Angelina Jolie Cradles Her Kiddies

OFF TOPIC,kristy swanson arrested for asssaulting her boyfriends x,this is the story the fake media should follow cause it looks more like a soap from abc

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692 reply | 06/18/2007 at 8:42 am
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Whatever. Nothing new and surprising. that’s what we are expecting from you jealous haters. If she’s not seen carrying Shi. she’s a bad mother, preferring her adopted colored kids than her own bio white baby. if she’s seen carrying Shi, she’s pimping, parading Shi for publicity. In your mind, Angie will never be right.

Dear Seriously,
I’m afraid you take yourself too seriously. You have pondered, wow! You are abreast of their developments…on a daily basis. Gee, am I impressed. But don’t talk to me about getting on a plane to see the poverty in Africa. I already live in an impoverished country! And I’ve spent almost 30 years working for justice, equity and peace in my homeland. Let us not be so righteous and so smug. I for one appreciate the way some celebrities have used their “fame” to focus attention on areas and issues that need global attention. Why do you resent that? Who are being overshadowed? I say the more the merrier. The more candles you light, the brighter the night. I respect everyone who wants to and does contribute to freeing our entire human race from poverty, ignorance and oppression. Each contribution is precious and let us not presume to say which way is better. Peace!

In January 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl traveled to Karachi with his pregnant wife, Mariane, in pursuit of the truth. He was investigating a possible tie between “shoe bomber” Richard Reid and Sheikh Gilani, a Pakistani cleric who dabbled with radical Islamic groups in the past. “Meet him in public” everyone warned Daniel, fearing for his life.

But it didn’t matter. He was brutally murdered after being abducted by jihadists who, in a bitter twist of fate, had nothing to do with the lead he was pursuing. They just saw an opportunity to seize a respected American journalist and torture him until the U.S. government caved in to their outlandish demands. Which, of course, never happened.

A Mighty Heart is Mariane Pearl’s account of the five weeks leading up to her husband’s death. It’s based on the memoir she wrote of the experience in hopes that her son, Adam, could get a feel for the great man his father was and how much people cared about him.

The irony is that the title is easily the most sentimental thing about the movie. Director Michael Winterbottom (Road To Guantanamo) uses his polished, documentary style of filmmaking to put us right there in the situation and keep tensions high. He creates a sense of urgency with the gritty camerawork and setting, which aptly complement the powerful, talk-heavy script by John Orloff.

For this reason, A Mighty Heart works surprisingly well as a nail-biting political thriller. Although it’s based on real events that were plastered all over the news five years ago, it seems fresh, and you just may find yourself hoping for a different ending than the one you know is coming.

Most of the film is set within the home of Daniel’s friend/colleague Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi), which becomes the headquarters for the investigation. There is a real sense of community on display, bringing together friends, government captains (Irrfan Khan), security specialists (Will Patton) and employers (Denis O’Hare) with a common goal to save a life.

Angelina is fantastic as Mariane Pearl, transforming not just her physical appearance but her entire persona. Gone are the sexy, attention-grabbing antics, and in their place are subtlety, strength and an empowering sense of optimism. She is barely recognizable as this woman who kept it together and never lost hope amid a grueling quest. And you’d never guess it from Alexander, but she pulls off an extremely difficult French/Cuban accent.

Daniel (Dan Futterman) appears in A Mighty Heart mostly in flashbacks with Mariane, which are done tactfully and without piling on the sap. They’re mainly shown in regular, everyday moments, just looking at each other with love and going about their daily business.

While no recreation could ever truly capture what they had or the tragic direction their lives would lead, A Mighty Heart makes a surprisingly effective attempt. After all, not many movies can break your heart, keep your adrenaline racing and remind you of life’s value all at once.

Angelina’s Mighty Mission

Star Of `A Mighty Heart’ Would Love To See Renaissance Of Political Filmmaking
June 10, 2007

By RON DICKER, Special to The Courant
CAP D’ANTIBES, France - Even with her nuclear cloud of celebrity, Angelina Jolie has no illusions that she can transform Hollywood into a factory of issue movies.

“If a political film doesn’t do well, nobody’s going to make another political film for the next year,” she says.

That’s why Jolie says she didn’t approach studios about making a $50 million “important film” about the 2002 kidnapping and execution of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. She went the low-key way.

