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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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I refuse to believe that article is a real intereview with Angelina. Nearly nothing in that article is sounds real. You really think Angelina talks like that? She has said time and time again she feels exactly the same for Shiloh, Maddox and Zahara. She knows more than anyone the pressure on Shiloh, so to think she doesn’t love her as much because she isn’t a “survivor” is just silly. That she has to remind her to feel the same and doesn’t really have the inclination to feel for her? No. I mean we can spin it in any way, but it doesn’t sound good. That along with other things she said in that interview that made her sound kind of…. not like Angelina Jolie. Baby Momma? Talking about Mormons? The dancing Brad thing really makes no sense at all. I don’t know if they actually interview her or not, but I think they made up a big part of the interview.
I am just using my amazing detective skills, nothing more. I checked Female First and lo and behold they are hating on AJ about these same topics like it is going out of style or “Ben and Jerry” is running out of Ice cream. I thought it was quite funny and not an indictment on any fan.
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FITR Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
dina - I read the article, and i thought it was a wonderful interview until that part.
I understood it perfectly, and that is totally what the vibe she was giving was. She said “I feel so much MORE for Mad and Z because….” She feels feels (i.e., loves) them more…”I have less inclination to feel for her.”
She says she has to REMIND herself to feel the same about Shiloh, meaning that in her heart, she loves Z and Mad more. WHO DOES THAT? Someone who regrets or feels guilty about having biological children. Thats completely messed up.
You know, I’ve disagree with the marriage issue, but in the end concluded that Brad and Angie seem to be happy in the situation that they’re in and they’re as or more comitted to each other and their family as any married couple. And other than that, I’ve loved and supported them since BEFORE they even got together as a couple, seperately and apart. I’ve loved Angie in all incarnations, young Angie, grown up Angie, you name it.
But saying you love your adopted children more and that you have to consciouisly remind yourself to feel and treat your BIOLOGICAL DAUGHTER the same as your adopted chidren is simply fucked up.
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I have to disagree you.
First: Angelina used the word “feel” for her biological child, not necessarily love her biological child. “Feel” is a very general word. FITR, I don’t know whether you have children but many parents do acknowledge that they feel differently for their children. Feel could mean, feeling more guilty, more anxious, more resentful, what ever. It is a very general and neutral word. Therefore, it is advisable not to read that word as meaning, feel love. And feeling more guilty, feeling more anxious what ever, is going to affect how you treat each child. Best to acknowledge it and deal with it.
Second: I strongly believe almost all parents feel differently for each of your own biological children, depending on the circumstances each was born. I strongly believe to feel differently about each child is absolutely natural and nothing to be ashamed about.
For example, many parents FEEL more anxious with their first child then they are with the second or third child. If one of their children was seriously ill when that child was an infant and more delicate healthwise, then they had different anxiety levels for that child.
Other parents feel more guilt with one child then another. For example, a very dear friend told me that she hadn’t planned on having a 3rd child and he was an accident. She had initially resented having him, was angry with her husband, cried when she discovered she was pregnant. This then affected her feelings about her 3rd child, she felt guilty, felt a conscious desire to over compensate with her 3rd child because she hadn’t initially wanted him. Fortunately, as a conscious parent, she worked through her feelings of guilt, anger and love for her 3rd child and they have a wonderful relationship. Was my friend f*ed up?? Absolutely not. She’s one of the most sane and well balanced human beings I know. That’s why she was (a) conscious of how she felt, (b) conscious of how she should act and (c) took conscious steps to process her feelings so that she did not over compensate with the youngest one, or swing the other way and under compensate. Was her child F*ed up? Well, from what I see, he is a happy and secure child and he is now 10. Did she need a couple of years to work through all the guilt etc.? Yes. But no one was f*cked up.
Another mother I know had a first child who was unplanned when she was still in full swing in her career. She quit work to raise the child, experienced some resentment, worked through those. Then subsequently, tried for a second child, suffered a couple of miscarriages before carrying the second child to full term. Did she have different feelings about the second baby to the first. YES. With the second child, she understood much more fully the miracle of having a baby, perfectly formed and healthy. She was much more joyful about having the second child then the first. Does she love one more then the other?? NO. Did she feel differently initially about each child. YES. Is she f*cked up bad mother. NO. She is a wonderful mother, dealing with her feelings consciously and honestly. And her relationship with her elder daughter is certainly a happy one.
