Angelina Jolie - “Newsweek” Interview

hi! #1

FIRST *******, HAHAHA!!!

Brad Pitt adds: “Yeaaahhh, we do things in extremes. But I’ve always embraced big changes, and this feels very natural. It’s just the most fun I’ve ever had.”

and big change it was
from childless marriage to 4 kids unwedd

” 2 mexx | 06/18/2007 at 3:47 pm

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nyanya

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WOW ANGELINA!!!

I’m glad he was there, and added one of the best quotes to that interview, at least people will know from his own mouth that he agrees with having those children rather quickly, and that Angie is not forcing him to do anything he doesn’t want to do!!!!

ANGIE IS REALLY WORKING HER WAY TO PLANT THE SEEDS TO EXIST HER “HOLLYWOOD LIFE” TO BE THE HUMANITARIAN SHE STRIVES TO BE…GO ANGIE GO!! :D

I meant A Mighty Heart LOL!!!!!

Thanks Jared.

I enjoyed reading the Newsweek Article.

Rock on Angie!!!!

Great interview.

Thank you JJ for keeping us up to date!!! Great interview.

It just boggles the mind that people can’t accept that a man would want a bunch of kids. Or maybe, it’s a head-scratcher to think of any man allowing any little ones to come between himself and the Promised Land.

I suppose that the concept of excellent fathering as an aphrodisiac could sink into some men’s heads, although that isn’t a foreign concept.

I can’t wait to see this movie this weekend. I heard it is going to be in limited realse 1350 theaters nation wide.

This was here first besides the news site and maybe fansites. Let’s see how fast this goes around the net.

Just Jared Rocks!

Prada | 06/18/2007 at 4:01 pm
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I believe it’s a lifetime membership, but there are 6000 of them.

Stay on topic. you’ve just been flagged sweetie. Don’t bring your trash here.

On having more children: “We want to have as big a family as we can. Our only restriction is making sure we have time for everybody, and we’re finding that we have the ability to do that.” (Brad Pitt adds: “Yeaaahhh, we do things in extremes. But I’ve always embraced big changes, and this feels very natural. It’s just the most fun I’ve ever had.”)

That sounds so good.I can’t wait to see AMH,but I must wait much longer than you:-(

the national enquirer??? LMAO did they mention the spaceship was inviting the OC 13 crew for an orientation of their planet?

Angelina is much better than george. Clooney is the one leaking all those quotes to the tabloids and Ted casablanca. He doesn\’t like angelina and has been very chatty about it (I\’m not talking about that stupid joke he made on cannes). Brad knows but ignores it.

Wth? George is cooler than Brad. I doubt Angelina hates him ..more like wishes she could have had him in the bed before Brad trapped her.

Have you seen some of the pix of George, brad, and Angelina from the O13 premiere in la? The look… major georgelina chemistry.

What is this membership referencing to? I don’t see Angelina’s name anywhere..

Stay on topic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

38 kimbara | 06/18/2007 at 4:13 pm

Angelina is much better than george. Clooney is the one leaking all those quotes to the tabloids and Ted casablanca. He doesn\’t like angelina and has been very chatty about it (I\’m not talking about that stupid joke he made on cannes). Brad knows but ignores it.
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If what you say is true and Brad knows and ignores it, he is a bigger ass than I thought.

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The Structure of AMPAS

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization composed of over 6,500 filmmakers whose achievements have placed them at the top of their craft.

The purposes of the Academy are to advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures; foster cooperation among creative leaders for cultural, educational and technological progress; recognize outstanding achievements; cooperate on technical research and improvement of methods and equipment; provide a common forum and meeting ground for various film-related crafts; represent the viewpoint of actual creators of the motion picture; and foster educational activities between the professional community and the public.

Membership in the Academy is by invitation of the Board of Governors and is limited to those who have distinguished themselves in the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The criteria for admittance include: a body of work in motion pictures that reflects the high standards of the Academy, an achievement of unique distinction, or the making of an outstanding contribution to the film arts or sciences.
Members represent 15 general areas – actors, animators and short film makers, art directors and costume designers, cinematographers, composers and songwriters, documentary filmmakers, directors, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, producers, public relations specialists, sound technicians, visual effects experts and writers.