Adapted from a memoir of Pearl’s widow, Mariane, played by Jolie, “A Mighty Heart” is a modestly budgeted story that weaves snippets of the couple’s relationship with the frantic search after his disappearance. (Al Qaeda leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has bragged that he beheaded the Jewish Pearl, who was investigating ties between Al Qaeda and convicted would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid.)

But if Jolie can lure customers into theaters beginning July 22 to watch something of more sustenance than popcorn, so be it. She is determined to make her visibility - fueled by the “Brangelina” pairing with Brad Pitt, the global adoption spree and the Namibian delivery of hers and Pitt’s daughter, Shiloh - more of a propellant for good than fodder for In Touch Weekly.

She got to make “A Mighty Heart” because she is Angelina Jolie and the producer is Brad Pitt.

“It gives that stuff purpose, the craziness,” she says.

And perhaps she can inspire moviegoers after they’ve left the cineplex as well.

“I hope they’ll read the book,” Jolie says at the recent Cannes Film Festival, where “A Mighty Heart” premiered. “I hope they get to know Mariane and maybe look up Daniel’s articles and get to know him. But there is a bigger message: We are at a time in our lives where there is so much fear and so much anger, and it’s hard for people to calm down and focus enough to have a dialogue.”

Jolie lauds Mariane Pearl for showing “sympathy” for the other side when anger and vengeance could have prevailed. It is a statement that could use elaboration but instead slides by during a 30-minute exchange with reporters at the Hotel du Cap.

Given her United Nations humanitarian missions (three to Pakistan) and political correctness, Jolie is no one’s image-reclamation project. But her regal distance from the press and the public in the past few years has made observers more curious than affectionate. That has changed of late. Jolie recently cried in a broadcast interview with Ann Curry. She has served up harmless Brangelina dish to the women’s magazines. And on this day, she is more welcoming, too.

The proceedings never get to the Who Leaves the Toothpaste Cap Off, but Jolie certainly lets down part of her wall. She jokes about Pitt’s being perhaps the only male actor who is asked what he is wearing. She compliments his fathering and movie-producing skills, which he deployed simultaneously as a babysitter and facilitator while they were on location in India.

She is as thin as the matrons in nearby Cannes, which puts her famous lips and bone structure in eye-popping relief. She smiles a lot. She seems genuinely happy that Mariane Pearl has expressed her approval. Jolie has been reassured that her donning a curly black wig and using a French accent did not become that most dangerous of distractions, a vanity project.

“Sometimes there’s those fun movies where you are who you are, and it’s fine,” she says. “But for a film like this, it’s important to bring as much reality to it as possible and, as an actor, just erase yourself as much as possible.”

Still too shy to use her French accent in front of Mariane Pearl, Jolie believes she did jettison her movie-star persona - “I do see more of her than me now” - and Cannes critics for the most part agreed.

664 Seriously! | 06/18/2007 at 6:05 am
First off, I’d like you not to presume to know what motivates each and every one of us. There are people on the board from different walks of life, different backgrounds and different age groups, who identify with this couple for different reasons. You ask “how many of you will volunteer…” (as if to say none of us already do) I think the more appropriate question is “How many HAVE volunteered and are still volunteering” Contrary to what you’d like to believe, many fans admire this couple because of their humanitarian efforts (Yes, Humanitarian Efforts. As long as someone who had nothing benefits from what AJ and BP have given, I’d call it Humanitarian efforts) and the fact that they look good doing it, is an added bonus. Seriously though, If beauty was the only reason people like them….then we’ll have an equal number of comments on the Heidi Klum, Gwen Stefani or any other thread with a beautiful mom holding her beautiful children.

Your post seems to be about identifying who is a humanitarian and who isn’t. So what…pray tell is the sign of a true humanitarian? Is it someone who’s given up all their worldly goods to go live with the poor? Someone who is also starving while helping others…..surely you aren’t that idealistic? The reality IS money goes a long way in helping. I am not dismissing the efforts of those who have given from the little they have but let’s be real here….without the money and/or attention brought in by the likes of AJ and BP, what do you think will become of them? You say you applaud those who help with little resources, I also do but again…won’t more people be helped with more resources?
You also say their new found fame will probably generate more money into their personal accounts…..and I honestly fail to see what the problem is here. Of course, the reason could be because I am from the school of thought that if you are good, you will be rewarded in ten-folds but if that is too philosophical for you, Let’s look at the this from a different angle…Take Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, these women have not done anything worthy for anyone…yet their new fame has generated more money for their personal accounts. I hear PH already has a book deal for her story (based on her time in jail), another source of money into her personal account. We have the girls gone wild producer….lining his pockets with money made from exploiting women, I could go on and on with examples of people making money and getting fame off of something which does not add value to someone else life ….yet, you and others like you have the audacity to look upon AJ and BP with disdain. Seriously?!!!