Third: I believe it is not f*cked up to have to consciously remind yourself to feel and treat your children equally. It isn’t f*cked up to feel differently for your children. What is F* up is that you dishonest and don’t acknowledge that you have different feelings for each child. What is F*cked up is when you don’t consciously and honestly deal with your different feelings and act them out, all the while saying you feel exactly the same. Having grown up in a family where my father did feel differently for each of his children, my siblings and I can tell you it wasn’t that he felt differently but that he insisted that he felt exactly the same, even though his actions spoke differently that was F* up. It was the dishonesty. Because that’s when you feel, as a child, that its your fault. Luckily, as adults, my siblings and I were able to heal each other, confront my father and even more healingly, hear him apologise to each of us. Don’t get me wrong, my siblings and I never ever felt unloved by my father, never felt for a moment that he would not have given his life for anyone of us. But I might add, I never felt more loved by him and never loved him more then when he acknowledged to me, his mistakes.
So, I think Angelina is as sane and as conscious and as UNF*cked up a mother as they come. She has different feelings, but she wants to love them the same. And she is consciously and honestly acknowledging and dealing with those feelings. From what I’ve seen of real life examples, I’m pretty sure Angelina and her children will be have healthy loving relationships with each other.
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U.S., and its stars, can help Africa
Often ridiculed, celebrities bring attention to some of the continent’s greatest needs.
By Josh Ruxin
There’s reason for hope for public-health success in sub-Saharan Africa, in part because the world - especially some influential Americans - are paying more attention. American financial and ideological interest is crucial, because the United States still drives the global public-health agenda.
Here in Africa, where every public-health crisis - from AIDS to tuberculosis to malaria - has become manageable in the developed world, the challenge is not just financial but organizational: how to execute initiatives consistently, given the limited infrastructure, on a scale that is daunting. There are 700 million abjectly poor people living on the continent.
But American drive and determination are beginning to make a significant difference.
A new generation of American philanthropists, for instance, has focused on world poverty, particularly in Africa - with Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill Clinton, George Soros and Pierre Omidyar best known among them. They are not stewards of their ancestors’ wealth. They’ve created their foundations themselves; they’re driven to make a lasting difference; and they want results now.
The Gates and Clinton foundations, in particular, have brought a dynamic new level of intensity to fighting AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa that has increased international commitment and focus significantly. They bolster efforts made possible by the Bush administration’s $15 billion commitment to expansion of HIV/AIDS services, which in turn augments the efforts of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria worldwide.
Yet much more funding is needed. The Global Fund remains underfunded by billions of dollars despite its constellation of accomplishments. (It has, for example, helped Rwanda make voluntary counseling and testing for HIV available to more than one third of the nation’s population.)
Entrepreneurial businesses are also having a surprising impact. Greg Wyler, the Boston-based CEO of Terracom, is overseeing the laying of a fiber and high-speed wireless infrastructure throughout Rwanda’s 11,000 square miles that will soon deliver a level of Internet connectivity only recently rolled out in the United States. Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in Africa, had barely 3,000 landline telephones a decade ago - one phone for every 3,000 people. Today, it’s rapidly becoming one of the most wireless-intense nations in Africa, if not the world.
That emerging technology offers enormous potential for addressing ostensibly intractable poverty and disease in Africa. The Rwandan government, for instance, is linking widely dispersed health centers and hospitals to the Internet and to each other, enabling them to share information on treatment protocols, medication needs and disease incidence.
Disease surveillance is important for everyone. AIDS had become a worldwide pandemic before we understood where it was and how many people were afflicted.
World-renowned celebrities - too often criticized as publicity-seekers for making trips to Africa - are also playing a crucial part. For those of us who work here day in and day out in difficult conditions, their visits are a godsend. The media they attract are not incidental; they are key. It’s the only way to get much of the world to pay attention.
