OlderAngelina 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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susie Says:
April 30th, 2007 at 2:55 pm - flag comment
MAMS- thank you for all the pics :) How are you bringing them here from SJ? I don’t have an address bar when I look at pics there :(
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susie, I don’t know why you don’t have an address bar at SJ, but I just copy and paste them like I do if they were from any other place. I don’t think that helps you though. Sorry. :(
oh my!
BRAD IS MIA AT TRIBECA!
MAMS- thanks for trying, whenever I go there I have to use the buttons on my keyboard just to go back or forward b/c I don’t get an address bar and I think I am the only one b/c I have asked others too :(
bbl
Thanks JJ!You are the best! And Hay to all Jolie-Pitts fans.You all doing a great Job here.
Hey guys, there’s a video of Angie speaking at the Tribeca Film Festival. Scroll down to where it says, Angelina Jolie Screens documentary at Tribeca I love listening to her speak. It’s so cool.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2529
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thank you for the link video at Youtube nice song i like the song, don’t you know this song (this one for you by Elton John) for wedding dance of Marcheline and Jon Voight, i ever read somewhere of Jolie fan site,
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sorry, i don’t know how to post the link, it is difficult to post the link? susie had ever teached me how to post the link, but sorry susie, i didn’t learn, punish me……
hanna -
No big deal. I didn’t know how to post links for a long time till someone showed me how. Okay, hope you understand this. First you go to the address bar (ex. on JJ the address bar is: http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/04/30/angelina-joli-marianne-pearl/comment-
page-6/#comments)
-First, Right click the address bar section and go to Select All
-Next, Right click the address bar section again and go to Copy
-Then just come to JJ where you want to put the link and right click and press Paste
JP FAN ~ Mr & Mrs Smith ((((kiss kiss))))
Is it my eyes, or do we see a toy car sitting on the wall on the top left of this picture? Surely it’s Mad’s or Pax’s LOL! With a 3-yr old boy in the house we are also infested with these so I can relate :)
Has anyone posted from Lainey:
http://www.laineygossip.com/ArticleList.aspx?ID=6452
She’s got a Friend
Am all about Angelina Jolie. But being a girl’s girl, one of the knocks on Angelina Jolie, in sharp contrast of course to Jennifer Aniston, is that she doesn’t seem to have many girlfriends. If any.
Having said that, Angelina Jolie is ostensibly not that kind of girl. She wouldn’t want to come to my house on a Friday night to watch Bridget Jones and put on nail polish and throw back several bottles of shiraz. She doesn’t spend hours on the beach bronzing her skin and giggling with Courteney Cox.
Which is why Angelina Jolie is understandably intimidating. Especially for the MiniVan Majority.
But as it turns out, Angelina Jolie does have girlfriends. Gwen Stefani for starters – playdates last summer – and Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl, who Angelina is portraying in A Mighty Heart, produced by Brad Pitt.
Needless to say, Mariane is not a frivolous woman. She probably wouldn’t hang out in Malibu with Courteney Cox either. But she would invite Angie and her kids over for a play date. And they made pasta, and their kids are friends, and Zahara is “madly in love” with Adam – Mariane’s son. A formidable woman friends with another formidable woman? Photos and article in the upcoming issue of Glamour.
Thank you JJ for this new thread. I try to read all the comments fromn around the globe. Overall they are more positive than the other thread like Perez…. Since most of us are Brad/Angie and family fans, we want to celebrate their successes. “Explore” thank you for listing the generous celebrities and the approximate amount of their contribution. I just want to make a point that we are not forgetting the fact that Matt Damon is doing a fantastic job on his part but let me just add that Brad Pitt also went to Africa in 2004 or 2005 and there was not big deal about that. All the hoopla went to Bono. Angie on the other hand is an official of the U.N.H.R. and she does not only devote financial assistance, she also devotes her time going in third world countries, and voicing her flight to Washington D.C. so that other celebrities will follow and use their status to be aware of these important issues. There is also the fact that Brad and Angie are considered the hottest couple in our era’s pop culture. Just count how many comments there are each time Angie or Brad has a photo at JustJared and how many comments there are about the rest of the celebrities JJ puts on his blog. You can pretty much tell how powerful these duo can influence others. And of course, they are tabloid bufftet according to Lainey. For those who love them, do not patronize the tabs.
Thanks; poster “Brad’s fan” for posting the link of the article!! And for ones… i hope this rumor is true; because this shows how thoughtful Angie is with Brad!!
And speaking of Brad… it’s funny that when Brad went to movie premiers in Canada and L.A. leaving Angie with the kids, nobody bashing him for it. He was hugging and KISSING Catherine Keener in the “God Grew Tired Of Us” premier after-party and NOBODY bashed him for that either. Brad kissed a woman in a charity action and nobody said a word. But Angelina danced with an old friend WHILE HER BROTHER and other old friends are also there and people BASH HER FOR IT!!
GET OVER IT; haters (like this “interesting” poster) Brad and Angelina are a FAMILY and YES!! they are allowed to go out without each other and YES even dance with friends. It’s ALL IN GOOD FUN!! In the end; Brad is the father of her beautiful kids and she went home to him and the kids and THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS!!!!!!!!!!
Mondo Bongo, you are welcome. Here is another one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmLzrRVxFcs
I am looking forward to reading this interview in full – two wonderful women together. I have not yet read the book but I plan to see the movie.
Thanks for the nice thread, Jared, and I am really looking forward to seeing this movie. That’s a great picture of Angelina and Marianne, and I always thought pictures of Brad’s house in magazines made it look so peaceful and serene. Here is a picture of before it was remodeled, but in the picture above it still looks like a peaceful haven (childproofed now of course!)
http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cpgarq/albums/userpics/10001/normal_brad-pitt-hollywood-hills-home02.jpg
Did anyone else notice the two model cars in Jared’s picture sitting on the concrete slabs on the left and on the right? Maddox’s and Pax’s perhaps? Or maybe Brad’s lol.
