Jolie in New York City

Angie looks great. I hope Brad and Angie stay together forever! Great family!

Nicole Says:
December 9th, 2006 at 9:45 pm

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Then how come they ALL disappeared at the same exact time after malibumom made her post? Seriously, what frightened them off that they ran away like rabbits? I personally don’t trust Aniston and wouldn’t put it past her and her people. And WE ALL KNOW they read the blogs because her top dog honcho MR HUVANE emailed perez hilton and asked him to stop being mean to wittle sweetly Jennifer. I wonder if what perez posts about makes JA’s people mad, WHAT ABOUT the horrible horrible things people write about BAMZS? I mean, between the two, you would expect Brad and Angie to be the ones telling people to stop, but you don’t see them doing that because THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN. People can cry, scream, and shout from the rooftops all they want, but Brad and Angie will do as they please on their own timetable and not anyone else’s. If last year’s onslaught by the media, the public, hollywood didn’t shut them down and shut them up, nothing will. I am so proud to be a fan of these two and their family.

Ok, I’m always last to arrived at this party, I slept right through reading the previous thread last night and posted my comments in waking up today. And when I refreshed JJ’s site another thread on J-P’s are up. D@mn! you guys are running at breakneck speed I just couldn’t keep up. It was almost another 1000 posts on this one. Not that I’m complaining. It’s good to be a fan of the J-P’s at this moment.

Malaya & Ate Cha: my post from previous thread

NaNa Says:

December 9th, 2006 at 3:10 am
I think Mad calls Angie ‘Mamang or Mama” and “Pappa” to Brad.
In interview with Ellen in 2004, when Ellen asked how Mad call her, Angie said “Mamang” and it sounded like Frenchy to me.
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malaya Says:

December 9th, 2006 at 3:38 am

You know that’s how me & my siblings oftentimes call our parents - its pretty common among Filipinos…

==== You and me both Malaya. I call my parents Mamang and Papang. But I do think the French term is Maman? not Mamang coz that would mean I was speaking French all this time and I didnt know it lol. So malaya and keana you were both UP alums? I’ve always believed BAMZS fans were intelligent.

Ate Cha: Don’t know if you received my email. In answer to your query directed at malaya and myself on previous threads. Hope you and family doing ok with the terrible weather conditions out in Missouri.

ROTFL

Splashnews video:

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Click on the video link and then Perez’s pic

BC@BF Says:
December 9th, 2006 at 9:53 pm

NYTimes article AMH, the shoot in India

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Hey, that article is GREAT. It is such a fair article about their filming and I love the part where they say that Brad said “he and his wife have a multicultural family”. Man, they’re not married, but people everywhere can’t help calling them husband and wife. I hope the message of the movie they want to portray is understood when it comes out.

I don’t even think X has a “camp”; I think it’s the X herself who is sitting at her laptop, tossing down tequila, smoking and cackling at what she thinks are witty slams on Brad and Angelina. What else would she be doing on a Saturday night?

Battling Terror, With Paparazzi in Tow

FRAUGHT conversation is taking place around a large, circular dining table in this town in western India. Angry voices overlap. The talk ricochets among jihadis, kidnapping, sensationalist press reports and the somewhat sinister role played by a secret government agency in all of this. A child’s voice breaks the tension. He is 5, has spiky hair artfully arranged to defy gravity and conveys the nonchalance of someone not easily impressed. “Where’s my mom?” he asks.

Mom in this case is Angelina Jolie, Academy Award-winning actress, good will ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency and co-founder of the celebrity entity known as Brangelina. Ms. Jolie’s relationship with Brad Pitt occupies so much global media space that their first child together, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, was immortalized at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in New York when she was only eight weeks old.

But here Ms. Jolie seems shorn of every title. She is wearing a shapeless blue-gray tunic with gray track pants. Her hair is pulled back with a few curling ringlets falling around her face. She wears little makeup. Shattering her on-screen sex-goddess-with-a-gun image, she is trussed up to look 6 months pregnant. Ms. Jolie turns to her son Maddox and gently says, “I’m working, O.K.?”

The job at hand involves portraying Mariane Pearl in “A Mighty Heart,” a movie tentatively scheduled for release next June by Paramount Vantage. The film is based on Ms. Pearl’s book about her husband, Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal who in January 2002 was kidnapped by jihadis in Pakistan and eventually beheaded on camera. The book, written with Sarah Crichton, focuses on the four weeks of investigation, negotiations and leads that preceded a horrific end.

It is a harrowing but inspiring account of one woman’s struggle with overwhelming tragedy and her refusal to give in to prejudice. “Mariane has all the reasons in the world to be blinded by hate, but she has chosen not to be,” Ms. Jolie said in an interview. “We are living in a time when there is a lot of anger and misunderstanding. She is really a beautiful example to all of us of what we should stay focused on.”

