OlderAngelina Jolie: ‘Today Show’ Interview
Angelina Jolie sits down with NBC News’ Anny Curry to discuss her new movie A Mighty Heart, having a fourth child and losing her mom, Marcheline Bertrand.
Said a tearful Jolie, “This has been a heavy year in losing my mom and having a fourth child. I’m very aware of time and of memories and of doing and enjoying life, not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly want to be and believe I am. I want to be a great mom like my mom was. And I want to also do the things that I love. So I’m at a strange place in my life. That happens when you lose a parent, where you drop into a different kind of serious. Yet at the same time, you want to enjoy and laugh as much as possible everyday. But I’m holding onto my family really tight at this moment because of that and trying to be as good a woman as I can be in my life. Dammit. You got me crying. (Curry apologizes) That’s alright. It’s part of life. … I lost my mom. It’s a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young, but it happened. And I’m happy she’s out of pain, because I love her and she’s my friend.”
Watch Angelina Jolie’s interview on The Today Show.
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just lovely!
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this looks to be a good interview, can’t wait to see the rest tonight and tomorrow. i really admire the conviction she has when she was speaking about the way in which Mariane lost her husband; very sad
really i love and admire Angelina. May God continue to bless her and all the Jolie-Pitt family
This was a great interview! I loved the way Angie kept bringing the interview back to the Pearls!
thanks jj!
Anyone who has doubts about the Jolie-Pitts please watch and listen to her words. If you don’t believe her and how heartfelt and honest she is, I can’t help you. I wish the whole family well.
You will be a great mother Angelina!!! You are a beautiful family
No matter what anyone says, the woman is obviously intelligent, caring and articulate. Kudos for bringing attention to the murder of a talented journalist in a manner I expect is going to be sensitive and compelling.
Thanks JJ!
Can’t wait to see the rest of the interview tonight!
Just the snippet I saw this morning made me cry for Angie. So glad she has the children, Brad, and Jamie.
Bless the Jolie-Pitts….
Her smile is lovely and infectious!
Jared
Thanks for all that you are doing here!!
i like Ann Curry’s interview too.
i saw the other interview she did with Angie when they were at the field.
And like some people said, i feel she like Angie too and is very sincere with her.
And Angie as always is just straightforward and honest in how she live her life.
“very solid, very warm family.”
i just admired how focus she is with life with her family.
Thanks to everyone who has provided all the wonderful links to pictures and videos and especially to you, Jared. I haven’t even been able to keep up enough to post. This was a very touching interview with Angelina. I am loving all the wonderful reviews A Mighty Heart has received, too. This was a huge risk for them both personally and professionally to film this movie IMO, and they seem to have done a great job. Much congratulations to them.
I love her
That simple. I wish her nothing but the best as she continues her journey of Mom, actress, humanitarian, partner, sister, friend, woman and example.
Jared this is the first time I feel I want to slap you! you choose the worse screencap of angie! please change it.
OMG!! Have you seen the latest cover of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER???? They have the SAME false story that Randi from “Brad Pitt Watch” spread just to see what happen!! YEAH!! the National Enquirer STOLE this false rumor from that Randi from Brad Pitt Watch and the National Enquirer is even using the SAME picture that Randi use to spread the false rumor!! This shows how PATHETIC this tabloids really are!!!!
And of course, the most elite of the elite, the Oceans crew and Angelina holding court at the du Cap. Details coming….
I just saw the video of the Ann Curry interview it was so good. I can’t imagine what it is like to lose a parent but I truly felt Angie’s grief. I loved how she wouldn’t allow a comparison of what happened to MP and the lost of her mother. Also the PAPS following her and them following MP during that very difficult time. I thought that showed great compassion on her part. I also have to say I loved how Ann got the point across that the media focus on all things Brad/Angie is way over the top. Ann said she doesn’t know how Angie does it, that people wanted to interview her just because she was interviewing Angie and a guy got caught trying to jump over the fence. It was a really great interview I look froward to seeing the rest on dateline tonight.
