Angelina Jolie: ‘Today Show’ Interview

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third!!

really i love and admire Angelina. May God continue to bless her and all the Jolie-Pitt family

thanks jj!

You will be a great mother Angelina!!! You are a beautiful family :)

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….

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. :)

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.

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!!!!

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.

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.

Wow. I haven’t been through losing a parent yet in my life. Very sad.

oh please
this was soooooooo fake and boring!!!!!!
she’s stupid and ridiculous

#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.

She make me cry and I love her even more!

25 argh says..

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..

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.

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.

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.

Brad will be in Montreal from May 26th- June 1st and angelina will leave Prague on June 2.

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!!

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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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!!

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?

charlie rose is my favorite interviewer also-he always does a great job with angie

I don’t like how Ann Curry did the interview.

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.

The Enquirer is really going after Brad now, last week was the drugs thing and now the cheating.

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! :)

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.

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..

Dont you just love the impact that angie has on the haters….hahaha I love that she can make people mad

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right… Says:

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.

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anon Says:

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right… Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 am - flag comment
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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.

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.

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

Uh - You are not God, who are you to determine her fate?

testing

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

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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! ;-)

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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lmao

that date that someone mention on jjb doesn’t seem right-why would brad leave on a saturday and miss his daughter 1st birthday

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.

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.

Shi is right! Our daddy adores us-And just for your information miss stupid fool up post-my mommy prays with us evrey night!

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

emphasize the word “FORGIVE.”

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

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.

tondogirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

where are you from?

“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*

Where do you go to rea lainey’s columns?

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

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 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 ******!!!

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?

bored You think Hugh is exotic looking? I like my Men straight.
Hugh is known to have a male lover, even though He is Married.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6WRcDLfALw&NR=1 from etabeta182

There is an old picture at 1:23 of this video that I haven’t seen before.

Can anyone tell me when and where it is from?

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Penny Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:33 pm - flag comment

I agree she does seem like an intelligent empathetic woman. That is why she is the paparazzi magnet she’s become. She doesn’t appear to be a tramp just out to take a man away from his wife and family,yet she did just that. She repeatedly claimed she knew how her mother felt when she was cheated on by her father and she could never be ‘that’ woman. Yet she was clearly pregnant before the divorce was finalized. I think the world is trying desperately to figure her out, do we love her or hate her?! She seems to want to grab hold of all the things in her life that others hold dear because she doesn’t have that in herself. She adores the children she adopts because they need her and she feels superior to other moms. Not only is she attempting to be a supermom but she’s doing it with refugees unlike us average mom who birth our children naturally. Nothing shows this more than the constant photos of her with her adopted children (I’d bet there isn’t a photo of her without that baby carrier & little Z in the first year she had her) yet not one single shot of Shiloh in the same comforting hold? Her actions seem to contradict her interviews completely!

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LMAO! Is anyone going to dignify this with a response? Not me.

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notsure Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:46 am - flag comment

INTERVIEW-Jolie kids keep her grounded, help with tough role

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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Sweeeeeeeeeet! Thanks for posting this.

URURYE

Medi- go medi go medi!!! :lol: you tell them! :lol: how are you?

Merhaba Medi-

Just wanted to say hi. I did not know that you were feeling bad. Gecmis olsun. I hope you’re feeling better now. I can’t believe you actually got to see Brad and Angie in Cannes.

By the way have you heard from Guli?

Lady G Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:42 pm - flag comment

Here is the clip of George and Matt talking about how Brad has to go home to Angie…. LOL

It’s really hard to hear them due to the interppreter, tho.

http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=36152
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How do you get this play? Where do you click? LMAO HELP. What does he say?

All of you are pathethic losers, like the W***re you worship. Lame

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Help Please Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 12:48 pm - flag comment

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It should start playing automatic once you click on the link.

Here is another link, just click on the one that you see George and Matt.

http://www.dalealplay.com/grupos/brangelinaespanol

Jared, I am so grateful to you for the amazing coverage you are providing us with from Cannes. I am serious—what can we do to be supportive of you? How can we show appreciation, not just tell you? If I have to click on the bloody ads I will, or any other form of contact that shows you are the true superstar of blogs……..

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Monica Says:
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Monica Lewisky? is that you?….* rolled eyes*

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Meli Says:
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nOOne Says:
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This picture was taken on 12/29/2006 in Panama.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h203/gomapyr/008849zs.jpg
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Thank you, Meli :) Do you know of more pix from that day?

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Lady G Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:52 pm - flag comment

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Help Please Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 12:48 pm - flag comment

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It should start playing automatic once you click on the link.

Here is another link, just click on the one that you see George and Matt.

http://www.dalealplay.com/grupos/brangelinaespanol

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Thanks but nothing happens for me. Can someone just tell me what they say?

Monica are you talking about yourself???? becoz the one pathethic loser and the ***** that i know is none other than YOU mental escapee!!!!

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isitreallythatserious? Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 12:50 pm - flag comment
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Lady G Says:
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Those guys crack me up! I totally love GC sense of humor and those guys seem to get together and just rib each other all day long.

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Both he and Matt are a riot. Matt made me SOTS talking about Brad and Angie. Of course, he calls Angie Brad’s wife.

Yo Penny,

US Weekly: We felt bad for Jennifer Aniston when we read Angelina Jolie’s revelation, in this month’s Reader’s Digest. Jolie admitted she and Brad Pitt started trying for a biological child in summer or fall 2005, well before Pitt was divorced from Aniston.

Then we learned that, when the news broke, Aniston was lounging about at a Cabo San Lucas resort where rooms can cost more than $5,000. Now we actually don’t feel that bad for Jen at all (”Did the News Shake Jen?” Page 51).

http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/mmx-mxa0523tempocovermagazinesmay23,0,635152.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds

* Just found out what the vote is for. I’m not a hater, but seriously, Brad or Hugh are not the ones. Both just cute. I admire BP’s sexy strong body, but I dont like his nose–kinda wonky. Hugh’s losing it quickly as getting older.

A younger somebody else please.

excerpts from lainey who is in Cannes covering the events

………………………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.

from lainey Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 1:00 pm - flag comment
excerpts from lainey who is in Cannes covering the events

………………………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.
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Someone express e-mail this to FF please, I want to see them sh*t their pants in rage. LMAO

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Lady G Says:

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isitreallythatserious? Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 12:50 pm - flag comment
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Lady G Says:
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Those guys crack me up! I totally love GC sense of humor and those guys seem to get together and just rib each other all day long.

