Benjamin Button = Shirtless Brad Pitt

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Mediterranean Says:
January 9th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
By the way, what is LMFAO? Sorry but I don’t understand those things.
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LMFAO=Laughing My F***ing A*s Off. Can also be LMAO=Laughing My A*s Off. Can be combined with ROTF=Rolling on the Floor.

I knew chatting would pay off one day :)

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-10-19-brad-pitt-career_x.htm

The career man
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY

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.”

LOLA,

Thank you very much; sometimes I go crazy to understand the chat room abbreviations and text message.

Thank you.

I promise I promise AG, I promise…to shoot you when the time need it…..*sighed, rolling eyes* great, now I have to practice shootin’ too….those knives throwing already destroyed all my lemon and orange trees….I only have the apple tree…, I can not guarantee my applesauce will be smooth this time around, I think it will be a little bit crunchy for the next batch… ;)

Observer2- Et tu aussi?….trolls are flocking to the ocean as you type….for the celebration dance, I think.

LMAO..AG and Estelle ..you are cracking me up! :lol:

Where are my posts??? I write and I write but they don´t appear here..snif

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BAMZS fan Says:
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thanks for the link, that was great.

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Observer2 Says:
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are you sure it’s radaronline? i was just there.

and no, i’m not asking you to search for me.

Hey Alex, busy today huh?

I want to come back to JJ Alex…I hate that we let the trolls took control….I want the fun back…because let face it…we earn this fun, the victory is already here…right?

I mean, we need to get some more of those plug in thing to clean the air, but other than that…it’s a good place still right? right Alex? :lol:

Rubin rewriting ‘Time’

Sci-fi romance to be directed by Schwentke

By DAVE MCNARYNew Line has tapped Bruce Joel Rubin to rewrite sci-fi romance “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” to be directed by Robert Schwentke.

“Wife,” produced by Brad Pitt via his Plan B shingle and Nick Wechsler, has been in development at New Line since 2003, when the minimajor acquired feature rights to Audrey Niffenegger’s novel. “Wife,” which hadn’t been published when the deal was made, went on to become a bestseller.

Novel centers on a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, brought on by stress and bad memories. He meets and falls in love with a teenage heiress, but the couple’s often out of sync because of his time traveling.

Rubin won an Oscar for scripting “Ghost”; other credits include “Stuart Little 2″ and “Deep Impact.”

Thanks everyone for all the links to the pics and vids.
I went to PH, I know I shouldn’t, he seems to like B&A but the haters are awful. Anyway, he has a pic of Brad whispering something to Nicole Kidman in his fill in the blank contest.
I will save you the trip, because the haters are there, I found some of the answers really funny and I am bringing them here, so you don’t have to navigate that sea of hate.
So, what is Brad whispering to Nicole?

Don’t you wish your husband was hot like me?!

…”Thanks for dropping out of Mr. & Mrs. Smith”

we’ve thought a lot about it…and yes….we will adopt you.

I wasn’t invited to Tom’s wedding either.

“Angie and I are married already.”

“hmmm you smell great, is it Dior?”

“You’re still alive, baby?”

HOT Brad

Here you go BCBG;

http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/09/hollywood_poll.php