A candidate for membership in the Academy is normally sponsored by at least two members of the branch for which the person may qualify. Each proposed member must first receive the favorable endorsement of the appropriate branch executive committee before his or her name is submitted to the Board of Governors for its approval. Individuals nominated for Academy Awards® who are not already members of the Academy are considered for membership without the need for sponsors.

The Board of Governors also may invite individuals to become members-at-large and associate members. Members-at-large are those engaged in motion picture production, but for whose craft there is no separate branch. They have all the privileges of branch membership except for representation on the Board. Associate members are those closely allied to the industry but not actively engaged in motion picture production. They are not represented on the Board and do not vote on Academy Awards

http://www.oscars.org/academy/history.html

Haters are so ridiculous. Of course in THEIR WORLD, someone always has to not like someone.. there is always supposed hate going around.

Please…George has said many nice things about Angie.

Seriously, does hatred make people dumb or does being dumb cause you to hate easily?

Thanks for the interview Jared.

Two points I wanted to bring up. In the Cinematical Interviews, Angelina said she didn’t do comedies because she didn’t think she is funny and so stays away from that. I hope she changes her mind. Personally, I would love to see her do a completely zany, funny character and just let loose.

Second, I was happy to read that Ed Norton was at the after party for the Premiere of A Mighty Heart. He was there for the “God Grew Tired of Us” premiere too. Seems like he sneaks in and doesn’t let the photographers catch him but we always read about him being at events with Brad and Angelina. I think it’s really sweet how Brad and Ed have managed to stay friends all these years. I know every one talks about George Clooney being friends with Brad, but I feel Brad and Ed have the more genuine friendshi.

Oh, and remember the Pen!s song??? LOL. I think those two (Ed and Brad) probably are closer than Brad and Clooney.

If what you say is true and Brad knows and ignores it, he is a bigger ass than I thought
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King of cool George does it all the time. He really thinks he is Hollywood favorite son. Brad is doing the right thing. Why get into a fight with george? not worth it.

I enjoyed the interview too.

My problem is that while Black actresses and other actresses of color are working under a disadvantage in HW, I resent the fact that some special interests would try to hijack this film, specifically the role of Mariane, without any qualifications except color.

It is entirely possible that some actresses of color contacted Mariane; and maybe, read the book. But if they didn’t earn her trust on an enterprise she was already leery about, then game over.

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I think you are really sick. there is no way Angie will like George. George doesn’t like kids. only this, he is out of picture. and besides, Angie has the best man in the planet. Brad is the man of her dreams. get it.

Wow, I think Brad has found his soulmate. he sure found the mother of his children.

When Is Angelina gonna be on the CBS show?
she’s really doing her best to promote this film. they really work hard and put up with a lot.

if Brad is IGNORING the fact that George doesn’t like Angelina… well, that makes Brad an ASS & JERK!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the article. Have read it before. Like it because it’s not tabs.

If someone is ignoring that tabloids lie and make stuff up all the time, then that makes that person an ASS & JERK.

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well said.

ok, it’s a national enquirer people….another tabloid needs to have Brad and Angie to sell their magazine.

Great article! She is an amazing woman. So full of compassion and caring for others. She goes through so much and yet doesn’t let it get her down.

Hey, remember that Angelina & Maddox didn’t waved at George when Brad was doing the Entertainment weekly interview with him??

I really think Angie and George didn’t like each other!! And if Brad is ignoring this… Brad is a jerk!!!!!

It’s comforting to know that we have an Angelina Jolie trying to make a difference in the lives of forgotten children. We should asked how can we help in our small way?

56 Frenchy | 06/18/2007 at 4:25 pm
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization composed of over 6,500 filmmakers whose achievements have placed them at the top of their craft.

So how the F–K did Jen A. join, she is not even a B-list anymore.

#38
Just what is your proof (i.e., interview with George or Angie or Brad that states this or a solid journalistic publication) that George is leaking stuff to tabloids?
That is so beneath him. I’m surprised anyone gives any credence to that. He has defended Brad and Angie several times by saying they are a wonderful, in love couple.
An actor of his stature doesn’t need to “leak” stuff to tabloids. And if they are saying he does, then why do you believe them since they aren’t believable about anything?
Shame on you for making stuff up.

Never got the big deal about clooney, I like angelina not him, whatever he thinks about her I don\’t give a ****.

