Brad & Maddox: No Special Treatment From Mars

Just watch access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, and inside edition. I would think she would shy away from the personal questions they asked her but she didn’t… she answered the questions and was kind while doing it.

So what is the real story? it all seems kind of strange to me. ODD!

oops - that should be ‘that her lawyer would NOT release the contract’ and ‘withOUT a scintilla of doubt’. You get my point. Lawyer’s go ahead thinking that they are doing the best thing for their client without discussing it with them ALL THE TIME.

Angelina told the truth. All the entertainment outlets said they didn’t sign any contract and we all know they answer personal questions. Let’s stop making popular those who want to attack by ignoring them.

I agree CHQT, that Friedman guy is getting weirder and weirder. It’s like he is afraid of AJ’s influence on the movie goers. Go see the movie because it’s good, but don’t fall in love with her. :lol:

The funny thing to me is the AP interview. Did you notice that the two questions she asked bothered on personal?

It’s a good thing Jolie has an Oscar (for “Girl Interrupted”). She will find no support next fall when she wants a nomination for playing Mariane Pearl. There has hardly been a less sympathetic actress in recent history. Even Russell Crowe knows how to be charming when he has to.
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The woman who wrote the AHM review at EW thinks just like him.

#120 - Braddox :-) Me likey.

ntt - I’m pretty much on the same page - the really vile posters don’t like to hang out here much anyway, because their foul language is edited so much, and if they’re really racist, hateful or misogynistic they’re going to get deleted. Occasionally I’ll wander off and see what’s going on with other sites, and I’m pretty disgusted by what I see.

I’m always a little hesitant when I see someone posting asking others to go to other sites - how do you know it isn’t whoever runs that site trying to get our business and get more hits? They would love to have our business - especially to have us battling with the haters - because it bumps up the hits on their site. Why go anywhere else when Just Jared is so good to us and all the best fans are here anyway?

HEY ROGER SHE TALKED TO AP TODAY! AND THEY ASKED HER PERSONAL QUESTIONS! SO **** YOU

NEW YORK (Associated Press) — Try to control the media? Not me, says Angelina Jolie. The star of the new film “A Mighty Heart,” about the widow of slain reporter Daniel Pearl and freedom of the press, says her representatives were trying to protect her when they sought to make media outlets sign an agreement not to ask Jolie personal questions.

“I didn’t put it out there,” Jolie said Thursday on “The Daily Show.” “It was from my representatives trying to be protective of me, but it was excessive and I wouldn’t have put it out there. But it’s all right and nobody was forced to do it.”

Jolie spoke candidly about her family at the film’s Manhattan premiere on Wednesday. But media outlets seeking one-on-one interviews, including The Associated Press, were asked to sign a legal document banning certain questions and mandating that any story from the interview must be about the movie.

Requests to sign such documents are rare, but on the rise with the increase of tabloid celebrity coverage. The AP declined to sign Jolie’s agreement, and brought up the subject during an interview with Jolie on Friday afternoon.

“I didn’t know about the document, and my lawyers apologized to me and publicly to say that it was heavy-handed,” she said. “But they did it with good intention,” because of the serious subject matter and tone of the movie, she added.

Jolie gamely answered another question about her family, telling the AP that she and boyfriend Brad Pitt have an equal hand in disciplining their children.

Jolie’s lawyer, Robert Offer, told The New York Times that he blamed himself _ a “boneheaded, overzealous lawyer” _ for the contract and that Jolie was unaware of the action. The document “was drafted overly broadly,” he said. “It was well intended, but I understand how it was received.”

Jolie’s manager, Geyer Kosinski, and a spokeswoman for the Paramount movie studio did not immediately respond to e-mail messages from the AP seeking comment.

My response to Roger Friedman:

(1) Inn the past as in recent times, Angelina has always been accessible to the press. Throughout the entire time in Cannes, she took interviews and answered all sorts of questions. Why would she suddenly change this stance now in NY when the film is about to be premiered? the only reasonable answer is that she didn’t change her stance, her lawyer made a mistake.

(2) Trust me, lawyers don’t go around falling on their swords for their clients. If Angelina’s lawyer said he did it without first seeking approval it probably is true. That is consistent with item (1) above. If she had wanted to control things, she would have done so in the last press conferences she attended. Brad and Angelina did do that for M&MS, if you recall. No one, not even lainey, (and she was there) mentioned that there any attempt to control the media that way.

(3) Angelina doesn’t have a publicist. If she was SO SO CONCERNED about what appears about her in the media, she would have hired one. She hasn’t but she hired a person to advise her on her charities.

(4) I don’t know why Roger said that Angelina skipped the whole press section. I’ve been reading of interviews given by Angelina on the red carpet

(5) All legitimate media, including the New York Times and LA Times have pretty much brushed this off as a minor thing. They have pointed out that this sort of agreements, be it formal or informal, does occur frequently. Usually handled by the publicist, who would know better than to use a piece of paper to do this. ONLY a lawyer, would think that it would be an even better idea to put this sort of warning in an contract.

She not only talked to AP today but also @ the Premiere, you also have to take into account that they also talked to other news/entertainment ppl :roll:

So, are we going to see the interviews trickling in? Or are they going to be in magazines and tabloids, all twisted, like the “blob” thing? I am really curious to see what kind of questions Faux-news asked AJ.

geez I keep forgetting, hello to Briseis and to all my fellow noypis/naypis! + the JJ adn JP fans