Angelina Jolie & Marianne Pearl: Worst People to Plan a Playdate
Marianne Pearl, the wife of the slain Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, and Angelina Jolie (she plays her in the upcoming film A Mighty Heart) sits down with Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive for an interview at Angelina’s home. Here are some fun excerpts:
CINDI LEIVE: So Mariane, you started to tell me the story of how you guys initially met, which to my surprise had absolutely nothing to do with A Mighty Heart.
MARIANE PEARL: One day a few years ago, I was alone in New York with Adam, still having a rough time [after Danny’s death]. I read an interview with Angie in a magazine, about her and Maddox and her life as a single mom. And I thought, this woman could be my friend…. I’d never experienced anything like that before in my life. It was something in her tone, in the answers that she gave. I felt also that Maddox and Adam [then both about three] could be good friends. So I sent her a note saying, do you want to have a playdate?
ANGELINA JOLIE: And I, on the other side of it, had been aware of you through the time that everything went down. I remember being amazed by your courage and your grace…. And when I got the note, I was thrilled. Later I realized that Mariane and I are the two worst people to plan a playdate in the history of playdates.
CL: Why?
AJ: Because she hates the phone as much as I do. So it almost didn’t happen! But when it finally did, I remember being really nervous, thinking, she’s such an intelligent European woman—what are we going to do together? So we went to this serious, European, existential play—it seemed like the right thing [and it was supposed to be OK for kids]. But Adam and Mad got antsy, and finally halfway through, to each other’s relief, we were both like, do you want to get out of here? And we ran out and went back to Mariane’s place….
MP: We cooked pasta; it was actually good. And then we started talking about changing the world…
AJ: …and about all the things we were passionate about. Her instincts were right—we did have so much in common. And all the kids are great friends now. Zahara is madly in love with Adam.
The June 2007 issue of Glamour hits newsstands nationwide on May 8. Check out more of the Angelina/Mariane article with Glamour here. You can check our Pearl’s global diary here.








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Thanks JJ! what a lovely interview… they both look lovely, can’t wait for the mag to be on the stands…. how nice that they were friends even before Marrianne and Brad were friends…. and that Marieanne initiated the friendship what are the tabloids going to say now? they’ve always tried to say Angie doesn’t have friends well she does….
I´m sorry for my English:
I don’t understand because in this world there are so much people full with hate and wickedness toward the other ones. When I was small, my grandmother always told me that if I wanted the wrong to somebody, that wrong would return to me two times. My cousin is as high as Angelina and weight less, she is healthy, she eats enough, but she is always thin. I eat little, and I am always battling with my weight. All the people that announce their hate here, are faithful witness of the bad thing that the American society is. The murderer of V-Tech it is a sample of the madness of that country. In these days, I was seeing CNN en español and a psychiatrist said that of each 4 people, one suffered of psychiatric problems, and that of each four people with psychiatric, alone problems one looked for medical help. When I began to come to here I didn’t understand because they were this way these people. I know the answer now. If these sick people of the soul and of the mind, they used the force with which they hate to make something positive (orphans, sick with AIDS, homeless, refugees, mistreated women, global heating, junkie, alcoholic) this planet would be another thing.
Am not I saying that all the Americans are crazy, but like it is possible that a guy like Sanjaya are above AJ, when me such a ridiculous and mediocre person had never seen as him?. I am fanatic of Brad for many years and now of Angelina because she gave him what Juliette, Gwyneth and Jennifer didn’t want or they were not able to: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. And what happens, happen they separate or not, Angelina will always be her mom and Brad her dad. And that for me, is enough. I believe that the reason (I am possibly mistaken) for the one that people hate Angelina, it is because she is all that they are not. I suppose that most of people hoped Shiloh was daughter of JA and not of Angie. Now, an ironic question of course: if she has been so sincere all her life for that it misses reason she would be with brad if she and he are not happy? I don’t simply conceive the idea that she is not happy with him.
The truth is that at the beginning of the divorce, I hated Angie, but as soon as she was embarrassed of Shiloh, it began me to please, anyway it doesn’t care how many people they love them or how many people hate them, they will live their lives like it seems them. I would make the same thing. Hate me if that makes it happy. Pitifully I won’t be able to see neither Cannes neither any premiere in the carpet, since I will be operated of the eyes for that date. That pain!!!!
#19 stranger Says: April 30th, 2007 at 10:43 am
“Hi …… FALP -first first post…?”
Hi stranger,
yep, FALP is the nickname PT gave me.
Thanks Jared for the new thread.
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C Says:
April 30th, 2007 at 12:41 am - flag comment
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Anistonisaliar Says:
April 30th, 2007 at 12:53 am - flag comment
Angelina & Mariane’s Powerful Bond
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Just wanted to say thanks for the articles, wonderful reads.
Both Angie and Marianne are awesome women, IMO!
PS: Why are you talking about angie and olivier martinez (a frenchie too hihi)? I’ve never heard about a story between them… What happened and when?
