OlderAngelina Jolie: Pimp My Picture, Not My Life!
Thu, 14 June 2007 at 11:38 am
Angelina Jolie tried to keep things focused during Wednesday night’s NY premiere of A Mighty Heart. Media outlets were required to sign contracts before talking to Jolie (as drawn up by her Hollywood lawyer Robert Offer).
Here were the contract terms for interviewing:
- No questions regarding her personal relationships
- In the event Interviewer does ask Ms. Jolie any questions regarding her personal relationships, Ms. Jolie will have the right to immediately terminate the interview and leave
- The interview may only be used to promote the Picture. In no event may Interviewer or Media Outlet be entitled to run all or any portion of the interview in connection with any other story
- The interview will not be used in a manner that is disparaging, demeaning, or derogatory to Ms. Jolie
- The tape of the interview will not be released to Interviewer if any of the aforementioned things happened
One reporter from a major outlet said, “I wouldn’t sign it. Who does she think she is?”
FOX News reports that USA Today, the Associated Press and other media outlets canceled their interviews with Jolie. When she heard the reaction, Jolie scrapped all print interviews.
Hey Angelina, JustJared.com would have interviewed you!!
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This lady can never win. It’s crazy the lengths that people will go to, to try and bring her down. Fox sucks Ass.
When she said she was going on vacation, there was someone who thought that was being promoted over her movie, so now she’s saying let’s focus on the movie. I don’t see the big deal.
If she doens’t want to talk about her “personal relationships” or children, when the fluck have I been hearing about them nonstop for the paste several months.
Isn’t it time for them both to retire to some third world country so I don’t have to be subjected to them anymore??
Brangelina lunatics, come out on and let the worshipping commence once again. Freaks.
16 kb | 06/14/2007 at 11:56 am
She is acting like the queen of America. It’s going to backfire. Wait and see the backlash in media.
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Wait…what…are you saying she’s not? Oh my Goodness! imagine that… I thought, with craziness over this, she was indeed the queen of America or even the world for that matter.
They use her to sell magazines everyweek, so she makes money for everyone. Everybody should be happy.
BACKLASH????
she is under the worst kind of backlash for two years… so let me ask, what’s new here??
good for you angie.
Its not going to backfire at all!!
She is doing the right thing by keeping the focus on the movie, and this is a serious movie not about taking baths and burping babies, that info can be giving at the laid back premiere of O13, and to MC and Esquire, but not on the red carpet with the real Marianne Pearl present.
Fox News (the most UNRELIABLE source of news outhere) needs to get a life….she probably wouldnt talk to them anyhow knowing the fake news they report day after day.
Cant wait to see her on Larry and The Daily show.
And to KB, she’s NOT Queen of America sweetie, she’s the QUEEN OF THE WORLD! Take that b*thces
AJ did the right thing! I think this move was just a minor up yours, I cant wait for the ultimatum from them though..heheh.
The U.S. media clearly dont kow when theyre askign things out of bounds. The focus should be about the movie and nothing about silly queries just to be twisted by them i.e. that brief piece about Hilton from Showbiz tonight- they freakin implemented Jolie’s Esquire quote to PH and other hw wanna be stars. You see, and that is why a lot of individuals believe what they read from th rag mags or hear from these’poor news shows’ since they clearly dont have ne ideas how these crappy reporters/writers fabricate accounts and decontextualize the real deals(quotes).
The Jolie-Pitt duo should do this more often and hopefully more A-list stars will follow their method so these media can start going back to the drawing board, ask theirselves of what things are essential when interviewing/writing a report.
how is this negative? it sounds perfectly reasonable. I would do the same thing.
Focus on the movie, not her family.
BLOW A HORN
21 EXACTLY | 06/14/2007 at 11:57 am
WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?
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Angelina Jolie. Who the heck do the press think they are? they are there to ask intellecutal quetions about this film. How dare the press want to ask personal questions on an important film like this? It’s about a fellow slain journalists. A real journalists like so many who put their lives on the line.
WELL DONE ANGIE!!!
it is time for some stupid reporters to stop asking the same stupid question over and over
like how many kids are you going to adopt, how many kids are you going to have, are you not planning to get marry ever etc etc etc SHEZZZZZZ!!!!
Angie was there to promote the movie and not her life!!!
and besides Angie has said already all she had to about her life with Brad and the Kids so SHUT IT HATERS AND GO AWAY!!!
Watch AJ Tonight:
9pm EST- Larry King Live (CNN)
11pm EST- The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
Let’s hear Angie’s side of the story b/f we rush to judgment. BAMPZS Foreva Haters!
When are we going to challenge our media? They put out news without checking them. I wonder when we will.