Angelina Jolie: It’s Been a Heavy Year
WEDNESDAY MAY 23, 2007 10:10 AM EDT
By Stephen M. Silverman
Angelina Jolie Photo by: Susan Walsh / APAngelina Says It’s Been ‘a Very Heavy Year’ | Angelina Jolie
The past months have offered tragedy and joy for Angelina Jolie.
“This has been a very heavy year, in losing my mom and having a fourth child,” the actress, 31, told Ann Curry in a Today show interview that aired Wednesday.
(Click here to watch a clip. The interview will continue Wednesday night on Dateline NBC.)
“I suppose I’m very aware of time and of memories and enjoying life,” Jolie continued, “not just doing the right thing and being a useful person – which I certainly want to be, and believe that I am.”
Recalling her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died in January at age 56 after a nearly 8-year battle with cancer, Jolie said: “I want to be a great mom like my mom was. And I also want to do things that I love.”
On Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where she and Brad Pitt premiered their new movie, A Mighty Heart, Jolie told reporters she plans to take a year off from acting to spend time with her family: Pitt, 43, and kids Maddox, 5; Pax, 3; Zahara, 2; and Shiloh, who turns 1 on May 27.
(Jolie adopted Pax in March from Vietnam, and recently added a fourth line to the tattoo on her left arm that features coordinates for the birthplaces of all her children.)
“I’m in a strange, I suppose, place in my life,” Jolie told Curry. “I think that happens when you lose a parent, where you drop into a different kind of serious. And yet, at the same time, you want to laugh and enjoy as much as possible every day.”
To that end, she said, “I’m hanging on to my family really tight at this moment, and, because of that, trying to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.” At that point, Jolie broke down in tears. “Dammit,” she said, “you got me crying.”
Curry apologized, but Jolie, regaining her composure, said, “That’s alright. It’s part of life. … I lost my mom. It’s a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young, but it happened. And I’m happy she’s out of pain, because I love her and she’s my friend.”
Thanks Jared for the new thread. I loved it. It was a great interview, and emotional. I cried. She is indeed an incredible and amazing woman. I love her. I can’t wait to see the rest of the interview.
I have to say I found Ann Curry annoying and unprofessional.
Angelina was there to talk about “A Mighty Heart” and all the time Curry tried to steer the interview to talking about Brad and Angie by trying to suck up to her.To me it seemed she didn’t even care aboout the film or the Pearls she just wanted some candy details about Brad, Angelina and the kids!That is in my mind very unprofesional and disrespectful towards the crew, the film itself and the Pearls! But I loved Angelina’s way of dealing with it even thoough in my mind one could see she didn’t like where Curry tried to go and that she had to always force the conversation to the actual topic.
Wow. I haven’t been through losing a parent yet in my life. Very sad.
I’m sure that Brad Pitt gave him a huge hug as soon as she finished the interview. It’s broke his heart to see her cry.
oh please
this was soooooooo fake and boring!!!!!!
she’s stupid and ridiculous
I think Ann knows what she can talk about to Angelina and Angelina and Brad always go back to her, so I think they trust her. She’s not annoying or unprofessional to me. Ann is their hand picked interviewer and they obviously like something about her. She does go into other subjects, but people also want to know about her private life.
#25 argh says:
I hope when you lose a parent people will be a little bit more compassionate to you then you are to a person who has recently lost her mother.
http://www.hellomagazine.com/photo-galleries.html?imagen=/film/2007/05/22/mighty-heart-jolie/imgs/mighty-heart-brad-6a.jpg&publi=&nactual=5&nnumeroactual=1&nfotos=6&subseccion=
I can’t get enough of this pic,I just love it
She make me cry and I love her even more!
In Touch cover says that 2 more babies are on their way.
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you’re the one who soooo stupid and ridiculous… If you don’t like jolie-pitt don’t read don’t watch the interview which to me it was a lovely interview where after all the rubish in tabloid .. we knew that she very happy with brad and the kids..
OMG!! Have you seen the latest cover of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER????
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Yes! I saw it. Just goes to show you tabloids are total trash. Man Brad Pitt watch annoys the **** out of me though. What kind of fan is that? Horrible horrible website.
