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FIRST LOOK: Angelina Jolie & Pax Thien Jolie on the cover of HELLO!
As just reported, here is the exclusive Hello! magazine cover of new mom Angelina Jolie and Pax Thien Jolie. This issue will provide an “intimate glimpse of Angelina as she arrived in Vietnam to pick up her new adopted son Pax Thien last week.”
Here are some highlights from Angelina’s intimate interview with Hello!:
- On her son’s kindness: “He is a very serious, very sweet little boy.”
- On Pax coping with his new life “You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings with new people and a new language. He is very strong.”
- On being a devoted mom: “I will stay at home to help Pax adjust to his new life. I have four children and caring for them is the most important thing for me at the moment. I am very proud and happy to be their mother.”
- On strengthening bonds with Pax: “We are slowly beginning to build his trust and bond but it will feel complete only when we are all together.”
And according to a Hello! press release, there will be “breathtaking spread features [of] young Pax playing and napping with his new siblings.” We can look forward to a great photo spread of Angelina, Pax, Maddox, and Zahara.
Hello! reports that once they fly back to L.A., Pax will meet his youngest sister, Shiloh, and dad Brad Pitt.
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I agree micro on your analysis. I also saw the US weekly blog & on the Aniston thread there are at least 3 to 4 same person responding to each other. I am sure there is a group that surf on all the blogs to spews hatred. I also remember ritzygal posting a “test” comments making sure she is not banned by Jared then after few minutes a hater with “new” name start posting hatred. How obvious can you be. I also know that ritzygal is the one who always post any negative articles & link on Angelina.
dina#1 Says:
March 21st, 2007 at 12:42 am - flag comment
P Hilton is calling Angie a publicity w—e. Takes one to know one. Harvey Levin sounds bitter because he knows he will never get a first scoop on the BPAJs. And everyone is hating on their relationship with People mag. I saw today on E or ET that Us mag has pictures. Are these the same pictures People has? The person from Us was saying that the three kids played well together. She was talking like she was there and had seen them playing. But Us lies so much and so frequently that I don’t understand why these shows keep using them as a resource. Peace.
Just asking, but has anyone stop to consider that by doing this shoot and presenting Pax to the public and media this might lessen the frenzy surrounding this child. By trying not to expose him to the public, press, she opens the door for the paps to want to hound her and all of her children. Remember she said that the paps frightened him. So get it out of the way. Introduce him in a controlled environment with the other children. I don’t see what the big deal is. If AJ wanted to be on the cover of a magazine she could be on any as many as she wanted to be on. When they can’t get her for a cover , they put old pictures of her on them. I think it is a smart move. I am certain she and Brad thought this through rather carefully. I know some of you will tis, tis, tis this theory and still call her names. But in the long run, even the short run, you have nothing to do with it. And if the decision has been made, you certainly can’t change. Therefore stfu. You forget these are not your children. This is not your life. I am sure if Brad didn’t think it was the right thing to do, she would not be doing it. I know some of you think he is whipped, but I for one believe he has just as much say so as she does. Peace.
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Thank you for that post. And to the other person that mentioned taking Angelina Jolie’s perspective on this whole thing, which is to ignore it. Let the hate filled people have their say. They can’t touch her.
I think Perez is funny but when he tries to make a point he sounds like an ass! He can’t begin to call someone a ***** and pimp himself out for a free pair of shades and a part on a soon to be canceled show on the FX channel. Talk about fame *****!
Everyone behaves as if Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt or any celebrity owes them something. Like they have to have a meeting and see what you think they should do with their kids. All of you Angelina Jolie haters or critics all run to the first post that mentions her name. You click on any link to her pictures or articles about her. Then you turn around and call her a “fame *****.” Your getting what you want so why are you bitching.
I can’t stand Jennifer Aniston but you will not find my ass talking about her, reading about her. If you dislike someone so much why waste your time reading about her, reading posts (positive) about her and looking at pictures of her and her family? I’d say you were mighty pathetic if that’s how you choose to waste your time. At least we LIKE the woman, you dislike her and spend hours attacking those that do. Talk about nuts.
