Brad Pitt’s Arm Tattoo = Otzi the Iceman

Thanks for the info Out. I’ve been out of the loop for a while. May/June just stinks if you work in a New York school. Insanity rules the days. Maybe one of them will say during the Anne Curry interview. Too bad - this is going to be a hard film to market — and imho, an important one to see; but, summer is such a “feel good” time for movies, and while the message may ultimately be hopeful, the subject is painful for anyone with empathy.

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julia Says:
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Hi julia!I just got back from work.I’m excited for B@A appearance in Cannes too.Seems like the time doesnt’t go by fast enough.One and a half day left.

Hey Meli, yes I agree, I wish it was today!

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cook Says:

May 19th, 2007 at 9:49 am - flag comment
ritzygal,

Nice, France = neighborhood library?

:lol:

abc’s good morning america said they wil be live from canne with O13 crew on wednesday

copywrighted material, courtesy of Simon&Shuster

“I am crying. I can’t do this. One more room to visit. I am standing near the entrance. I’m not permitted to enter yet. I see a pile of little shoes. I walk in. They all smile. They are all so kind to a stranger. ‘Asalaamu alaykum’. Their story is the same. I think this is the hardest thing to see, to listen to them with their bruises, dirty torn clothes, cut fingers, as they smile at you. They are children. They still dream. They seem so full of hope, it breakes your heart.
As we drive away from the camp, all the children run out, line up by a wall, and wave good-bye to us. While in the car, Zahida and I tried to discuss the programs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child—but we were crying. We kept seeing more little children in the street collecting garbage. I have no words.”
A. Jolie
Quetta City, Pakistan, August 2001

Not on Our Watch - How Hollywood Made America Care Abour Darfur

Cannes premiere is latest event to be used to draw attention to African crisis. The scene will be familiar at Tuesday’s Cannes film festival party for Ocean’s 13. There will be a red carpet; there will be crowds of fans behind metal barriers; there will be a line of limousines and burly security guards. And there will be photographers shouting out the familiar names of the cosseted and famous: George! Brad! Matt! Don!

Don? The Don in question is not quite a star of the magnitude of a George Clooney or a Matt Damon, but he has managed to put his moderate fame to a use that many of his peers will envy.

In the three years since he starred in the true story of an unassuming hotel manager who helps refugees escape the genocide in Rwanda, Don Cheadle has devoted much of his time to bringing the world’s attention to another African tragedy: Darfur. Partly as a result of his efforts it has become one of the highest profile issues in the US, the subject of bumper stickers, full-page newspaper advertisements and a reborn student movement.

“Celebrities have been crucial in building awareness on a wide range of things that would otherwise be just a distant concern,” says the human rights activist John Prendergast, co-author with Cheadle of Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond. “Clooney is smarter than any politician I’ve dealt with on this issue. Angelina [Jolie] is as clued in on the policy issues as any politician.”

Since 2003 at least 250,000 people have died and 2 million people have been displaced in Darfur, according to UN estimates. Cheadle has made numerous appearances at rallies and on talkshows to promote the cause, and is the co-producer of a documentary feature titled An Indifferent World.

Now Cheadle, along with his Ocean’s 13 co-star Clooney, has hijacked the premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s latest film to focus the gaze of Hollywood - and, by extension, the world - on Darfur. Tuesday’s party will be a benefit to aid the fledgling Not on our Watch Foundation, a fundraising and advocacy group that aims “to focus global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities”. But unlike most non-profit start-ups, this one boasts a stellar list of board members on its letterhead: Cheadle, Clooney, Damon, Brad Pitt and the Ocean’s 13 producer, Jerry Weintraub.

“All the guys have been to the Sudan this year,” Weintraub told reporters last week. “They saw this huge genocide and nobody doing anything about it.”

Darfur has mobilised activists and generated support like no other conflict or humanitarian crisis, particularly in the US. Even poker has got in on the action: an online poker site will announce a $1m (£500,000) donation at Tuesday’s party: Ocean’s 13 is, after all, a gambling movie.

“Some people would say Darfur has become Hollywoodised, that that creates diminishing returns,” says Dean Schramm, a Hollywood agent and one of the organisers of the Los Angeles Darfur Observance Day set for tomorrow. “I think the celebrities are acting as human beings. They’ve used their celebrity to try to effect change.”

Much of the groundwork was laid three years ago after the Bush administration used the term “genocide” to describe the situation in Darfur. That spurred two communities to action: students and Jews.

“The communal memory of the Holocaust continues to push the Jewish community to never let a holocaust occur again,” says the American Jewish Committee’s Eli Lipmen.

Mr Prendergast sees the surge of interest in Darfur as the result of three years of classic grassroots activism, of hard work mobilizing support in church groups, synagogues and universities. Others, less charitably, point to the US’s imperial misadventures as one of the causes of the swell of sympathy for Darfur and the Bush administration’s forthright comments. What better way to forget the disaster in Iraq than to seize the moral high ground in Darfur?

“The administration has given a lot of lip service on this issue,” says Mr Schramm. “I don’t think they have done nearly enough. The issues and problems are very difficult to solve; for example, it’s hard to move China off the dime. The one person who has moved the Chinese has been Steven Spielberg.”

Spielberg, in a letter sent last month to the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, used his influence as one of the artistic advisers to the 2008 Beijing Olympics to suggest that the Chinese government change its policy in the Sudan.