I think it is very hard for her to cope with this publicity where your every move is followed. She doesn’t care, she is not that kind of person who thinks about her public image. I have a feeling that she cannot stand the idea that she would live his life according to what the majority wants. She has the right to be who she is, I hope she never ever will try to be an average american girl.
She is the only idol I have had in my life. She is the only one whose writings about Chechnya I have read and thought about: Wow, she really _understands_ the point. But still, she is a human being who makes mistakes and is insecure. Both Brad and Angelina are something you americans should be very proud of. (I am an European and I am proud of them :-) Keep it going ,ladies.
Thank you for that. Loved it. Hope la miga can save that.
^^^ @ Mr and Mrs Smith
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thank you, i tried and tried, but i hope i can good learn, anyway i tried to posted the link and everything was blue, i began panic and i was worry that everything gone, and almost gave up, btw i tried to post fourth times, but always error or the page is not found,
Lynn Campbell Says
I didn’t see the right toy car, but saw the left :) Thanks LOL
hanna - sorry you couldn’t get it to work. :( Maybe you can try later and see if it will work for you.
ohwell your obsession with angelina is pretty sad, you were just at popsugar saying stuff about her, why do you have to come here as well, if i were you i’d get help for my obsession fas,t surely it cant be healthy.
wht ????..really??… ohwell poster is a *****?…ic…thanks 4 the warning!
Hello people, how are you today?
Thanks JJ for this wonderful thread. Love the pic and the article.
Two women who didn’t make their beds out of remnants of devastation.
They get up and get on with it.
They love their children and their men.
Life kick them in the @$$, but ultimately, life will get pinned by them.
Hey guys, I know some of you don’t want to go to Perez Hilton’s site, so I’ve brought over this wonderful wonderful item (it’s very long) written by Alexa Ray, daughter of Billy Joel and Christey Brinkley. I had tears in my eyes by the end of it. What she says is so true and I wish more people would think like her. God bless her heart.
“I’ve got to get away from this computer! I know it’s ridiculous, and I should have a thicker skin by now and just plain NOT CARE, but I can’t help but be a little bummed out because the incredibly cruel, bullying Perez Hilton (this tabloid guy who calls himself the “queen of media”) just put up a horrible picture of me on his site and basically in so many words called me ugly, or rather, wrote that I’m “not that bad, actually, I’m just no supermodel”…
I just feel like saying: “YES, my mom and I look completely different, and I’m OK with that. I like that I look unique, or more “exotic”–I don’t want to look like everybody else, and I also don’t want to look like a supermodel–I just want to look like ME!” (sorry if this sounds like a repeat of my last blog, but I just have to VENT)…
Oh well, I guess that’s a part of the crap that comes with the industry–those sites LOVE putting bad pictures up, and everybody has a few unflattering shots–especially on the red-carpet! I’m still not comfortable posing on it, and (who knows?) maybe I never will be, but I’m just so OVER being compared to my mom looks-wise! I’m happy to have a lot of my father’s features (especially his eyes and lips)–I think he’s very handsome, and I’m quite sick of hearing people call HIM ugly–I think he has a very soulful face–the face of someone with character and integrity–who has LIVED, and has something important to say.
I just can’t help but wonder these days: why does the media’s idea of beauty have to always fit inside such a conventional box? Why doesn’t the media promote any sense of individuality and open-mindedness? My boyfriend always tells me how much he loves my dimples and how I have a “cute over-bite” when I smile, as well as this scar on my chest that I used to be self-conscious about– he calls it my “sexy mark”, (yes–he’s a keeper!!)– so if these imperfections are what our partners end up growing to love so much about us, why isn’t this celebrated as a natural, human truth? Why is it hidden, and replaced with this false truth that everybody’s supposed to aspire to look like a “supermodel” (whatever looking like a super-model entails–I have no clue). When my mom saw that Perez Hilton thing, she was like, “OK, what’s his point?–I have hundreds of bad pictures taken of me, and I’m a supermodel! Should I release them to the media so everyone can see that NOBODY is perfect?” (I love her for that).
It’s just rather depressing on a larger, societal level because apparently his tabloid site gets an average of 6 million hits a day (internationally), and I just feel like–WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS WORLD? Why would 6 MILLION PEOPLE be on a site that does nothing but exploit, objectify, ridicule, and degrade public figures for no reason? Oh well, I know I shouldn’t care–I guess I’m just a bit of an idealist and I wish the media wasn’t so shallow and affected. It’s like, why do these people get such a high out of bringing others down for no real reason?
I must say, I think this Perez Hilton guy is quite dangerous because has actually made a BUSINESS out of calling people “fat, ugly whores!” Why is this? Is it because the general public has somehow become so obsessed with the media that it is entirely acceptable to trash public figures (and their children) and call them all sorts of names JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT? I mean, there was even some blogger on there picking a part the appearance of my 8 year-old sister–it made me sick to my stomach to see that. She’s just a little girl–and she’s my adorable, beautiful little sister! I cried my eyes out when I saw that, I was so disgusted.
Sorry, I don’t mean to get preachy on you guys–I guess I’m just venting. I also wanted to get all of this out there because I don’t think there’s a lot of people inside of the media who talk openly about it’s artificiality, and really question why this is happening, and I think it’s about time we started. Because the media really is in a terrible place right now, and I truly feel like the more tabloid magazines we buy, and the more tabloid sites we blog on, the more we are feeding into this dangerous obsession with the media that is spiraling out of control.”
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