Events described in the book take place mostly in a house in Karachi where an unlikely investigative team huddled together. This included Ms. Pearl; Asra Q. Nomani, Daniel Pearl’s friend and colleague from The Journal; a Pakistani police officer identified only as Captain; and Randall Bennett, a tough-talking American regional security officer.

The film was originally meant to be shot in Pakistan, but security concerns and visa delays relocated the main shoot to India. So a sprawling bungalow in a tree-lined gated colony called Sindh Society (locals have since renamed it Brangelina Society) in Pune, a growing information technology town, substituted for Zamzama Street in Karachi. Despite the presence of Ms. Jolie, Mr. Pitt (whose company, Plan B, is co-producing) and an international crew led by the director Michael Winterbottom, there were no trailers, no crowds, no glamour — very little sense that a picture with a big Hollywood star was under way.

That’s typical of Mr. Winterbottom. He has a distinctive film grammar, which blurs traditional boundaries between documentary and fiction, natural textures and stylistic experiments. He often works with people who aren’t professional actors, and many of his films —“The Road to Guantánamo,” “Welcome to Sarajevo,” “In this World” — address geopolitical concerns with an urgent authenticity.

Dede Gardner, the president of Plan B, sent Mr. Winterbottom the book two years ago. He was just coming off of a shoot in Pakistan and had, he said here, decided that he “was never going back there again.” But he couldn’t resist the story. “Mariane is refusing to be destroyed by experiences that could destroy a lot of people,” he said. Referring to Ms. Pearl and her compatriots, he added, “The fact that Danny was killed but they refused to be defeated by terrorists, there’s something very powerful about that.”

“A Mighty Heart” is Mr. Winterbottom’s first studio movie after more than a dozen independent productions. When the deal was announced, Variety commented that the “quintessentially independent and serious-minded Winterbottom has become an incongruous supporting player in the Brangelina circus.”

But as Ms. Jolie describes it, he is still not making a studio picture; rather, the studio is making a Winterbottom film. “It was an agreement that we all had to blend into Michael’s style, not to have Michael blend into somebody else’s,” she said.

She added that he got the job over other directors precisely because he rejected Hollywood convention. “Some directors saw it as a heroic female movie,” she said. “Some of them saw it as a tragic love story, but he sees it the way it should be, which is a collection of people who came together and all the different things that means and the different questions about cultures, faith and politics in today’s world.”

The Winterbottom approach means making a film with documentary-style realism, shooting many of the scenes in chronological order, and relying on unusually long shots in which actors improvise their dialogue. Dennis O’Hare, who plays John Bussey, Daniel Pearl’s boss at The Journal, compared it to “writing free verse.” “There are no rules,’ he said, “so you have to be really disciplined.”

Irfan Khan, an Indian actor who plays Captain, also praised Mr. Winterbottom’s inclination to “let an actor explore.” “There is no pressure from Michael,” he said. “He lets you be.”

Still, the information overload in the film made improvising doubly tricky. Mr. Pearl’s death was the result of several interconnecting layers of intrigue. Ms. Pearl and Ms. Nomani had to make a wall-size chart to make sense of it all. On the set actors struggled to create powerful drama while keeping the facts straight, all while knowing that the people they were playing might see the film and take issue with the performances.

While there have been some rumblings about Ms. Jolie’s playing a part-Cuban, part-French, part-Dutch woman, she said, “I do have the peace that Mariane and Danny’s parents are comfortable with me, and that I suppose is what I need to sleep at night.” She sweated to get Ms. Pearl’s distinctive French accent and her direct manner exactly right, she said, but harder still was capturing the woman’s resilient spirit.

“I try to put myself in her place and feel that this woman didn’t collapse,” Ms. Jolie said. “She’s six months pregnant. So for 21 days your instinct is just to be hysterical, screaming at everybody and crying constantly. But she just drove on. The real challenge is the inability to fall apart.”

For Dan Futterman, who plays Daniel, the challenge was to humanize the journalist who has become a historical figure. An actor-writer, who received an Oscar nomination last January for his “Capote” screenplay, he said in an interview in Mumbai that his main aim was to “capture the real connect that Mariane and Daniel had, to create a sense of joy and love so the viewer knows what’s been lost.”

Mr. Futterman researched the part by spending time with people who knew Mr. Pearl. Other actors touched base with their real-life counterparts through the shoot.

But Mr. Khan and the Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui, who plays a police officer named Dost, didn’t have this luxury. Their counterparts in Pakistan, the actors said, refused to talk to them. It was simply too dangerous. Mr. Siddiqui, who is a popular television star, said that he was doubly careful of his lines, especially while improvising.

“I’m taking care of my dialogue and avoiding anything that can be controversial,” he admitted. “Being a Muslim, it’s a tough thing, but I’m avoiding words which can get me into trouble. I am a bit nervous about it. Will I be safe in my country?”