Angelina Jolie is going to have a VERY blessed life from here on out because her energy is good. When she adopted Maddox, her energy changed from negative to positive. She is constantly sowing good seeds into the earth and that’s why she has attracted Brad Pitt and her wonderful children into her life. You reap what you sow. That is the truth in life for everybody. It’s really true.
please , intouch is not breaking ground here, its not a stretch to think that angie may get pregnant next year,intouch is just laying the groundwork to say i told you so.
Love the interview. I am glad Ann Curry and not Diane Sawyer who did the interview. Can’t stand Sawyers interview. Also I hope Meredith V will not get any interview from Angie. She is on the same boat with Diane, Baba W and Elizabeth on the View.
I know how Angie feels about losing her mother. I lost mine almost ten years ago and I am still grieving. The interview made me cry, but loved Angie’s response to the questions about the paps.
African Girl- Love your posts. Keep ‘em coming.
Yes! I saw it. Just goes to show you tabloids are total trash. Man Brad Pitt watch annoys the **** out of me though. What kind of fan is that? Horrible horrible website.
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Can you post the cover? I wanna laugh too
please , intouch is not breaking ground here, its not a stretch to think that angie may get pregnant next year,intouch is just laying the groundwork to say i told you so.
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Yeah IA they are just printing what everyone else is thinking, that she’s taking a year off to have a bio baby.
In Touch cover says that 2 more babies are on their way.
*******************************I thouhgt IN TOUCH said BRAD AND ANGIE BREAK UP ,NOW THEY CHANGE THIER MINDS
Brad will be in Montreal from May 26th- June 1st and angelina will leave Prague on June 2.
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Pretty please? Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:48 am - flag comment
Yes! I saw it. Just goes to show you tabloids are total trash. Man Brad Pitt watch annoys the **** out of me though. What kind of fan is that? Horrible horrible website.
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Can you post the cover? I wanna laugh too
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Please, don’t post the cover whoever wants to go ver over there can. We have a lot of positive things going on over here. A mighty Heart has gotten rave reviews from almost every news outlet and paper why bring trash over here.
This endless (mostly false) speculation over everything Jolie-Pitt is so sickening to me! I cant imagine what it’s like for that family. Good thing they say they don’t read tabloids. I’m in PR, and if I was their publicist I would be getting a coronary. The thing is u can’t win..even though AJ has always been vocal about herself the tabs twist her words or say she’s lying. When she keeps quiet they say she’s hiding something…aarghh!!
thanks!!!waiting for more
How can you not love her…..I really enjoyed this interview. Haters know that Angie is a great women thats why they keep on coming back….you all should just admit that you love her
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IV Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:51 am - flag comment
In Touch cover says that 2 more babies are on their way.
*******************************I thouhgt IN TOUCH said BRAD AND ANGIE BREAK UP ,NOW THEY CHANGE THIER MINDS
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Well, you know, they do break up every few weeks and get back together. They’ll probably say they’re having babies to ’save the relationship’. You know, they gotta bring the negative in with the positive. Tis a tabloids tale.
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May 23rd, 2007 at 10:55 am - flag comment
Brad will be in Montreal from May 26th- June 1st and angelina will leave Prague on June 2.
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Can you share your source?? Would love to read up on them
Thanks!!
I bet she is really loving all the attn right now, putting the final touches on her scrapbook. She once said that she loves the pics that are taking of her for her scrapbook. She looks much better when she is mad, angry or trying to look sexy … when she smiles or laughs she looks SCARY!
YIKES!!!!!
http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2007&mon=05&evt=jolie-today&pic=angelina-jolie-today-show-interview-07.jpg
Ok I saw this morning’s interview and there was Ann Curry again with the over dramatic facial expressions, arms out, etc….Way to go in scaring Angelina and bringing her to tears. If she has stayed on topic, A Mighty Heart, there would not be people trying to get an interview with her becasue she got an interview of Angelina. This is such a serious film may I ask something to the fans out there? who in television news would be able to get the best interview of Angelina & Brad right now? After scouring th usual places my only conclusion was CHARLIE ROSE. Yes it seems like yesterday that Angelina was on with The Good Shepherd and he seems to talk way too much but he won’t go on and on about trivial matters. What do you guys think?
http://www.hellomagazine.com/photo-galleries.html?imagen=/film/2007/05/22/mighty-heart-jolie/imgs/mighty-heart-brad-6a.jpg&publi=&nactual=5&nnumeroactual=1&nfotos=6&subseccion
MADLY IN LOVE
charlie rose is my favorite interviewer also-he always does a great job with angie
39, I doubt they would be seperate on shilohs first B~day. Hello!