60 andrea | 06/18/2007 at 4:29 pm
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Oh, I think that Angelina would be great at comedies. The problem is that we’ve grown myopic to the variety of comedic personas women can play. We’re looking for another Meg Ryan, but she wasn’t the end-all, be-all. Look at the past; the comedic blondes ranged from Lombard to Harlow to Dunne to West to Blondell to Holliday to Monroe to Day to Sullavan. The independent woman; from R. Russell to K. Hepburn to Arden to Colbert to Loy to Hussey.

So many women, so many ages, so many voices. And given the fact that we have more freedoms and more different perspectives that need to be voiced, there’s no way that there’s no room for Angelina.

Angie doesn’t hate George. they were friendly and laughing at the O13 premier in LA. STOP, STOP, no really STOP the rumor.

just wait and see…..but would it be funny when Angie and her family took 2 months vacation and spend part of the vacation at George’s house in Italy…..* wink *

Thanks HA, finallyyyy someone who wants to talk about Angie’s movies and not the other crazy tabloid stuff! I’m with you on Denzel and the Bone Collector too…though she Antonio Banderas in Original Sin run a close second.

48 ohwow

Hey buttnut, I actually support JJ site unlike you. All you support and do is worship B&A, so feel free to STFU you couldnt ignore me if you tried. Your only purpose is this blog.

Here is a cool little video I found online. It is behind the scenes footage from A Mighty Heart. It is no narrated featurette or anything like that, just random shots from behind the scenes while they are filming the movie. But Angie is in it, and she looks great and is doing great work! Here\’s the link to it:

http://www.iklipz.com/MovieDetail.aspx?Mov…6d-263a39c111da

Angelina Jolie’s Best Perf in Years

So said Richard Roeper on Ebert and Roeper yesterday, along with his co-host Robert Wilonsky (from HDNet). Both liked the film and gave it two thumbs up but Wilsonky said it was mainly Jolie’s performance that got him. Roeper said the “O” word.

A Mighty Heart is coming out early but the combination of the Jolie/Pitt tsunami in the print and online world will make her performance resonate by year’s end. She will likely go head to head with Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth, among others.

The head is bobbling… let it teeter off of it’s neck all by itself!

37 Mmmmm | 06/18/2007 at 4:11 pm
Now she will be known for is a homewrecker … poor thing.
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Only to the Jenhags, hon, and nobody cares about you. The rest of the world doesn’t give a damn.

It must really suck being on the losing team. You need to bail ASAP.

94 jolierocks | 06/18/2007 at 4:47 pm
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CORRECTION

Brad never said that this project was for ___; the press presumed that it was for ___ because she was a partner at Plan B. Self-serving, much?

Don’t perpetuate a tabloid lie, please.

Okey, BAMPZS fans have it your way and CONTINUE to ignore the truth that George don’t like Angelina and that Brad very COWARDLY is ignoring this fact also!!

You deserves better than this; Angelina!!!!

I agree. Angelina does deserve better. She deserves a REAL man. Okay?
Lmao

I remember readning an artical before that Brad was interested in this movie for Jennifer A.
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That was never true

Pitt bought the rights to “Heart” through Plan B, the production company he shared with his wife, Jennifer Aniston. Aniston, in fact, told a Vogue writer that she was considering playing Mariane. But by the time the film was ready to be made in 2006, Pitt had divorced Aniston and fallen in love with Jolie. Pitt thought Jolie would be perfect casting for Pearl, but didn’t bring it up. “I KNEW THE PART HAD TO BE PLAYED BY SOMENOE WITH MARIANE’S STRENGTH AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD, but I didn’t know how to broach the subject,” he says. “It feels a little like Wolfowitz trying to get his girlfriend a job.

DOES THIS SOUND ANYTHING LIKE ANISTON TO YOU?

just because she was a part of plan b at the time, people thought the book was bought as a vehicle for her. Brad had said before that Plan b was not a company for him and his wife to star in, but for stories he wanted to tell, he wouldnt act in a plan b movie if he didnt think he was right for a part..(i am sure he thought the same about Jennifer)

Yes, Jennifer was asked about it and she said she would “like to think she could play such a role, but also I reserve the right not to”

What in the World….BP, AJ and GC? Honestly this is the heights. I guess now that the old triangle is waning, the tabs want to create a new one.

37 Mmmmm | 06/18/2007 at 4:11 pm

I think you really enjoy the attention. Too bad the fans kept answering your dumb comments. We should stop giving the haters the attention.

just when i thought i couldn’t possibly admire this woman any more…

truly inspiring!

