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 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.
I do apologise because there is a war in front of my laptop with my daughter. She doesn’t want to move away, pardon!
to TIJEN,
Cok tesekkur ederim. Allah’a sukur migren ciktigi icin, yoksa cok korkulu gunler gecirdik ailecek. Insanin aklina hep en kotusu geliyor ne yazik ki. Kanser heryerde ve neredeyse her ailede cogalinca, en kucuk seyi ona yoruyorsun. Sen ve ailen nasilsiniz? Umarim hersey yolundadir. Ne yazik ki benim email accountuma birileri girdi fakat tamemen temizledik. Ne yazik ki Guli’den hic haberim yok, bana yazdiysa da email accountuma giremedigim sure icinde oldu belki.
Angie ve Brad’i gormek ruya gibiydi, hala inanamiyorum. Foto cekmeye calisarak zaman harcamak istemedim acikcasi cunku cok kalabalikti ve insanlar birbirini oldurecekti neredeyse. Esimin cektikleri ise korkunc! Her ikisi de ruya gibi guzeller, sanki bu dunyali degiller. Angie oldukca zayif fakat 4 cocukla ancak bu kadar kilon olabilir.
to CURLY,
Cok tesekkur ederim. Yazdiklarini uygulamaya calisacagim. Migrene razi olmustum, daha beterinden korktugum icin.
Kendinize iyi bakmaniz umudu ile sevgilerimle.
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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nOOne Says:
Try this
http://pics.livejournal.com/pittimpressions/pic/0087gh77/g707
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
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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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
african girllllll!!!!! helo how are yu?
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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Meli Says:
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:02 pm - flag comment
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nOOne Says:
Try this
http://pics.livejournal.com/pittimpressions/pic/0087gh77/g707
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Oh that trip; AJ changed her pants. Thank you much :)
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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.
#154, Meditteranean, Can you write as much as you can? Did you already? Where is the post? What were the circumstances? How far away were you? You LUCKY LUCKY LUCKY BAMPZSer!!! Cliniqua, didn’t you see Brad in Montreal, too? You guys are living out the fantasies of the rest of us….
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
A quick hello to Curly.
Turkiye’den ne zaman dondun? Iyi vakit gecirmissindir umarim!
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.
“Angelina and Brad got caught up in the moment and just started kissing each other out of control.”
True or False? Is Star reputable?
To #49, right…says… try idiot!
Angelina Jolie Fails to Lift Tepid Film of Daniel Pearl’s Widow
By Farah Nayeri
May 22 (Bloomberg) — On a January morning in Karachi, reporter Daniel Pearl set off to do one last interview before leaving Pakistan. He was never seen again.
The story of that interview manque, and of the Wall Street Journal correspondent’s 2002 abduction and decapitation, is now a motion picture, produced by Brad Pitt, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Angelina Jolie as Pearl’s pregnant widow Mariane.
“A Mighty Heart” is drawn from Mariane’s delicately crafted 2003 memoir. The book toggles subtly between the kidnapping and the happy times before it. The movie is more or less a straight chronology of the days preceding Pearl’s death. Subtlety is scarce, characters are two-dimensional.
“We tried to just shoot the film very simply,” said Winterbottom at a crowded press conference during the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie was presented out of competition. Seated beside him were Jolie in a faded brown blouse, her partner Pitt in a steel-gray suit, and Mariane, their close friend.
It all started three years ago when Pitt approached Mariane about adapting the book. “I didn’t think it was appropriate,” recalled the young widow, alternating between English and her native French. “I took a year to accept to meet people from the studios.”
When she did, Pearl asked Jolie to take the role. The two had bonded after Pearl read an endearing magazine interview of the actress. “I said, please do it. You’re the only one.”
Jolie recalled her extreme stress before the shoot. “For her to tell me that she felt it was done right — I can’t tell you how much that means to me,” she said.
`One Last Interview’
In fact, 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.
The action gets going in no time. Opening scenes show Pearl telling his wife that he just needs “one last interview” before they leave for Dubai the next day. There are glimpses of closeness — Pearl kissing his wife’s belly, ringing her at the grocery store — before the bleak countdown begins.
When the reporter goes missing, his wife is shown in successive stages of disarray, making frantic calls and scouring Daniel’s emails together with her friend, housemate, and fellow reporter Asra Nomani. They are visited by an assortment of officials who turn their lounge into a situation room, complete with white-board charts linking names to the kidnapping.
Body at the Morgue
For the film’s first half, the viewer feels strangely detached; the directing is coarse, and the acting sub-par. At mid-film, a body is found at the morgue. Though it turns out not to be Pearl’s, the heartbeat quickens, and the movie improves.
Winterbottom is most effective at the end, when a video is dropped off in a brown envelope. Incredulous Mariane is told of her husband’s death; she shuts her bedroom door and howls in agony. Jolie’s acting, too, gets a last-minute lift.
What baffles is that 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.
“Guantanamo had just started at exactly the same time, and in a way, they are aspects of the same thing,” Winterbottom said at the press conference, referring also to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. “They’re both, in a way, the aftermath of 9/11, and the response to 9/11.”
Caught in the Conflict
Winterbottom recalled his previous film “The Road to Guantanamo” (2006), which portrayed three British Muslims held in Guantanamo for two years and released without charge. “They were, in a sense, caught up in the conflict in the same way that Danny and Mariane were,” he said.
Pitt said the important thing was “understanding the other side, viewing the other side, instead of immediately jumping to demonization or some kind of simplification, because things are complex.”
If only Winterbottom had been more adept at capturing that complexity.
To contact the reporter on this story: Farah Nayeri in Cannes at farahn@bloomberg.net .
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.
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Kal Says:
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nOOne Says:
“Angelina and Brad got caught up in the moment and just started kissing each other out of control.”
True or False? Is Star reputable?
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Even though star magazine isn’t the most reliable source,it’s a nice picture to imagine.
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.
This is the ENTIRE Star piece and there are so many falsehoods in this that it isn’t funny.
Brad & Angelina Party In Cannes!
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So much crap in that article! not even funny. We know she wasn’t at the Darfur party.
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.
In case you haven’t watched it. This is last nights ET with Brad, George, Matt and Don.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTUKquFtUQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flj%2Dtoys%2Ecom%2F%3Fjournalid%3D10906571%26moduleid%3D26%26auth%5Ftoken%3Dsessionless%3A1179939600%3Aembedcontent%3A10906571iurl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fimg%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fvi%2FqOTUKquFtUQ%2F2%2Ejpg
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another review Says:
someone had to be negative. Me, I trust the 99.99% positve reviews I’ve been reading so far.
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