Let me ask you this….do you really believe those who get help care one way or the other what kind of person helps them? Do you imagine they go “This money is from two Hollywood stars, who may or may not be well-intentioned, two Hollywood stars who may or may not be pure of heart?” Do you also imagine the children refusing to go to schools because their benefactors aren’t living in poverty like they are? Or maybe you have a scenario where mothers throw away the medicines for their babies…just because people like you believe AJ and BP aren’t true humanitarians.

Honestly, it always amuses me when people vote themselves as judges on what counts as humanitarianism and what doesn’t’. These people completely miss the fact that the only reason why they have time to question others is because they aren’t in some third world country, in cloths barely enough to cover your body, rummaging through the trash for food and drinking water from the sewer. The next time you’re eating a rotten banana and drinking spoilt milk….ask yourself if you’ll reject good food and water from someone helping you because you think their motives aren’t pure.
Please do not confuse what you’re doing here with concern because it is an insult those who really care…and by that I mean AJ and BP>

this coming world refugee day is very significant,because there are more problems for refugees,example the fighting in lebanon regfugee camps,people trying to leave gaza(because it is now controlled by hamas),dafur,iraq,the list goes on.advocates that support the most vunerable people in the world should be supported in their work,because it is shameful to see fellow humans suffering like that.i hope that we support UNHCR AND OTHER REFUGEE AGENCY.

THE DEVIN’S ADVOCATE: THE RACE IS ON
06.13.07
By Devin Faraci
I’m no Oscar prognosticator, but yesterday I saw what I consider to be the first performance that is a lock for a Best Actress nomination – Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart. Sure, there are dozens upon dozens of Oscar-bait movies waiting to burst out of the gate this fall, but the actresses in those films will have to settle for one of the other four nomination slots.

It isn’t even that I think Jolie gives such a great performance; while she’s very strong she has a problem with her accent, which seems to slip from French to Count Draculaynian every now and again. She certainly doesn’t give half the performance that my dark horse current fave for a nomination, Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, does. But Jolie has a number of things going for her:

The Movie is Important. In A Mighty Heart Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, the wife of kidnapped and murdered Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl. The film, directed by Michael Winterbottom in a style that’s half weepie and half neofactualist procedural, is about the month between Pearl’s disappearance and his murder, and how his wife stands tall at the center of the group trying to find him. This is a story that, while it took place five years ago, remains shockingly and depressingly current, and Winterbottom’s movie doesn’t hesitate to look at Pearl’s kidnapping through a complicated, globalist lens. At the same time this is a story of how savage and almost inarguably evil jihadists killed an American Jew in cold blood – the story hits both sides of the aisle. Plus, nominating Jolie means that the real Mariane Pearl might come, and these guys can never pass up that kind of legitimization.

She Changed Her Appearance. This is actually the controversial aspect – Jolie is playing a woman of Afro-Cuban ancestry, and she wears make-up to darken her skin and a big frizzy wig. When I first saw the pictures of Jolie in costume (which also includes a big fake pregnant belly), I thought the film was skirting the edges of good taste – surely there was someone in the world who is the right skin color to play this role? In context it doesn’t seem very offensive, and compared to the Pakistanis with whom she shares the screen, Jolie just looks sort of tanned. While this isn’t a real physical change, like DeNiro gaining weight for Raging Bull, or a ’shocking’ make-up effect, like Kidman having an ugly nose in The Hours, I think the Academy associates any change-up of looks as ‘stretching’ and ‘acting.’

She’s Got a Helluva Scream. I already know what Angelina Jolie’s clip is when they announce the five Best Actress nominees on Oscar night. It’s a scene at the end of the movie where she’s told her husband has been killed; Jolie starts the scene in a numbed, teary silence, and then wanders into her bedroom, slams the door and starts wailing. Jolie’s screams of pain are impressive and primal – you could feel everyone in the theater shifting in their seats as her howls touched some spot deep inside our brains that still operates in a primitive, pre-verbal way. The truth of A Mighty Heart is that the film often wanders away from Mariane Pearl, and she may not be the most fascinating character in the story… but Jolie wrenches the spotlight back to herself with sheer willpower in this scene.

