OlderIntroducing… Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt
New reports from Vietnam are coming in that Angelina Jolie has renamed her 3-year-old adopted son from Pham Quang Sang to PAX THIEN JOLIE (soon to be PAX THIEN JOLIE-PITT).
In Latin, “PAX” means “peace.” In Vietnamese, “THIEN” means “sky.” The coolness factor pretty much matches up with the rest of the pack: Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh. PAX. THIEN. JOLIE. PITT.
But it has been confirmed that Angelina has completed procedures with Vietnamese authorities to adopt. Just one more hoop to jump through: U.S. consular and embassy officials must give approval.
In short… Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will soon have four children: 5-year-old son Maddox adopted from Cambodia, 3-year-old son Pax adopted from Vietnam, 2-year-old daughter Zahara adopted from Ethiopia and 10-month old daughter Shiloh, who was born to the couple in May 2006.
First picture: Pax Jolie & Tam Binh Orphanage’s director Nguyen Van Trung
Second picture: Angelina Jolie and Maddox inside the orphanage
Third picture: Angelina leaving the Tam Binh orphanage
Fourth picture: Pax Jolie stands with other children from the orphanage
Fifth picture: Pax Jolie … bound for L.A.
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It hasnt even opened in JAPAN. Japan will be a huge market. Japan opening will be sometime in April or May
Gussie Says:
2. No American parents would keep this exact original name. In Vietnam family name come first, then a middle name chosen from a very short list of possibilities and at last the given name. So if AJ and BP had decided to keep Pax’s Vietnamese name he would in effect be called Smith Doe John
8. Finally, you multi-idiots, rest assured that the transition from Sang to Pax is going to be smooth. Little Pax’s mother took the trouble (as the most babbling orphanage director in the world informed us) to learn some Vietnamese, in order to ease communication with her new son. Do you think she is going to start shouting Pax! Pax! Pax! to the toddler until he identifies with the name? To induce recognition and identity in a 3-year-old (in every 3-year-old) is a daily task. And a very basic and straightforward one too. By the time the fifth Jolie-Pitt kid arrives, Pax will be Pax will be Pax – and won’t even remember he was once a Sang Doe in some orphanage.
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TRUER WORDS NEVER WRITTEN. NONE OF THESE IDIOTS EVEN TOOK THE TIME TO INVESTIGATE WHAT PAX’S FORMER NAME MEANT. HE WAS CALLED SANG, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CLUE. HOW MANY CHILDREN ARE ROUTINELY ADDRESSED BY THEIR LAST NAME? MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AS USUAL.
I commend Angie for doing that ,
8. Finally, you multi-idiots, rest assured that the transition from Sang to Pax is going to be smooth. Little Pax’s mother TOOK THE TROUBLE (as the most babbling orphanage director in the world informed us) TO LEARN SOME Vietnamese, in order to ease communication with her new son.
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Gussie Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 8:31 pm - flag comment
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Bravo!
Angelina just can’t win with naysayers. I doubt she cares what they think. They aimlessly continue to go on this forum because sadly Angelina’s life is more interesting than theirs. It’s pretty obviously.
some arguments by stupid ass haters are so lame.i am african,many of my relation have lots of kids that are a year or less apart,and also in my country people can marry up to 4 wives.if children there can come out of it normal,why not a child taken from an orphanage to a loving family.people have the right to have as many kids as they want provided you can love and protect them.i wish i was a baby and get adopted to this family.,pax is lucky to have such loving parents
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Gussie Says: 8:31 pm - Great, Great Post….
I just watched the video of The van ride. Poor Angie, Maddox and Pax! I bet Brad is just beside himself, so far away, not able to help her. Oddly enough, it’s probably less frenzied with him and the girls in the US. I read some of the razzis were throwing things under the van and trying to open the doors!! I hope she gets home with the boys soon.
Hi Ya— Mondo Bongo— how are you, I’m sorry I’m so caught up int the first round of NCAA tournament. I’ll be back later now Xavier is playing BYU! Another great one…
Izzie- are you around? Well OSU beat the crap out of S. Conn. But OMG —DUKE just lost to VCU (I don’t even know who they are) what a huge upset!!!! I’ll be back later now Xavier is playing BYU! Another great one…
Congrats, Cliniqua and Cmar!