Everyone is foaming at the mouth over photos of Angelina’s family while real issues go by the wayside. This woman unlike Brad’s prev woman doesn’t want to sit around and ***** about celebrity. She doesn’t give a rats ass what Perez or you or I think about her. What she does care about is her family, and the issues that matter. So she takes the focus that is already there and forces you to look deeper. She isn’t fake. Her love of her children is real! Angelina and Brad are well ahead of the game because they understand what matters is getting ignored. And the only way the real issues get attention -sadly- is to put a famous face on it.
Hang in there Angelina. Your fans (including myself) love you & adore all your good deeds. More power to you & your happy family.
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Oh Please Says:
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I did a ‘best ball’ tournament with my family one time and also ’snow golf’ and both were so much fun and laughs. Good to remember the fun times with them - it is what they would want us to remember :-) I think my Dad just wanted to drink beer and have a good time - not very serious about his game, but a proper Scotsman nevertheless! We had a bagpiper play “Amazing Grace” at the service and it was so beautiful.
Ever heard of “Tall Poppy Syndrome” - it seems to be in insecure people’s nature to want to tear down those that are more successful/intelligent/attractive/talented etc. than they are. Winners are happy for other people’s good fortune and recognize what they can learn from others - losers are jealous/negative when others do better than they do and just want to tear them down and anyone who supports them. So I tend to see the haters as generally being insecure losers.
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micro Says:
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I’ve noticed that another poster “Chanel” seems to pop in frequently and ask if we know where BAMPZS are (as if we are their keepers or something). Sometimes I wonder if they are a Pap looking for clues - we’re a pretty observant group here and tend to figure out what is going on before some of the media even does! Especially because so much info. pours in from different corners of the globe. BAMPZS is a truly international phenomenon. Supernova indeed!
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Give it a rest Says:
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Great post! *Clapping*
She just cant wait to showoff her new purchase, can she ? You know a good mother would always give her children time to cope with change.This poor kid had a completely different life until now , for him to be part of a family might come as an experience that he , at his tender age, will require a lot of getting used to. Why cant she give him that time and space ? what was the damn hurry to be on the front page of ‘Hello’? Is it more important than the kid ?
You know when I first heard that she was adopting again , I was really happy and thought her a very nice person, but now, not anymore. First, she changes his name even before he releases what is going on , next this…Gosh! what an attention - seeking freak !
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coalharbourqt Says:
You don’t know me but I just want to extend my condolences to your dad’s passing….
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On a lighter note, congrats to the Jolie-Pitts on another addition to their expanding family…..kaway to my kababayans, too…
Anyway, with regards to naysayers and posters who seems to be fully occupied with their hatred, here’s an interesting article about nasty posters:
Online anonymity lets users gets nasty
By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer
Tue Mar 20, 3:44 PM ET
When a California woman recently gave birth to a healthy baby just two days after learning she was pregnant, the sudden change to her life was challenging enough. What April Branum definitely didn’t need was a deluge of nasty Internet comments.
Postings on message boards made cracks about Branum’s weight (about 400 pounds — one reason she says didn’t realize sooner she was pregnant). They also analyzed her housekeeping ability, based on a photo of her home. And they called her names. “A pig is a pig,” one person wrote. Another suggested that she “go on the show ‘The Biggest Loser.’”
“The thing that bothered me most was, people assumed because I am overweight, I’m going to be a bad mom,” Branum says. “And that is not one little bit true.”
It was yet another example of how the Internet — and the anonymity it affords — has given a public stage to people’s basest thoughts, ones that in earlier eras likely never would have traveled past the watercooler, the kitchen table or the next barstool.
Such incidents — and there are countless across cyberspace — also raise the question: Is there anything to be done about it? Or is a decline in civil discourse simply the price that we pay for the advance of technology?
“The Internet really amplifies everything,” says Jeffrey Cole, of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. “We have a lot of opinions out there. All of a sudden there’s a place we can go to share them.” Add to that the freedom that anonymity provides, he says, and it “can lead to a rowdy Wild West situation, with no one to filter it.”
“It’s all things said reflexively, without thinking,” says Cole, who tracks the political and social impact of the Internet as director of Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future.
“My guess is that if you went back to these people, a lot of them would have second thoughts.” And if you asked them to add their name, as in a traditional letter to the editor? “They’d be embarrassed.”