Angelina Jolie’s decision with Brad Pitt to give birth to their child in Namibia gave that long-overlooked nation much-needed attention. Madonna’s controversial adoption drew international attention to the plight of sub-Saharan Africa’s 43 million orphans. Oprah Winfrey’s opening of a girls’ school has drawn attention to the vital investment that needs to be made in Africa’s future.
And Bono, in particular, always makes his visits substantive, using the accompanying media to educate the wider world about the plight of the poor in less developed countries.
I joined him on a recent visit to Mayange, Rwanda, where the per capita income is about $20 per year. Mayange is the site of Rwanda’s Millennium Village Project - part of a 10-nation effort to demonstrate that adequate and well-focused investments can eliminate poverty in just five years.
In Mayange, we surveyed the farmers’ harvest - which had improved 15-fold over the previous year - and visited the resurrected health center, which used to deliver five babies per month but now does that number in a day. I was moved by Bono’s overall observation: that the real heroes are not people like himself drawing attention to the issues, but rather the dedicated health-care providers and community mobilizers who are steering a path toward achieving basic human-development goals.
As we enter a new year, I give thanks to all those who keep the world’s attention on the public-health issues so devastating to this region. I hope that they will inspire all Americans to keep up the pressure, to see global poverty not only as a tragedy amid great wealth but as an avoidable breeding ground for so much of the strife that jeopardizes world peace.
Individual Americans can do their part by visiting Africa themselves, learning more about the problems, and helping the economies first-hand. If Paris Hilton wants to come, the tabloids might shriek, but I would shout, “Amen.”
Josh Ruxin (jnr4@columbia.edu) is assistant clinical professor of public health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and director of the Access Project in Rwanda, where he serves on the Board of Orphans of Rwanda Inc.
Hello everyone. I think the interview that Angie did that was posted by JJ which had questions and answers is more explicit than this new one where someone tries to write what she says with an opinion. The questions about her feelings for her children has been addressed in so many interviews and she said she loves her children equally. She even said that seeing Brad in Shiloh is so sweet and she wants more natural children. The reason why I know that the Ellen interview(quoted by FITR) is not right is where they talked about Madonna because Angie addressed it beautifully in the other article. I know when something is not right when I see it. The job of the journalist is to make something sound very controversial. I remember one interview that Brad did where they did a cut and paste job. Most people on this site know the truth and we search out the truth, I don’t believe the article the way it was written.
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Original jpf Says:
Hold your roll already! Damn, you’re taking her way to literally. If you’re familier with Angelina Jolie at all, you know part of her being so honest and speaking frank, is that she sometimes has to be deciphered. She’s not deliberatly speaking in some code language, but she is winging it; off the cuff and it’s wonderful. She’s saying simply that Shiloh came to this world without the issues that may face Madd/Zahara. It doesn’t matter that they’re the children of Jolie-Pitt, they are still of color, they are still adopted, and they are still part of a world that if you haven’t noticed was willing to pay millions of dollars to see photographs of their blond, blue eyed sister. Angelina is saying she’s aware of the overcompenstation of her other children she and Brad probably do, and how it may affect Shiloh, and to make sure that never assume that because Shiloh by virtue of birth won’t be faced with her own set of problems. You can’t possibly believe she isn’t as loved are adored by her parents, unless of course that’s what you want to believe.
jpf
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I’ve always found Angie to be honest, so I’m taking what she said in this interview at face value. She is being honest and frank. I’m not sure there is any hidden meaning behind what she said here as you seem to. Hey, if I could find one, I would. But I’m not glossing over this and reading something into her comments that isn’t there to make Angie’s comments seem to be not fucked up when they ARE fucked up.
She’s being honest. She doesn’t feel for, have as much compassion for, not seemingly love/care for Shiloh as much as she does her adopted children because Shiloh wasn’t born into poverty/disadvantaged… Read what was said, and unless she was misquoted, I don’t see how I’m misconstruing or missing something of what she said.
She admits she overcompensates in favor of Mad and Z…meaning she favors them and gives them extra attention, and that is a good thing HOW? I thought she was all about treating all of her children equally? Shiloh is going to have her own set of problems, but that might just be because mom is paying more attention to the other two children. So she’s justified because the world wants to pay millions of dollars for pictures of Shiloh and not Mad and Z? She’s basing her parenting decisions now on what the world perceives the value of her children to be? Thats not the Angie that I remember/thought was the real Angie.
