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Angelina Jolie on Good Morning America
Here’s the video of the first part of the Good Morning America interview with Diane Sawyer and Angelina Jolie that aired December 14, 2006.
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Gus Says:
December 17th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Gus/Rob. Take a chill pill. You obviously have your opinion and the fans have theirs. Don’t get mad because people actually like AJ and do not spout the usual racial slurs, home wrecker charges, vile names etc. You get the drift. “To the Left, To the Left”
Negative blogs to the Left. (Door closes as he exits)
I wonder what Angie’s has planned for Brad’s birthday?
Keep proving me right folks. just like your idol, being vulgar is part of your charm. no need to insult me really. if i were gay? should you not take your idol as example. she swings both way does she not. I don’t watch sport that much, I’m actually watching meet the press. higly recommend it.
BAMZS fans, I know we enjoy talking amongst ourselves about the BAMZS. So, please
(a) Let’s focus on responding to fans and ignoring the whiners.
(b) If you feel like writing something, write to your government about what is happening in Darfur. I’ve inserted some links to sites in Australia, US and the UK where they have a petition going or a template letter. Its much more important that we write about Darfur then responding to the whiners.
here, here. music to my ears! i’m no whiner, trust me.
Lina Says:
December 17th, 2006 at 10:37 am
this is the Jen Vanity Fair interview http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2005/09/aniston200509?currentPage=4
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Thanks a lot.
Gus Says:
December 17th, 2006 at 10:24 am
somebody has to descent. there is no objective thinking whatsoever when it comes to these two, let’s just say ———. yes, i rob and i agree with myself. did anyone ever tell you that you’re a genius?
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Wow, another “male” who speaks poor english posting here.
First elias, then rob, now gus…
You aren’t fooling anyone. You’re all ONE person, and you aren’t male.
Gus Says:
December 17th, 2006 at 10:49 am
here, here. music to my ears! i’m no whiner, trust me.
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IGNORED!!
# chanel Says:
December 17th, 2006 at 8:53 am
hey guys i made a new video if you want to check it out heres the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no4ISjGMFgA
angie 4 life!
thanks chanel, what a sweet video.
ot. I’ve never understood why a person would park themselves on a thread of someone they hate?
The good wife
ANGELINA JOLIE IS BROKEN AND VULNERABLE IN NEW CIA PERIOD FILM
December 17, 2006
BY CINDY PEARLMAN
NEW YORK — Christmas isn’t exactly the favorite holiday in the Jolie-Pitt household. It turns out that honor goes to Halloween because it’s the one time of year where the most stalked couple in the world has an excuse to disguise themselves.
“We were in India for Halloween,” Angelina Jolie tells the Sun Times. “Brad, the kids and I had an odd celebration in the hotel where we were staying. We had candy sent up and told the children it was from the saints. Brad and Mad [their son Maddox] were pirates. I put a big afro on Z [daughter Zahara]. I put on dreadlocks like Bob Marley. We just had the best time.”
For Jolie, there is something sweeter than candy all year round.
“I love being with Brad. I love being with my kids. There is just nothing that’s better,” she says. “This is the life I chose to have and I love every minute of it.”
Jolie also loves playing the part of movie star. On a freezing cold winter afternoon in the Big Apple, she arrives at the Regency Hotel looking stick-thin in a white camisole and black pants. When she gets a chill, a handler immediately brings her a gorgeous Angora sweater to wrap around her shoulders.
Jolie is here to talk about her role in “The Good Shepherd,” opening Friday, in which she plays the wife of a hardened, career CIA agent played by Matt Damon.
She fit the role in between giving birth, mothering her two other children, romancing Brad and spending time in India shooting a film about Daniel Pearl.
“I plan a lot obsessively,” she says. “I’m very very lucky that I’m a good planner.”
And as if her life isn’t busy enough, she quickly adds, “I’d like to add many more children to this life. “They’re a lot of fun. They’re just a joy. Brad and the children bring a joy of life that exists nowhere else.”
