Brad & Angelina Pile In, Fly Out

Happy Birthday Angie!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to come out of lurking to wish the most beautiful woman in world a happy birthday.

Hey Alex….have fun in New York.

I am planning to go Mann’s tomorrow, will post an update if I do.

I hope Brad and Angie are enjoying her day….if you know what I mean:)

In this Sunday’s PARADE, actress and activist Angelina Jolie opens up about the death of her mother, her relationship with Brad Pitt and what being a mother means to her. Below, in a Parade.com exclusive, Jolie talks about balancing kids and career, her American identity and how you can help the world.

On juggling kids and work…
“Brad and I are very lucky that we’re in a situation where we can choose to take turns, and one of us can be home with the kids, and so we kind of have that plan of who is doing what. So I have been home, and now I am going to go to work for a little bit, then he is going to work, then I am going to work, then basically we’re going to try to take a year off and just be with the kids. So certainly, we’re trying to find a few projects that we love or that we think would be good to do for one reason or another. But mainly our focus is, ‘OK, let’s look at our schedule, and try to figure out when we’re going to have our family time.’”

What it means to be an American…
“I think these days there’s been this wrong opinion that to be conscious and thoughtful of the rest of the world is not to be supportive of America. I think it is the core of what it is to be American. It’s why I’m proud to be American.”

On how to get involved…
“My advice for [those who want to help in the world]: People have the Internet, they have access to magazines, newspapers from other countries, they have access to human rights Web sites, U.N. Web sites, all kinds of discussions on many different things—justice, aid abroad, volunteer vacations. There are many things to explore.

I think the first step is to try to navigate your way through some of that and see where your heart goes. That’s a big part of it. I do think it has to be personal. It has to be strong for it to last and grow, and then it will be a pleasure to work hard to do it.

I know people who now work in Washington, very high-powered jobs, who simply started as young people who decided they would just GET to different countries, and say, ‘I’ve got a pair of hands, and I’ll help—does anybody need me?’ There is a lot to be said for that. If you investigate, there are a lot of volunteer organizations, a lot of NGOs [non-governmental organizations], a lot of religious groups. But first I do think that there is something to knowing who you are and where your heart goes and what you feel you can contribute.”

On her involvement with AIDS orphans…
“A few months ago, we wanted to make a donation to AIDS orphans, to their education, to their well-being, to their survival, and we found that there wasn’t a main organization. There were some, but they were focused in different areas. Then we realized that there were no people lobbying for AIDS orphans, because they are not there to lobby for themselves. So we started a program where we would hire people and collect different lobbyists who had worked on different issues, to fight for THAT issue, to fight on behalf of the kids.”

http://www.parade.com/celebrity/articles/070530-Angelina-Jolie.html

loved the video, thanks alot.am teary eyed too

Angelina Jolie - Web Exclusive

In this Sunday’s PARADE, actress and activist Angelina Jolie opens up about the death of her mother, her relationship with Brad Pitt and what being a mother means to her. Below, in a Parade.com exclusive, Jolie talks about balancing kids and career, her American identity and how you can help the world.

On juggling kids and work…

“Brad and I are very lucky that we’re in a situation where we can choose to take turns, and one of us can be home with the kids, and so we kind of have that plan of who is doing what. So I have been home, and now I am going to go to work for a little bit, then he is going to work, then I am going to work, then basically we’re going to try to take a year off and just be with the kids. So certainly, we’re trying to find a few projects that we love or that we think would be good to do for one reason or another. But mainly our focus is, ‘OK, let’s look at our schedule, and try to figure out when we’re going to have our family time.’”

What it means to be an American…

“I think these days there’s been this wrong opinion that to be conscious and thoughtful of the rest of the world is not to be supportive of America. I think it is the core of what it is to be American. It’s why I’m proud to be American.”