Thanks Just Jared for the new thread. The newsweek article is a very good read.
93 cool video
Thanks also for the link to behind the scenes of the making of “A Mighty Heart”. I am looking forward to seeing the Movie.

87 Estelle | 06/18/2007 at 4:45 pm
just wait and see…..but would it be funny when Angie and her family took 2 months vacation and spend part of the vacation at George’s house in Italy…..* wink *
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Yeah, getting ready for our wedding…oops, I’ve said too much

111 pokeman | 06/18/2007 at 5:02 pm

Like you just did …. LOL!

Gosh her toes are soooo long, is her head growing her body shrinking? Either way, its taken over

i REPEAT….. Mmmmm is half-human and half-beast! so pls..IGNORE the BEAST!!!

Again with the I’s instead of the us and we. After watching her on Jon Stewart just goes to prove once again they cannot agree on anything (7 to 13 kids, difference of how to handle their personal life in the media. Hmmm Tick tock

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OOPS….OOPPS?????… What was that?…wait, so the wedding is back on?..hey, don’t forget us…your bridesmaid?…no wonder Gitane is missing in action, she’s busy huh?…LOL

Don’t worry JJ will clean up this ish. It’s his site and he wants it clean.

I saw a picture of Brad & Pax on popsugar. It was so cute. I didn’t sse it from the set that was posted before. It when they went to the doctor.

another sicko 122 pls…ignore tht beastly non-existent name!!!

I love reading and seeing pictures of Angelina. She’s a very interesting person and I will always welcome news about her, both onscreen and off. I don’t think an hour or two a day of work in giving interviews is excessive.

Thank you Cool Video for the link.

I guess this is why they want to interview her again:

From last year this time

NEW YORK, June 13, 2006

A Good Kind Of Exploitation
Harry Smith: Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt Use Their Fame Wisely

June 20 is Refugee Day — a day the United Nations uses to focus on the plight of refugees around the world.

I mention this because I’ve been in refugee camps. I have talked to people who have had to run for their lives. I know that they are a brave lot. They are survivors of the highest order.

The reason I know June 20 is Refugee Day is because Angelina Jolie told me. She and Brad Pitt have done a remarkable thing — turning their celebrity and the birth of their child into a platform for causes they care about.

Because their baby was born in Namibia, geographically challenged teenagers in America can suddenly find that country on a map. They sold the rights for the pictures of the sweet-looking little cherub for millions which will go to those causes, too.

Pitt and Jolie are really onto something. As long as people are obsessed with them, why not exploit it — in a good way?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/13/opinion/smith/main1706889.shtml

When Is Angelina gonna be on the CBS show?
she’s really doing her best to promote this film. they really work hard and put up with a lot.

Of course. Brad is the producer!!!!, if this movie doesn’t work they don’t make money and so how can they buy others luxury houses, ducati, take fly lessons etc. etc…….

100 Jill | 06/18/2007 at 4:52 pm
63 anonymous | 06/18/2007 at 4:32 pm
if Brad is IGNORING the fact that George doesn’t like Angelina… well, that makes Brad an ASS & JERK!!!!!!!!!
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Brad has better sense than to sweat the small stuff. Clooney is very small stuff.
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LOL Yeah, Clooney is very small stuff, totally irrelevant. Really hoping that Angie will do Atlas Shrugged as Dagny and Leonardo DiCaprio as Francisco.

132 kimbara
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well, it could happend….LOL, Matt Damon spend a week at George’s place, no one knows, until the last day, when they were leaving the place. So how do we know they were never there…huh?

27 - of course it must be true, National Enquirer said so. I bet they reported it right next to the story about Britney Spears’ hymen reconstructive surgery and how they are gonna need the help of a forklift, industrial digger, a skillet and some flood defence levees to successfull complete it

This interview was from when she was making the movie, you bunch of numb nutz.

well, it could happend….LOL, Matt Damon spend a week at George’s place, no one knows, until the last day, when they were leaving the place. So how do we know they were never there…huh?
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Because angie was working in Prague duh! believe what you want, I don’t care. If you really think movie stars don’t have egos you can’t understand a thing.

142 yes u are !!!thank u !!! for admitting tht, but pls.. accept tht ur a beast too!!! …

also 122 & 134 is the same sicko beast! if u are sick , about ur sick self!! see a doctor, jolie threads can’t cure ur contagious BEASTLY virus!