Happy birthday!
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BCBG Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 8:37 pm - flag comment
******BABEL ********
Domestic: $34,258,891 30.1%
+ Foreign: $79,676,559 69.9%
= Worldwide: $113,935,450
It hasnt even opened in JAPAN. Japan will be a huge market. Japan opening will be sometime in April or May
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For an independent movie, it’s doing great. It just shows much international power Brad has along with his costars.
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ATTN SAM Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 3:18 pm - flag comment
You really are out there if you think their careers are in trouble. He produced Departed, and won the Oscar. Jen is doing guest spots on Dirt. I love how now the haters have changed their position to “she divorced him cuz of his career.” Before it was, Angie stole him. Or Brad dumped her for Angie. Which one is it? The only has been is Maniston. Me thinks you are reading way to much into Brad not being there to get Pax. You are really reaching, aren’t you? Out of curiousity, why are you still hanging out here on this thread? Wouldn’t you be more comfortable spending hours and hours with people who share the same views as you? Why don’t you go drink some maragaritas and scream at the ocean over the injustice of it all.
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ITAWU. WELL SAID !
they canot stand it that angie is making news all over the world.just look at the picture,i donot know why the last few weeks they were commenting about her weight.she looks so healthy beautiful and loving.brad is one luky dude
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FAYE Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 8:50 pm - flag comment
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BCBG Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 8:37 pm - flag comment
******BABEL ********
Domestic: $34,258,891 30.1%
+ Foreign: $79,676,559 69.9%
= Worldwide: $113,935,450
It hasnt even opened in JAPAN. Japan will be a huge market. Japan opening will be sometime in April or May
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For an independent movie, it’s doing great. It just shows much international power Brad has along with his costars.
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Yeah, for an artsy movie, this is VERY GOOD GROSSING. Brad is very very big name overseas besides being famous in the usa.
bcbg says i am so looking foward for oceans 13,ajj and a mighty heart.oceans 13 will be debuting in cannes in may.this year there will be a lot of a list in cannes
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Gussie Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 8:31 pm - flag comment
1. Pax was abandoned as a nameless new-born and registered as Pham Quang Sang by the whim of some bureaucrat in the Vietnamese legal system. The name was not the meaningful bequest of loving parents. If the kid was American, an identical bureaucrat would have called him John Smith. Or even John Doe.
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thank you thank you, that really put it into perspective for me.
I think BAMPZS is better.
Thank goodness for Angie, our one vowel in BAMPZS!
When I was reading about the orphanage it got me thinking about Mia Farrow’s autobiography, What Falls Away. She wrote it herself–no ghostwriter–and she has had a very, very busy, fascinating and turbulent life. Her descriptions of travelling halfway across the world to bring home a new child were extraordinary, and they reminded me so much of Brad and Angie’s lives in the past couple of years. The book is about 10 years old, but it is a worthwhile read.
From answer ***** @ E!
Is there something wrong with America? Why do celebrities always seem to go outside of the country to adopt or open schools or help people? There are plenty of poor people here in our country who could use money or help.
—Katy, Oakland, California
The B!tch Replies: Scale, baby, scale. Performers love everything around them to be big. Big, baby! Big-budget movies with massive helicopters making gargantuan explosions over towering dinosaurs and Olympian volcanoes spewing tons of nuclear waste over Herculean spacecraft from not Mars, not Venus…but JUPITER, baby!
Same deal with charities. Why help a few hundred folks who need shelters or reproductive education when you can help thousands who will die in the next six months without your intervention? Now, that’s a Hollywood elevator pitch.
By those standards, the neediest of all continents these days appears to be Africa, which in many areas remains devastated by war, famine and disease. That, charities say, is the main reason celebrities focus on Sudan, Sierra Leone and Namibia rather than Appalachia or even hurricane-devastated New Orleans.
“You and I, walking down the streets of Nashville or Chicago, see homeless people,” explains Wayne Elsey, founder of the charity Soles 4 Souls, “but we don’t see a refugee camp of 40,000 people under 17, where half of them may be dead in six months because of disease.”
Ergo, Scarlett Johansson recently teamed with Reebok and Soles 4 Soles to donate 2,000 pairs of shoes to the needy in Sudan, while Don Cheadle and Jessica Alba have both donated autographed pairs of sneaks to the same cause.
