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united we stand and 1298 says thanks for your posts,am really looking foward to this movie.the story is so moving,i think is a movie that people should watch for reflections.MP is really a strong woman.once again thatnks for the post,people like you make it worth coming here

1297 Frenchy | 06/13/2007 at 2:39 pm

Stop messing up Brad’s hair Angelina. LOL!!

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I bet Brad is saying don’t stop. don’t stop!

He loves it when Angie plays with his hair and other parts too. :lol:

Lady G is being a naughty girl today…

Actorvists’ make people care

By: Helena Andrews
Jun 12, 2007 06:40 PM EST

After a two-minute debate, it’s decided — Angie is the reason.

That’s Angie as in Angelina Jolie, the superstar supermom who saves the world in between wiping runny noses, for those outside of the celebrity activist circle, like me.

Ryan Gosling, the Academy Award nominee/newly minted advocate for Africa, and John Prendergast, senior adviser to the International Crisis Group in Washington and the guy who takes celebrities to Africa, met through Jolie.

“You had just gone to Chad,” Prendergast says about why he and Gosling got together on the issues. “No,” he corrects himself, “it was because of Angelina.”

Gosling’s sister, Mandi, who took the train down from New York, explains that he was motivated after they saw the movie “Hotel Rwanda” in 2004. At a Los Angeles premiere, Mandi remembers, Ryan was moved by a speech Jolie gave and wanted to get involved.

“Yeah,” Gosling says after a dramatic pause, “what she said.”

Prendergast and Gosling want to end the genocide in northern Uganda, a country in East Africa that has been ravaged by war for nearly a generation.

Gosling is offering his name and making a movie with and about child soldiers, while Prendergast — on leave from ICG to build the anti-genocide peace project “Enough” — does the otherwise heavy lifting.

Over the course of three days last week, the two lobbied Congress, visited the State Department, ate Acholi food and squeezed in some hoops.

On this night in early June, they’re speaking at the Center for American Progress to a group of students, then doing some press, speaking to more students and attending a pizza party. (Remember pizza parties?)

All the girls are obviously gaga over Gosling, whose turn in “The Notebook” made him a heartthrob and whose suffering in “Half Nelson” made him a thespian. Still, Prendergast (who looks like that one guy from another movie) gets plenty of attention on his own — even if it’s in the international crisis community.

Richard Gere! Prendergast totally favors Gere circa “Runaway Bride” but with longer hair and nose. It could be the law of attraction that gets the celebs involved, but it is most likely Prendergast’s 20-year commitment to the continent that he says is at the bottom of the totem pole.

“I don’t really seek it,” says Prendergast, who was head of African affairs in the Clinton White House. “Up until three years ago, I was a total freak policy wonk.”

It’s the one-names that bring the necessary camera bulbs and cash to issues not seen on CNN every day — unlike Paris’ jailhouse blues.

Gosling, Jolie, Cheadle and Clooney are making people care, says Prendergast, adding that most Americans want to help (by writing checks) when they find out something bad is happening in the world.

Case in point: according to a recent article in The Washington Post, after Jolie spent two hours with Anderson Cooper in 2006, donations to the U.N. spiked by “more than half a million dollars.”

The movement needs “people of note in the game” and not just wonks “yammering away about the details of the peace process,” says Prendergast, who called Bono “freaking messianic” after heaping more praise on the movie star sitting across from him.

Gosling furrows his brows. “It’s embarrassing. It’s not true.”

“Everything I’ve said is bullshit,” laughs Prendergast.

“It’s easy to come in and do the glamorous thing,” says Gosling. “He gets knee-deep in policy and red tape. John’s life is sooo boring, and that’s why he’s my hero,” he adds in all seriousness.

Actorvism has been a tricky issue ever since Jane Fonda climbed on top of an anti-aircraft gun in Vietnam.

Key qualities: Gorgeous, informed

George Clooney recently told Entertainment Weekly, “You have to be incredibly well-informed. So if you’re going to go out and talk about poverty or AIDS in African or Darfur, you better know your ****. And you better know it better than any of the jackasses that are going to try to somehow make what you’re trying to do (look) bad.”

But Prendergast doesn’t deal with wishy-washies. “I don’t get the fakes,” he says about the types of celebrities he’s willing to work with. “Only the sincere celebrities apply.”

Prendergast took Jolie to Uganda in 2005 and wrote the book “Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond” with actor Don Cheadle, who starred in “Hotel Rwanda.” Celebrities, it seems, have been flocking to him like flies to honey.

“Did you just call celebrities flies?” asks Gosling.

As the two head upstairs for a roundtable with a group of students all probably voted “Most Likely to Save the World” in high school, Gosling holds the glass doors for everyone with his elbow.

While we wait for the elevator upstairs, Prendergast leans in and whispers, “It’s not that boring.”

source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0607/4459.html

1305 maria | 06/13/2007 at 2:51 pm

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I can only see Pax!

Don’t have an account so can only see the first picture.

Thanks for the link Maria.

maria thanks fot the pic,pax is cute,hi lady g

From Gawker

If you go over to the Waldorf-Astoria, like, NOW, you can join the throng of 200 paparazzi who are waiting for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to emerge from the hotel

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1301 hey | 06/13/2007 at 2:44 pm
bizarre that the adoption story comes out at the same time of a mighty heart premiere!!

i hate X with a passion now
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What is mentally wrong with all of you? Do you think that the x has that much power, if she does only you give it to her. DO you honest think that she plans her life around theirs? The min she found her what she believed her honest husband was a lying cheat she has not looked back. So keep on believing like the song says,I know ppl that have no lives have to have something to believe in. I guess I am glad you have the myth to hold on to. Bless your cold lil hearts.

1299 ida | 06/13/2007 at 2:42 pm
CLINIQUA SAYS,IT KINNA MAKES SENSE,THIS LADY IS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING.IS TODAY REALLY THE PREMIER OF A MIGHTY HEAR?

Ida please honey stop typing in caption. Its hard to read for me and try and spell check some of your posts. Im older and I get confuse with some words and my eyes are not as good as they use to be. I like you and know you are a regular and I don’t mean to sound harsh and get you really mad but the caption and the wording is hard for me.I feel like you are screaming all the time.I hope not to offend.

Can I just say that I am so proud of Bard and Angie. I am lso happy that Brad’s X is finally moving on. Good for her. All thinew publicity which shows how much in love Brad and Angie are has to be tough. Sometime you don’t miss what you have until you have lost it. I am sure she is feeling some of that now. I get chills when I see them holding each other and looking into each others eys and I don’t even know him. So hooray everybody is moving forward…….LOL Brangelina

1318 NY Lurker | 06/13/2007 at 3:19 pm

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Thanks for verifying the date and time for AMH Premiere.

sorry that you cannot read my post,am working and posting at the same time,sometimes is difficult to kill two birds with one stone