Brad Pitt @ American Embassy

I think Brad was blown away by this woman when she allowed him into the children’s life.Noone has ever commited to him that way.I see why he has so much respect for her.Cant wait for another boi child.

Brad full interview

Brad Pitt misses y’all
On location abroad, the actor longs for his N.O. home

By Doug MacCash
May 10, 2007

It has been less than a year since he bought a house in the French Quarter, but Brad Pitt already knows what it means to miss New Orleans.

Since leaving town to join Angelina Jolie on the Czechoslovakia set of her new movie, “Wanted,” Pitt said that he has regrettably slid, once again, under the celebrity magnifying glass.

“Let me tell you, we’re in this house in Prague right now and there’s about 12 cars of paparazzi outside and some tourists with video cameras,” Pitt said Wednesday in a phone interview. “I can’t describe why we’re allowed to live a more normal life (in New Orleans).”

The thing he misses the most, he said, is bicycling through the streets of New Orleans at night.

“Living in the French Quarter is a thrill for us,” he said. “We have some semblance of real family life. People have been very, very gracious with us. If we’re on the front deck, people go by and say, ‘Hi.’ Then they go on their way, very friendly.”

The main purpose of Pitt’s call wasn’t to tell us he missed us, but to discuss a milestone in the progress of Global Green USA’s ecologically friendly low-income residential development in the Lower 9th Ward.

Pitt spent $100,000 last summer to fund a design competition for an energy-efficient cluster of five houses, 18 apartments and a community center slated to be built in the Holy Cross neighborhood near the Mississippi River levee. On the first anniversary of Katrina, architects Andrew Kotchen and Matthew Berman of New York City were chosen to plan the development.

Today, in a 10 a.m. ceremony near the corner of Avery and North Peters streets, Global Green, a nonprofit environmental organization, will announce that the Home Depot Foundation has become a major contributor to the project, valued at between $7 million and $9 million.

The ceremonial announcement will include the making of a human mural by Los Angeles artist John Quigley, using 1,500 students from New Orleans schools as living mosaic tiles.

Pitt, who visited New Orleans in the early 1990s during the filming of “Interview With a Vampire” and took up semi-permanent residence early this year while filming “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” said that he’s impressed with the city’s never-say-die post-Katrina spirit, especially in the hardest hit areas.

“For me, first as a tourist, it’s the most unique city that we have in the States,” he said. “It has an energy like no other place. You guys shouldn’t change a thing. I’ve got to get me some of it. I absolutely love it there. We moved our family there. We’ve got a place there and we’re intermittently going back and forth. We’re in Prague now because of work. We’ll be back there soon.”

Like most New Orleans residents, Pitt seems bewildered by the pace of recovery and paucity of distributed aid.

“I’m concerned for the people who want to get back, especially in the lower-income areas, because it seems that the money they will receive, whenever they finally receive it, is not near what it would cost to replace what they had,” he said. “How is it possible? How is it feasible for them to put their families back together and put their communities back together, if that’s their wish? It’s a real concern.”

Global Green USA’s Holy Cross project has experienced its own delays, but Global Green Director Matt Peterson hopes the public will see progress by late summer.

“We’re not at a place where we can unveil the design on the whole,” he said, citing parking issues that have yet to be worked out with the City Planning Commission. “Our commitment is to have one single-family home up by the second anniversary of Katrina.”

Pitt, an architectural enthusiast, believes that model developments such as the modernistic, 1¼-acre 9th Ward project, may lead the way to general redevelopment.

“You know, this is one little patch of dirt in New Orleans,” he said. “It’s our hope to expand on the ideas put forth in this building project and help get people in homes, help people get to that moment when they can put the key in that lock and walk in their home and know that their family members are doing the same down the street and their kids are going to go to school and their communities are back together.”

Although he hopes to encourage eco-friendly rebuilding here and elsewhere, Pitt said he understands that global environmental concerns are not foremost on the minds of locals dealing with post-K problems.

“I think more than anything, people need help getting in homes,” he said. “It seems to me if you have to rebuild, you can turn it into an opportunity and create something better for the people who have to inhabit (rebuilt homes), because that technology is out there. If you can cut the (energy) bills in half, isn’t that worth going for? If you can make healthier homes, homes that are not making people as sick? I’m referring to cancer rates going up, asthma rates going up. If you can make a home that is better for the environment, and better for the future people who live there, isn’t that worth going for? Isn’t it better to take this catastrophe and actually replenish something that’s better for the people living there? Isn’t that worth going for?

“You guys are a bunch of individuals like no other city, why not be the leaders in this, too?”

That uniqueness proved valuable during the filming of “Benjamin Button,” which Pitt described as “a love letter to New Orleans.”

He predicts it will be released in the latter half of 2008.

“It’ll be worth the wait,” Pitt said. “I think it’s got real merit as a film. It’s a beautiful film — and I am not one to sell a film. I’m not a salesman in any way. I am the most disgruntled viewer in cinematic history. But what I’ve seen is really special.

“The people in the background were so good and so real. It added this life to an otherwise rather dreary scene. It was far superior to anything we’ve experienced before.”