And it certainly hasn’t hurt that St. George of Clooney and Angelina Assumpta have also visited unto Africa and seen that it is good.
Speaking of Angelina, you also asked about adoption. Adopting from Ethiopia—home of Jolie’s daughter, Zahara Marley—can be faster than other international or domestic adoptions. Same goes for Vietnam, where Jolie’s adoption of three-year-old orphan Pax Thien (get the deets in our news story) was completed less than a year after she first started filing paperwork and whatnot.
Another media report claims that, in the U.S., adoptions can actually be more complicated. Prospective parents have to be approved by a birth mother and wait for the mother and father to cede parental rights before a handover can happen. Not so overseas, the article says.
That said, Sharon Stone is one of a handful of celebrities who have chosen domestic adoption. And when you’re Sharon Stone, nothing is ever that complicated.
Thank you Sam for the good laugh. if I were you, I wouldn’t expose my stupidity.
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Izzie Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 2:25 pm - flag comment
I suggest we all bask in the happiness that we deserve today!
Ignore the HHH = HIRED HANDS OF HUVANE.
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Great post Gussie. Let’s ignore the haters.
I’ll add another H to Izzie’s idea of the HHHH = HIRED HATEFUL HANDS OF HUVANE
Bless this family that they are safe.
kidi, I read that book. It is a fascinating. Mia is a very likable person, I didn’t know much about her until I read her book, then I really started admiring her.
i hope the good sherpherd is also doing ok
Wow Ted C from E! entertainment was on MSNBC Scarborough Country and was very nice about Angelina’s adoption. Ted C said that Angelina should help as many kids as she can. He said it was a great thing. He also said that something to the effect of if your not adopting than stop complaining about whether Angelina go special treatment.
Scarborough also gave Angelina respect for what she does.
Nothing about the name change. I really think this is a internet story created by haters.
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Gussie Says:
thank you Gussie for that wonderful, level headed and very informative post…
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‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ to bow at Cannes
Soderbergh to screen out of competition
Variety
March 14, 2007
PARIS — Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s Thirteen” will make its international bow at Cannes, screening out of competition.
As ever, Cannes is keeping tight-lipped about its program for the 60th annual event, ahead of its official lineup announcement April 19.
The studio and fest have yet to determine a date for the gala screening, with hopes that as many of the pic’s lead actors — George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Al Pacino, et al — can attend.
“Thirteen” offers the latest evidence that the Hollywood-Cannes romance is in full bloom.
The fest benefits from the presence of Hollywood stars, while the major studios get a high-profile international bow for their pics. That’s become increasingly important as the studios are opening more and more tentpoles with day-and-date summer bows.
However, Sony’s launch of “The Da Vinci Code” last year pointed up the perils that Hollywood faces on the Croisette. The pic was resoundingly panned by jet-lagged critics, while other journalists took the opportunity to blast the company’s keep-it-under-wraps strategy and its expensive and chaotic post-preem party.
The pic proved critic-proof, grossing $758 million worldwide. But other films in recent years — as diverse as “Marie Antoinette,” “Hollywood Ending” and “The Ladykillers” — didn’t seem to benefit from the high profile.
However, some big Hollywood titles, like “Shrek 2″ and “X-Men 3″ have been buoyed by Cannes bows.
“Thirteen” reps WB’s third out-of-competition presence in Cannes in recent years, following “Troy” in 2004 and “The Matrix Reloaded” in 2003.
The only official acknowledgement so far is fest prexy Gilles Jacob’s mention of the May 20 screening of “Chacun son cinema,” a feature consisting of three-minute shorts by 35 world-ranking directors to mark the fest’s 60th anniversary.
Aside from “Thirteen’s” star power, director Soderbergh — winner of the Palme d’Or in 1989 for his first film “Sex, lies and videotape” — epitomizes the kind of high-profile international auteur that Cannes likes to showcase.
The helmer went to the Croisette with two other films, “King of the Hill” in competition in 1993 and “The Limey,” which screened out of competition in 1999. He was also on the fest’s jury in 2003.
Stephen Frears presides over the competition jury this year for the festival, which runs May 16-27.
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