Brad & Angie’s Mumbai Dinner Date

Love the new pics. It’s great to see Brad and Angie get “date night”.

And Mickey in pink is hilarious.

Could it be MD & DT got the HOTS for Angie & since they know AJ is with BP now, they both got no chance whatsoever? I do not think that AJ will lower her standard when it comes to men after spending her time with BP. She got the prime beef.

See here folks…Angelina never been bashed by men before even she was married with Billy Bob…It is because they have a chance with her since Billy Bob is so ordinary looking man. Like wow if Angelina went with Billy that means I got a chance with her. I heard this comment from a man before being interviewed on TV.
But since she’s with BP their hopes are gone ‘cuz once you got top range you surely won’t be lowering yourself back.

I have a feeling she could be pregnant again. aside from loose cloth, the way she carefully walk. hmmm…..

BCBG Says:
November 11th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Missouri Fan:
http://www.simplybrad.com
on the right side of the screen, under navigation, click multimedia
click videos
click interviews
click The charlie rose show (total of 3 parts in 2004

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He could not speak befor he met Angelina.

I’m looking at those pictures and i wonder.Is there any chance for us to get bored of these two?I mean,it’s almost two years now that they are together and i still can’t get enough of them.Can you?

love them!!!!!! angie is sooo pretty!

Too beautiful to be understood (OLD ARTICLE, BUT STILL…)
May 06, 2006 Edition 1

Chrissy Iley

The first time I saw Angelina Jolie she was shimmering in the moonlight of the garden of Hollywood’s excluside Chateau Marmont hotel.

She was wearing jeans and a silky top, but radiated an unnerving sexiness. Her eyes locked into conversation with whoever intrigued her. It was as if they were the only person in the world, which was either charming or shy, depending on which way you looked at her.

Men stared in slack-jawed lust, a little afraid of her. Women stared at the ground or at each other in a mumbling, pouting sort of way.

This was long before there was Angelina and Brad. It was even before Billy Bob.

It seems that Angelina - striking, sexy, strong - is built in a way that women do not warm to. They see her as Alpha Vamp, too gothic to be a real mother.

Well, not any more - she’s having twins. There was never a love cauldron that raised more heat than the Brad/Jennifer/Angelina pot.

Female columnists around the world declared, “Angelina has a mouth designed for hoovering up husbands”.

Slogan T-shirts went on sale last year. Team Aniston outsold Team Jolie 25-1 because women identified with Jennifer’s pain. She was the victim.

She’d been dumped, like every one of them. Angelina is a different kind of woman. Just because she does not wear her pain on her sleeve and play the victim card, it does not mean she’s not vulnerable.

Actually, she does wear her pain on her arm. She has a tattoo, in Latin, that says “What Nourishes Me Also Destroys Me”. She’s a complex individual who has led a complicated life.

She says, “I think it’s more important to be understood than to be loved”.

Maybe that’s the same thing. What nobody seems to understand in this triangle is Brad left Jennifer. Angelina didn’t beg him or cajole him, manipulate or hoover him.

It’s shameful to perpetuate a myth of misogyny that says she was the one lacking in empathy or morals, especially when she states, “To be intimate with a married man when my own father cheated on my mother is not something that I could forgive. I couldn’t look at myself in the morning if I did that. It’s not nice to be breaking up a marriage.”

She was working on a mission in Niger when news reached the world that Jennifer and Brad had finally separated. Interesting the way that chauvinistic prejudice works. Brad was married. Angelina was single. It was Brad’s decision to end his marriage. This is all the evidence we have for sure, and surely it’s unfair for Angelina to carry all the blame.

Why, as women, do we identify with the victim? Angelina is not like other women. This makes her idiosyncratic, powerful, mesmerising. It should not make us hate her. She’s emotionally articulate. She’s lived, she’s learnt, she’s suffered, she’s smart.

She won an Oscar for her role in Girl Interrupted, set in a mental institution, and a Golden Globe for Gia, as the heroin-addicted bisexual model.

She kicked ass with last year’s blockbuster Mr and Mrs Smith, in which she literally tried to blow up her onscreen husband, Pitt.

She also fell for her husband Billy Bob Thornton on the set of Pushing Tin, but, hey, it’s not so unusual to meet your partner at work.

Her body is beautifully sculpted and she’s a true artist. She doesn’t care about the red carpet or handbags. Note, she’s always seen with the same one, a big old thing stuffed with baby paraphernalia. She does not believe in nannies.

“I am not going to be a mother who uses a nanny to do all the hard work while I have fun. That’s not my ethic.”

She works tirelessly, hands on and feet in the mud for the United Nations, and is its greatest ambassador since Audrey Hepburn.