It’s like having our own group of Paparazzi buzzing around. LOL!!!

Celebs take on social causes
Encourage trend of charitable work
By Nora Boustany
Washington Post

WASHINGTON – Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore traipsed purposefully up the Capitol steps last month in a simple black dress, red-soled black pumps and russet mane, not for a film shoot but to lobby for child-feeding programs in Africa as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. World Food Program.

Within a week, $10 donations snowballed into $25,000, according to Jennifer Parmelee, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program.

“Almost every star has his or her cause,” said Alan J. Abramson, director of the non-profit sector and philanthropy program at the Aspen Institute, a research and advocacy organization. “Celebrities and their humanitarian work can sometimes show the way, especially overseas.”

Film star Lucy Liu appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on March 1, 2006, right after visiting earthquake victims in Pakistan on behalf of UNICEF. Traffic on the agency’s Web site, http://www.unicefusa.org , rose by 91 percent that day. “Compared to an average weekday, we received a 300 percent increase in calls and 240 percent more donations. All in all, we raised nearly $500,000,” said Marissa Buckanoff, public relations director of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

There is more, much more. When George Clooney appeared on Winfrey’s show in April 2006 after visiting Africa with his father, contributions to UNICEF rose 20 percent.

And when Angelina Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, sat down for a two-hour interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on June 20 last year, donations spiked by more than a half-million dollars, Elisabeth Nolet said by telephone from UNHCR’s Geneva office.

When People magazine reported that a journal written by Jolie during a 2005 Africa tour was on the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum Web site, the institution’s server crashed.

“It received more hits than it could initially handle,” said Andy Hollinger, director of media relations.

Rock star Bono of U2 has gained the attention of world leaders with his pioneering cause: rooting out poverty with debt relief and trade and raising money to fight AIDS on a global scale. “More than anyone else, Jolie and Bono embody the new generation of entertainers who moved into this realm of social actions,” Prendergast said. “They are the high-profile trailblazers.”

For many actors, succeeding in Hollywood is no longer enough, and many said they are looking to move beyond the fiction of the screen to the real world.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/17382447.htm?source=rss&channel=journalgazette_living

shiiit- really? funny it is in my new Newsweek!

nice

Repeat:IAM IDIOT

Shirtless or a Beater?

Pardon the crass but if you ask me, it’s like comparing **** to diarrhea. Both suck.

So here’s Matthew McConaughey, electing not to put a shirt on per usual and Ryan Phillippe with his kids on Father’s Day wearing his carb face and a white beater.

Seriously… how does one choose?

Me? I choose to restore my faith in quiveration with this: David Beckham’s lizard voice speaking Spanish. Somehow, in Spanish, it ain’t so bad. Close your eyes, in Spanish, the loins will enjoy.

Click here for the clip - Thank you Susanne!

PS. Strangest thing - have you seen Playing By Heart? Filmed about 10 years ago, circa 1997, starring Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, a very young and skinny Jon Stewart (Jon and Gillian kissing tripped me out!), and none other than Ryan Phillippe with Angelina Jolie as his love interest.

Came home late Saturday night and couldn’t sleep, turned on the telly, caught the last 20 minutes. Happened to be this super cheese scene in a car when Angie’s character tells Ryan’s character she loves him and lives for him and cries about it and he loves her back but can’t “handle” the intensity and bolts from the car but later on shows up at her house and they talk about their love and their souls and then finally they make out.

Back then, Ryan was still cute. Like Cruel Intentions cute. And Angelina, then around 22, still had a chubby youthful face, sexy as all hell. What killed me though was they were surprisingly, shockingly…HOT together. Even through the bad acting and the nauseating dialogue.

Cut to present day: he’s still a punk, she’s all woman. Funny what happens and doesn’t happen in ten long years.

152 Frenchy

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Thanks so much for that article, Frenchy. I literally laughed out loud when I read this part

[When People magazine reported that a journal written by Jolie during a 2005 Africa tour was on the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum Web site, the institution’s server crashed.]

Join NEWSWEEK’s Sean Smith for a Live Talk on Thursday, June 21, at 2:00 , ET, about his interview with Angelina Jolie.