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Both he and Matt are a riot. Matt made me SOTS talking about Brad and Angie. Of course, he calls Angie Brad’s wife.

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What did he say? I can’t understand he or George over the translator

INTERVIEW-Jolie kids keep her grounded, help with tough role

23 May 2007 14:48:52 GMT

Source: Reuters

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 )

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.”

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Mediterranean Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 1:06 pm - flag comment
to Susie, Meli and AddictedtoBAMPZS,

Yes, ladies I SAW THEM! It was like a dream. I still can’t believe. Those minutes passed so quickly, damn it. But I shan’t forget every second. They look so perfect, so dreamy (is it a right adj?). I could not believe my eyes.

I am trying to find them again but so far no good!

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Give us more pleeeeease!I so envy you right now.

Angelina and Brad both drank red wine as they stood at the bar and whispered into each other’s ears. After a couple of glasses, Brad and Angelina started to get very chatty with some guests and a full fledged party broke out!

“Matt and George stumbled up from the party and the sexy factor jumped up a notch at the bar,” says a fellow drinker. “Angelina and Brad got caught up in the moment and just started kissing each other out of control.”

The private party continued with another bottle of red wine and Brad and Angelina continued to laugh the night away.
http://www.starmagazine.com/brad_angelina_cannes/celebrity_news_gossip/entertainment/12110

Re Shiloh’s Birthday: If indeed Brad has to be in Canada on Monday maybe they just celebrate her birthday early. It’s not the end of the world and Shiloh will not know the difference.

To #49, right…says… try idiot!

This is the ENTIRE Star piece and there are so many falsehoods in this that it isn’t funny.

Brad & Angelina Party In Cannes!
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie joined producer Jerry Weintraub on his yacht, the RM Elegant, on Tuesday, May 22 as they, and the rest of the Ocean’s 13″ cast, partied the night away in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea!

The event signaled the launch of Brad’s new charity organization, Not On Our Watch. Supporters and attendees on the yacht included Matt Damon, George Clooney, Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin and Bernie Mac.

The event raised the bar for party crashers in Cannes who were determined to get into the intimate yacht party. A row of speedboats armed with gunmen surrounded the yacht in the middle of the sea and turned away any approaching boat once the party was sealed off at 9:30 pm.

“It looked like a dog fight between speed boats. Photographers were zooming around trying to get any shot they could of the boat but security was just too tight,” said a photographer in the middle of the sea.

The guests continued to be on the boat until midnight but the Ocean’s 13 gang was not ready to stop partying!

Brad, Angelina, George and Matt all hopped onto a speed boat and zoomed across the sea to the Hotel du Cap.

Brad and Angelina took a quick stop into a big party being hosted by Naomi Campbell at the Hotel’s restaurant but chose not to mingle with guests. Instead they went up to the hotel’s smaller lobby bar to have a drink.

Angelina and Brad both drank red wine as they stood at the bar and whispered into each other’s ears. After a couple of glasses, Brad and Angelina started to get very chatty with some guests and a full fledged party broke out!

“Matt and George stumbled up from the party and the sexy factor jumped up a notch at the bar,” says a fellow drinker. “Angelina and Brad got caught up in the moment and just started kissing each other out of control.”

The private party continued with another bottle of red wine and Brad and Angelina continued to laugh the night away.

At 2 am the pair decided to call it a night and they walked arm in arm to their security boat which took them home to their yacht.

Angelina and Brad both drank red wine as they stood at the bar and whispered into each other’s ears. After a couple of glasses, Brad and Angelina started to get very chatty with some guests and a full fledged party broke out!

“Matt and George stumbled up from the party and the sexy factor jumped up a notch at the bar,” says a fellow drinker. “Angelina and Brad got caught up in the moment and just started kissing each other out of control.”

The private party continued with another bottle of red wine and Brad and Angelina continued to laugh the night away.
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I don’t believe anything from Star, good or bad. If something like that happend, Lainey will have mention it.

So, now that OK! magazine has the exclusive pics from the charity party in this week edition they have a brad&angelina sidebar in their cover. Angelina romances Brad in Cannes.

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someone had to be negative. Me, I trust the 99.99% positve reviews I’ve been reading so far.

Last week scans. At least they were positive.
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i have to say i sick of this two!! bradengilana are sweet beautiful talented but we saw them all the time and its boring.

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JP Fan Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:34 pm - flag comment

In case you haven’t watched it. This is last nights ET with Brad, George, Matt and Don.

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They are too fun :) You can tell they really enjoy each other (which is prob why they have such great chemistry in the films) and don’t take themselves too seriously. It’s cute: the reporter is trying to really interview them but they’re just hanging out.

http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ok052107pitcyj7.jpg

Star is a joke.

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

they look so much alike in this pic, their hair is the same color.

Oh my God, this is too CUTE! Someone made a Happy Birthday Shiloh video :-) This made me tear up and laugh. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY0DKE1l1VE

honey is that the only bad review you can find compared to the DOZENS of glowing ones-lol-ps someone already posted this upthread i guess this is the only one you trolls can find-better luck next time-lol

Jolie is completely wrong for this role and here’s the one of many bad reviews straight from Cannes.
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Honey that review was alredy posted, do you need glasses? or reading lessons?

The film “A Mighty Heart” received booing at the end of it’s premiere.

I guess it won’t need to be boycotted, no one will go see it anyway.

“The film itself was rather coolly received at its premiere. As the cast and crew rose to take their bows at the end, the applause was muted, with a little booing. One man yelled: “Et maintenant … les chevaux!” He got the biggest laugh I have heard at the festival so far.”