Nothing seems to get her down, including the paparazzi onslaught that includes about 100 shutterbugs waiting outside the hotel during this interview.
“I’ve made a point not to let it change my life other than I carefully plan my holidays, where we go and where we stay to ensure some quality of life that’s private and nice for the kids,” Jolie says. “Otherwise, we simply don’t let it affect us. The only time it’s hard when the kids want to go somewhere. I’ve had so many people offer to take my kids to Disneyland or trick-or-treating for me. I don’t want to ever do that. I want to take them. We find ways to do it as a family.
“There are worse problems to have than rumors and attention,” she says.
There also are worse problems than being Brad Pitt’s significant other. Jolie doesn’t seem to mind talking about why their relationship works.
“I think you have to be honest, which is what we are with each other,” she says.” I don’t want to spend my life pretending to be someone else. I don’t want the person next to me to pretend ever. We have a long life ahead of us. You have to be who you are. It’s the only way you will be truly happy.”
The kids have curtailed how much she works anymore.
“The thing that makes the big choice is how long is it shooting. I haven’t shot more than seven weeks on a movie in two years.”
In “The Good Shepherd,” directed by Robert De Niro, Jolie plays a quiet, disgruntled and ignored wife — not exactly standard fodder for the screen beauty.
DeNiro says he was “lucky to get Angelina.”
“We had a few meetings,” DeNiro recalls. “She really wanted this part because it was unlike anything she had ever done in the past. On the set, she surprised me even more than I thought she would with what she did with the part.”
She even has to age in this film.
“In this business, I know there is not a lot of leverage about how people think people should look,” Jolie says. “I love to see my face look old. There is something comfortable about being an older women. There is a comfort of having earned that age.”.
Then she laughs and adds, “In this movie, I had yellow contacts and yellow teeth. It wasn’t good. Hopefully, I won’t look like that.”
For Jolie, the film “was a study in restraint.”
“I live in a time as a woman where I can say I’m leaving I’m getting a divorce. I can speak up or speak in a manner that’s harsh. The women in this movie had to be quiet and maintain composure and decency,” she says.
Jolie, known for her own strength and playing strong women, loved playing someone who was weak.
“I liked that there were things about her that were broken,” she admits. “Often I don’t get to play that part. She’s subservient, vulnerable and broken. As an actress it was a great challenge.”
Jolie’s humanitarian work has become more of a challenge, too.
“About five years ago when I traveled and said ‘I’m American,’ people thought it was the greatest place in the world. Now, you feel cautious. Now, you feel people are not so joyful about that,” she says. “They’re questioning my country and people say things like, ‘It’s extraordinary you’re here because you’re American.’ That’s not true to the American people. We’re caring, generous people. It’s not what our government has represented these last few years. It’s been difficult to go to places abroad, but I will never stop.”
She does stop for a moment to make clear that her life is not all seriousness all the time.
“I think it’s important to have fun, too,” she says. “There is room in the world for everything if you make room for it.”
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/pearlman/175774,SHO-Sunday-movies17.article
Thank you JJ, Doobie, Alexanderina, and everyone for the great thread!! I know I can count on JJ and my fellow BAMZS fans for the latest news on this wonderful family. This next week should be a exciting as last week with TGS’ release on Friday!! I heard the movie is 3 hours…I think that’s great!!
Chanel, I love the video. I love all BAMZS videos. Keep up the good work. I enjoy watching my favorite family’s video.