Angelina put the hammer down before Fox could get their cobble on!
Oh, BTW… did these outlets opt to talk to Dan Futterman, the actor who played Daniel? How about Mariane, the widow and the author of the work that was adapted?
Yeah, Fox… your game was peeped!
I meant, “she wants the focus to be on the movie”.
Not an unreasonable request.
The b*tch reporter must have been up to no good, for her to not understand where Angie is coming from. The focus has to be on the movie. This is why people do not take the media serious. There are some real nasty b*tches in the media.
Yes, I’m looking forward to her interviews tonight.
“From the bottom of my heart, I would like to express my gratitude to all of the people throughout the world who have given Danny and me support and encouragement.
“The messages I have received from the five continents have shown me that a lot of you who don’t even know Danny personally have come to understand him as a man. Not a hero, not a spy, but an ordinary man and great journalist who has traveled the world to reveal facts and seek the truth — a value for him as sacred as freedom itself.
“Danny’s principles were steadfast: He never accepted an opinion at face value nor submitted to those who tried to silence or pressure him, regardless of their power or nationality. All of this can be seen in the work he has produced over the last 12 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. A video has been produced of him forced to read a statement and then showing him dead and stabbed in the most cruel and cowardly manner.
“From this act of barbarism, terrorists expect all of us to bow our heads and retreat as victims forever threatened by their ruthlessness. What terrorists forget is that they may seize the life of an innocent man or the lives of many innocent people as they did on September 11, but they cannot claim the spirit or faith of individual human beings.
“The terrorists who say they killed my husband may have taken his life, but they did not take his spirit. Danny is my life. They may have taken my life, but they did not take my spirit.
“I promise you that the terrorists did not defeat my husband no matter what they did to him, nor did they succeed in seizing his dignity or value as a human being. As his wife, I feel proud of Danny. I trust that our struggle will ultimately serve the greater purpose of resisting those evil people casting a shadow upon our world.
“This responsibility rests with each one of us no matter our age, our gender, our nationality, our religion. No individual alone will be able to fight terrorism. No state alone will be able to wage this battle. We need to overcome cultural and religious differences, motivating our governments to work hand in hand with each other, perhaps in an unprecedented way.
“I think we are now all aware that terror is not a problem facing one country alone, not Pakistan, not the United States. It is the worldwide responsibility of governments and we as journalists, professionals of all kinds and human beings — mothers and fathers, daughters and sons. We are all going to need courage and commitment. Let us inspire each other to goodness.
“Revenge would be easy, but it is far more valuable in my opinion to address this problem of terrorism with enough honesty to question our own responsibility as nations and as individuals for the rise of terrorism.
“My own courage arises from two facts. One is that throughout this ordeal I have been surrounded by people of amazing value. This helps me trust that humanism ultimately will prevail. My other hope now — in my seventh month of pregnancy — is that I will be able to tell our son that his father carried the flag to end terrorism, raising an unprecedented demand among people from all countries not for revenge but for the values we all share: love, compassion, friendship and citizenship far transcending the so-called clash of civilizations.”
When Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered in Karachi, Pakistan in February 2002, his wife Marianne was pregnant with their son.
Grief stricken, she says she knew at the time that she would soon have her son to live for. She also says she had to live to tell Danny’s story.
Her book is called “A Mighty Heart.” It is a heart-stopping thriller and a heartbreaking love story of two journalists, Marianne, the French Buddhist, Danny, the American Jew, who traveled the world for four years with his barcalounger and mandolin in tow.
Last night, Host Robin Young spoke with Marianne Pearl before an audience at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. She and Danny had moved to Karachi from Bombay in the wake of 9/11.
He scheduled one last interview on the night they were to leave. Danny was following a tip about Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber. He was to meet Reid’s elusive spiritual leader. Everyone had told him it would be safe, because it was in a public restaurant.
Marianne didn’t attend, because of her pregnancy.
After Danny went missing, Marianne and a friend turned their apartment into central command. Aided by a loyal Pakistani policeman, a CIA operative, and some of Danny’s colleagues from the Wall Street Journal, they began a frantic race against time to find him. They ultimately learned how tangled a web of Al Qaeda Danny was caught in.
Then the photographs of Danny in captivity began coming in.
Danny Pearl’s killers were caught and tried. But there are frustrations. Pakistani journalists accused Danny of being a spy for Israel. The Wall Street Journal may have endangered his life by turning over an Al Qaeda computer to the CIA, fueling rumors that Danny was an agent for the U.S.
Marianne says she feels abandoned by the Journal in a disagreement over the legal fees in the Pakistani trial of Danny’s killers.