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Hearts of darkness

Peter Bradshaw reviews the latest films

Tuesday May 22, 2007
The Guardian

The ferociously prolific British director Michael Winterbottom has come to Cannes with his latest picture, A Mighty Heart, showing out of competition. It stars Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl, wife of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter abducted in Karachi in 2002 by Islamic militants, and grotesquely beheaded on video after much anguished and futile waiting inflicted on Pearl’s family.
Winterbottom handles everything with tremendous energy and sweep: the locations; the teeming streets; the tense cops; the frantic mobile-phone conversations; the false alarms; the real alarms; the desperate excavation of IP addresses from mysterious email contacts. Yet the focus is the essentially passive and inactive figure of Mariane, heavily pregnant, who can do nothing but sit tight and stay strong. I can’t help thinking a bolder type of movie might have made Daniel the centre of the action, and stayed with him, in real time as it were, until his horrifying execution - in the manner of Paul Greengrass’s United 93. Michael Winterbottom evidently wanted something different: a human-interest study of Mariane, left alone to deal with the unthinkable horror of widowhood. Jolie gives an intelligent and restrained performance, but with her frizzy hairdo, dark-brown contact lenses and French accent, she is encumbered with surface detail and we never get inside her head or her heart. The picture touches only briefly and very cautiously on the issue of whether Pearl’s paper, the Wall Street Journal, should have cooperated with the CIA, and so exposed their reporter to whispers of spying.

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Compared to In This World or The Road to Guantánamo, this story of Mariane Pearl is strangely underpowered, telling us at greatlength things that we know already. I wondered if the director’s heart was entirely in it.
Every Cannes has its shocker, its scandal, apparently designed to give one and all a fit of the vapours. Ulrich Seidl’s Import Export came close to the prize. It is a provocative dual-narrative study of a Ukrainian nurse and an Austrian security guard finding work in each other’s countries. Seidl’s eye for the grotesque makes him the Diane Arbus of world cinema, and this was often startling, horrible and brilliant. But it was topped by something with the innocuous-sounding title of Zoo, by American indie director Robinson Devor, showing in the Director’s Fortnight section. This is no trip to Whipsnade we’re talking about. “Zoo” means zoophile, and Devor’s fascinating, almost dreamily stylised drama-documentary is about a covert group of zoophiles who made contact via the web, congregated in Seattle - where bestiality used to be legal - and then became publicly notorious when one died of a perforated colon after being penetrated by a horse.

Incredible as it sounds, Zoo actually avoids sensationalism and prurience, approaching the subject so obliquely and non-judgmentally that someone coming to this film with no idea of its subject matter might be baffled for much of the time. It shows only fleeting, graphic images at the very end. With testimony from the other “zoos” heard in voiceover, and an insistent musical score, Devor creates a weird and transgressive mood; the American landscape itself looks unearthly, unreal, the creation of a secret society. It is the sort of America that Don DeLillo writes about.

The film itself was rather coolly received at its premiere. As the cast and crew rose to take their bows at the end, the applause was muted, with a little booing. One man yelled: “Et maintenant … les chevaux!” He got the biggest laugh I have heard at the festival so far.

Ok #186…that’s just one bad review…where is the MANY from Cannes that you claim? I have saw well over a dozen reviews from EW, Premiere and other variable papers/movie critics that love the film and loved her performance, even going as far as to say that it’s Oscar worthy but nevermind….I know what you are trying to do but it won’t work.

I absoluty LOVE haters that spend their sweet day googling angelina’s name and posting the most negative articles about her. I don’t like Justin Timberlake but I don’t spend my whole day searching and posting bad articled about him. I wonder if I’m a weird person for that?

I’m wearing my friends t-shirt and no panties because I’m so excited to find bad news about jolie.

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another bad review for AMH Says:
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And yet you don’t realize how sad this statement makes you?

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egad Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 1:36 am - flag comment
BRAND NEW THREAD FOR ME TO POLLUTE. YOU GOT THAT DINA1?

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You know someone needs a life!!!!

http://ifc.com/news/article?aId=19691

I just want to bring this over here, just in case anyone want to see the OC13 premiere lives, I believe it will be tomorrow morning at 10 am ( for the people in the West Coast only). Please check the time again. Thanks to Egad, who had post this link last night.

Where are the links to these so-called bad reviews?

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May 23rd, 2007 at 2:08 pm - flag comment

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It’s one thing to offer different perspectives or constructive criticism but you are just bashing.

Be gone hater. That’s enough.

Only one bad review for AMS and Angie? How wonderful! And considering the only bad review comes from a journalist specialized in banking and economics… :)

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another bad review for AMH Says:

The film “A Mighty Heart” received booing at the end of it’s premiere.

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you are reading what you are posting, right? the “boo” was reserved for another movie, it was for ‘Import Export” by Ulrich Seidl. Bradshaw reviews two movies in the piece you posted.

I do not mind a movie receiving a bad review. Many of my favorite movies are “boring” by HW standards, who can sit through Passolini’s dark cinema? But please, keep your objectivity above your agenda.

Oh, here is what BBC’s Cannes person is saying about AMH:

“It’s the films, stupid!

The celebrity hoopla and showbiz parties can be powerful distractions in Cannes, but the best thing about the festival by a red carpet mile is the wonderful movies.

Cinema-going is a hit and miss affair at the best of times, and these sequel and remake-laden days are definitely not those.

But festival organisers trawl hundreds of movies each year, hand-picking the finest for cinema’s greatest showpiece.

My stint in Cannes is now at an end. The festival has been chaotic, crowded, noisy, often vulgar and completely exhausting - and I have loved it.

My best film: A Mighty Heart. It was handsomely made, impeccably acted, surprisingly suspenseful and desperately moving. ”
by Stephen Robb

~curly

Hah! Busted!!!!!!!!!

The film “A Mighty Heart” received booing at the end of it’s premiere.
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It absolutely did not. This film received an almost 10 minute standing ovation

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to right Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 11:56 am - flag comment
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.
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well, aside from the Trekki/Star Wars things, the rest rock.
Star Trek, Star Wars, Rocky Horror were all shows. Beatles was a group of musicians.
Elvis, James Dean and Jim Morrison (esp) were legends. I just don’t think these people are legend material. Sorry. My opinion. If it doesn’t count in your world, then don’t read it. There just actors.
And almost everything in H’wood is a facade. You believe these two are together forever, you might as well read Star mag.

To the poster who posted a review with this part Quote:

“The film itself was rather coolly received at its premiere. As the cast and crew rose to take their bows at the end, the applause was muted, with a little booing. One man yelled: “Et maintenant … les chevaux!” He got the biggest laugh I have heard at the festival so far. ”

Comment:

If I am not mistaken this part refers to the Film “ZOO”, and NOT AMH (the part ‘cheveaux’ refers to the colon-perforating scene I guess?).