There are examples everywhere of anonymous comments that cause harm. On even the most innocuous sites — a parenting message board, for example — anonymity often leads to the type of response that would hardly be likely if names were attached.
“People post insults on here left and right,” one person wrote Monday on the New York edition of urbanbaby.com, a networking site for new mothers. “It seems the common word these posts have is Fat. Just because someone is overweight, fat, thick whatever you call us, doesn’t mean we are ugly, lazy or insecure … So stop the childish remarks.”
News organizations, struggling to find ways to keep their readers involved in an increasingly digital and interactive world, are trying to strike the right balance.
Branum’s case fueled debate at the Orange County Register, whose Web site had only recently added a public comment section after news stories. OCRegister.com deputy editor Jeff Light says the site has modified its message board, only six weeks old, in response to staff concerns about inappropriate posts. Now, among other changes, language is more specific about what the site expects from those who post, and how a comment can be deleted.
Ideally, Light says, it’s the users, not the site’s operators, that should determine what is discussed, and how. “The comment area is not a journalistic space,” he says. “The point is for people to react freely.”
And Yahoo News took down its message boards completely in December, with the goal of finding a new system that doesn’t let a small group of vocal users dominate the discourse. “Our hope is to raise the value of the conversation,” says Yahoo spokesman Brian Nelson.
Harm can be much greater when people are singled out by name on the Web; such attacks can hurt someone’s career or home life. One entrepreneur is trying to help people recover from such attacks with a company he started last year: ReputationDefender.
“It takes one person 20 minutes to destroy your reputation, and it costs them nothing,” says Michael Fertik, who employs about 40 part-time “agents” on what he calls “search and destroy” missions against unwarranted Internet attacks. “It can take you 200 hours to try to clean it up.”
Fertik, who says his is the only company providing such a service, has clients ranging from victims of unfair comments on dating Web sites to people who feel they’ve been mistreated on MySpace.com. He also is helping several female law students fight what they call defamatory sexist and racist comments on a message board widely read in the legal community. Their story was reported earlier this month by The Washington Post.
Fertik says he offers “a PR service for the everyday person,” charging a fee that can be as low as $10 monthly, for a thorough search of Internet references. The “destroy” part starts with a polite letter and can occasionally lead to threatened legal action. (Generally, Web site operators are not liable for offensive postings.)
One person who takes it pretty much in stride is Branum, the California woman who was unaware she was pregnant until Feb. 26, two days before she gave birth. Her sister had alerted the newspaper to the story. Neither of them anticipated the nasty comments that rolled in.
But, Branum says, “it’s America. People are going to say what they’re going to say. It’s going to be everywhere, and you can’t stop it. Anybody’s allowed.” She says the flip side was the posts that came in defending her — and the cards and letters from people she didn’t know, wishing her luck.
Her fiance was less forgiving, even calling the paper to complain. Branum said she had a simple response for him: “Deal with it.”
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Nice Says:
You’re projecting you’re wants and desires on her. You don’t live her life and you’re not in a similar situation as them. She’s/They’re in a no-win situation so they are making a decision based on what will be best for their family.
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Nice Says:
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Clearly you haven’t read the statement released by her adoption agency that she did not pay any extra fees or receive any special treatment in her adoption of Pax - so to refer to him as her ‘latest purchase’ is just your sick thinking and not related to Angelina at all.
And has it not occurred to you that Pax probably can’t even read yet and probably doesn’t even realize that he is on the cover of a magazine - so it’s hardly going to affect him now is it? If he was 15 and going to high school it might matter - but a 3 year old - hardly! By doing the photoshoot and interview in a controlled environment it devalues any pictures taken by Paps hunting them down in an uncontrolled manner and decreases their rabidity.
As for changing his name - it is a legal change that will ease his assimilation when he gets to be school age etc. Who’s to say that she isn’t calling him by his old name for the time being? You aren’t there, so who’s to say?
As for being an attention seeking freak - attention follows her wherever she goes and no matter what she does, so at least she is using the attention for good and not running around doing crotch shots etc. I can guarantee that you would know half as much about issues such as international adoption or refugees from Darfur if it weren’t for Angelina.