There’s a long time between now and the Oscars, and anything could happen, but this is one you can take to the bank: Angelina Jolie is assured an Oscar nomination for this film.

PLEASE IGNORE THAT TROLL,HE /SHE /IT IS TRYING TO INTIMIDATE BY BEING RUDE,AS I SAID BEFORE AN ******* AND A LONELY ***** WILL ALWAYS BE A ******* LOSERS.WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT ARE SO IMPORTANT,LET THE ******* ROT ALONE

Good morning ladies. You might want to enlighten us more about the refugee day and AMH instead of replying all the time to those who want to turn the thread negative. The more replies the haters get, the more we ruin the thread. Have a pleasant day.

reply is the early morning bait. Ignore him.

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By JUSTIN CHANG

‘A Mighty Heart’

The sad saga of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl has made it to the bigscreen with facts, figures and beating heart intact in “A Mighty Heart.” In his first studio venture, Michael Winterbottom coaxes forth a staggering wealth of detail from this terse, methodical account of Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Pakistan, seen through the eyes of those who sought his return. Given audiences’ resistance to films dealing with 9/11 and its aftermath, soberly restrained pic reps a mighty tough sell, though Angelina Jolie’s performance as Pearl’s widow should broaden prospects for the June 22 Stateside release.
Adapting Mariane Pearl’s harrowing memoir, director Winterbottom, who previously ventured into Mideast politics with “In This World” and “The Road to Guantanamo,” proves to be just the man for the task. Though the prolific British chameleon isn’t one to make the same film twice, his gifts for docudrama storytelling — an ability to shepherd complicated narratives, avoiding every opportunity for sensationalism in favor of a low-key mounting dread — couldn’t be better suited to the material.

Having covered the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pearls were working as journalists in Karachi, Pakistan, on Jan. 23, 2002 — the day Danny (”Capote” scribe Dan Futterman), chasing a story about foiled shoe bomber Richard Reid, got into a cab and never returned. Sticking close to the very pregnant Mariane (Jolie), pic recounts the restless five-week search for the man’s whereabouts and his kidnappers’ identities, all accompanied by a hailstorm of media attention.

Screenplay crisply diagrams the labyrinth of false leads and fruitless interrogations with various middlemen Danny may have had contact with on the night of his disappearance. Suspicion ultimately comes to rest on the elusive Omar Saeed Sheikh (Alyy Khan), a known Islamic militant with a history of kidnapping foreigners.

Like his fellow suspects, Sheikh is seen only briefly, and in the most objective possible light. Working in the brisk, discursive style of a police procedural, Winterbottom scrupulously follows the rescue effort, step by agonizing step — ensuring that the audience is never given additional information despite its foreknowledge of the tragic outcome. Even larger political questions — the implications, say, of a scene in which a Pakistani suspect is strung up and interrogated, or the grim irony of a journalist couple facing intense media scrutiny — are subjugated to the flow of the storytelling.

Along the way, pic also manages to sketch vivid portraits of Mariane’s key supporters and allies. These include Danny’s tough-minded colleague, Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi); a local cop (Irrfan Khan), known simply as Captain, determined not to let the case soil Pakistan’s reputation; American diplomatic security agent Randall Bennett (Will Patton), who tends to see the silver lining in all bad news; and Wall Street Journal higher-up John Bussey (Denis O’Hare), who arrives in Pakistan after news of the ordeal, a comforting but resilient figure.

But this is ultimately — and very intimately — Mariane Pearl’s story, and much of it rests on Jolie, who fits comfortably into the naturalistic mold that shapes the entire ensemble. Though Jolie sports a big belly, a high-coiffed hairstyle and a very challenging accent (raised in France, Mariane is of Afro-Cuban and Dutch descent), this isn’t the sort of commanding star turn in which the performer vanishes behind a well-known celebrity mask, but rather a subdued, carefully considered portrait of a woman caught between premature grief and persistent hope.

Jolie plays Mariane as sharp and prickly, but also highly principled and completely devoted to her husband. Wisely, Winterbottom opts to shoot her more high-pitched outbursts from a distance or in near-darkness, as if refusing to milk more histrionics than necessary.

Occasional subdued flashbacks to happier days from Mariane and Danny’s marriage, including a very brief love scene, add emotional texture even as they take something away from the film’s otherwise unsentimental approach.