Please make an effort to READ and COMPREHEND. It is not good to jump to conclusions like that. Not good for you I mean, you seem so emotionally challenged already.

Angelina Jolie Panned by Critic: ‘A Mighty Heart’ Performance Detached

By Heather Parker
May 22, 2007

Angelina Jolie was lauded by two of the first reviews of ‘A Mighty Heart.’ It looked as if it might be time to already award Jolie her second Academy Award. But another review has emerged and it calls Jolie’s performance ‘merely adequate.’ The fear for this film for many is that it will try to only tell half the story. Abby Wisse Schachter, writing on “No Pitt Pearl of Wisdom,” Tuesday in National Review _ noted this very concern.

Angelina Jolie Panned by Critic: ‘A Mighty Heart’ Performance Detached

She writes: Angelina is going to play Marianne, while Brad is making insulting proclamations about how important the film is going to be. To wit, Pitt characterized the goal of the film thusly: ‘We hope the film can increase understanding between people of all faiths and portray the story and the people involved as honestly as possible without anger or judgment.’

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Daniel Pearl was brutally beheaded on film by fundamentalists. Farah Nayeri of Bloomberg notes that in his review. What baffles is that director Michael Winterbottom appears only timidly to condemn those behind the crime. Juxtaposed clips of the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay — where terrorism suspects are held in dire conditions — come across as attempts to explain away the hatred that caused Pearl’s death.

He adds: “Jolie’s acting is merely adequate. Tanned and curly haired for the occasion, the Hollywood icon paces up and down the Karachi house with hands on hips and a knitted brow. Occasionally, she yells at the ineffectual swarm of diplomats and intelligence personnel. Her imitation of Pearl’s accented English is phony and distracting.”

One can only hope this film does Daniel Pearl justice, I now have my concerns.

Thanks curly for that BBC review just another one to add on the MANY positive ones-so this troll is cutting and pasting to manufacture a bad review, with friends like these no wonder maniston doesn’t have a film career-lol

Curly-

Istanbul’la ilgili postuna cok tesekkurler. Ben da Turkiye’yi iyi- kotu, guzel- cirkin, tum sorunlariyla da olsa bayagi ariyorum bu aralar. Ah o Istanbul’daki laleler!!

another bad review they didn’t boo a mighty heart did you actually read what you posted they booed the film zoo. next time you want to wind people up try something that has at least some truth to it.

Farah Nayeri of Bloomberg notes that in his review.
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dude that’s the same freaking review alredy posted!

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curly Says:
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another bad review for AMH Says:

The film “A Mighty Heart” received booing at the end of it’s premiere.

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you are reading what you are posting, right? the “boo” was reserved for another movie, it was for ‘Import Export” by Ulrich Seidl. Bradshaw reviews two movies in the piece you posted.

I do not mind a movie receiving a bad review. Many of my favorite movies are “boring” by HW standards, who can sit through Passolini’s dark cinema? But please, keep your objectivity above your agenda.

Oh, here is what BBC’s Cannes person is saying about AMH:

“It’s the films, stupid!

The celebrity hoopla and showbiz parties can be powerful distractions in Cannes, but the best thing about the festival by a red carpet mile is the wonderful movies.

Cinema-going is a hit and miss affair at the best of times, and these sequel and remake-laden days are definitely not those.

But festival organisers trawl hundreds of movies each year, hand-picking the finest for cinema’s greatest showpiece.

My stint in Cannes is now at an end. The festival has been chaotic, crowded, noisy, often vulgar and completely exhausting - and I have loved it.

My best film: A Mighty Heart. It was handsomely made, impeccably acted, surprisingly suspenseful and desperately moving. ”
by Stephen Robb

~curly
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THANK YOU. Now this is how BAMPZS fans roll. Getting facts instead of relying on fiction. :)

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Ok…The article is about a critic…that means one….panning her performance and the movie. What cracks me up with the haters is this…The biggest entainment mags have already reviewed this film and loved the way it was shot by M. Winterbottom and all of the performances including Jolie’s and you are posting bad reviews from little known mags and newspapers like the guardian?

Variety Review:

The sad saga of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl has made it to the bigscreen with facts, figures and beating heart intact in “A Mighty Heart.” In his first studio venture, Michael Winterbottom coaxes forth a staggering wealth of detail from this terse, methodical account of Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Pakistan, seen through the eyes of those who sought his return. Given audiences’ resistance to films dealing with 9/11 and its aftermath, soberly restrained pic reps a mighty tough sell, though Angelina Jolie’s performance as Pearl’s widow should broaden prospects for the June 22 Stateside release.
Adapting Mariane Pearl’s harrowing memoir, director Winterbottom, who previously ventured into Mideast politics with “In This World” and “The Road to Guantanamo,” proves to be just the man for the task. Though the prolific British chameleon isn’t one to make the same film twice, his gifts for docudrama storytelling — an ability to shepherd complicated narratives, avoiding every opportunity for sensationalism in favor of a low-key mounting dread — couldn’t be better suited to the material.

Having covered the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pearls were working as journalists in Karachi, Pakistan, on Jan. 23, 2002 — the day Danny (”Capote” scribe Dan Futterman), chasing a story about foiled shoe bomber Richard Reid, got into a cab and never returned. Sticking close to the very pregnant Mariane (Jolie), pic recounts the restless five-week search for the man’s whereabouts and his kidnappers’ identities, all accompanied by a hailstorm of media attention.

Screenplay crisply diagrams the labyrinth of false leads and fruitless interrogations with various middlemen Danny may have had contact with on the night of his disappearance. Suspicion ultimately comes to rest on the elusive Omar Saeed Sheikh (Alyy Khan), a known Islamic militant with a history of kidnapping foreigners.

Like his fellow suspects, Sheikh is seen only briefly, and in the most objective possible light. Working in the brisk, discursive style of a police procedural, Winterbottom scrupulously follows the rescue effort, step by agonizing step — ensuring that the audience is never given additional information despite its foreknowledge of the tragic outcome. Even larger political questions — the implications, say, of a scene in which a Pakistani suspect is strung up and interrogated, or the grim irony of a journalist couple facing intense media scrutiny — are subjugated to the flow of the storytelling.