Love them.
rob… you have (presumably) 2 “heads” but neither one functions reasonably
bdj, I took a peek at Matt Damon’s thread and I have to hand it you for speaking your mind while showing great maturity and integrity. I remember months back when Jared himself posted something politics related and only ONE person came to his defense. My, how times have changed. Snaps for you hun. :)
Amaya Says: December 17th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Hi Amaya, I just read the whole story and I love it, wow lady, your stories are great. I can’t wait for the next update :)
PamgelaTexas Says: December 17th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Hi PamgelaTexas, I can’t wait to see TGS as well, but I have to wait and see it, I am going on vac next week and will be gone for 10 days, so when I come back I will be seeing it. Yeah this week is definitely going to be good, Brad’s birthday is tomorrow, then we have Angie on Larry King and also on The Charlie Rose Show tomorrow as well, plus I think there is a LA Premiere of TGS but am not sure. It is good to be a BAMZS fan isn’t it :)
Alexanderina Says:
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Hee, thanks Alex. But I really have to credit Original Curious for this story but I never planned for it to be a story. But she kept on encouraging me. So, really I came up with this “on the fly” I still giggle whenever I think about that scene where uh…Brad saves Jon’s life but to the their ladies it looks wrong :lol:
# lylian Says:
December 17th, 2006 at 10:47 am
BAMZS fans, I know we enjoy talking amongst ourselves about the BAMZS. So, please
(a) Let’s focus on responding to fans and ignoring the whiners.
(b) If you feel like writing something, write to your government about what is happening in Darfur. I’ve inserted some links to sites in Australia, US and the UK where they have a petition going or a template letter. Its much more important that we write about Darfur then responding to the whiners.
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Lylian you are absolutely right on both points. Please post the links to the petition on this thread. Remember BAMZS Fans, in the spirit of the holiday season, lets remember those less fortunate than us. Write to your government leaders, or donate $$ to UNHCR or Global Green or your local charity. Short on cash? Volunteer time at a local food bank or homeless shelter. Remember every little bit counts.
Credits intothegrinder
Woman, interrupted
Angelina Jolie takes a break from female empowerment roles to play meek housewife in new film
December 17, 2006
NEW YORK — As hot properties go, Angelina Jolie must be approaching spontaneous combustion. The mere whisper that she might turn up here at a posh midtown hotel has left every single door to the building — front, back, side, garage, staff entrance, rooftop, probably — mobbed with photographers.
The incandescent Miss Jolie, 31, is indeed in the building, promoting The Good Shepherd, a film about the beginnings of the CIA. Directed by Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd offers a history of the intelligence agency through the experiences of one man, Edward Wilson, who is played by Matt Damon. The film is a fictionalized version of very real espionage events between 1939 and 1961.
Jolie plays Wilson’s wife, Clover, a woman eventually driven to drink by having to live in her husband’s world of secrets and lies.
It’s a departure. The role of a weak or seemingly defeated woman is unusual for the actress best known on the big screen as the butt-kicking Lara Croft. But the CIA wife, Clover, fights to protect her son in the film, and Jolie says maternal instinct is what she had in common with her character.
“That was the one thing that kept me grounded to her, connected to her, because there was so much about her I didn’t identify with,” says the actress. “So much of the film for me was a study in that kind of restraint. I live in a time, when, as a woman, I can say, ‘I’m leaving, I’m getting a divorce,’ and she had to maintain a certain kind of composure, decency, quiet, just settle into that life. It was that time, and it was the CIA, and the idea of getting out was just impossible for a woman.”
Miming horror at ever being so trapped, Jolie laughs and says, “It was very hard, because instinctually everything in me is just –” She finishes her sentence by making a “get-me-out-of-here” gesture.
Jolie, for those who have been living on another planet, is the daughter of actor Jon Voight and his former wife Marcheline Bertrand. She grew up in Los Angeles and was studying theatre by age 11; by 16, she was modelling and she appeared in a handful of music videos. Her acting work increased in the 1990s with some small films and TV movies, and when she got roles in The Bone Collector and Girl, Interrupted in 1999, her career took off. She won an Oscar for best supporting actress for Girl, Interrupted.
With Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001, Jolie’s fan base became global. Among her many other films are Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life, Gone In 60 Seconds, Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, Mr. And Mrs. Smith, Beyond Borders, Pushing Tin, Original Sin, Life Or Something Like It, Alexander, Taking Lives and Shark Tale.
Jolie’s personal life has generally brought her even more attention than has her professional life. Her wild child behaviour, her tattoos, her marriages to Jonny Lee Miller (her Hackers co-star) and Billy Bob Thornton (they were both in Pushing Tin) — it’s all been fodder for the tabloid press. No other celebrity in recent times has managed to be home-wrecker and humanitarian in the same week: The scarlet woman who stole Brad Pitt (etc.) is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Jolie seems to have embraced her work, advocating for the protection of refugees on several continents. And she has put her celebrity to good use in helping publicize the plight of children in every country she visits.
Given her man-eater reputation, it’s new to see her play the role of rejected wife in Good Shepherd. “Well, I do have two divorces behind me, but I’m still good friends with them,” she says, laughing, “so it’s still okay. And that kind of relationship with a man,” she says, referring to her silent, secretive spouse in the film, “I’ve never had that in my life ’cause I’ve always married artists, and they’re always talkative and an expressive bunch. So that was bizarre. But I think that was part of the character that was interesting, because she did feel lost and trapped and confused and so I did, as well.
“I do see her in the end as being as strong as a woman could be in that time, but I did like that there were many things about her that were broken. I don’t often get to play that part … because she’s more subservient, she’s more vulnerable, she is very broken. As an actress it was a great challenge, and as a woman, as much as certain things in my life I do feel very strongly about, there are pieces of me that are broken.”
Broken?
“I think, that kind of feeling alone. I didn’t necessarily feel that in a marriage, but in my life I’ve often felt –” Jolie pauses a moment, and says,
“She’s the only person who’s desperate to scream out, and to try to get some reaction, something honest, and I’ve found that a lot in my life. It would break me, I would start drinking or something terrible if I was in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets and you know, just not a real life.”
She expands on the honesty-is-best-policy notion of relationships. “That’s the only thing that works. I don’t want to have to spend my life pretending to be somebody else. And I don’t want the person next to me to have to pretend, ever. Because we have a long life ahead of us.” She laughs quietly. “You want to just be who you are in every moment, and that’s the only way you’ll be truly happy anyway.”
Despite the fact that she’s a celebrity and one who travels the planet for her humanitarian work, Jolie seems not to have developed a Bono complex.
She says, “I’m not a politician. I’m just an actor. And I’m supposed to just entertain and tell stories, and I remember that. Certainly, when a project comes along like The Good Shepherd or like A Mighty Heart — the Mariane Peal story– they are the ones that take a priority in my life and I enjoy in a different way. The thing now that makes the big choice is, how long is it shooting? Because I don’t think I’ve shot more than seven weeks on a movie in two years.
“I need to make sure I have time with my kids.”
Those kids are Maddox, the son she adopted in Cambodia, Zahara, her Ethiopian daughter, and Shiloh, her infant daughter with Brad Pitt. The two met while filming Mr. And Mrs. Smith.
Would she ever work with him on another movie?
“Who’d watch the children?” she asks.
HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are currently being pursued, no exaggeration, to the ends of the earth.
“I’ve made a point to not let it change my life,” she says, firmly, “other than I carefully plan my holidays or where we go or where we stay to try to ensure some quality of life that’s private and nice for the kids. We simply don’t let it affect us.
“The only time it is hard, is when the kids want to go somewhere. I’ve had so many people offer to take my kids to Disneyland or places that I can’t take them, and they don’t understand how upsetting that is. Or take my kids trick or treating or take my kids to things they assume I can’t do. So we plan to find a way to do all of those things. And there are worse problems, so we’re OK.”