On how to get involved…

“My advice for [those who want to help in the world]: People have the Internet, they have access to magazines, newspapers from other countries, they have access to human rights Web sites, U.N. Web sites, all kinds of discussions on many different things—justice, aid abroad, volunteer vacations. There are many things to explore.

I think the first step is to try to navigate your way through some of that and see where your heart goes. That’s a big part of it. I do think it has to be personal. It has to be strong for it to last and grow, and then it will be a pleasure to work hard to do it.

I know people who now work in Washington, very high-powered jobs, who simply started as young people who decided they would just GET to different countries, and say, ‘I’ve got a pair of hands, and I’ll help—does anybody need me?’ There is a lot to be said for that. If you investigate, there are a lot of volunteer organizations, a lot of NGOs [non-governmental organizations], a lot of religious groups. But first I do think that there is something to knowing who you are and where your heart goes and what you feel you can contribute.”

On her involvement with AIDS orphans…

“A few months ago, we wanted to make a donation to AIDS orphans, to their education, to their well-being, to their survival, and we found that there wasn’t a main organization. There were some, but they were focused in different areas. Then we realized that there were no people lobbying for AIDS orphans, because they are not there to lobby for themselves. So we started a program where we would hire people and collect different lobbyists who had worked on different issues, to fight for THAT issue, to fight on behalf of the kids.”

http://www.parade.com/celebrity/articles/070530-Angelina-Jolie.html

oops we posted the same article at the same time :)

Look, I like them too. I love Angelina Jolie, but “It is greatest one with all the new pics. I am crying.”. C’mon x.x u need help

Happy Birthday, sweet Angelina!

(Better say it before it gets too hectic.)

Don’t know how true this is, but if it is, it is so sweet and romantic

AFP News brief
‘I love you,’ Pitt tells Jolie in gold

“I love you, Brad” ends a not-so-secret 18-carat golden love-letter from Pitt to Angelina Jolie, offered shortly before the A-list couple flew in for the Cannes film festival last month.

Made by a master Paris engraver, the love-letter pendant, a miniature gold card slipped discreetly into a golden envelope, begins: “I find you in the morning sky, in the sound of children’s laughter, in the motion of every stirring wind.”

“I love you, Brad,” the message ends.

The around 1,500-euro piece of jewelry from Pitt to Jolie also includes a portrait of tiny Pax Thien, the last of three children adopted by the couple who also have a birth daughter, Shiloh, said a spokesman for the French luxury engraver and printer Cassegrain.

Jolie said last month she plans to take an entire year off from acting to spend time with her family in 2008.

Jolie told People magazine’s online edition in an interview on the sidelines of the Cannes filmfest that she would take a sabbatical after completing work on several projects later this year.

The couple took their children along to Cannes for the promotion of their new film, “A Mighty Heart”. Starring Jolie and produced by Pitt, the movie directed by Michael Winterbottom is about the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl by Islamic extremists.

http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070604151248.nskaf4a9&cat=null

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS JOLIE
GOD BLESS YOUR BEAUTIFUL FAMILY

# 68 | Alexanderina @ 06.04.2007 10:12 am

Hey Alex, I thought you were going back yesterday. Have fun in NY.

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# 69 | nona @ 06.04.2007 10:12 am
the bosh has excerpts of the marie claire interview; and i thought this was esp cute:

Zahara and the other kids
“She’s a smartass” (Angies words)
One day Zee says to Angie.. “I need a cookie.”
And Angie says to her “You need a cookie? You don’t need a cookie”.
Zee says “Daddy’s gonna cry.”
Angie says “Why is Daddy going to cry?”
“Daddy wants me to have the cookie!” Zee said.
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Muse, it is amazing how far your excerpt from Marie Claire has travelled around the net, with each blog putting their own spin on it, and to think you only posted it in one fansite, that should be a cautionary tale to fans as to what they say on JJ, because everybody comes to JJ to get the scoop on the JPs.

this is the most beautiful love story ever. Happy birthday, Angie. God bless all your family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTmK5PuxVzo :)