She adopted Maddox in 2001 from Cambodia, while she was researching the part of an Aid worker for Beyond Borders. She adopted Zahara from Ethiopia last year.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees later appointed her Goodwill Ambassador. There is only one. She is not tokenistic in any way. Not a movie star on a vanity project.

She doesn’t do it to give her life more meaning. She does it to save people’s lives.

Aid workers who worked with her tell how she’s not afraid to ride for two days on a motorbike in the mud without showering. She sees herself as just one extra pair of hands able to dig. She makes $12 million to $20 million (R72 million to R120 million) a movie and gives a third away to charity.

She says, “If I have three million, I know one of them I can live without.”

She doesn’t just turn up and smile. She lobbies Congress to get aid, to get Bills passed, to change the world. In her role as Goodwill Ambassador she has visited more than 15 countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Haiti, Kosovo and Sierra Leone. In Pakistan, it was after the earthquake. Brad was with her. She has effected a transformation in him too.

“I put my head together, cover my tattoos, get into my suits, look clean, don’t dress sexy and try to present the woman that I’m not sure I am, but would like to aspire to be a little more. Everyone is always expecting me to be, or it’s been easier, to be the other girl.”

That other girl was from the dark side. The one who admitted to experimenting with drugs, knives and other women. She spoke about them all with searing honesty in a hope to explain herself, alienated her further from the world.

Her father was Jon Voight, the enigmatic actor who starred in Midnight Cowboy. Her mother is actress Marcheline Bertrand. They separated when she was one.

“I was always the punk in school. I didn’t feel clean or pretty. I felt interesting, odd or dark. I could understand the darker things, the moody things, the more emotional things.”

She grew up relating more to pain than happiness. She married actor Jonny Lee Miller when she was in her early 20s wearing black rubber trousers and a white shirt on which she had scrawled his name in blood. They split, but she is still close to him, saying that she was just too young.

“I wanted more from him than I could give him.”

This was the other girl who was hard on herself, who thought she had nothing to give - and now she’s giving so much.

She never thought she would be a mother. She was never the kind of child who was asked to babysit. In fact, when she needed to cry in movies, all she would do was extend her hand and imagine a child taking hold of it. Then the tears would come.

“I was always sure that I would never know that feeling.”

That feeling came when she first picked up baby Maddox at the orphanage in Cambodia. He was the last baby she visited that day. She held him and held him and when he opened his eyes there was a connection that made her whole life change.

With those eyes locked she fitted in a way that she never thought she could. No more slashing herself with knives “just to be able to feel something”.

Now holding Maddox was as profound.

“I held him for the longest time. When he finally woke up and stared at me we stared at each other and I was crying and he smiled.

“My discomfort with children was because I always assumed

I could never make them happy because I was accused of being dark. I wasn’t sure if I could be a great, loving, perfect mom, but

I wanted to be, so bad. He smiled and we hung for a few hours and I could make him happy and we felt like a family.”

Feeling like a happy family was something she had never had and, subsequently, jealously guarded.

She didn’t suddenly fall out of love with Billy Bob Thornton, to whom she was married at the time. Suddenly Maddox was her prime and primal concern. She didn’t think Billy Bob would be a great father to Maddox. “He wasn’t ready.”

This may seem, to the uninitiated, ruthless, but it was also strong and protective. She had changed dramatically. Maddox consumed her world. She didn’t want to be that person who carried a pendant of Billy Bob’s dried blood around her neck. She was more interested in flesh and blood.

She was out of the darkness because of Maddox and was determined he would never know its shadow. Her relationship with her own father had been at times close - and at times destructive. He disapproved of her adopting Maddox. She made the decision to keep him out of her life also, to protect Maddox.

“If you have people who put knots in your stomach, it makes you feel bad about yourself. You cry and then you get them out of your life. Be strong and focus your love elsewhere.

“I had some beautiful times with my father and I don’t think he’s a bad person. I just think we’re not a good family - there’s far too much pain.

“I never wanted to come home and yell at Mad because I was stressed after a bad lunch with my father.

“I am a good mother and a good friend. I am a good adoptive mother because I don’t see blood as family. I see it as time and love. You earn it.”

Although this may seem unorthodox, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a logic that is both profound and true. One must take into consideration that her childhood was painful.

Children from troubled upbringings usually only revisit that trouble in their own families, or decide that that will be too painful an experience and therefore never want children of their own.

Angelina had been adamant that she only wanted to adopt children, both because of this past and because “giving birth to one meant I could give one less child a home”.

Now she’s expecting twins, I see this more as a submission to Brad than an angle to ensnare him.

In fact, there was nothing of the ensnaring. She made it clear to him and to the world, if it cared to listen, that she is pretty independent and doesn’t need a man, and at least the kind of man she wanted would be hard to find.