ANGELINA JOLIE is set to honour her late mother’s cancer battle by appearing in a new public service announcement with comedienne FRAN DRESCHER. Drescher, a cancer survivor, has founded the Cancer Schmancer organisation and she has recruited Jolie for an upcoming publicity drive. The comedienne says, “Angelina is supporting me on the movement. Her mother had women’s cancer that she died from and I’m a gynaecologic cancer survivor and our organisation is dedicated to ensure that all women’s cancers get diagnosed in stage one, when they’re most curable because early detection equals survival. “So we’re gonna figure something out. We’re gonna do a PSA together.”

ANGELINA JOLIE is set to honour her late mother’s cancer battle by appearing in a new public service announcement with comedienne FRAN DRESCHER. Drescher, a cancer survivor, has founded the Cancer Schmancer organisation and she has recruited Jolie for an upcoming publicity drive. The comedienne says, “Angelina is supporting me on the movement. Her mother had women’s cancer that she died from and I’m a gynaecologic cancer survivor and our organisation is dedicated to ensure that all women’s cancers get diagnosed in stage one, when they’re most curable because early detection equals survival. “So we’re gonna figure something out. We’re gonna do a PSA together.”

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link please

Angie will be on Bill O’Reilly show tonight. Commercial just ran that she will appear to answer questions about the controversy from last week. Should be great, Bill seems to like her and didn’t side with the FOX reporter who started all this!

33 anonymous | 06/18/2007 at 4:07 pm
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George is DISGUSTING!! And why is that BAMPZS cannot see that George is a BAD INFLUENCE in Brad??????

I hope Brad doesn’t hurt Angie because of George!!!

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I’m no Porgie fan, but sheesh, grow up. Brad doesn’t hang out in bars and stripper dives like Porgie does. He goes to work and he goes home. Besides…have you seen some the ****** that Porgie has hooked up with? Brad wouldn’t have touched those women even when he was single! Porgie likes his women strictly on the low classy side.

Angie will be on Bill O’Reilly show tonight. Commercial just ran that she will appear to answer questions about the controversy from last week. Should be great, Bill seems to like her and didn’t side with the FOX reporter who started all this!

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Pre-taped? I tought she left NYC 2 days ago. But WOW at least she has the balls to be on the show, I think that’s awesome.

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* clear throat* ….you forgot to write, “with the exception of AG?” GC likes his women…..LOL

46 Hello! | 06/18/2007 at 4:18 pm
38 kimbara | 06/18/2007 at 4:13 pm

Angelina is much better than george. Clooney is the one leaking all those quotes to the tabloids and Ted casablanca. He doesn\’t like angelina and has been very chatty about it (I\’m not talking about that stupid joke he made on cannes). Brad knows but ignores it.
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If what you say is true and Brad knows and ignores it, he is a bigger ass than I thought.

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If Porgie is feeding any rumors to Ted C, it’s strictly to get his jollies and make Ted look like an idiot for repeating them. Porgie is not going to risk alienating Brad Pitt just because he may not like his woman. Look at all the years he was friends with Brad while Brad was married to the albatross. Considering that X was also involved with and cr@pped on another friend of his…you’d think Porgie would have been spreading rumors to Ted C about X, but he didn’t…dammit…

wow | 06/18/2007 at 6:21 pm
Angie will be on Bill O’Reilly show tonight. Commercial just ran that she will appear to answer questions about the controversy from last week. Should be great, Bill seems to like her and didn’t side with the FOX reporter who started all this!

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Pre-taped? I tought she left NYC 2 days ago. But WOW at least she has the balls to be on the show, I think that’s awesome.

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It probably is pre-taped. I don’t think he has a live show.

47 George go to hell | 06/18/2007 at 4:19 pm

Clooney is an ass.

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Okay…this message I DO agree with…I knew sooner or later someone would say something about Porgie I agreed with. I can’t stand the guy, but even I don’t think he’d b#tch about Brad’s woman behind his back…especially not to Ted C.

Good afternoon to all the positive posters out there celebrating our favourite family! Haven’t read the full interview yet but like what I’ve seen so far. Nice to see Newsweek doing a more serious article on Angie.

There is no other actor in the world today who in her career life:

- is on CNN twice in one week (Larry King Live and this Wednesday’s AC360 for World Refugee Day)

- has just been appointed to the FRC

- is a UNHCR Ambassador

- has a film premiering that may garner her an Oscar nomination

And, in her personal life:

- is a mother to 4 amazing children

- the wife/partner of another A-List actor (Brad Pitt no less!) who is premiering his movie at the same time and produced her movie (and is involved in the same humanitarian causes as she is!)

