One of Pax’s Last Pictures Before Adoption

re: #314 susie Says:March 26th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
susie
wow…where did you find this obscure website? I’m in love with you, I think I love you, you’re the greatest, you are one of my heroines. I never should have let that article and those photos slip by me when I first came across it, but thankfully people like you, Websurfer, Guli, Oh Please, QQQQ and others are more resourceful than I am and are kind enough to share. One of the many reasons I just love this forum. Unfortunately I don’t have pictures of the sand dunes, I’d be interested too. I’ve only started collecting Jolie-Pitt pictures on my computer so I’m way behind the game. Again thank you so much.

First and Last Post- you are welcome. This is one of the many things that make this site so fun. I used to have the gorgeous sand dune pics but I can’t find them. I have started saving all the great links I get here so if someone asks for it I can help. I learned this from Guli. :)

Frenemies Forever in the Game of Fame

Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are best friends who played best friends on “Friends,” so it should be fun to see them reunited as enemies on tonight’s season finale of “Dirt” on FX.

It isn’t. And there is a lesson in these two famous women’s strangely bland performances.

Hollywood, as painted in “Dirt,” is a sordid world of sex, privilege, Faustian bargains and betrayal; for the movie stars who are hounded by paparazzi, fame is fleeting. Ms. Aniston and Ms. Cox, who have their own experience dealing with pesky photographers, suggest that it can be lasting, as long as celebrities cling to the look that made them famous and take no artistic risks.

It used to be that sex symbols sought a second act by taking on roles that defied their beauty: Elizabeth Taylor in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” or Farrah Fawcett as a battered wife in “The Burning Bed.” Nowadays almost no actresses over the age of 30 want to risk looking less than perfect. (Charlize Theron was 28 when she played a serial killer in “Monster.”)

Ms. Cox and Ms. Aniston’s prettiness is perfectly, almost eerily, preserved, but their personalities are frozen. It’s not just that their faces lack expression; both actresses seem to have lost interest in acting.

“Dirt” revels in the excesses and career-shattering gambles of show business. If Ms. Cox and Ms. Aniston are any indication, the industry is actually as spontaneous and frisky as a fertility clinic.

“Dirt” exposes an outdated dark side of show business — sex, drugs and sinful self-indulgence. Today’s reality of botox, liposuction and colonic irrigation is underexplored.

Playing Lucy Spiller, a predatory, ruthless editor of a gossip magazine, Ms. Cox has steamy sex scenes, but no sizzle or interesting flaws. And it’s too bad because “Dirt,” which Ms. Cox produced with her husband, David Arquette, has had intriguing elements and characters, in particular Don Konkey (Ian Hart), a celebrity-stalking photographer and functioning schizophrenic who hallucinates and hears voices.

Lucy is modeled on Bonnie Fuller, who is credited with spicing up first Us Weekly and now Star magazine. When one of Lucy’s cub reporters, a seductive Eve Harrington type, steps out of line, Lucy punishes her by forcing her to interview all the cast members of all 18 seasons of the MTV reality show “Real World.”

Throughout the series Lucy seduces, schemes, lies, blackmails and abuses celebrities and employees without verve, vivacity or even relish.

It’s a problem, because anyone devoted to movie-star gossip must have some deep-rooted need to punish and reward the famous and leech their glamour. Played as either psychotic or pathetic, the lead character could be as compelling as those on more successful FX series, like “Rescue Me” and “Nip/Tuck.”

Ms. Cox delivers all lines, even campy insults, in the same pleasant monotone.

“Is it ‘Bring a Jackal to Work Day’? ” Lucy says when she sees Tina Harrod (Ms. Aniston), her longtime frenemy and editor of a rival gossip magazine in her office.

Tina fights fire with fake warmth, calling Lucy “sweetie” and mixing solicitude with salacious innuendo. (They kiss on the lips, but briskly.) The finale, which ties up loose ends with over-the-top drama, should be a blast. Yet like Ms. Cox, Ms. Aniston seems to be sleepwalking through her part, not so much enjoying it as enduring it.

And that may be the real problem with the paparazzi-fueled culture of celebrity gossip and tabloid exposés. Actors and particularly actresses who spend their careers dodging prying telephoto lenses and parceling out their private lives to magazines and shows like “Entertainment Tonight” harden. They keep their figures whippet-thin and their careers on track, but they surrender the natural charm that won them fame in the first place.