Along the way, pic also manages to sketch vivid portraits of Mariane’s key supporters and allies. These include Danny’s tough-minded colleague, Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi); a local cop (Irffhan Khan), known simply as Captain, determined not to let the case soil Pakistan’s reputation; American diplomatic security agent Randall Bennett (Will Patton), who tends to see the silver lining in all bad news; and Wall Street Journal higher-up John Bussey (Denis O’Hare), who arrives in Pakistan after news of the ordeal, a comforting but resilient figure.

But this is ultimately — and very intimately — Mariane Pearl’s story, and much of it rests on Jolie, who fits comfortably into the naturalistic mold that shapes the entire ensemble. Though Jolie sports a big belly, a high-coiffed hairstyle and a very challenging accent (raised in France, Mariane is of Afro-Cuban and Dutch descent), this isn’t the sort of commanding star turn in which the performer vanishes behind a well-known celebrity mask, but rather a subdued, carefully considered portrait of a woman caught between premature grief and persistent hope.

Jolie plays Mariane as sharp and prickly, but also highly principled and completely devoted to her husband. Wisely, Winterbottom opts to shoot her more high-pitched outbursts from a distance or in near-darkness, as if refusing to milk more histrionics than necessary.

Occasional subdued flashbacks to happier days from Mariane and Danny’s marriage, including a very brief love scene, add emotional texture even as they take something away from the film’s otherwise unsentimental approach.

Pic negotiates its way around another potential landmine — to show or not to show the widely circulated video of Pearl’s murder — re-creating a very brief, non-graphic snippet of the contentious footage and getting the facts across with the utmost restraint.

Shot on location in Pakistan, India and France, the film gains considerable authenticity and momentum from its handheld DV lensing by Winterbottom’s regular d.p., Marcel Zyskind, and Peter Christelis’ rapid editing, rarely allowing a shot to last more than a few seconds.

Times Review:

Michael Winterbottom’s harrowing film about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and decapitated in Karachi in 2002, is a raw account about the frantic efforts to get him back. It nails the ghastly moment when journalists became prized scalps for terror organisations. Angelina Jolie plays Pearl’s pregnant wife, Mariane – on whose memoir the film is based – with a rigour and passion that surprised even the most jaded sceptics in Cannes.

The film begins on the day Danny (Dan Futterman) fails to turn up for supper. He is working on a story about the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, and has arranged a meeting with an organisation who have background knowledge. A missed supper becomes a crisis within 24 hours. The film charts the hollow weeks Danny is missing mostly through Mariane’s eyes. The house of a close colleague becomes headquarters during the desperate search for motives and information.

There is a confusion of investigators treading on each other toes, and contradictory information about who might have snatched Pearl. Leaks and rash speculation in the press add to the vertiginous panic. At times it’s difficult to know who exactly is in charge. A terrific cast of fixers and officials tease out clues from laptops, emails, and telephone numbers. An uneasy alliance is gradually forged between an American diplomatic security agent, Randall Bennett (Will Patton), various Wall Street Journal friends including the editor, John Bussey (Denis[correct] O’Hare), the head of the Pakistan’s brand new counter-terrorism unit, Captain (Irrfan Khan), the Citizens Police Liaison Committee, and the FBI.

At the still centre of this increasingly tense investigation is Jolie’s defiant Mariane. The film shuttles manically between meetings, endless telephone calls, the growing media frenzy, and the streets of Karachi with terrific confidence. What the kidnapping means to each character is etched on their faces. The power of this giant documentary-style jigsaw lies between the rumours, the false leads, and the hard details. Winterbottom captures brilliantly the chaos of daily life in Pakistan, and the febrile atmosphere as Pearl is first denounced as a CIA spy, and then – when his Jewish roots are fatally exposed – an agent for Mossad.

The director’s rapid-fire and choppy editing gives you a genuine feel for the many different sides of Karachi, and the urgency of the investigation. Shots of street vendors and overloaded buses are slotted between armed raids and interrogations. You can almost smell the fear on suspects. And there’s a controversial flavour about the vested, sometimes murky, interests of assorted officials. Ultimately what makes the film such an affecting modern parable is the authenticity of the emotions. Jolie’s blasts of grief when Marian

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Cannes Review: A Mighty Heart
Posted May 22nd 2007 9:31PM by James Rocchi

Over the past few years, director Michael Winterbottom’s leapt from genre to genre with a far-ranging deftness where the distance of the jumps is matched only by the agility of the landings. He’s given us rollicking rock-and-roll comedy (24 Hour Party People), innovative literary adaptations (Jude, The Claim, Tristam Shandy: A **** and Bull Story), partially-baked sci-fi (Code 46), art-house sexuality (9 Songs), gripping documentary (The Road to Guantanamo) and more — and quietly putting together a filmography whose scope and quality put him near Steven Soderbergh’s level of production and excellence. A Mighty Heart, playing outside of competition here at Cannes, sees him working with his biggest star to date — Angelina Jolie — and turning a true story into a compelling, intellectually and emotionally engaging film that may take him from the art house to the mainstream.

A Mighty Heart is adapted from the memoirs of journalist Mariane Pearl (Jolie), who was posted, along with her Wall Street Journal reporter husband Daniel (Dan Futterman), to Karachi Pakistan, in the wake of 9/11. In 2002, the Pearls were literally one day away from leaving Karachi when Daniel had one last interview to conduct — a tentative meeting with an elusive subject. He left as his wife was preparing a farewell dinner with their friends in the area. He never returned.

Part of A Mighty Heart is a police procedural played out on the global stage, as U.S. personnel (led by Will Patton’s Randall Bennett) and Pakistani authorities (led by Irrfan Khan’s character, known simply as ‘Captain’) scour Karachi’s backstreets and secret places, trying to find the extremists who have kidnapped Daniel. On the home front, Mariane worked her own connections and sources along with her husband’s Wall Street Journal peers (Asra Norman’s Archie Panjabi) and superiors (Denis O’Hare’s John Bussey). It’s hard to imagine anyone who doesn’t know how this story ends — Pearl was executed, as captured on a notorious videotape, weeks after his abduction — and that pall of certainty hangs over all of the character’s efforts and struggles. We know this ends in death; at the same time, the frustration, panic and worry captured on screen show that the real people involved at the time knew that was a possibility from the instant Daniel Pearl didn’t come home.