Of course I don’t want to believe that Angie doesn’t love Shiloh as much, but be honest. That is what she said. I’m not going to selectively read and/or ignore something she was QUOTED as saying just because it paints her in a not so flattering light. And believe me, I’ve defended, justified, been able to explain, rationalize and otherwise defend pretty much everything Angie, but these comments are, as I said, fucked up.
Lylian,I am speechless.Your post was brilliant.I love reading your posts.
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The real lou Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Original jpf,Thank you for your response to FITR.Everyone knows I have 3 kids one of which is adopted and of another race.I was furious with FITH analysis of what Angelina said,this person TOTALLY misunderstood what say was tring to say PERIOD!Thank you again.
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Of course we don’t have the fame and fortune of Jolie-Pitt, but we do have a family that includes three generations of adopted loved ones who aren’t all the same race, and even those that are, it’s always been a concern that everyone is getting what they need and it’s the most normal thing in the world. I have one set of cousins where the adopted one was getting more attenion, but it was because before she became part of our family, her first 8months on earth were filled with bedsores, malnurishment, never being held, couldn’t crawl, cried nonstop etc, and while my aunt and uncle didn’t stop showing love to their 3 biological kids, they did place a lot of emphasis on the little one to get her healthy and help her become emotionally secure. She’s in college now, and she and her siblings are damn closer than alot of people I know who are all biologically connected. I can’t believe anyone would ever questin Angelina’s love for her child. I think about her saying all she wanted to her was Shiloh’s cry; that she needed to hear her daughter’s wail when she was born to know she was ok.
jpf
Another example of perception, taste, and *sshole. Everybody has one. End of discussion.
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lolaone Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 9:19 pm FITR, are you “irina” on Bradforums? -
NO. I’m ForkInTheRoad on Bradforums, have been there, here and elsewhere for two years. I’m FITR here because that is easier to type than my full moniker. I’ve been around these parts for a long time, I don’t post as often as the regular crew because I have been rather busy at work. Ask the regulars.
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bdj Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 9:31 pm - See my comments above. I have never been to female first EVER EVER EVER in my life. Ask the regulars around here, how dare YOU question whether I’m a “hater” in disguise because I have a problem with this comment of Angies.
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lylian Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 9:42 pm - I understand that argument, and I appreciate your thoughtful reply. But I see the situations you described as different than the one Angie was talking about. She didn’t say she has to remind herself to treat them equally, which wouldn’t have bothered me had she said that. She said she has to remind herself to FEEL equally towards them, and that is something different alltogether.
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Montserrat Says: - I love Norway, I spent last New Year’s Eve there in Oslo with friends. Great country. :)
I think the fans on this board have come to the conclusion to take each Article, whether mainstream or tab with a grain of salt. No one really knows what is going on in the Pitts household. However, I am certain from sanctioned sources such as People Magazine that they love all their children. They are also thankful that they were able to adopt Maddox and Zahara. To overly interpret and digest each statement is really doing AJ a disservice. I think she has enough critics out there.
FITR, she talked about loving her children equally on the AC’s show. If you see the way she protects Shiloh when she carries her, a mother cannot love her child more. People want to hear that she loves Mad and Z more than Shi or she loves Shi more than Mad and Z , so that either way they will crucify her. Those who are close to them said Shi is the most loved kid in the whole world. I believe that over any unsubstantiated quote (or maybe they removed something from the quote to give it the full meaning that it has). Also where did Angie sound negative about Maddona’s adoption other than saying what Madonna said?.
Thank you Lylian for the Josh Ruxin article. So encouraging.
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Isabelle II Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
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Missouri Fan Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
You know the Brad Poll is for ” Weekly Vote”
“Vote now for your choice! The week’s winner will be included in a monthly poll and the monthly winners will be entered in a Grand Finale at the end of the year.”
that’s the way it’s gonna go down
YES, Thank You for Endless enthusiasm!!