Jolie and Pitt happen to be visiting the ends of the earth on behalf of the less fortunate. Asked about her well-publicized UN work, Jolie says, “I will continue to work with refugees. That’s where my heart lies. In Cambodia … it’s Millennium Village that Brad and I are supporting, it is also 148,000 acres of protected forest and many many villages and it’s a huge project, which is not what I intended, but it’s wonderful and I’m learning a lot.
“We’re involved in many things, like Brad’s work in New Orleans, so we’re trying to make sure we stay focused, because our temptation is, we hear something’s going on somewhere and we want to get involved. We’re working together on AIDS orphans and passing some legislation for them, on their behalf, because there’s nobody actually fighting for them, so we’ve put together a group of people who will do exactly that.
“For Zahara as well, we want to do something in Ethiopia. We’ve been supporting an orphanage there, but we want to figure out something specific, and just as Maddox will take over his project, we want her to take over hers, so we have to figure out what that is.”
It’s a very full life. Jolie says, “I’m very, very lucky. I love all the different elements of my life. I love working abroad, and I love being with my kids, and I love being with Brad. This is the life I chose to have. And I’d like to add many more children and many more obstacles and many more things.”
I want us MAMZSers to start the day with a chuckle today….so, since I had a big belly laugh when I came across this article, I thought I should post it, even though I hesitate. anyway, worse things have been posted. so here it is:
Aniston’s Star Shines With and Without Pitt
Tuesday , November 01, 2005
By Roger Friedman
Jennifer Aniston Switches to Plan B With Brad Pitt
Jennifer Aniston is still in business with Brad Pitt, post-divorce. Their Plan B movie production company, she told me on Sunday night, is full steam ahead.
She told me this at restaurant Compass, over a din and a cacophony, which means it was pretty loud and crowded for the premiere of her new thriller, “Derailed.”
Every single person was focused on her.
What’s it like to live in a fishbowl? Aniston knows, but she’s not saying exactly. Aniston has succeeded Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez as the pile-on celebrity. Her mere presence inspires instant crowds of well-wishers, agents, the curious, paparazzi, you name it.
Every time she wanted to leave her corner of Compass and move — to the bathroom, to have a cigarette outside — it meant a parade of security people, and others before and after her would have cut through the dense wall of partygoers before her.
Her fame now is like a magnetic field having nothing to do with who she is or what she’s doing.
What I like about her is that she’s inordinately gracious and polite. It seems real, too. When guests reached out to her with six degree of separation salutations — “My stylist is your cousin’s neighbor” — Aniston stopped and spoke to each person. That’s hard to do.
The whole time we spoke, she held my hand. I mean, clutched it. I reminded her we’d spoken last at the premiere of Pitt’s movie “Troy” on May 10, 2004.
“It’s all a blur to me now,” she said. I didn’t tell her that two days later, on May 12, a production team member from the movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” told me how Pitt had become Angelina Jolie’s advocate and protector on the set, usurping even director Doug Liman.
Aniston probably knew then that there was trouble in her marriage, but had done “the right thing” by helping to launch “Troy” without scandal (too bad it didn’t work, but that’s another story).
Anyway, Aniston is gracious enough to remind me that Clive Owen, not she, is the “star” of “Derailed.”
“I am not the star of it,” she said, although once you’ve seen it you may disagree. It’s a real change of pace for her, especially since the movie has a “secret twist.”
We’re not allowed to give it away. Suffice to say, it’s worth the hour-and-a-half wait.
So what’s she doing? “I don’t know yet. I still have Plan B, our production company. It’s still the same people — me, Brad [Pitt] and Brad [Grey]. Nothing’s changed. Everyone’s getting along.” What? Hello? OK.
Plan B has several movies in development for Warner Bros. including a couple of dramas which, if they come to fruition, could be important for Aniston’s career (new projects will go to Paramount, where Grey is now in charge).
There are lots of ideas on the board, too: for Aniston to possibly portray Marianne Pearl, widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, for example. She might also play writer Jeannette Walls in an adaptation of her memoir about being the daughter of a homeless woman.
