visually stunning “Babel” - itself a heavyweight contender for Best Picture honors - wrings tears on no fewer than three continents with uniformly superb performances by a huge cast headed by Brad Pitt.

There are four intersecting but not exactly synchronized story lines - all involving parents and children - playing out simultaneously in this demanding movie.

Let’s start at a mountain village in Morocco, where a goat herder (Mustapha Rachidi) turns a newly acquired high-powered rifle over to his two young sons (Said Tarchani and Boubker Ait El Caid) to shoot jackals.

Of course it’s a huge mistake, especially when they test the rifle by taking a pot shot at a passing tourist bus.

Susan (Cate Blanchett), a reluctant traveler, is hit in the shoulder and begins profusely bleeding.

Her overbearing American husband, Richard (Pitt, his hair dyed and made-up to simulate middle-age), orders the bus to the nearest village, where locals care for her as help very slowly arrives.

As Moroccan and U.S. authorities argue whether it was a terrorist attack, the local cops brutally hunt down the culprits.

Meanwhile, Susan and Richard’s two young children (Elle Fanning and Nathan Gamble) have been left with their nanny Amelia (the terrific Adriana Barraza) back in San Diego.

As the crisis plays out halfway around the world, Amelia unwisely totes these sheltered kids - without parental permission - to her native Mexico, so she can attend the all-night wedding of her only son.

Even worse, their chauffeur is illegal immigrant Amelia’s boozing, ne’er-do-well nephew, Santiago (Gael Garcia Bernal).

A confrontation with a U.S. border guard (Clifton Collins Jr.) leads to a high-speed chase and a terrifying night.

The fourth strand is set in Toyko, where deaf teenager Chieko (the ethereally beautiful Rinko Kikuchi, a lock for Best Supporting Actress) is grieving over the recent suicide of her mother.

She rebels against her often-absent businessman father (Koji Yakusho) by acting out sexually with boys and with a police detective.

It’s not immediately clear how this story is linked with the others, and those who were bothered by the chain of coincidences in “Crash” may have some difficulty embracing this movie.

It’s their loss. For me, it was well worth the suspension of disbelief to see how director Inarritu, screenwriter Arriaga - and their brilliant cinematographer, Rodrigo Prieto (who also worked on their first two films) - deftly jump between these stories for 2 1/2 hours, building to a powerful climax.

This is a serious movie overflowing with memorable acting, unforgettable images, searing tragedy, unexpected humor and an eloquent plea for international understanding. And while it’s by no stretch of imagination light entertainment, it’s fundamentally a more optimistic work than either “Amores Perros” or “21 Grams.”

“Babel,” which takes its title from the Bible story of God inventing languages to prevent men from building a tower to heaven, is, in short, one of the year’s best movies.

lou.lumenick@nypost.com

BABEL
Gripping post-9/11 panorama.
In English, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese and French with English subtitles. Running time: 142 minutes. Rated R (violence, full-frontal nudity, profanity, drugs and a chicken slaughter). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square and the Union Square.

When Pitt was married to the tv actress, I looked at him
differently. He was good-looking, but I assumed he had no
depth. Now, he looks like a grown man with compassion. I find
this incredibly hot.
191 | tba | 10/27/06 9:59 AM |
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ITA i’m not a bible thumper, but this passage comes to mind:

“When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things.” I Cor. xiii. 11.

200 | Alexanderina |
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Thanks Alexanderina. I have to say it again. Can’t wait to see it, but on Nov 10, though.