We should not forget to keep voting on ANGIE >>>>>>>>>>>
http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/grand-finale2006/mujeratractiva.html?presentar=resultado&reciente=true&error=-2&reciente=true&reciente=true&error=-2
ET just said Mary Hart is going to talk to BP at the Palm Spring Film Festival. Somehow I don’t think AJ is going with him. He doesn’t need her to be there to “hold his hand” :lol: :lol: But she will walk the red carpet with him for sure at the GG.
There are also some other things I noticed from the article that are contrary to what Angie said. Angie said she was content to be a single mother before she met Brad (Vogue), she did not say she was looking for a father for her children as quoted in this new interview.
Remember also that she said there will be no Mr and Mrs Smith sequel, but today they said there will be a sequel. As someone who has been here for a while, I’ve read Brad and Angie’s interviews and I know their mindsets. I think most fans do too, so when we see something contrary, we just don’t believe it upfront.
she did not say she needs to remind herself to feel. she said that she is aware of the fact that she needs to make sure not to ignore shilohs needs because she thinks the other kids are more vulnrable . which they totally are being the adopted asian and african kids of two white really famous people. some just love always reading too much into B&A interviews. always looking for something to ***** about.
oh angie,in this world full of lies your the only truth i know….you are what are!i love you babe!
This reminds of Brad’s ESQ interview…. Brad talked about a lot of important things, particularly how he felt about about Madd & Zee, both being his blood and not being able to live without them, but all most people wanted to focus on was what he said about marriage which was not important at all…..but hey that’s how it always is for these two…
FITR- Fork in the Road, I remember earlier this year when you were very critical of Brad and Angie because they did not constantly show affection and PDA’s in public. I think all the articles of the past few months prove otherwise. Angie has had interviews that were made after this one was conducted that clearly has Angie saying she loves all her children equally . She has spoken how she is moved by how how she sees brad when she looks at Shiloh. So , I think it is possible that you may be overeacting to her comments and trying to place meanings on them that don’t exist. If you look at all of Angelina’s comments and interviews you see a woman who loves her family( Brad/kids) . She has also said that Shiloh was planned. I will admit when I first read it, I had to reread several times and think about what she meant. I never questioned her love for Shiloh. I now believe that she was addressing the fact that with Z and Maddox she felt the need to compenaste more due to the fact of their initial beginnings in this world. Shiloh was well loved the moment she was conceived.
I have faith in Angie, she will do the best she could to treat her children equally.
In my eyes she can’t do no wrong. Same for Brad.
Regarding the hens at FF. They sure are a sad bunch. Why marinate in hate, day in day out like that? AJ didn’t touch their idol in her Elle interview, and yet they have to comment on it?
oh my gold!first the native american,now the felling of the adopted and bio….huhuhuhujared, please new thread sir!
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Missouri Fan Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
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Alexanderina Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Hiya MF, I did not get your e-mail. I can’t access my Yahoo Mail from work, so I will get your e-mail when I get home.
How are you MF? How was little Braddy first Christmas
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Oh, Ok Alex. I sent you another email.
Little Bradley is getting heavier. He loves when somebody talks to him. I saw how his mom talks to him back. Whatever sound, noise he made mom will do the same sounds and he will laugh loud…so very very cute. He got a lot of clothes and stuffy animals. I gave him money for his bank account.
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Hi MF, I got your e-mail. Awww it looks that Little Bradley had a wonderful first Christmas, he is one lucky little boy :)
What the h*ll happened here?? Why every f*cking time an interview releases we are having endless discussions about a certain thing they said?? All I’m getting about her comment as many have pointed out is that she feels COMPASSION (not more love) for Mad and Zee because they suffered a lot before they adopted them but there is no need to feel that way for Shi because from the first day she came in to this world she had four pairs of eyes looking adoringly at her and she was able to experience the love of her parents and relatives since her first breath. Something that didn’t happened with Madd and Zee. Basically she is pointing out how LUCKY and FORTUNATE Shiloh is. But just because Madd and zee have their unprivileged past that doesn’t mean that there is a difference and that she treats her children equally. It’s that simple. Nothing more and nothing less. She doesn’t say something new here.
Why the hell is so difficult for some to comprehend it??
It’s pure English people..
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