I don’t like how Ann Curry did the interview.
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May 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 am - flag comment
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that when she got most of her fans, not now idiot.
Don’t bother going to the NE site, I’ll give you the breakdown so you won’t give them the hits.
It’s not a cover per se for Brad & Ange, it’s just a bar at the top, the cover is taken over by your friend and mine (NOT!!), Rachel Ray — and it blares, ‘Rachel ray caught in bed with another man! She is sharing a side bar with ‘Dr Phil at war with Oprah over 75 million,’ and ‘Britney Hooks up With Ryan Phillipe’ in the lower right hand corner — when I saw the Brangie headline, I almost thought I was looking at an old cached page of an old NE headline, you will laugh — the BButton small-time actress known in the tabloids as the ’stunning red head’ who actually is NOT, as I pulled her pic off of imdb to show everyone that one time remember? Makes an appearance again, using the same tired still pic from the BB movie where Mr. Button (Brad) is kissing her in the street - they have a bar at the top, featuring AJ, and it reads ‘Angelina’s Furious Over Brad’s Kiss with this Woman,’ then on the pic of the movie still, all PEREZ style, they have drawn an arrow pointing to the woman and written, ‘This is not angelina!’ LOLOL Er, NO it isn’t numbnuts, because AJ is NOT in the MOVIE. LOL
Nevermind that BButton and that scene was shot well over 3 months ago at least, and that two other tabloids have already written the same lame ‘AJ is jealous’ of the kiss story. NE is lame.
By the way, Farrah Fawcett is poised to sue their pants off over their ‘Farrah Prays for Death as Cancer Returns’ cover, let’s hope she’s successful. Any outfit that needelessly inflicts that kind of pain on people battling illness deserves to get hit in a major way.
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Oh my God! I feel so embarassed for you!
The Enquirer is really going after Brad now, last week was the drugs thing and now the cheating.
I was looking at all the recent pictures of Brad, and damn, that man is tall! He’s towers over everybody and usually I don’t really get the impression that he’s this really large guy but he’s even taller than George Clooney. Angie did good with finding herself a man with some girth.
Great interview!
Sometimes I forget why I like her so much but then I see an interview like this and I instantly know why and like her even more!
Yes Frenchy, I’d love for Angie and Michael Winterbottom, and possibly Brad as well to do Charlie Rose. That would be fantastic.
oh looky who’s here to rip Angelina apart… AGAIN! hmmmm is always so negative. I know some loons cant stand the fact that Angelina is not the same as she was YEARS ago, but damn can’t they just get over it. They are ALWAYS trying so hard to convince us that Angie is not worthy of having fans. too bad.
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and yet you watch the whole interview and i bet you’ll be watching dateline too……….boring my ass
What a touching and introspective interview! To say Angelina is beautiful is rather factitious… Her loveliness seems to transcend all media… Live, be and always give & share your good heart Angelina… You are the embodiment of beauty & grace… In the words of Shakespear: you’re the sonnet 18
Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?
by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Thank you Ann for a perspicacious interview!!! You conducted it with fairness, respect & compassion..
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According to JJB Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:55 am - flag comment
Brad will be in Montreal from May 26th- June 1st and angelina will leave Prague on June 2.
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Can you share your source?? Would love to read up on them Thanks!!
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Yes, thank you. What’s with people dropping source-less info. I can’t stand that. At least say where it may have come from so we can decide whether or not it’s legit enough to be believed. I am VERY suspicious at people dropping sh*t here, with absolutely NO source info - and am inclined to believe they are trolls and people planting things.