If one thing elevates A Mighty Heart above ripped-from-the-headlines melodrama — and you shudder to think what a less-talented director could have done with this material — it’s Winterbottom’s insistence of shooting in Karachi and incorporating a real sense of place into every frame of the film. Karachi’s a sprawling, squalid metropolis — cluttered streets and grinding poverty — and its role as a crossroads in the war on terror, and a crossroads for the war terror wages against the world, hums and thrums throughout every scene.

The supporting cast is all excellent, but special praise has to go to Khan and Futterman. Khan’s character is the head of the new Pakistani anti-terrorism unit, and he’s a man torn between the public pronouncements of support for the West’s initiatives and the labyrinthine power-struggles of his government and massive public support for radical Islamic action. The Captain is the face of a new kind of power in Pakistan, and Khan’s every line, every motion has the coiled power of a punch about to land, even in stillness. Futterman’s challenge in portraying Pearl is trickier — after the initial sequences of the film we only see him in flashback or in photos and video — but Futterman still makes Pearl come alive for us as a husband, a lover, a son, a journalist.

Jolie’s portrayal of Pearl — who was six months pregnant when her husband was abducted — has been the subject of some controversy due to some mild cosmetic elements — her hair is curlier, her skin slightly darkened to convey the real Mariane Pearl’s Cuban-French heritage — but there’s nothing insensitive or overdone in the mild make-up artistry of the part; the inner performance is what shines out. Jolie’s Pearl may feel fear, but never hate — and her public face of grace and calm is one part humanism, one part strategy. She’s deliberately trying not to provoke the men who hold her husband captive — and she also truly believes that peace and justice are the ultimate weapons against those who would kill and maim in the name of God. Asked about Karachi’s role as a cultivator of terrorism, Marianne’s reply is fast, smart and sincere: “Wherever there is misery, they find people.”

But Jolie’s Mariane Pearl isn’t some plaster secular saint, either; when the inevitable end to the story comes crashing down, her howling, devastated grief ripples off the screen with brute force and power. (And frankly, the make-up artistry in the film re-contextualizes Jolie’s well-publicized features in a way that lets her simply act to a degree she hasn’t been able to in years.) John Orloff’s scrrenplay adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s book is strong, but it’s Winterbottom style and choices — location shooting, a fluid sense of time, a run-and-gun approach to scenes — that make A Mighty Heart stand out as more than just a tragedy. The Cannes production notes for A Mighty Heart point out that in the five years since Daniel Pearl’s brutal murder, nearly 230 other journalists have been killed on the job through out the world. A Mighty Heart shows us the death of one man, but it also demonstrates how the forces that would destroy us despise the truth itself — and how killing those who try to bring truth to the world through a free press is a cornerstone of terror’s brutish, ignorant war against civilization itself.

and Heather Parker is….? Credentials? This is stupid….
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she writes for the national ledger, you know that site that ADORES angelina. the always credible national ledger got one and make it sound like it’s 5000 bad reviews.

Indiewire

In a festival that has felt surprisingly withdrawn from world politics (all of the above films are very inner-directed), Michael Winterbottom’s gripping thriller “A Mighty Heart” feels like a refreshing blast from the real world. (What, no war films this year?) Despite the potential sentimentality of the subject matter - the film is told through the perspective of Mariane Pearl, the five-months pregnant wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl - “A Mighty Heart” tells a complex, suspenseful tale of political intrigue, Pakistani-Indian relations, journalistic ethics, torture and yes, the emotional turmoil of losing a loved one.

While Angelina Jolie’s Mariane Pearl occasionally loses her French accent, she makes up for the misstep with a sturdy, anguished performance that eventually succumbs to a volcanic eruption of grief. If the portrayal is already generating Oscar talk, it’s also better than such fatuous plaudits. As Mariane Pearl emphatically said at the news conference on Monday morning, the film exists above-and-beyond Academy buzz. “It’s not about us,” Pearl said. “It’s not about being famous and making more money or any of that. It’s about a situation in the world that everybody is aware of.”

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Maybe you have no better to bring us , only what National Leger picked up , they tried hard, because there are a lot of great reviews from movies critics;Variety, fox,cinematical, hollywod reporter,….

Yes National Leger found this man who has nothing to do with cinema , his job is in economic stuff;
He had the luck to be send in Cannes .

I googled his name : ahahahaha well nothing (maybe 10 at the most , with repeats )

This man wants his part of fame like others , poor guy;

And why was he upset?

“What baffles is that director Michael Winterbottom appears only timidly to condemn those behind the crime. ”

sorry it was not the goal of the movie , so the guy has better to learn something about movies and most off all read Mariane ’s book

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May 23rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm - flag comment

SO THE BAD STUFF IS NOT EVEN ABOUT AMH. i guess the hater was just wishing for some bad reviews. anyway I for one can’t wait to see Angelina’s best performance since girl Interrupted so i can judge for myself.

http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=36055

Not sure if this has been posted yet but towards the end of the video you can see they all stood and applauded as marriane hugged and kissed B&A.
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Beautiful. Thank you so much :) AJ & MP embrace brought tears to my eyes.

Hollywood Elsewhere:

The agreeably shocking thing about Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart, which had its first-time-anywhere press screening this morning inside the Grand Palais, is that it’s not a Michael Winterbottom film. Not, I mean to say, a film that has seemingly emerged from the palette and the sensibility of the director of The Road to Guantan- amo, Tristram Shandy: A **** and Bull Story, 9 Songs, Code 46 and 24 Hour Party People…all but one of which I had problems with to varying degrees.

Instead, A Mighty Heart is a Michael Mann film — a tight, absorbing, sharply assembled investigative procedural. It summons memories of the pacing, the underplayed performances and the sense of swiss-watch exactitude that have come to be associated with Mann’s films. I can’t recall another film in which a name-brand director has so totally abandoned a signature style (wait…does Winterbottom have one?) and just become, in a sense, “someone else.”

A Mighty Heart is about the kidnapping and murder ofWall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman), as experienced by his distraught widow Mariane Pearl (Angelina Jolie). It’s handsomely shot (especially surprising given the generally meh photography in Winterbottom’s previous films), intricate and yet surprisingly easy to keep track of, and very deftly edited.