- Has just spent a wonderful weekend in NYC with their family and extended family, putting the complete kibosh on any gossip that his family doesn’t love Angie and the kids.

Gee have I missed anything?

My point being that we have SO MANY amazing things to celebrate here and talk about that I hardly even know where to start! No wonder the trolls are flapping about in desperation :lol: So let’s keep our eye on the ball and focus on the bigger picture here.

Wednesday is World Refugee Day and Angie will be on AC360 on CNN in the evening for an episode entitled “Refugees in Crisis”.

Also for those of you who would like more info. please visit:

http://www.savedarfur.org as well as UNHCR.org for more info. about how you can help and to learn about what’s going on in the world (besides Parisite being in jail) and Angie’s experiences with her UNHCR work.

PS - #139 Nora - let’s break out the malaria tablets!! :lol: (But caution, they have awful side effects :-( ).

Pax and hugs!

175 wow | 06/18/2007 at 6:21 pm
Angie will be on Bill O’Reilly show tonight. Commercial just ran that she will appear to answer questions about the controversy from last week. Should be great, Bill seems to like her and didn’t side with the FOX reporter who started all this!

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Pre-taped? I tought she left NYC 2 days ago. But WOW at least she has the balls to be on the show, I think that’s awesome.

~~~Yep lots of celebs heck politicians don’t go on his show when everything is going smooth. For Angleina to go after all the BS Fox created shows how strong a person she is and that she has no problem standing up to anyone.

Okay, just reading upthread and it looks like I can add Cancer activist and appearing on O’Reilly to the list! :D Go Angie!

angie, george and brad are good friends
http://pics.livejournal.com/pittimpression6/pic/0018h6ez/g25

75 HA | 06/18/2007 at 4:38 pm

Who’s the best leading man that Angelina has worked with? I love Brad but gotta say Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector.

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Chemisty? Brad.

Talent? Denzel.

i don’t believe tht B.S. tht angelina hates clooney nor i believe HE is GAY. there’s is no proof just pure speculation by some catty mouths in the media rags to sell!

http://pics.livejournal.com/pittimpression6/pic/001935bd/g25

People on here always throw around the gay card when it comes to the Georgelina chemistry.
yeah, george is gay and wants Brad pitt. Rotflmao!

http://server3.foros.net/viewtopic.php?t=298&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15&mforum=brangelina

198 =) | 06/18/2007 at 6:44 pm

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Thanks for info and I think we all knew this!

btw could you please post a link to the video. Thanks!

I bet all of you are a bunch of uglies.

193 Passing Through
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I didn’t see any chemistry between Angie and Denzel.

144 Didi

Why a skillet? ROTFLMAO bit time. That is the funnest thing I’ve read today. Peace.

brad angie and george= beautiful
maniston= ugly
this is the onlky truth

102 piper, with a low | 06/18/2007 at 4:53 pm
94 jolierocks | 06/18/2007 at 4:47 pm
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CORRECTION

Brad never said that this project was for ___; the press presumed that it was for ___ because she was a partner at Plan B. Self-serving, much?

Don’t perpetuate a tabloid lie, please.

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Piper, the tabs only perpetuated that lie because X started it by telling Vogue, “I’d like to think I could play the part.” As usual, the b#tch, made the acquistion of AMH about herself when she knew full well that Brad had NOT bought that movie with her in mind. When the purchase was announced Brad was asked if he and X would play the roles and said flat out, “No.” Then she turned around and told Vogue she was considering it. Yet people never point out this woman’s lies…unless it’s us and unfortunately none of us own or run a major news magazine or newspaper with which we can correct the lies X has told. It’s too damned Bad that Janice Min doesn’t highlight X’s lies and manipulations in a “Faking The News” section. Why limit themselves to the tabs!

Ummm, her face looks like **** in this pic. There’s no FAT on it. Ewwwwww! She is so full of herself.

115 Angelina not doing the Eastwood movie | 06/18/2007 at 5:03 pm
I had a chance to speak with Angelina Jolie at the press junket for A Mighty Heart on Friday, and I asked her about a few of her upcoming (or potentially upcoming) projects. As for the one the fanboys care most about — Sin City 2 — she laughed when I asked her if she would do it, and then she smiled and simply said “It might be resurfacing.” She had a little more to say about the adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, which is moving forward very slowly, despite having the Plan B powerhouse of Pitt and Jolie behind it. Angelina told me that the project is still on the table, but “the thing with Atlas is just, we all feel that it’s one of those projects where if you can’t do it right, you really can’t touch it. So we have not had all the pieces come together. There’s not been a director that’s right to come on, or all of those elements. So until it does, you know, I certainly don’t want to be a part of something that’s just put together to hit ‘this date.’”