Dont you just love the impact that angie has on the haters….hahaha I love that she can make people mad
Argh#25 was SO FAKE AND BORING……. STUPID AND RIDICULOUS !!!!! THAT WAS YOU… *******!! AND OF COURSE THE CHINNY CHIN CHIN IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE MOST BORING, FAKE, MOST STUPID RIDICULOUS UGLY HAS BEEN WITH ENORMOUS CHIN AND JAWS… SO LAY-OFF ANGELINA’S THREAD AND GO TO CHINNIFER’S THREAD OK??? OH I’M SORRY *******, SINCE CHINNY HAS NO NEW GIMMICK TO OFFER NOWADAYS…THEREFORE SHE IS A NON-EXISTENT ALIEN BEING.. THAT MEANS NO CHINNY’S THREAD TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE, SO ******* LIKE YOU ARE SPREADING HATRED ON EVERY BRANGELINA’S THREAD JUST TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, RIGHT IDIOT??? WELL, I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU, CHINNIFER IS HAVING A PITY PARTY WITH HER DOGS AND YOU ARE INVITED.BUT HERE IS THE CATCH, CHINNY REQUIRES THAT YOU HAVE TO BARK LIKE HER AND THE DOGS… IT GOES LIKE THIS ” CHIN BARK CHIN BARK CHIN BARK ARRRFF….AAARRRFFF….SINCE YOUR NAME RHYME WITH DOG BARKING…THEN YOU CAN SAY “ARGH AARRFF CHINNY….ARGH AARRFF CHINNY BOW WOW” LOL…. OK STUPID BARK LIKE A DOG. AND LIE LIKE CHINNOCHIO
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May 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 am - flag comment
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Everybody has skeletons in their closet. You do too. It doesn’t matter too much how you came into the world. What matters is how you go out. Jolie is going out well.
Right…Says…
Oh my, I’m also embarrassed for you. Your teachers should be ashamed of themselves for passing you above the third grade. It is far easier to get your point across when you aren’t totally illiterate. This is probably the reason you don’t “get” AJ–you are too uneducated to understand where she is coming from. Too dense to understand people change and she has changed into a very warm, caring compassionate woman. If I were you, I’d go back to school and learn how to spell and use grammar properly!
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that when she got most of her fans, not now idiot.
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And I know where to find them all should I want to.
Frenchy, I do like Charlie Rose but agree with you he talks too much, but then they all do. The worst annoyance so far has been Billy Bush and the female, dark-haired co-whatever at Cannes. For some reason they thought we wanted to see footage of them instead of any relevant celebrities. Why on earth would we care about seeing them, the dress she was wearing, etc.? Waste of time!
Funny thing, #55…There is no “thing” to cover with Brad that has anything to do with cheating or drugs. If anyone is writing about such garbage they are not “covering” it, they are fabricating it…
Say what you will about people who don’t bow down to her presence. It just sounds hypocritical.
It’s not that most people dislike her that much, it’s more the way people she doesn’t know/care about and would use as a **** ticket worship her.
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Caps Lock go wild!
http://www.hellomagazine.com/photo-galleries.html?imagen=/film/2007/05/22/mighty-heart-jolie/imgs/mighty-heart-brad-6a.jpg&publi=&nactual=5&nnumeroactual=1&nfotos=6&subseccion
Brad stop touch Angie’s butt
tondo girl,
great comment girl. argh ryhming with aarrff….really made me laugh.
Uh - You are not God, who are you to determine her fate?
IV - is her butt on her hip?
huh…
testing
Well, guess what Right? She has fans and that’s the bottom line. So get over it or you can just sit here and talk about a person you seem to hate all day. whatever floats your boat.
My daddy is NOT going t miss my birthday! So NO he is NOT going to be in Montreal May 26-June 1st! He is NOT going to Miss my mommy’s birthday either! I am having a small party and I am going to get a cake all by myself and papa bill and nana Jane will be therre with Uncle Jamie so suck it fool! Your info is wrong
Source: SJP
Did they show Brad’s clips too? I missed it.
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Funny thing Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:13 am - flag comment
The Enquirer is really going after Brad now, last week was the drugs thing and now the cheating.
