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Brad Pitt (dressed in a Lacoste polo) and Cate Blanchett were spotted filming scenes earlier today in the Caribbean for their new film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Thank goodness Brad’s character ages backwards because all that baldness and that fat suit did not suit him. Plus, it gave him pimples.
A zit for Mr. Pitt? Well, according to Cate, the fat suit and the prosthetic make-up Brad had to wear caused him to break out in a rash. Cate told Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper: “We went through three weeks of make-up tests and he was covered in eczema from it all. We were talking about what we were going to do because our skin was taking a battering. So I had this girlie conversation with him and put these skin creams down, lined them up in front of him and he and Angelina went around the table trying them. Brad is so smart and generous. He’s so wonderful I love him. I don’t love him in the sense that I love my husband, but I adore him.”
A little more about the plot: As Brad’s character (Benjamin Button) regains his youth, Cate’s character (Daisy) grows older. The movie’s million dollar question: Will their love continue to grow? (I also wonder how young Brad’s character will get in the film.)
Brad, 43, and Cate, 37, were also seen taking a lunch break after filming a few scenes on a sailboat named “BUTTON UP.” Below the boat name is “NEW ORLEANS.” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is directed by David Fincher (Panic Room, Fight Club, Se7en) and is set for a release between Christmas 2007 and May 2008. Light years away…
UPDATE :: Apologies, images removed!
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okay. i’m lost. what philipino interview?
I am a big Matt Damian fan,but there is no way in H#LL he will out shine Brad in HW.I’m not trying to be mean but it’s a fact.Did any one watch any of the footage online when they were interviewing Matt for the TGS premier?As soon as Brad and Angelina showed up the reporters literally walked off and left Matt standing there talking.Matt was nice about it and said “Brad must have just arrived.”
The Guardian writer is an IGNORANT B-I-T-C-H. He belittles Babel, when in infact despite it being a low-budget film, it got 8 GG nominations (including best supporting for Brad), got 3 noms from SGA and a nominee for best picture from PGA.
He is also a moron when it comes to the business of film making. Profitability wise, Babel has already recouped its production budget (worldwide boxoffice has reached $50 million), and it is yet to be shown to other parts of the world. Babel is scheduled for re-expansion (domestically) on 19 Jan. At the end of the day, Babel will have a higher ROI than most big-budgeted films.
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gitane Says: January 5th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
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Part 1 of the interview:
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id=39642
i just voted for Brad Pitt in the hello magazine.
for those who want to vote, the URL is on page 21, post #644.
thank you for reminding us.
as for the ELLE magazine, you can ask the store manager when the magazine person comes and stocks the racks. At the grocery store where i go, the woman comes in twice a week. Also, ask the manager what time the woman usually comes in.
on that guardian article, the writer said ben affleck was one of the actors, it s/b casey affleck. Therefore i dont put much weight on that UK paper.
lol it was probably Huvane who posted that drivae of an article.
I think it was the interview that Angie did while promoting the Good Shepard with some newspaper from the Philapines. The same guy did an interview with Brad when he was promoting Babel. Both interviews got great comments from both Brad/angelina. The angie interview was posted a couple of weeks ago. It was discussed at JJ in a couple of threads.
drivel^
I cant quite see that quote from BBT in the Elle article. Can someone reproduce it here? Thanx!
Gitane, here’s part 2 of Angie’s Philippine Inquirer interview
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id=39932
bbl
679 angelah
thanks angelah! you always take such good care of me!
now i know it’s one i’ve already read. i really should find a way of keeping track of these things…
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Amaya Says: January 5th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Amaya, I will have to read when I get home. Thanks again
It is funny how she calls him “My baby’s daddy”. lol
Does anyone have the URL from USA sometime in November, talking about Brad Pitt, something like
“….these days, it’s good to be Brad Pitt…”
sometime around the 1st release of BABEL, around November
can someone put up that article, please
I think Angie feels a little guilty somehow or just not the same about Shiloh. Which is very sad for Shiloh
Angie on Shiloh
“I have less inclination to feel for her” and ” I’m conscious that i have to make sure i don’t ignore her needs”.
Hello everyone!. ( AG, Gitane, Alex, 4Q, Guli, Missouri Fan, Rica, Joy, The Real Lou, Ojpf, TP, PT, ntt, LookwhatIcando (good one), Angela, Malibumom, Bluemoon, 4!, Julia, Piper, Briesis, Isabella2, and all the ladies of Bamz)
Just a quick hello before the next depo. Thank you Julia and 4Q for the links. I love this interview.
Amaya, you rock girl!…love love love all of your stories. Keep me up late lastnight re-reading everything…but I can not stop. You are an amazing writer. ( I know that I’ve said this to you many time before, but it’s worth repeating).
Thanks for posting the story TCCOBB here. I can not wait to see the movie.
TTFN. *ughhh* hate depo on a Friday.
Hi there!
I can’t wait for the Palm Springs IFF tomorrow. They say that Brad will be there and I hope we get tons and tons of nice red carpet pics - hopefully with Angie by his side.