You can’t even stand to see someone making a rational comment about Angie. You do your best to idolize her and worship her.

Read her interviews well!!!!!!!!!!She is the only one says that Brad is a great person, Brad is a great father, I love to be with him, we are committed to our kids etc.

They love each other but there is no head-over-heel love between them as Angie says. Got it finally??????

Great interview. Heartfelt one.
Readers Digest is practical and digging in her daily life with her family and her feeling toward them.
Angie didn’t need put on luxurious designer’s gowns for interview.
I like she chose RD rather than fashion magazine.

RD: You lost your mother a few months ago. How are you coping?
Jolie: I’m one of those people who walk around as if it’s fine, and then suddenly I don’t know why I’m crying over my breakfast. My mother was my best friend. I’m so grateful I had her as a mom. She had cancer for seven years, but she lived long enough to see my brother and I grow up to be quite happy. You almost get the feeling she held on until it was okay.

Angelina and Brad have donated 1million dollars to Darfur.God I love them

PLease realise that some people are going to be sreaming at the ocean because of this interview and there is more interviews to come,ignore them.Thank God the ten million people who read this magazine dont care about the hates.

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to all regular fans Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 7:51 am - flag comment
Can you explain what Angie meant when she called her bio child as a treat????? Concerning a blob all your explanations were BS. You can come up better with this one????
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Uh-oh — now the baiting has begun. Fanistons heads are now exploding, so of course they will nitpick each and every little thing Angie has said, ignoring the obvious ones of love and caring, and zooming in on what appears (to them) to be a negative.

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ntt Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 2:15 am - flag comment

Thank you for the link. I think it’s awesome that a lot of what AJ said in her interview has been said by some of the posters here on JJ:
= by Ojpf regarding Marcheline finally let go when she could see that her daughter is now in a happy relationship, with a loving man and kids.
= by Dragonfly about the “quickies” thing, about the “intellectual intercourse”,and about the whole family snuggling in bed. (What else have you said, Dragonfly?)
= by Lylian regarding BP being a kind of man who plans things carefully. AJ said in the interview: “He’s the person who methodically figures out what he believes in and how he’s going to handle something, then does it seamlessly.”

B&A’s fans have been right all along. As for the haters, judge for yourself.

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Yes! The validation and confirmation of what many of us already instinctively knew is liberating, isn’t it? Women’s intuition is a powerful thing! haha!! Plus, it really shows that B&A are just dealing with all the same issues as any family, and many of us can relate to them on that level….alot of what she said could be applied to my own husband and my own household.

The only other thing she confirmed for me was this little scenario I always had in my head that it was Angie who went to Brad and told him she wanted to get pregnant with his baby. I picture them ceremoniously tossing the birth control pills into the trash beginning to “try” right away! Haha!! Can you imagine the smile *that* put on Mr. Pitt’s face?

Later, guys!

Can you explain what Angie meant when she called her bio child as a treat????? Concerning a blob all your explanations were BS. You can come up better with this one????
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She didn’t know if Brad will love the same her adopted kids if she had a bio baby, is a very valid fear when your boyfriend haven’t adopted kids before.

Jolie-Pitt Foundation Donates $1 Million to Three Groups Working in the Darfur Region

(10 May 2007) - UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt have donated one million dollars towards the humanitarian effort assisting more than four million people affected by the crisis in Darfur.

The donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation will go to three agencies playing key roles in Darfur and neighboring Chad: the UN Refugee Agency; the International Rescue Committee and the international NGO, SOS Children’s Villages. All three agencies are active in providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to the more than two million people displaced within Darfur and the 240,000 refugees from Darfur living in camps in eastern Chad.

“This generous donation comes just months after Angelina Jolie made a personal visit to a refugee camp in Chad and it shows, once again, her and Brad Pitts’ commitment to helping refugees and the displaced,” said Michel Gabaudan, UNHCR’s Regional Representative for the United States and the Caribbean. “As Goodwill Ambassador, Ms Jolie’s continued support of UNHCR and those we seek to help is a powerful force in ensuring they are not forgotten.”

In New York, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, said, “This donation will make a real difference in the lives of thousands of vulnerable people. We are grateful to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for remembering them.”

Jolie has visited the region three times. During her recent visit to the Oure-Cassoni camp she said she was struck by the sense of hope she encountered and by the widespread desire for peace-keepers to be deployed in eastern Chad.

It was in Oure-Cassoni, where Jolie met staff working for SOS Children’s Villages, who are providing psychological assistance to traumatized children.

“The children benefit enormously from the therapy,” said Yolanda van den Broek, project leader of the Emergency Relief Program of SOS Children’s Villages in Chad. “Children who at first did not speak, did not eat and who were isolated in their own worlds, are now playing happily and are able to interact with others.”

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/sosaus/117878873833.htm

Angie is doing to Shiloh same thing what her father did to her, IGNORING HER! Maybe grandpa Jon can save our angel Shiloh from this BS.

The audio

yuyu…ahahahhahahaha

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lurker Says:
May 10th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Thanks for the full interview. It is a good read.