They’re too ball-less to even say that, they’re just saying AJ is supposedly jealous over a movie kiss he did 4 months ago. LOL!! NE (and the other rags - but NE especially) are known for putting one thing on the cover and then furiously back-tracking inside. The are not only just liars, they are lame ones.
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Damn! Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:15 am - flag comment
I was looking at all the recent pictures of Brad, and damn, that man is tall! He’s towers over everybody and usually I don’t really get the impression that he’s this really large guy but he’s even taller than George Clooney. Angie did good with finding herself a man with some girth.
Heh-heh. In more ways than one, I’m sure. THUD!
that’s a first brad and angie are not on the cover of life and style. How sad they are trying to look more credible by putting tyra on the front talking about weight and body issues. US weekly have done the same thing only with janet jackson.
From Lainey
The reviews are pouring in and there seems to be consensus. It’s an important movie, she honours it, and the Oscar buzz is already beginning which means Life & Style will be calling for another wedding by next week. Snort.
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Thank you Filipino fan, i’m glad that i made you laugh!!!! LOL
BRANGELINA ROCKS…LOVE THEM TO death
that date that someone mention on jjb doesn’t seem right-why would brad leave on a saturday and miss his daughter 1st birthday
http://www.laineygossip.com/ArticleList.aspx?ID=6646
Angelina did make an appearance at the bar. Serene and secured – that wicked bodyguard pacing incessantly making sure none of the super rich people were about to attack her and preventing trespassers from getting too close. Sorry to disappoint the haters but away from the cameras, I’m told she and Brad are – and I quote – “ridiculously in love”. To the point where they will find each other’s eyes in a crowded room and send over a secret smile. Trust me…I just heaved a little too.
SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
i saw excerpts of her interview on Today’s Show with Ann Curry. Angelina has become a very thoughtful, selfless, profound woman.. very intriguing and awe inspiring. and very much in love with Brad. They will most definitely grow old together. I think they will truly become one of longest relationships Hollywood has ever witness.
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May 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 am - flag comment
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Not predicting, not knowing Jolie’s fate, but believing Jolie has a good heart and is a different person from years ago. She’s made obvious changes. Learn to forgive and stop harboring ill feelings toward someone you don’t know.
tondo girl,
thanks for making me laugh. i am so stressed for my final exams. coming here at jj and reading about the wonderful things about brad and angie is my way of destressing. keep on going girl.
INTERVIEW-Jolie kids keep her grounded, help with tough role
23 May 2007 14:48:52 GMT
Source: Reuters
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By Mike Collett-White
CANNES, France, May 23 (Reuters) - It is children that keep Angelina Jolie’s feet firmly on the ground while the paparazzi chase her every move, and motherhood helped the star prepare for her role as the pregnant wife of slain reporter Daniel Pearl.
The 31-year-old, who with her partner Brad Pitt is known in Hollywood as super-couple “Brangelina”, plays Mariane Pearl, wife of the Wall Street Journal journalist who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002.
Mariane, who wrote a book about her experiences, was around six months pregnant at the time, and Jolie filmed “A Mighty Heart” not long after she gave birth to daughter Shiloh.
Jolie and Pitt, 43, also have three adopted children, from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam.
“My children help me keep perspective,” Jolie told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday just outside Cannes, where the movie had its world premiere.
“The world forms opinions and has a view and does tabloid things and fortunately none of that is inside my home,” she said at the exclusive Du Cap hotel. “I (am) focused on getting the kids to school, I’m focused on the balance of all the children.”
Critics have praised Jolie for her portrayal of a woman who desperately seeks her husband through phone and e-mail trails and in the teeming city of Karachi, a hotbed of militancy just after the 9/11 attacks.
MEMORIES OF NAMIBIA
Jolie was in Namibia when discussing the script with Mariane and British director Michael Winterbottom as she prepared to give birth to Shiloh.
“We were all in Namibia and I was six months pregnant, and I remember seeing Mariane and talking to her about being pregnant.
“At the same time I would go home, sit and lay next to Brad, and he would put his hand on my stomach and we would talk about the hospital and the baby and were so excited together.