“Forgiveness is not a value strong enough to stand on. You have to win some sort of victory over the people who have hurt you.”
http://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories/mariane-pearl
MMMM….by the way you spend sooooo much time on Brad and Angie threads, it has me thinking….Damn, she is a closeted Brangelina fan!! HAHA…Come out come out…
Or better yet..go off and jump off a cliff somewhere and let the world be rid of one unworthy soul on this earth!
She did the right thing, and anybody who doesnt like it, can go and F’ck themselves!
Dont matter babe you’re still lovely in my eyes.
Mariane Pearl was five months pregnant when her husband, the American journalist Daniel Pearl, was brutally murdered by a militant Islamic fundamentalist group in February 2002. Determined not to be broken, she has written a book called A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of my Husband Daniel Pearl. She lives in New York with her 18-month-old son, Adam.
When I heard that Omar Sheikh had been found guilty of Danny’s murder, I wrote to President Musharraf of Pakistan to ask for the death penalty. The death penalty is not a solution, and asking for it isn’t about revenge, but I believe that in this particular case the death penalty is justice; it is society punishing someone for murder. For Pakistan it is also a strong political statement against terrorism. However, Omar Sheikh won’t pay for Danny’s life with his life, and the death penalty doesn’t make me feel any better.
I have no reason to forgive Omar Sheikh. I was told he wanted to apologise to me, but I refused to meet him. The man is a psychopath and I don’t believe his apology would be genuine. Maybe he felt a flicker of remorse because he too has a wife and a little boy, but there would be no value in our meeting.
Personally I could easily kill Omar Sheikh, but I prefer to leave it up to Pakistan’s justice system. There is a huge difference between taking revenge into your own hands and leaving it up to the law. I was totally against the Iraq war. People think they’ll feel better if a bit more of the enemy is destroyed. But in fact, so often it is only innocent people who die, and eventually you forget why you started fighting in the first place. Revenge is a basic human instinct, the animal part of man, and it gets us nowhere. Not to retaliate doesn’t mean you’re weak. In fact, being able to rise above your instincts is a sign of strength – far more heroic than bombing another country or planning a suicide mission. Dialogue is the ultimate act of courage, far more courageous than killing someone.
But forgiveness is too lame as an answer to extreme situations. It’s not a value strong enough to stand on. You have to win some sort of victory over the people who have hurt you, and you can only do that by denying the terrorists their goal. They try to kill everything in you – initiative, hope, confidence, dialogue. The only way to oppose them is by demonstrating the strength they think they have taken from you. That strength is to keep on living, to keep on valuing life. So now it’s up to me to create something of my life. Danny’s parents have started a Foundation in his name, and I’m making small gains step by step. First by giving birth to Adam, then by writing my book.
http://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories/mariane-pearl
Bizarre. Bans and cancellations at an event connected to “Reporters without Borders”. Who does she think she is indeed? More importantly what are they trying to hide.
Angelina has her own freedom to express herself as Fox news has its freedom of press. Unfortunately, Fox lost track of the purpose why Angie/or her lawyer wanted to focus on the movie, A Mighty Heart. Fox reacted consistently and that is why I never watch anything Fox news which equates to TV journalism at its worst.
I bet the reporter who wouldnt sign was Billy Bush from Access he has bitched before about stuff like this. I think it’s fine for her to do this, I mean most of the peopole just want to talk about her and the family anyways, they dont give a damn about the movie.
Angie congratulations!!!! We love you.
Only those reporters, journalists and media people with bad intentions left. If I were Brad and Angie, I would make sure to remember the honest ones that stayed.
this thing is not important,the fake media should just shut up.angie is 100 percent right,those people saying negative things are haters,who cares what they think about,**** them.you go girl,they have being lying about you for a long time
A word of advice to Journalists
Due to the nature of this movie and the seriousness of it as to the danger of journalism, it is in your best interest to fcus on the movie. So many journalists have died in the course of duty since Daniel Pearl and I think that should be the focus. Shame on any journalist that choose to be petty.
31 Janice | 06/14/2007 at 11:59 am
This lady can never win. It’s crazy the lengths that people will go to, to try and bring her down. Fox sucks Ass.
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There are some bitty, nasty jealous b*tches in the media. There are a lot of people jealous that the gorgeous Angie got Brad Pitt.
There is a time & place for personal questions. Last night’s premiere for A Mighty Heart was just that, a USpremiere for the film.
Leave the personal stuff for the women’s magazines. There are so many of us who are actual film lovers and are tired of reading about actors and their private lives. We are film fans. We want to hear about the films and their creators. I chalk this one for film fans around the world who could care less about what goes on in their private lives.
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