And she’s got a comedy, “The Break Up,” with maybe-maybe not boyfriend Vince Vaughn coming in February. My guess is the Vaughn thing is for publicity, but hey — I’m a cynic at this point about such deals.
Will Aniston ever do a cameo or guest shot on “Joey,” the “Friends” spin-off?
“I would do anything for Matt LeBlanc, but they haven’t asked me,” she said. “Maybe they’re waiting until the third or fourth season when the show is established.” Maybe.
And her father, John Aniston, she notes, remains a mainstay of “Days of Our Lives,” the NBC soap, after many attempts to kill him off.
“You never actually die on a soap,” she said, laughing. “I think it’s in the contract.”
So it’s on to the next one — that being co-starring with Kevin Costner in the not-yet-screened “Graduate” spin-off movie, “Rumor Has It” (well, it has been seen, but no one’s saying boo yet).
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174126,00.html
It kills me how that sissy Friedman called her “polite”, yet she puts herself fist in “me, Brad, and Brad” which is a savoir vivre faux pas, let alone utterly, ridiculously self-important, in light of how much of a fifth wheel she was in the company.
And it sure seems she told him she fancied herself playing Marianne Pearl. Oh….the horror….the horror…
hello Peeps,
I was on another message board and i think this analogy is pretty great for BAMZS.
Angie and Mad were together for 2 to 3 years and he is her first born so that bond is incredible in its self. Brad came and then they adopted Z. so they have a bond because even though Mad is still their first born, Z is kinda brad’s first born as in being there from the start and its pretty obvious that she is a daddy’s girl. and then Shi is kinda the glue that brings everyone together. she is everybody’s baby. I hope they wait at least a year and a half before they adopt again so that all the kids can be vocal about it.
Anywho, not to get ahead of myself here but somewhere in the last thread someone wonders what brad acceptance speech will be like, i hope this will not jinx his chances but i will take a shot at it:
Wow! this is incredible, i was really nervous about winning tonight beacause i didn’t know what i would say, i wanted to write a speech but instead i have decided to just speak from my heart. first i want to thank the foreign press, thank you very much for recognising this film, the director, the producer , the cast: Alejandro González, Steve Golin, Jon Kilik, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Kôji Yakusho, the writter Guillermo Arriaga. it was an honor working with you all in this project and i share this award with you, i feel blessed to have been a part of bringing this story to film. Also want to thank my family, my wife (even though they are not married) Angie, the second half of my heart and soul and my kids Mad, Z and Shi. I love you. Hey Maddness, I finally have something to put on the mantel next to mommy’s ….This is really icing on the cake. feels wonderful. Thank you and Goodnight :)
Maniston Says: December 17th, 2006 at 11:36 am
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http://www.millenniumpromise.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gi_main
OT Got the people mag. What I still don’t understand is why Brad ever told her that he loved X-ex and she(X-ex) was his best friend when he wasn’t even living with her and she never stayed with him on location. Was he lying to Angie or what??
I’ve been lurking mostly the past few days because of Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. I decided to make some sweater and scarfs and of course blew it off till this weekend
Amaya Says:
December 17th, 2006 at 11:24 am
Thanks for the feedback. I tend to get myself in hot water when I venture outside a BAMZS thread. Oh well, that is what life is all about. That is why I admire AJ. She speaks her mind and is not afraid to back down. She does it in a way that is respectful to all cultures and opinions. People may not always agree with her, but her honesty and integrity come forth. BP is the same way. I know that people have twist and turn this triangle saga many ways, however, BP and AJ keep living their lives and raising their children. You have to respect them for that.
And while I am on a soapbox, that National Enquirer needs to be shot and put out of its misery. Man, they cannot even get locations and timeframe straight.
Lo Says: December 17th, 2006 at 11:38 am - Instead of wife, he could say the Missus, that’s what he calls her at TGS premier!!!!
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