Papa Pitt Picks Up the Kiddies at School

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Original Curious Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 4:22 pm - flag comment
Thank you JJ. Love seeing the man and his children.

I’ve been reading more snippets of Angie’s interview with Reader’s Digest (Lainey even has a link to some audio!) and it’s AWESOME!

Voted - seems to be a big BonJovi contingent voting as well.

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The FF hags are voting for BonJovi, they don’t want PAPA Pitt to lead . I voted too for PAPA Pitt of course :-)

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aimee Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 5:29 pm - flag comment
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You sound so very judgemental.

Im sure she had visited her mother..maybe earlier that day….and it must have been hard knowing that her mom was not going to be getting better. No one knows when a loved one is going to pass..im sure she wasnt in the final stages of dying or Angie wouldnt have been anywhere else. Cancer is like that. When my dad was told there was nothing else to do..no more treatment..it was sad and hard to accept, but still he lived for several more months. We were told it could be weeks or months, no one knew. My dad insisted I went to school, and lived as normal a life as I could. He didnt want me sitting at his bed, waiting for him to die. When the final hours came, I got on a bus and I was there for him. He was happy knowing all the things I was doing in my life and I was glad I was there when he passed. I think Angie’s mom was the same, proud of her daughter…and not wanting her to stop living her life . I have no doubt she was in contact with her mother and the hospital at all times. Lucky for her, she could get on a plane at a moments notice.

Stop with the hate and calling someone a liar when you dont know of what you speak.
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So sorry to hear about your father Aimee. I just wanted to say what a great post. It’s funny how some people want to subject Angie to a higher standard than others. It’s also funny how this person mentions her trip to Vietnam after the GGs, but neglected to mention all the trips Angie made to visit her mom before the GGs, which were documented by photos posted on JJ and elsewhere.

I have the tape of the Anne Curry interview and she clearly implied Shiloh was planned. When Anne asked her about having a biological child after saying she only wanted to adopt, she said, “Feelings change. You make different decisions.”

Her interview was wonderful and nothing anybody says can take away from it. The only person who I consider a liar is the person who gave the world the impression her soon-to-be ex-husband wasn’t interested in having children, but she was. If she had the courage to say to the world I want to concentrate on my career instead of having children at this time, then I would have respect for her. But as we all know she laid the blame on her ex. And as we can see from the photos posted here he adores being a father.

Sorry, it’s hard not to get mad when people come on here and spout off nonsense.

FIRST SHE SAYS: We came together because we’re similar. We didn’t become similar after…He’s a really amazing father – he didn’t just become that around me. You could say he changed me. I wasn’t planning on getting pregnant. I’m the one that got knocked up! So if you look at it that way, it was me who had the reversal.”

THEN SHE SAYS: On planning for Shiloh:
“Before I met Brad, I always said I was happy never to have a child biologically. He told me he hadn’t given up on that thought. Then, a few months after Z came home, I saw Brad with her and Mad, and I realized how much he loved them, and a biological child would not in any way be a threat. So I said, ‘I want to try.’”

THANK YOU I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS.
ANGELINA ALWAYS MADE IT CLEAR THAT SHE DIDN’T FEEL THE NEED TO HAVE A BIO BABY.
SO (PLS TRY TO FOLLOW) WHEN SHE SAID (I wasn’t planning on getting pregnant) WHAT SHE MEANT WAS SHE WASN’T PLANNING ON GETTING PREGNANT UNTIL BRAD CAME INTO HER LIFE. SHE THEN ADDS (it was me who had the reversal). MEANING SHE CHANGED HER MIND ABOUT HAVING A BIO BABY.

WHAT SHE IS SAYING IS, IT WASN’T BRAD THAT CHANGED SHE CHANGED. AND THATS WHAT SHE CONFIRMS IN THE RD INTERVIEW.

HOW ANYONE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THAT IS BEYOND ME, BUT THEN AGAIN SOME FOLKS THOUGHT SHILOH WASN’T A ‘TREAT’ INSTEAD OF ‘THREAT’ WHICH TELLS ME ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOU HATERS. YOU’RE NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE BOX ARE YOU?

Seems to me that haters want Angelina to be silent in order for them to heap their interpretation of her onto her. Too bad, so sad.

Does it really matter whether she (Shiloh) was planned or not? The fact is that Angie was willing to give a biological birth a try. (Brad must have worn her down.) Anyway, Shiloh is here, will be 1 year old soon. All of her beautiful children are all together. She is happy, Brad is happy the kids are happy…life is good.

The thing is Angie is the only one everybody is analyzing for every thing she has ever done - just from one word out of her mouth to every ****. I would get very upset if someone analyzes every word I said in my life. I try to be honest and nice to people and try to learn and live but my decision and thought change with my everyday experience and discussion with other people. So if I change my decision, should I be called as a hypocrite? If I say of my feeling of sad, should I be called as seeking for sympathy? So what if I seek for sympathy of other people. Why people wish Angie to be a God or this perfect human being? She is a human but she tries dam hard to do best in her situation.

I admire her not because she is perfect but because she tries hard to live her life best and accomplish more than any one person can do. I am a 47 year old woman (more than 15 years older than Angie) married with a son, have a Ph.D. degree in Biochem and working as a director in consulting company but I accomplished less than 5% of what she has ever done in her life so far. She had more experience and endured harsh situations but she accomplished more. People should try to accomplish more in their own life rather than being jealous of her.

Ocean’s Crew Dives into Darfur
by Josh Grossberg
Thu, 10 May 2007 05:34:32 PM PDT
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Danny Ocean and the boys have their next big scheme all figured out.

The stars of Warner Bros. upcoming crime caper, Ocean’s Thirteen—George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle—along with producer Jerry Weintruab are aiming to parlay the hype surrounding the sequel into aid for victims of the ongoing genocide in the Darfur.