“I just naturally don’t rely on men. That’s part of my problem with relationships. I have to be watchful not to allow myself to be too independent, to allow myself to need a man and let him help me.”

To live a life that is not needy or clingy would be pretty much an ideal one. It would be what most women want to achieve, yet why do we hate her instead of aspire to be like her? Because she’s got Brad? Because she’s a threat? And would we like her more if she were fat?

She is the Alpha female which other Alpha females are genetically programmed to destroy. Alpha females can only attract Alpha males. That is their problem and why they often end up lonely.

What she was looking for in a man was a real man.

Before she and Brad got together this was her plea: “I know if I saw a man who was great with my children that would be it for me.”

In fact, she staunchly protected her children from even meeting men that she might become involved with. She didn’t want any darkness or disappointment and would rather sleep alone with Maddox saying,

“It was Maddox who made me feel like a woman”.The way the media reacted it was as if she used her children as man bait, or at least Brad bait.

Since when did a single mother with two children under four become sexually compelling? Most men would run a mile. Is it only Angelina that makes the exception to the rule and is that why we hate her?

She doesn’t play with her children as a Hollywood fashion accessory. She lives in Buckinghamshire and loves Legoland more than the red carpet. She uses her fame to raise money, not sell herself.

“The press can say what they like about my films or whoever I’ve dated, but misinterpreting something to do with refugees could affect them in a bad way. Maybe the mistakes I’ve made and how I’ve recovered might help somebody. Nobody identifies with a perfect person.”

And here’s the problem. We misjudge her as being too controlled, too perfect, too lusted after. She doesn’t see herself like that at all.

She’s been linked with many of her co-stars, but just because she looks like she has a voracious sexual appetite, doesn’t mean she doesn’t starve herself.

“There was the time that I hadn’t had sex for a year.”

We see the perfect Lara Croft body. We see a luxuriant sexual appetite. She sees herself nervous at addressing Congress and shy as a public speaker, and worries about her capacity to juggle her work and her babies.

When she first got Maddox she had never changed a baby before.

In the middle of Africa with a 7-month-old infant she was daunted.

“I feel most beautiful . . . when I’m in the middle of a field or in the jungle with no make-up on.

I think yeah, that looks like the real me. If only other people would see that as the real Angelina.” - Tribune Foreign Service

blogelina Says:

November 12th, 2006 at 5:07 am

Most importantly Angelina doesn’t NEED you to like her and she doesn’t CARE if you like her which translates into power, immense power. She has everything, Brad, kids, her career, her humanitarian works, beauty, money……the list would never end. Plus she is not afraid to admit she isn’t perfect, she even makes fun of herself.

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I think that the problem is that she is trying to have it and seems to be getting it. People like X thinks that everything has to be perfect in order to have kids; Angie got Maddox when her marriage to BBT was on it’s last leg; she got Zahara during the swell of disapproval against she and BP; and the world found out about Shiloh around the anniversary of the separation announcement and Shiloh was born the weekend before X’s movie came out. And she laid eyes on all of her little loves in non-white countries.

No weird rose-colored, Barbara Walters’ fuzzy-lensed interpretation of AJ’s life. And initially, I think a lot of the haters expected BP to drag AJ into this fuzzy lensed life, so they could in turn, ridicule, snub and ostracize her, without having to travel out of their comfort zones. But no, BP went, very willingly, into her world- jumping into Fuzzy-Lens Land only to fulfill his obligation to the studios, and hightailing it back to AJ and the kids, as he did last week. They feel that this level of commitment, on BP’s part, is wasted on the likes of AJ, when in fact it was wasted on X. They are scared shitless, because although the Xs of the world may have the support of the parents and family friends, they won’t necessarily keep the man, especially if the man is always the one who compromises.

kearnie

She wont stop attendance at such evnts becuse she herself say its all part of itand she understanding of one hand feds other hand. I dont need red carptets and such events an will not care if I see her at them. I love her still.

yay, thanks JJ 4 the new thread. love more brads & angie & of course the kiddies.

so cute..angie and brad looked good..well..Did angie look skinny?

November 12th, 2006 at 2:15 am
I wish that they were openly hugging, kissing, holding hands, etc. for the whole world to see so that we would not have this debate here whether or not their hands are touching in picture #2 or #3. I am sorry,but I am ready for some serious PDA.
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That’s never going to happen unless they get caught unaware like in Paris. Those days are Loooooong over for Angelina. These two keep it for themselves and not everyone else. They aren’t monkey’s in a cage

so that we would not have this debate here whether or not their hands are touching in picture #2 or #3.
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She’s holding onto the iron gate. You can clearly see the distance is too far between.

Seriously. Get yourself out of their bedroom