Guli- thank you very much. Did you look at the first one again. I wonder if that girl was a temp. nanny or something. See if you recognize her please.

POST ON THE NEW TOPIC!!!!!!!

Bettina, OMG if you are too old what about moi. My kids are 22, 20 and almost 16.
See the way I look at it is we are like wine, the older we get the better we get just like Bradley :l

Susie, go back one page all the dune pics are up now. I hope those were the ones you wanted. If not let me know. As I was looking for these pics, I found Brad’s pic with a Mohawk made me laugh

You/Me Says:

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THANKS FOR THE REPLY AND CLARIFICATION. YES I’M A NEWBIE HERE…JUST TRYING TO CATCH UP WITH ALL THE COMMENTS FLYING OVER ME!!

later

I’m removing the ‘.com’ so that I can post multiple sites, just add it back in:

ricksteves/graffiti/archives/atm_04.htm
flyertalk/forum/showthread.php?t=632278

THIS Might Explain Why their are fewer citibanks. It seems WaMu, BoA and HSBC as well as Credit Union banks are fine…

From finextra
Published:
07/03/2006 - 09:40

Citibank blocks ATM cards after retailer breach
Citibank has imposed transaction blocks on an unspecified number of US card accounts after suffering a series of fraudulent cash withdrawals at ATMS in the UK, Russia and Canada.

News of the security scare spread like wildfire over the Internet after a Citibank customer reported the problems in a blog update. An apparent media blackout by the US bank fanned the flames, leading to wild speculation in the blogosphere that the bank’s global ATM network had been compromised.

Citi has since issued a statement in an attempt to clarify the position, indicating that the security problems stem from a previous breach at a US retailer.

“Recently, we became aware of fraudulent ATM cash withdrawls on Citi-branded MasterCard credit and debit cards used in three countries on customer accounts that had been possibly compromised in previous retailer breaches in the US,” says the bank in its prepared satement. “To protect customer accounts that were affected, we placed a special transaction block in those three countries on PIN based transactions. We are currently reissuing cards, as appropriate, to affected customers.”
The bank has yet to identify the afflicted retailer or quantify the number of customer card accounts affected. A spokesman in the UK says the breach happened “some time ago”, and that the problem is limited to an unspecified number of US cardholders. He says cards are being re-issued to affected customers “as appropriate”.

~Websurfer

Part 4 of No Cannes Do was just posted.

http://cliniqua.blogspot.com/

It was the last chapter in this 4 part series.

The next fic that might come in order is ‘It’s a Wrap,’ which tells the story of the MAMS shoot wrapping of course. I think I wrote it before No Cannes Do though - so I may have to edit it a bit. I’ll try to post late tonight. Thanks for the great feedback guys! Glad you liked!

CLINIQUA you are a good writer and I give you alot of kudos and cant wait to read the next story!!!

Hey, Websurfer….

Can you PLEASE elaborate MORE about Brad getting “lapdances” with Clooney and Gerber??????

Yeah, this is the first time i hear this; so i just want to know more!! This was when he was still marry to Maniston????

So can you help me on telling me MORE about this, PLEASE?????

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Montreal BB shoot is only 7-8 days max, like BB shoot in USVI end of Dec-Jan.

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The Beckhams; TCruise/KatieH; Kidman/Urban; Madonna/GRitchie;
JLo/MarcA are a few that immediately come to mind. Overexposed is in the eye of the beholder/observer. Angelina and Brad do not seek publicity, the media seeks them. They do their best to stay under the radar as much as possible.

But I detect a lessening in media attention for the Jolie-Pitts as more and more people find them boring and nonexciting as they seem “too settled a family”, they are not even selling as many tabs as they once did.

BSpears, LindseyL, and ParisH are all young and are never considered boring to many and far easier to get pixs of. Plus they help sell tabs, especially BSpears. This is th group I consider overexposed.

roflmaopimp - wow Cheaters…you had to post this on TWO different blogs? When you get a photo of them actually doing something a bit suggestive (pre-divorce, of course) you be sure to let us know okay? As for this photo…..well, let’s just say that they appear to be about ready to do their job (ACT you know)…their attention seems to be on someone not in the shot.

-10 for lousy photo chosing. Better luck next time, and thank you for playing our game