So be ready, it should start tomorrow around 7 pm.
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angelah Says: January 5th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Hiya Angelah, thanks for posting the interview here. I really liked it. The first time I read it was in England
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-10-19-brad-pitt-career_x.htm
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
The career man
Pitt is ranked 20th in Forbes’ list of powerful celebrities and earns an estimated $20 million a movie.
But he increasingly has gained respect for being more than just a pretty face. To those in the business, his appeal is as obvious as those piercing baby blues.
“He is arguably one of the biggest stars in the world, if not the biggest. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him,” says Jerry Weintraub, who has produced the Ocean’s movie franchise and has been friends with Pitt for years.
Pitt’s career has never been better. He’s starring in unconventional films that show his grizzled side, such as Babel. And through Plan B, he is producing edgy projects such as Running With Scissors and the current box office hit The Departed. He’s also producing A Mighty Heart, starring girlfriend Jolie, 31, as the widow of murdered reporter Daniel Pearl.
In Babel, Pitt plays a helpless husband who tries to save his wife, who is accidentally shot while on a tense vacation in Morocco. Variety praises Pitt for giving his character “weight and strength,” and the Hollywood Reporter calls his performance “committed.”
Bring up Pitt’s name to anyone associated with him, and you hear stories of personal thank-you notes, congratulatory e-mails and a level of thoughtfulness unusual in a star of his caliber.
“Brad is not pretentious. There’s nothing artsy-fartsy about him,” says Running With Scissors director Ryan Murphy. “Brad is incredibly enthusiastic. I heard he’d liked the script, and I met him at the (production) offices, and here come these handmade Prada shoes with Brad Pitt attached. He said something to me like, ‘You’ve got wicked skills.’ ”
That unaffectedness, says Simon Kinberg, who wrote the 2005 hit Mr. & Mrs. Smith, “is kind of an amazing thing. It’s not a game or strategy with him.”
In particular, Kinberg remembers one long day of shooting when the exhausted cast and crew had worked into the night and saw no end in sight.
“Brad, out of the blue, started doing jumping jacks, calling out to the crew, getting everyone’s spirits up at 4 a.m. at some awful diner in downtown L.A.,” Kinberg says. “He was the guy who would cheerlead for the movie — and he didn’t have to. He’s the top, and the energy flows from the top down.”
Pitt doesn’t mind looking less than perfect. In Babel, he goes gray and has bags under his eyes.
This isn’t a star with blockbuster on the brain. Ever since he stole hearts in 1991’s Thelma & Louise, he has had hits (1995’s serial killer drama Se7en, last year’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith), but just as many misses (1997’s Seven Years in Tibet, 2004’s Troy). He has earned one Oscar nomination, for his supporting turn in 1995’s Twelve Monkeys. These days, Pitt mixes it up. He took a pay cut for 2007’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, but he’s also reprising Rusty Ryan in the third Ocean’s installment, due in June.
Film historian Leonard Maltin applauds Pitt’s willingness to “sacrifice some of his movie-star persona for the sake of a really good part. What we’re seeing is his willingness, if not downright eagerness, to challenge himself with more demanding and daring roles.”
And that gets major props from Darren Aronofsky, who was ready to direct Pitt in The Fountain before the actor dropped out because of creative differences.
“Brad’s a great guy, and we’re still friendly. We’re OK with the breakup,” Aronofsky says. “Brad’s a really smart, very talented guy. He’s come to a place in his work where he’s doing interesting stuff. He’s looking great. The pretty-boy thing wasn’t my type of hetero joy. I like the wizened Brad now.”
Others appreciate his taste for the unconventional, such as his decision to executive-produce the documentary God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan. Writer/director Christopher Quinn had run out of money and says that, without Pitt’s help, the movie would likely not have been made. Quinn, introduced through their mutual friends, met Pitt at his home.
The meeting was casual and Pitt was disarming. But, Quinn says, he “has incredible follow-through. When we won (two awards) at Sundance, he sent me a note saying how proud he was to be a part of the movie.”
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-10-19-brad-pitt-family_x.htm
The family man
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
For Pitt, career comes a distant second to family.
“I still value the work I do, but at the same time I value more getting home to the kids. It somehow makes my work mean more, because I know somewhere down the road my kids will see it,” Pitt told the London Mirror this month.
The actor doesn’t grant many interviews these days (and declined to be interviewed for this story), largely shuns the Hollywood party circuit and hits the red carpet only to promote his movies or raise awareness of the causes he champions. He has never discussed his split in January 2005 from his wife, Jennifer Aniston, or his relationship with Angelina Jolie. The scandal could have demolished a lesser star.
After playing cat-and-mouse with the media while promoting Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Pitt and Jolie officially emerged as a couple, announcing her pregnancy in January and welcoming daughter Shiloh, now 4 months, in May. Since then, the couple have tried to keep a fairly low profile.
Jolie, says Smith writer Simon Kinberg, is “more internal and reserved,” while Pitt is “ebullient and open. They’re both very smart, curious, generous people.”