Seems to me you are pretty quick to make up your mind without stopping to consider a different point of view or weigh everything properly. If you sincerely thought her to be a very nice person I think it would take more than a magazine cover to change your mind.
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From the other thread Says:
March 21st, 2007 at 12:49 am - flag comment
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tootootrue Says:
“They also hired someone in Vietnam who is bi lingual to come back with them for a week to help him with his adjustment,” Chalker said.
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Thanks tootootrue for getting the interview from AFTH and from the other thread for bringing this article over here.
I think I should give myself half a pat on my back and say i told u so in small letters.
I did write on an earlier thread that it wouldn’t surprise me if Angelina has hired someone who Pax is familiar with to go with them to America so that Pax can transition. So, they have hired someone.
I wish someone could tell me whether this vietnamese helper was previously known to Pax. Then I can really stand up and say I TOLD YOU SO.
You know when I first heard that she was adopting again , I was really happy and thought her a very nice person, but now, not anymore. First, she changes his name even before he releases what is going on , next this…Gosh! what an attention - seeking freak ! ——
Riiight you liked her till now. Didn’t someone awhile back say that was the MO of the true hater? LOL
I was going to discuse what you posted but I realise your not worth the typing. But I will say this. You proclaim to think badly of this woman and call her “latest adoption” a “purchase”?
Right, now how is that supposed to help this child ? Calling him a purchase sure as **** don’t make you look too good.
Who’s the freak now? LOL
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malaya Says:
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Thanks so much - I can’t even say how overhwelmed I am at how kind all of the BAMPZS fans are. Clearly Brad and Angelina are good people to have so many other kind souls that admire them! I don’t think we’ve chatted before but I do recognize your name and always enjoy what you add to the discussion! I think we are on different time zones and don’t cross paths that often :-) Are you in the Phillipines?
Thanks for posting that article - I have noticed this so much too. Some times the haters say that they would say the same things in person, but I don’t believe that too often. They must be very rude, ignorant people in real life! Scary stuff.
On the bright side, the internet allows us fans from all over the world to have a place where we can meet up, get to know each other, and share our thoughts about this wonderful family or whatever else we find on the internet to comment about (at their appropriate threads/sites of course).
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Nice Says:
March 21st, 2007 at 1:34 am - flag comment
She just cant wait to showoff her new purchase, can she ? You know a good mother would always give her children time to cope with change.This poor kid had a completely different life until now , for him to be part of a family might come as an experience that he , at his tender age, will require a lot of getting used to. Why cant she give him that time and space ? what was the damn hurry to be on the front page of ‘Hello’? Is it more important than the kid ?
You know when I first heard that she was adopting again , I was really happy and thought her a very nice person, but now, not anymore. First, she changes his name even before he releases what is going on , next this…Gosh! what an attention - seeking freak !
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You need to grow up. How dare you? What you are saying here is that a mother is a bad one because they haven’t always the luxury of time to ease their kid into or out of a situation. Are you a child psychologist? Have you consulted anything before judging her by your standard? You just ignore what you don’t want to accept and jump on what you think gives your argument a leg to stand on. You and your argument are both lame.
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lylian Says:
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I’ll give you a big, full pat on your back for ya! :-) Good observation by you and a good call on their part. They have considered that Pax is a bit older than Mad or Zee when arriving in their care and have taken the appropriate steps. He’s a smart little feller and will be catching on to his new surroundings and language in no time. After being in an orphanage I’m sure every day is like being at Disneyland for him - amazing and a little overwhelming I’m sure! I’m still marvelling at the profile shot of them together - what a stunning photo. Pax has such an inquisitive look on his face.
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malaya Says:
March 21st, 2007 at 1:37 am - flag comment
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Thank you for the article.
Some people are so fckin evil. They sit behind a computer with nothing better to do, so they smack talk about people and in this case April Branum to stroke their pathetic ego. It must feel really good to them to put down this lady.
These people who write hateful and racist comments online are really sick, small-minded, lack moral character and most likely live a very sad and unhappy life. Blissful people do not go around being so hateful even through the internet.