Mr. Winterbottom said that when the crew shot scenes in Karachi, sometimes at the exact locations where the original events occurred, they were shadowed by the Inter-Services Intelligence. While cast and crew were in India, newspapers in the country reported that Mr. Pitt and Ms. Jolie received threats attributed to Al Qaeda and hired high-level security to protect them. Ms. Jolie denied that threats were made but said that she and Mr. Pitt were warned not to let their children stand in front of windows.

Will Patton, who plays Mr. Bennett, was also on high alert. Mr. Bennett, who met the actor in Kuwait before filming started, advised him to avoid certain parts of Karachi, and to make sure his room was at the back of his hotel. Mr. Bennett had received several death threats and thought Mr. Patton looked enough like him to be at equal risk. In the end Mr. Patton wasn’t required to shoot in Karachi. But by that time, Mr. Patton said, he had made out his will.

Mr. Futterman said that “a sense of unease” hung over the shoot, especially in Pakistan. But the problem that temporarily derailed “A Mighty Heart” turned out to be more prosaic than Al Qaeda: the paparazzi. Since their arrival in India in October, Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt were stalked by Indian and international news media. Indian newspapers brimmed with pictures of the couple and their children taking impromptu auto rickshaw rides and walks in the park. There were front-page articles of them visiting an astrologer who predicted that the film would fail (though Ms. Jolie denied this); of Mr. Pitt buying a sex-enhancing love potion in Jaipur (the headline read: “Try with curry, for extra hurry”); and of the couple adopting an Indian child (again Ms. Jolie denied it but added that they were likely to adopt before she tried the natural route again).

The face-off came to a climax in Mumbai. On Nov. 16 the crew was shooting at the Anjuman-e-Islam school in south Mumbai. The exact sequence of events is uncertain, but sometime in the afternoon paparazzi and parents waiting to pick up their children rushed the gates and pandemonium prevailed. Ms. Jolie’s three bodyguards were arrested for manhandling people (a parent accused one of them of shouting “You bloody Indians”) and released on bail.

The following day shooting was canceled, and Mr. Pitt found himself at the Mumbai police commissioner’s office trying to make amends. Having until then studiously avoided the press, he appeared on a national television channel, explaining that he and his wife had a “multiracial family” and would “not hire anyone who is racist.” The Mumbai police are still considering whether to bring charges. The men were free to leave the country after the shoot concluded.

In an interview in Mumbai Ms. Gardner called the incident “bewildering and disappointing,” but said she hoped that the film itself would nullify these various controversies. Ms. Jolie said her dream was for the movie to be screened in Pakistan, despite the continuing security risks and sensitivities.

“We’ve come with a lot of good intentions,” she said. “We are all terrified to get it wrong, because if you do, you could send a message that causes more anger and hatred. But if we get it right, maybe there’s a little better understanding in people, and then we’ve accomplished a great deal.”

jared, you’re a star!

Nicole Says:

December 9th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
LMAO! You HOHO freaks are too funny. As if Jennifer or her friends would waste her time on this idiotic site or waste their time even thinking about Pittshit, his ***** and their purchased kids. Too funny!!

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Well we ALL thought like you - Jen can’t do that - until her PR manager wrote to Perez.

Actually, cross that out. We here at jjared.com expect this behaviour from Jen’s camp.

A child’s voice breaks the tension. He is 5, has spiky hair artfully arranged to defy gravity and conveys the nonchalance of someone not easily impressed. “Where’s my mom?” he asks.

Ms. Jolie turns to her son Maddox and gently says, “I’m working, O.K.?”
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I just love this… One thing I have noticed is how well behaved these children are. Madd and Zee. Maddox interrupts a scene but when told Mom is working… he doesnt throw a temper tantrum and demand his way.

And Zee.. going through her so called terrible twos, so far is very well behaved in public.

Angie and Brad act so calm around their children…(im sure they have their moments) but it really impresses me as some who has spent time watching some parents and their out of control kids.

Well, this is ‘Good Night’ Ladies. Everyone have a great night.

For all those hateful people who have posted some really nasty things — you know who you are — for everything vile and horrible you’ve posted, you will have vile and horrible things returned to you two fold, for what goes around comes around.

To all the Real Deals………….GOOD NIGHT LADIES!!

To Missouri Fan:
Double d@mn! Ate Cha I just finished reading previous threads, and I just replied all over the threads asking if you received my email. I read your comment btw. What was I doing? Blame it on the multiple doses of intoxication from seeing pics of this beautiful family left right and center.

Malaya: Didn’t hear there was another storm coming? Huh? I haven’t read any newspaper today. Haven’t had my breakfast and free newspaper from Jollibee yet. Heh I’m that cheap. lol. I hope this next storm won’t be as bad as the previous one. The aftermath was just so heartbreaking to watch.