Pitt, who is adopting Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1, spends most of his free time with his multicultural brood. They visited him on the Ocean’s set in the Los Angeles area and hung out in his trailer.
“He’s fantastic with his kids,” producer Jerry Weintraub says. “He’s totally involved. He takes them around; he takes them every place he goes.”
Indeed, if Pitt is seen out in public, chances are he’s holding Zahara, racing toy cars in Paris with Maddox or taking the boy for a motorized rickshaw ride in Pune, India, where the couple is shooting A Mighty Heart. Like other parents, Pitt told Esquire, he grapples with sleepless nights and diaper rash.
His parenting philosophies are simple: “I try not to stifle them. If it’s not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore,” he told the magazine. “At night, before they go to bed, I feel it’s really important to have that time to sit and talk to them. I really like that last minute before they fade off.”
He has become an advocate for adoption. “Now that I have two adopted kids, I cannot imagine life without them,” he said in Esquire. “They’re as much of my blood as any natural born, and I’m theirs.”
Because he can’t go out in public without starting a riot, Pitt has found more solitary ways to let off steam. He rides dirtbikes and motorcycles and flies a plane. He reads books about architecture, including Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, listens to Jack White’s new band, The Raconteurs, and watches Run’s House on MTV.
But that doesn’t mean the scrutiny doesn’t get to him. “The only other artist I’ve been around that had the same affect with the press was Presley, and Elvis, unlike Brad, hid from the press,” Weintraub says. “Brad at least tries to lead as much of a normal life as he can. But he knows that whatever he does is a headline. His best way to deal with it is to put a motorcycle helmet on, so they can’t see his face. Now he’s a pilot, so he can get up in the air and get away from it.”
690 Shiloh,I really think you are taking what she said out of context.Angelina went through alot with Zahara being sick and I’m very sure Z required alot of extra attention and love.Shiloh came out perfectly healthy.When you are dealing with a sick child it can be difficult balancing act to not feel quilty about giving the other childern attention when you have one going through medical problems.Angelina is aware of this thus will make the effort to balance it all out.Shiloh will be fine.
to the writer of the stupied Gaurdian article.
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Despite his spotty box-office track record (see Troy, Fight Club, Meet Joe Black), Pitt scored the most votes. “He’s charming, talented, handsome, and has international appeal,” says one A-list producer..”
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Estelle Says: January 5th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Hiya Estelle, ahh another depo today huh, better you than me :) jk
The golden boy: Why it’s great to be Brad Pitt
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
These days, it’s good to be Brad.
To pay the bills, he stars in and produces films, some artsy ( Running With Scissors , which he produced, opens today; Babel , in which he stars, is out Oct. 27) and some slick ( Ocean’s Thirteen just wrapped filming).
To give back, he helps with Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts and speaks out about global warming and poverty.
And at the end of the day, he goes home to Angelina Jolie and children Maddox, 5, Zahara, 1, and Shiloh, 4 months.
The actor, 42, once dismissed as a hunk with chiseled abs, has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most compelling leading men.
“I saw him go from this gawky kid to this unbelievably very solid, confident guy,” says celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, who shot Pitt years ago and saw him recently during a shoot with Jolie. “I feel like he has an inner life now. Not that the other fellow wasn’t attractive — he was very attractive — but he was a kid. I just think he has grown up.”
Those close to Pitt say he’s riding high, at work and at home.
“I saw Brad two weeks ago,” says pal George Clooney. “He’s in such great spirits. He’s a really smart man who has grown into someone I’m really impressed by all the time. He’s a good friend. And what an amazing dad.”
Though Pitt’s looks still wow the ladies, his appeal now is more than skin deep.
“People love him,” says Entertainment Tonight’s Leonard Maltin. “He’s in a great place and seems to be doing everything right.”
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-10-19-brad-pitt-main_x.htm
The golden boy
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
These days, it’s good to be Brad.
To pay the bills, he stars in and produces films, some artsy (Running With Scissors, which he produced, opens today; Babel, in which he stars, is out Oct. 27) and some slick (Ocean’s Thirteen just wrapped filming).
To give back, he helps with Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts and speaks out about global warming and poverty.
And at the end of the day, he goes home to Angelina Jolie and children Maddox, 5, Zahara, 1, and Shiloh, 4 months.
The actor, 42, once dismissed as a hunk with chiseled abs, has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most compelling leading men.
“I saw him go from this gawky kid to this unbelievably very solid, confident guy,” says celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, who shot Pitt years ago and saw him recently during a shoot with Jolie. “I feel like he has an inner life now. Not that the other fellow wasn’t attractive — he was very attractive — but he was a kid. I just think he has grown up.”
Those close to Pitt say he’s riding high, at work and at home.
“I saw Brad two weeks ago,” says pal George Clooney. “He’s in such great spirits. He’s a really smart man who has grown into someone I’m really impressed by all the time. He’s a good friend. And what an amazing dad.”
Though Pitt’s looks still wow the ladies, his appeal now is more than skin deep.
“People love him,” says Entertainment Tonight’s Leonard Maltin. “He’s in a great place and seems to be doing everything right.”
Contributing: William Keck
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