Coalharbourqt:
Glad to see that you’re posting again. I was so sorry to hear about your Dad, I know how it is to lose a parent (I lost mine in Sept. 15, 2001, four days after 9/11).
Malaya:
Great post about the internet anonymity and the subsequent nastiness. Makes one want to shiver with disgust and a bit of fear … one wouldn’t want to meet these people in a dark alley cause you never know!
March 21. 2007 2:07AM
Jolie Leaves Vietnam With Adopted Son
The Associated Press
American and Vietnamese guards block photographers while they secure one of the cars reportedly carrying American actress Angelina Jolie as she goes out the U.S. embassy annex in Hanoi, Vietnam on Tuesday March 20, 2007. Jolie is in Hanoi to complete some documents for his newly adopted 3-year-old Vietnamese boy, Pax Thien Jolie. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Angelina Jolie and her newly adopted 3-year-old son left Vietnam in a private jet on Wednesday, en route to the boy’s new home in the United States.
The superstar adopted Pax Thien Jolie in Ho Chi Minh City last week, but they later came to the capital city of Hanoi to pick up a visa allowing him to enter the United States.
Jolie left a pack of disappointed paparazzi in her wake, fleeing from them before boarding the awaiting Gulfstream jet at Noi Bai Airport.
During her week in Vietnam, Jolie spent her time cooped up in luxury hotels, shielding Pax from the photographers that trailed them everywhere.
On the few occasions they came out to do adoption paperwork, they traveled in cars with darkened windows and only emerged after parking in basement garages that were sealed off from the media horde.
Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, made a surprise trip to Vietnam last November, when they visited the Tam Binh orphanage on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. Pax had been living at the orphanage since he was abandoned as an infant.
Jolie filed adoption papers as a single parent because she and Pitt are not married.
They have three other children: 5-year-old Maddox, adopted from Cambodia, 2-year-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia, and another daughter, Shiloh, born to the couple last year.
http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070321/APE/703210716
Nice is a usual pretending concerner. Why she is not original ? Because all fake concerner is her. Next !
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briseis Says:
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Thanks for the warm welcome back. So sorry to hear about your loss too - and at such a scary time in history! That must have been just awful for you - but you are a stronger person for it too. Many of the fans here have been through something very difficult and perhaps we are more compassionate, caring people for it.
I have been so lucky to have such wonderful family and friends for support the past while - plus such awesome cyber buddies as well! :-)
Hope you are enjoying the latest pic of Angie and Pax as much as I am - can’t wait to see the rest of the photos. Hope there is one of Pax and Maddox and Zee playing together. Their household will be so lively and fun!
So they are on their way home. That’s wonderful to hear.
I finally read all the posts. I really enjoyed the great posts by BAMPZS fans. Thank you for the pleasure.
brad angelina maddox pax zahara & shiloh = the jolie-pitts……so blessed and loved. i love you all the way no doubt….. i wish you all the best and may god keep you all happy and healthy.
Hello to all my fellow BRANGELINA adoring faithful fans… never give in to the stinking evil scumbag haters who are paid by annuston to pollute every jolie-pitts threads on-line..sorry for mentioning the chin…but can’t help it…since chinnochio is free all day and night long, she scower every websites with angie and brad and their children articles and leaves vile comments coz she’s evil.
I got my copy of Hello just now. what a lovely sight. Z with her pink bikini playing with Pax on the pool as usual Z eating her cheerios and the beautiful picture of Madd n Pax in bed sleeping. Wonderful !
Angie is smart enough to outwit greedy paps and devalue their photos. Those money from Hello and People’s cover is going to Jolie-Pitt Foundation and will be used for these chidren’s native countries. And their feature about their countries’s tragedy will draw public attention toward plight of suffered people. Cambodian village rebuilding project or hospitals and training centers in several African countries she formed and supports need constant supply of a lot of money and human resources. I admire her the way she uses media toward real people and real place in the world.
They left Hanoi,they’re going home.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/en/080101jolie/im:/070321/482/xaf10303210848;_ylt=AulAizycrqR2MiJQah0ejKvBaMYA
Kat, thanks for reporting :)
Awwww…..Zee in pink bikini :lol: ….
and the 2 brothers zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Are you able to scan the pic and post here?
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