“To know that’s what they took away from her at that time infuriated me, it made me so, so upset.”
She added that Mariane had no time for letting her “emotions run wild”, but added: “But thank God she was pregnant, because she has Danny in (their son) Adam … he is Adam.”
Jolie said “A Mighty Heart”, which Pitt co-produced, did not signal a shift away from comic or action roles for which she is best known, even though she won an Oscar for “Girl, Interrupted” set in a mental institution.
“I think people think that now I’m just trying to be serious and do very serious films.
“But the reality is I’m playing an assassin now in a movie and my little boys think it’s really cool and I’m going to do a cartoon next where I’m a tiger and … that’s why I get kudos in my house.”
The star of box office hits like “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, in which she played alongside Pitt, Jolie said she had been gripped by Mariane’s tragedy when it played out before the media.
The film still had relevance today, however, by preaching a message of tolerance.
“This woman, who has the greatest reason to be just blinded by hate, is speaking up very strongly and saying we have got to have a dialogue, we have got to continue to find ways to relate to each other and not just focus on differences.”
Jolie said she would continue to take time off in between filming to be with her family, and that she and Pitt took turns to act in movies. (Please visit our Cannes site, including a link to our blogs, on http://uk.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/cannesFestival)
Beautiful:
“At the same time I would go home, sit and lay next to Brad, and he would put his hand on my stomach and we would talk about the hospital and the baby and were so excited together.
“To know that’s what they took away from her at that time infuriated me, it made me so, so upset.”
Shi is right! Our daddy adores us-And just for your information miss stupid fool up post-my mommy prays with us evrey night!
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boohoo Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 am - flag comment
OMG!! Have you seen the latest cover of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER????
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Yes! I saw it. Just goes to show you tabloids are total trash. Man Brad Pitt watch annoys the **** out of me though. What kind of fan is that? Horrible horrible website.
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What’s totally retarded is that STAR had the same story 3 months ago when Brad was filming CCOBB in NO! So, once again…the NE has nothing new to report. Just recycling used sh#t from Star…again. The NE hasn’t had a B/A story in 2 weeks, so they had to come up with sumpin’!
Jolie, though, sometimes had a harder time staying inside. Winterbottom’s inimitable shooting style is a little like the taping of a reality show: He uses handheld cameras and no studio lighting, encourages as much improvisation as the story line allows, and then simply follows his actors around wherever they go. ”The crew would have to find places to hide — behind curtains or in the bathroom — to stay out of the shots,” Jolie says of the process. ”The great thing about it is if you felt like going somewhere else while doing a scene, you could. But it could get intense. Michael and I would have disagreements over wherehe could follow me. We came up with a system. If I closed the door, he couldn’t follow. If I left it open, he could. I just needed to know that if things got too heavy, there’d be a place for me to cry by myself.”
That, by the way, was not something Jolie worried about on the set of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Or on Mr. & Mrs. Smith. And it’s one of the things that make A Mighty Heart so potentially interesting. Since winning her Oscar, Jolie’s onscreen persona has been transformed by a series of tentpole action roles, and her offscreen footprint has grown so huge (something to do with that boyfriend of hers) it threatens to eclipse all else in her life and career. But with A Mighty Heart, the actress has the chance to show why she got that little golden guy in the first place. She can remind people of something her new supersize celebrity status almost makes them forget.
That she can actually act.
Posted Apr 17, 2007 | Published in issue #931-932 Apr 27, 2007 | Order Article Reprints
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Sometimes we (fans, haters, media and myselfincluded) get so caught up in her beauty, strength, relationships, global endeavors forget that this woman can act. I cannot wait to see this movie
Full Article Here
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20035328,00.html
Who is on the cover of Star? the weight issues are the new “brangelina” for tabloids. Us weekly had a best selling with the ricky lake cover.
emphasize the word “FORGIVE.”
ANN CURRY IS SO FAKE!!!