And in it, Jolie has given a completely satisfying and quite admirable performance which feels to me like the best thing she’s ever done. More mature and less showy than her nutter turn in Girl Interrupted (for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. The role of Mariane Pearl isn’t exactly a showboat thing (although there’s a very strong grief-venting scene in the third act that everyone will remember). It’s not about histrionics as much as just getting it right and staying with the truth of it — but Jolie’s carefully measured emoting plus her aural and physical resemblances to the Real McCoy make this performance a fairly safe bet for a Best Actress Oscar campaign later this year.

jUs Weekly:

The agreeably shocking thing about Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart, which had its first-time-anywhere press screening this morning inside the Grand Palais, is that it’s not a Michael Winterbottom film. Not, I mean to say, a film that has seemingly emerged from the palette and the sensibility of the director of The Road to Guantan- amo, Tristram Shandy: A **** and Bull Story, 9 Songs, Code 46 and 24 Hour Party People…all but one of which I had problems with to varying degrees.

Instead, A Mighty Heart is a Michael Mann film — a tight, absorbing, sharply assembled investigative procedural. It summons memories of the pacing, the underplayed performances and the sense of swiss-watch exactitude that have come to be associated with Mann’s films. I can’t recall another film in which a name-brand director has so totally abandoned a signature style (wait…does Winterbottom have one?) and just become, in a sense, “someone else.”

A Mighty Heart is about the kidnapping and murder ofWall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman), as experienced by his distraught widow Mariane Pearl (Angelina Jolie). It’s handsomely shot (especially surprising given the generally meh photography in Winterbottom’s previous films), intricate and yet surprisingly easy to keep track of, and very deftly edited.

And in it, Jolie has given a completely satisfying and quite admirable performance which feels to me like the best thing she’s ever done. More mature and less showy than her nutter turn in Girl Interrupted (for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. The role of Mariane Pearl isn’t exactly a showboat thing (although there’s a very strong grief-venting scene in the third act that everyone will remember). It’s not about histrionics as much as just getting it right and staying with the truth of it — but Jolie’s carefully measured emoting plus her aural and physical resemblances to the Real McCoy make this performance a fairly safe bet for a Best Actress Oscar campaign later this year.
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Beautiful. Thank you so much :) AJ & MP embrace brought tears to my eyes.
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Yes that was lovely and isn’t great that we have video proof of the standing O? tee hee Shoo haters!

#254, PinkRose….great observation. Thank you, and again thank you Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I really don’t know how you do what you do to bring all the info here.

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=

Bad boys, don’t do that to Angie

More limo pics from SJ.

http://bb06g0t59xdukjuvra.usercash.com/

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I do, I know how she does it. She has no life of her own and all the time in the world to pretend like she is a part of the bamzsp family.

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AddictedtoBAMPZs Says:

I do, I know how she does it. She has no life of her own and all the time in the world to pretend like she is a part of the bamzsp family.
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Awwwww, is that a compliment? For dear little me? I’m flattered. Thank you honey.

(((blows kisses))) :)

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“A Mighty Heart’ Performance Detached ”

For detached, read RESTRAINED AND CLASSY. MARIANNE IS A RESTRAINED AND RESERVED WOMAN. She is not given to histrionics and high drama. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY Angelina could play her!!!!

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I see kiss marks! (((swoon)))

Part 2 of the RD audio interview posted at JJB (very touching)

http://htc-01.media.globix.net/COMP009952M…5/RD35seg13.mp3

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http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20039794,00.html

Mr & Mrs Smith is on HBO

Variety Review:

A Mighty Heart

The sad saga of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl has made it to the bigscreen with facts, figures and beating heart intact in “A Mighty Heart.” In his first studio venture, Michael Winterbottom coaxes forth a staggering wealth of detail from this terse, methodical account of Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Pakistan, seen through the eyes of those who sought his return. Given audiences’ resistance to films dealing with 9/11 and its aftermath, soberly restrained pic reps a mighty tough sell, though Angelina Jolie’s performance as Pearl’s widow should broaden prospects for the June 22 Stateside release.

Adapting Mariane Pearl’s harrowing memoir, director Winterbottom, who previously ventured into Mideast politics with “In This World” and “The Road to Guantanamo,” proves to be just the man for the task. Though the prolific British chameleon isn’t one to make the same film twice, his gifts for docudrama storytelling — an ability to shepherd complicated narratives, avoiding every opportunity for sensationalism in favor of a low-key mounting dread — couldn’t be better suited to the material.
Having covered the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pearls were working as journalists in Karachi, Pakistan, on Jan. 23, 2002 — the day Danny (”Capote” scribe Dan Futterman), chasing a story about foiled shoe bomber Richard Reid, got into a cab and never returned. Sticking close to the very pregnant Mariane (Jolie), pic recounts the restless five-week search for the man’s whereabouts and his kidnappers’ identities, all accompanied by a hailstorm of media attention.
Screenplay crisply diagrams the labyrinth of false leads and fruitless interrogations with various middlemen Danny may have had contact with on the night of his disappearance. Suspicion ultimately comes to rest on the elusive Omar Saeed Sheikh (Alyy Khan), a known Islamic militant with a history of kidnapping foreigners.
Like his fellow suspects, Sheikh is seen only briefly, and in the most objective possible light. Working in the brisk, discursive style of a police procedural, Winterbottom scrupulously follows the rescue effort, step by agonizing step — ensuring that the audience is never given additional information despite its foreknowledge of the tragic outcome. Even larger political questions — the implications, say, of a scene in which a Pakistani suspect is strung up and interrogated, or the grim irony of a journalist couple facing intense media scrutiny — are subjugated to the flow of the storytelling.
Along the way, pic also manages to sketch vivid portraits of Mariane’s key supporters and allies. These include Danny’s tough-minded colleague, Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi); a local cop (Irffhan Khan), known simply as Captain, determined not to let the case soil Pakistan’s reputation; American diplomatic security agent Randall Bennett (Will Patton), who tends to see the silver lining in all bad news; and Wall Street Journal higher-up John Bussey (Denis O’Hare), who arrives in Pakistan after news of the ordeal, a comforting but resilient figure.

But this is ultimately — and very intimately — Mariane Pearl’s story, and much of it rests on Jolie, who fits comfortably into the naturalistic mold that shapes the entire ensemble. Though Jolie sports a big belly, a high-coiffed hairstyle and a very challenging accent (raised in France, Mariane is of Afro-Cuban and Dutch descent), this isn’t the sort of commanding star turn in which the performer vanishes behind a well-known celebrity mask, but rather a subdued, carefully considered portrait of a woman caught between premature grief and persistent hope.