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A Call To Arms Says:
April 30th, 2007 at 10:52 am - flag comment
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No, just don’t answer it. See how this is a positive thread and all of a sudden you have the negativity draining from the previous thread? Don’t answer, you’ll just be feeding it. It’s the best thing you can do.
what’s the fuss about the NYDN article? it only says they danced… isn’t she allowed to be human and to dance anywhere? bugger off! the article was a nice article about a great documentary she did that is educational… this is probably the only off day she’s had for a LOONG time….so she danced and went back home to her Brad….. WTF is wrong with that? quit the drama… doesn’t work anymore….
why don’t you phone Brad then are you afraid to find out that he is still with her and aprove of everything she is doing.
I hope you will enjoy reading your story in the tabs,then what? Brad and Angelina will be together after that headline like they have been doing the last three years.I think you have missed a lot of covers linking Angelina with a lot of people,it has been going on for 3 years.
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I love Jolie and no matter what u say (intersting=Me) it will not change my mind.
I admire jolie-pitt family and that is why i always visit jared thread.
intersting=Me keepi on complaining God will help you and stop talking to yourself
Thank you Jared for this new thread. I will definitely buy this magazine when it comes out. Yeah, I guess Angie does have friends, huh? :lol:
AWWWWWWWWWW…..
Adam and Zahara sitting on a tree
wait we have to find a girl for maddox and pax
Zahara has Adam Pearl and
Shiloh has Kingston Rossdale
#21 Me Says : So you know what’s going on within a person’s relationships when you don’t know the person , witnessed anything , talked to the person or saw any credible pictures . This is truly amazing ! You should be contracted by the pentagon to tell us what’s happening in Iraq or Korea , or Iran, or Syria , or any place where there might be some underhanded activities that we might imagine . You sound like a fool and should be fined for being so ignorant . You probably read these tabloids ( NE, Star , L&S , Intouch , OK ) and the blogs that reiterate the trash from these same tabloids and believe the bs written . Don’t you know that they write anything that fool like you will eat up to fatten their coffers ? If this is what you are going to believe based on the sources I’ve named then you should crawl back into your cave and not come out .
Hey Hey ~ stranger, susie… just thinking about the Angie has no
friends theory, hahahahah.. that’s why i TRY not to deal with these
SCAVENGERS!!!!!
Two strong, beautiful and caring citizens of the world. They had to be friends.
This interview will surely be very interesting.
Angie in Prague with kids and Brad..JODETE interesting
THE END
This is what’s wrong with so many Jolie-Pitt fans. You are easily swayed. This wonderful article is posted and instead you’d rather argue with idiots like interesting and her aliases. So I’m going to go away for a few hours and I’ll bet all the positive in this glamour article will be lost and the entire thread will be about you arguing with haters. And don’t blame interesting for this she’s playing you all like a fiddle and making you all look rediculous.
Interesting that if y’all truly believed in Jolie’s supposed “goodness” it would presuppose you’d feel the same way about others who do much more than her as well. Where’s the constant worship for them? Matt Damon has campaigned tirelessly for Darfur and is again on this thread calling attention to Darfur - if that was Jolie on that thread, you’d all be clamouring to post how much of a saint she is 150 times a day - how many posts are there on Damon’s thread about his *true* altruism? Only a handful - which tells me that it’s not the actual good deeds you salivate about, it’s the ridiculous unrealistic perception you cling too about Jolie holding her up, for some unknown reason to a standard that is only real in your mind. Because reality is much different.
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AJ: … And all the kids are great friends now. Zahara is madly in love with Adam.
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Awww how cute Zee is in love with Adam. I knew that Brad and Mad would have their hands full with Zee and Shi. Now we have to add Pax to having his hands full.
Brad will be pulling his hair out when the boys come to calling for Zee and Shi.
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Going to hell & I don’t care! Says:
April 30th, 2007 at 11:05 am - flag comment
This is what’s wrong with so many Jolie-Pitt fans. You are easily swayed. This wonderful article is posted and instead you’d rather argue with idiots like interesting and her aliases. So I’m going to go away for a few hours and I’ll bet all the positive in this glamour article will be lost and the entire thread will be about you arguing with haters. And don’t blame interesting for this she’s playing you all like a fiddle and making you all look rediculous.
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ITAWU. This is a positive thread for Angelina and instead of appreciating that, we are getting sidetracked into someone’s game.
Can’t wait to get my copy of Glamour, Both Angie and Mariane are remarkable women. They seem to have such a great friendship.
Hi Stranger, how are you ?
susie, Good morning.
Thanks for this post JJ!
Finally all the rumours about Angie taking over Jen’s role can stop.
Lovely to see that these two fantastic women are good friends! :)
Interesting is fishing DON\’T BITE! you\’ll end in the fry.
Spain, como sabes que estàn en Praga. tu haz visto las fotos, donde estan, yo tambien quiero verlas, me muero por ver a los ninos y a Brad
Two of my favorite women in the world. Love it. They both look great. This is actually a coup for Glamour who I was starting to get annoyed with for seemingly pandering to the minivan majority. But bless her soul, Cindi Leive has redeemed herself in my eyes. Cannot wait for my Glamour.
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