I never understand how Angelina Jolie manages to keep her cool when answering her questions…
Please vote for Brad occasionally. They think we are too distracted with all the good news
Voting ends May 31.
http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/mostattractiveman/month/index.html
OMG sorry about my caps lock … i feel better now that i was able to make that idiot to bark like a dog.. BRAD and ANGELINA i’m loving them… Good day to everyone specially to my fellow Brangelina fans… Angie is one very smart and sassy lady..Brad is so exotic looking guy..and funny… i bet Angie loves him so much for that…looks like Brad is always making Angelina laugh.
Why do you care? Do you show up at Trekkie, Star Wars, or Rocky Horror conventions and ridicule their fans? How about Beatlemania events or at Graceland on Elvis’ birthday every year? Or let’s see how about James Dean’s or Jim Morrison’s grave sites like thousands do every year? I could go on, but I think, actually I hope, that you get my point. Its called being a fan. You either get it or you don’t. Yeah fans tend to wax romantic about everything the person they like does or did, but it comes with the territory. So if you’re thinking of sticking around here then you might as well get used to it.
I’m still riding that wave of euphoria from those stunning photos from Cannes of the Royal Couple - Brad and Angie. The reviews for AMH are so wonderful and must be so rewarding for them, having worked on this project so close to their hearts.
I cried for Angie’s heartache as she talked of her mom, with such love. I love her more and more to see her strength in the face of such a great loss.
Thanks for the link to that sexy picture of Brad holding his lady’s hips…..ooooooh…la…..la…..
And Jared, you are surpassing all my expectations when it comes to keeping us up with all the latest from Cannes about ‘what’s her name’ and ‘what’s his name.’
tondogirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
where are you from?
Great interview. It had me teared up.
“At the same time I would go home, sit and lay next to Brad, and he would put his hand on my stomach and we would talk about the hospital and the baby and were so excited together.
“To know that’s what they took away from her at that time infuriated me, it made me so, so upset.”
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So freaking sweet! also please read lainey column today *dies from hapiness*
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vote for Brad says:
sorry, but brad doesn’t deserve the most attractive man award.
http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2007&mon=05&evt=cannes-pitt&pic=brad-pitt-cannes-film-festival-14.jpg
stop voting for him and vote for Hugh Jackman.
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tondogirl
You think Brad is exotic looking? rotflmao
Where do you go to rea lainey’s columns?
What an amazing woman. Nevermind being life partner to the most attractive man on the planet, she seems so grounded. Good on you Angie!
filipino fan don’t worry too much about your final exams…laughter is the best medicine against stress..i just got home from my work ( overnight shift) and this is a regular ritual for me.. check out JJ blog for my daily dose of anything BRANGELINA…this week is so special because our favourite gorgeous couple are the main event…now i’m going to sleep happy and tomorrow is another day.. so have a great day filipino fan and nice talking to you.. Keep on loving our Brangelina and their little angels. will talk to you again soon…over and out …PEACE TO ALL
They are not breaking up!
Thank you Jared.
I watched the vidoe several times and cried everytime. I am going to have to disgree, I like Ann Cury. She is much better than Diane Sawyer! Angie likes her and prefers her, that is good enough for me.
This is serious fans, I am really liking Lainey lately.
BORED, how dumb can you be? By posting NOT to vote for Brad, you are making us vote for Brad in HOARDS
But, what do you expect from a hater 
bored,
i like hugh jackman but so sorry i love brad pitt. get real, even if you vote for hugh 24/7 till may 31, you cannot surpass brad’s votes.
Bored what is it to you if i said Brad is exotic looking guy??? do you have a problem with that?? are you gay??? are you exotic gay??? never mind!!!! you can’t change my mind saying Brad is exotic… because for me Brad is exotic… a combination of ozzing sexy and erotic… i guess you are just jealous because you are one ugly ******!!!
Smart and Sassy lady i’ live in Toronto… but was born and raised in Tondo Manila Phils.
Hello everyone.I knew that these last days would be very busy for all of us BAMPZS fans,but I couldn’t even imagine the craziness that we live in the last three days!Brad and Angelina are everywhere.In the news,tv shows,magazines,newspapers,web!And the most important thing,all the comments can’t be more positive.They are the winners for one more time.Isn’t it nice to be their fan?