The film is scheduled to hit theaters on June 8. But, to increase pressure on U.S. and international policymakers to take action to stop the mass killings, the Ocean’s crew is holding a series of benefit screenings to raise funds for the International Rescue Committee, which has aided more than 2 million Sudanese refugees displaced by the conflict.

They’ve also set up their own organization, Not On Our Watch (notonourwatchproject.org), which will partner with the IRC to raise awareness about the atrocities that have left more than 200,000 people dead.

“All the guys have been to the Sudan this year. They saw this huge genocide and nobody doing anything about it,” Weintraub tells the Associated Press. “Clooney got attention earlier, but it faded.”

The producer is referring to the Oscar winner’s April 2006 trip to the border area, where he met survivors in a refugee camp and recorded their stories for a documentary that aired last January. Since that visit, talk of an international force intervening to stop the genocide has failed to gain traction. So Clooney and cohorts hope to reenergize the human rights campaign to save those caught in the maelstrom before even more die.

“What we are trying to do here is bring our celebrity to raise money and bring a spotlight on Sudan again,” says Weintraub. “We decided to dedicate ourselves to this. The thing I am most proud of by far is that these events will benefit a cause that is very important to me and my colleagues.”

Among the events being planned is a May 24 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which will also double as a fundraiser for the two organizations; a June 5 North American debut in Hollywood, where Clooney and his fellow stars will leave their shoeprints in the cement outside of Graumann’s Chinese Theater; and a June 6 benefit showing at the CineVegas Film Festival, where the 69-year-old Weintraub will receive the Vanguard Producer Award honoring his 50-year career.

Weintraub also said he planned to head to Darfur as well later this year to see for himself the death and destruction wrought there.

“It’s not a pleasant place to go,” he tells the wire service. “They don’t need another tourist like me going there. I can do a lot more good here raising money. But I will go. We are all very good friends so when one does something we all get onboard.”

The Steven Soderbergh-helmed flick chronicles the latest heist concocted by charming crook Danny Ocean (Clooney) and his accomplices as they even the score with a casino owner (Al Pacino) who double-crossed them.

Of course, what good’s an Ocean’s adventure without a little money on the line.

To help raise even more cash for Not On Our Watch, online gambling site PokerStars is planning to hold two charity tournaments—one in Cannes on May 13 and the other in Los Angeles on May 27—to benefit Darfur victims.

The top four finishers in each game will get tickets to the premiere of Ocean’s Thirteen either in Cannes or Hollywood. The top 18 finishers will also each receive a copy of the crime caper’s DVD autographed by all the stars; PokerStars has pledged to match the final tally in each tournament’s prize pool in the final donation.

In other Ocean’s-related good-works news, construction began Thursday on the winning design in an architecture competition organized by Pitt to build eco-friendly homes in New Orleans’ Katrina-devastated Lower Ninth Ward.

Workers broke ground on the first home, which is being built by Global Green USA. The environmental group teamed up with the mega-star in April 2006 to launch the contest, and Pitt donated $100,000 to the effort and an additional $100,000 to cover the prize money.

Building is expected to be completed by the second anniversary of the storm this September

Jolie-Pitt Foundation Makes Darfur Pledge

Updated: 01:11, Friday May 11, 2007
Celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have made a million dollar donation to aid groups working in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur.
Actress Jolie has travelled to Sudan and neighbouring Chad three times to meet refugees who have been forced from their homes by the conflict.

She is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency and has called for greater support to help refugees.

Now her Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which she formed with her actor boyfriend, has pledged one million US dollars (£505,100) to aid agencies working in the area.

“This generous donation comes just months after Angelina Jolie made a personal visit to a refugee camp in Chad,” said Michel Gabaudan,a regional representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

“It shows, once again, her and Brad Pitts’ commitment to helping refugees and the displaced.”

The money is to be split between the UN refugee agency, the International Rescue Committee and the international non-governmental organization, SOS Children’s Villages.

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.”

More than 200,000 people have been killed and an estimated 2.5 million have had to flee their homes since 2003, when ethnic African rebels in Darfur rose up against the Arab-dominated central government.

The Sudanese government is accused of retaliating by arming local nomadic tribes and unleashing militias known as the janjaweed - a charge the government denies.

news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1265163,00.html

She said she wasn’t planning on getting pregnant, then she met Brad Pitt and things changed. Planning, meaning she wasn’t ever thinking about having bio kids, and then she met him and realized it’d be okay.

Why is this so controversial. And if you prove she’s a “liar” what do you gain?

Just asking. This is getting tiresome. You need to move on.

132, 147 and all the others with an issue on planned vs. knocked up

Hi everyone,

It was just a matter of time until someone would have come up with the planned vs. knocked up thing.

Yesterday when I first saw the interview I saw already where the haters might try to “attack”. This was one of them so with your permission I would like to explain.
Is very simple and I hope the issue will not come up again. Pay attention:

Angelina was got knocked up while she was planning to have Shiloh.

Translation: I am planning to get pregnant in two months. Oops! I got knocked up.

Hopes this clarify this issue.

How are you translating “I got knocked up” into “I changed my mind and got pregnant”?? Is this some form of brangelina speak? Because in the English language “I got knocked up” means : to get pregnant; an unplanned pregnancy, unwanted. Dictionary definition girls.

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uh… Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 8:56 pm - flag comment
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“You could say he changed me. I wasn’t planning on getting pregnant. I’m the one that got knocked up!”

I don’t see this being inconsistent with what she’s said in the past. She wasn’t planning on having biological kids, but then she met Brad, fell in love with him and got pregnant. I don’t see the hypocrisy.