“There is no question in my mind that the government of Sudan is engaged in a policy which is best described as a genocide,” he wrote. “I have only recently come to understand fully the extent of China’s involvement in the region and its strategic and supportive relationship with the Sudanese government. I share the concern of many around the world who believe that China should be a clear advocate for United Nations action to bring the genocide in Darfur to an end.”

The cast

Steven Spielberg

Used his position as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Beijing Olympics to urge the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, to back the entry of UN peacekeepers into Sudan. “China should be a clear advocate for United Nations action.”

Don Cheadle

Has made public appearances, co-authored a book, is co-founder of a Darfur pressure group and co-produced a documentary on the subject. “We need to press that these stories not be small paragraphs on page 17 but that they at least have as much time as Britney Spears not wearing underwear.”

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Announced a $1m donation to three charities working in Sudan. “What is most upsetting,” Jolie said, “is how long it is taking the international community to answer this crisis.”

Mia Farrow

A Unicef goodwill ambassador, Farrow visited Darfur in 2004 and 2006. “Tell your leadership, you know, OK, there may not be oil in Darfur, but there are human lives, 6 million human lives, and we care about them.”

George Clooney

Says he wants to “use the credit card that you get for being famous in the right instances whenever you can”.

By Guardian Unlimited © Copyright Guardian Newspapers 2006
Published: 5/18/2007

Wow, I wonder how he got nicole ritchie to pose for his new tattoo? Wonder if she was naked?

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Ricota Says:

May 19th, 2007 at 7:56 am - flag comment
Hey guys, morning Have you seen this article on AJ regarding A Mighty Heart. So scornful. Obviously coming from someone from E! Disgusting. http://www.eonline.com/movies/reelgirl/detail/index.jsp?uuid=a812e300-d196-46d3-9b1e-3fdbfc9802ff

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I saw it the other day. Who GAFF what this “Reel Girl” says? Who is she? She’s a nobody who works for that incredibly vapid E!. You get what you pay for. Like all of these entertainment “journalists” who work for gossip enterprises, she didn’t bother to do any INVESTIGATING to find out if her allegation was true. The idiot has that picture of Angie in the shadows on a street in Nice and says she’s semi-darkened with makeup for the role. For someone who calls themself “REEL GIRL” she’s apparently never heard of “shadow” and “lighting”. She also didn’t do her homework in regards to Winterbottom saying Angie wasn’t wearing any makeup or Marianne Pearl expressing not only her approval at Angie playing the role or her wariness of doing the movie with another actress. Opinions that have no basis in fact just make the person voicing said opinion look like a freaking idiot. But…that’s par for the course with the tabs and gossip hounds. Everybody wants to use Angie as a springboard for fame, but nobody wants to investigate so that they have an INFORMED OPINION rather than an IGNORANT OPINION.

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anustin Says:

May 19th, 2007 at 9:04 am - flag comment
yeah,janice miniac has meningites,not curable…..and im happy doing that breaking news!

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Hey, Anustin - where’d you hear/read that? I don’t really wish the woman ill, but it IS Poetic Justice. With as much ill-will as she’s pushed Angie and Brad’s way she pretty much begged for something bad to happen to herself. I may talk bad about X, but all I’ve ever wanted was for her 15 minutes to be up and she’d go the hell away. Min has been gleefully evil to Angie and she call what she does “news”, but all it really amounts to is jealous mean-spirited b#tching because Angie won’t give her exclusive Jolie-Pitt family photos.

In the RD interview, Angie said more biological and more adoption. that means everything is ok in the jolie-pitt family, otherwise how can they make baBIES if they are breaking up. Also just look at the pix of Mad, Pax Zahara and Shiloh, apparantly they are very loved and happy, they are indeed a very very happy family. This is proving that the tabs (liars) and haterz took AJ’s words out of context and vilify her. Anyone who believe the tabs are just ignorance, no brain. :roll: JMHO :roll:

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dragonfly Says:

May 19th, 2007 at 9:16 am - flag comment

I have read refernces to this before, and I’m curious. Does Brad really not like his feet? Does he have a wierd hammer toe or something? HAha!! I did notice he wore these closed shoes in Troy while everyone else wore sandals, which I thought lent creedence to the claims that he supposedly didn’t like his feet.

Hmmmm….maybe he was actually more concerned about his bare feet showing for all the world to see in the Playboy pics than he was about ol’ Elmo swinging in the breeze.

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Hey Dragonfly - long time now see! Yes, it’s true that Brad refuses to show his feet. There ARE photos from very early in his career where he’s barefoot at photoshoots and a few candids. But after about 1994? Nah…Brad refuses to go barefoot. Do you remember the photos last year of the family in the Namibian desert? Everyone was barefoot…EXCEPT Brad. He had his shoes on! LOL! Someone over at BradForums said once that he just thinks they’re too long and narrow and ugly. Frankly I was glad to hear the guy had something not absolutely perfect on his body! I’ve seen the photos of his feet and didn’t see anything wrong with them. It’s not like Okra’s feet. Did you see those photos from TMZ the other day? She looks like she’s got 6 toes!

Here’s a photo from the early ’90s…back when he wore jeans that weren’t 2 sizes too big…

http://pics.livejournal.com/pittimpression3/pic/0035fh76/g320