Jolie plays Mariane as sharp and prickly, but also highly principled and completely devoted to her husband. Wisely, Winterbottom opts to shoot her more high-pitched outbursts from a distance or in near-darkness, as if refusing to milk more histrionics than necessary.

Occasional subdued flashbacks to happier days from Mariane and Danny’s marriage, including a very brief love scene, add emotional texture even as they take something away from the film’s otherwise unsentimental approach.

Pic negotiates its way around another potential landmine — to show or not to show the widely circulated video of Pearl’s murder — re-creating a very brief, non-graphic snippet of the contentious footage and getting the facts across with the utmost restraint.

Shot on location in Pakistan, India and France, the film gains considerable authenticity and momentum from its handheld DV lensing by Winterbottom’s regular d.p., Marcel Zyskind, and Peter Christelis’ rapid editing, rarely allowing a shot to last more than a few seconds.

FoxNews review

A Mighty Heart

Jolie Film About Daniel Pearl Filmmaking of Highest Order
“A Mighty Heart,” Angelina Jolie’s film about the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, had its first screening Monday morning at the Cannes Film Festival.

Simply put, the Michael Winterbottom film is an exceptional piece of work, deeply affecting and filmmaking of the highest order.

In purely Hollywood terms, the film is a certain Oscar nominee. Everyone involved in “A Mighty Heart” - from Winterbottom to Jolie as Pearl’s widow, Mariane, to Dan Futterman as Daniel Pearl - can be proud of a job very well done.

Based on the book by Mariane Pearl, the film follows the pregnant Mariane as searches for her husband following his disappearance in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002. At the time, Daniel Pearl was writing a story about shoe bomber Richard Reid.
Winterbottom’s cinema verité-style only adds to the immediacy of the Pearl tragedy.

This director has done a remarkable job.

I like the interview, however not so much the way how Ann asks suggestive questions or handles it as if she were a therapist. But I appreciate Angelina for her greatness not to compare her situation of losing her mom with Mariana Pearl’s violent lost of her husband. Though the lost of her mother is still very painful for her, she doesn’t want self-pity from anybody, she remains analytically very clear minded and refuses any comparison.
I have always admired Angelina not only for her clearness of never pretending to be something else but herself, but also for her generous way of thinking to let people be who they are or want to be … and this including tabloids and those who want to believe in tabloids.

Many of us admire Angelina, but some others will find ways not to like her…. Hate her or like her, Angelina has the generosity to leave us the way we are. She wouldn’t try to sell herself just to buy our credits. So it’s up to us to decide what feelings we’ve got inside. Our feelings don’t affect her at all, however to ourselves.

I love your post coco, especially the part about how are feelings, positive or negative, doesn’t affect angelina at all ,but they do affect us-i know for me its for the good, hatred will eat you up in the end.

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.
“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.”

http://www.tvguide.com/news-views/Entertainment-News/Article/Default.aspx?idx=1011830

CANNES, France (Reuters) - It is her children that keep Angelina Jolie’s feet firmly on the ground while the paparazzi follow 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 actress, who with her off-screen companion Brad Pitt has formed the celebrity super-couple dubbed “Brangelina,” plays Mariane Pearl, wife of the Wall Street Journal journalist who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002.

Mariane Pearl, who wrote a book about her experiences, was about six months pregnant at the time, and Jolie filmed “A Mighty Heart” not long after she gave birth to her 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 Pearl 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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301269.html

Really do not like the interviewer, but Angie is always mesmerizing.

idiot

My speakers are not working, anyone wants to give a recap?

George, Matt and Andy. http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====275253&nbc1=1
Looks like Brad was a no show and don cheadle wasn’t there either.

Then why in the heck do you post that crap here! OUT!
Everyone go and listen to the RD audio, she was SO sweet talking about Brad and Pax.

What’s up with Ted C? He’s out of the loop on gossip about real celebs, all he talks about is Lindsey, Paris, Nicole and the reality celebrities. He’s being scooped by Perez and Lainey, maybe it’s time to put the old horse to pasture.
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He’s getting married, I don’t mind Ted. He’s very old school guy, not into the whole internet madness crap.

I wish In Touch and everyone else would shut the hell up about when the JPs are expanding their family either through birth or through adoption. They have FOUR KIDS already in less than two years. It’s THEIR choice if and when they will adopt another child or have another child. Everyone else should butt out and mind their own business.

I just went to the Reader Digest site and they have not added any new audio parts to the interview. It has not been updated since 5/11/2007. I get errors messages with that link to the alleged second part. I wonder if this part is the one I have read all along . Originally RD added about a minute more from one day to the next with about 7:30 minutes in total.

That argument between rosie and elizabeth was a classic, its a good thing rosie is leaving in three weeks, you can’t have that much drama going to work everyday-you’ll go crazy

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tabitha Says:

May 23rd, 2007 at 5:21 pm - flag comment

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Thought I was the only one having problem with the link. I hope someone post it again.

In those wire image pix you can really see how manorexic George Clooney is.

plus she gets her membership in the council of foreign relations next month in NYC
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Sorry but that’s not a sure thing. the council has to vote again in june before formaly announced their new members.

Also, she’s not doing The Chalenging, in the washington post interview posted here she only talks about wanted, she does not mention another movie.

What the hell happned with the format?! Jared! are you there?

# 320 | QQQQ @ 05.23.2007 5:38 pm
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THANKS!! touching indeed

“BRAD PITT WATCH” is RESPONSIBLE for this week National Enquirer story about Brad and Angie!! Yeah, the person who runs this site have the brilliant idea to do an experiment about how fast a FALSE rumor spread and GUESS WHAT?? the National Enquirer pick this false rumor and put it in his latest issue!! I HATE THIS SITE FOR DOING THIS TO BRAD & ANGIE!! But this show how FALSE are the stories that this tabloids publish!! http://www.bradpittwatch.com/curious/#comments

Thank you for the MSN and joblo reviews. Now we’re at 12 good, 1 bad. So far, so good. Here’s hoping for more of the positive. :)

# 310 | http://www.joblo.com @ 05.23.2007 5:17 pm