source : cinematical

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I posted this on Saturday night and said I didn’t think Angie was doing The Changeling…but still people persist in saying she is. I just don’t see how they could possibly fit it into their schedule. They’re going to be in Europe for a while on vacay, then on to Chicago to do more on Wanted, then Brad films Burn After Reading in NYC in late August/Sept and earlier someone posted a Washington Post story about locales being scouted for State of Play, which begins shooting in early Nov. That would leave Angie with the month of October to shoot TC in LA. Eastwood works fast…but not that fast.

110 African Girl | 06/18/2007 at 5:01 pm
What in the World….BP, AJ and GC? Honestly this is the heights. I guess now that the old triangle is waning, the tabs want to create a new one.

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Hey AG - you’re taking Porgie’s mancrush awfully well! It must be because you KNOW it’s unrequited and will forever remain an unfulfilled passion. You are just soooooooo understanding…

123 aracne | 06/18/2007 at 5:10 pm

I’m not an Aniston fan, but I can’t stand Angelina anymore and so many people

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Then STFU and get stay the hell off blog threads about the woman! It’s not rocket science, dude.

oh police!x in marianes voice!bahaahaha.

175 wow | 06/18/2007 at 6:21 pm
Angie will be on Bill O’Reilly show tonight. Commercial just ran that she will appear to answer questions about the controversy from last week. Should be great, Bill seems to like her and didn’t side with the FOX reporter who started all this
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Angelina is going to be on O’reilly show and ALL of you are talking about George clooney????????? who cares about his liberal- loving Obama ass. Someone give me a recap of O’reilly cuz I’m still at work!

I hope I’m going to see this one soon. I’ve been probably the biggest supporter of Michael Winterbottom here at the site, and this is his highest-profile film to date. I’m not sure about the subject matter, but it sounds like he’s made an interesting film, and I’m willing to always give him the benefit of the doubt:

Hi guys,

I just saw a preview screening of “A Mighty Heart,” the movie about Daniel Pearl. I probably shouldn’t say where or when.

I can say that the only thing I didn’t like about the film was the title, which I think is more fitting for far duller formulaic fare. Indeed, the film could have easily been rather weak and obvious in a TV-movie-of-the-week way. What saves it from going down this road is Michael Winterbottom, the director. He shoots it in a documentary style with a handheld camera, a technique that has worked well for him recently. He also refuses to overly sentimentalize the subject (though he does get close, especially with the closing scenes).

The movie begins as Pearl seeks out an interview with an elusive subject. After making some connections, he ends up in a taxi in Pakistan. After that, we only see him in flashback and the movie focuses on his wife, Mariane, played by Angelina Jolie. I’ve come to dislike a lot of Jolie’s choices in roles, and she could have easily kept me away from this film as well, but I’m happy to say she actually stretches herself as an actress and does a fine job.

Most of the film tells parallel stories. Supported by a number of friends and colleagues, Mariane frets about her husband’s safety as a number of threatening images from the kidnappers come in. Meanwhile, Pakistani intelligence services, assisted by U.S. embassy officials and the FBI, attempt to track down Pearl and his kidnappers. Many of these scenes play out as a police procedural, though the setting is the convoluted and unfamiliar underworld of Muslim extremists in Pakistan. The standout actor in this part of the story is Irfan Khan, an Indian actor who plays the Pakistani captain in charge of the case. You might remember Khan from the recent film “The Namesake,” but I would also highly recommend checking him out in “The Warrior,” a British film shot in India and featuring Khan as the hatchet man of a brutish warlord who experiences a crisis of conscience. Khan is equally magnetic in “A Mighty Heart.” The heavy bags under his large eyes alone speak volumes about the character. The cross-cutting between the two stories works extremely well. You’re neither too bogged down in police-speak and false leads nor too tired out by Mariane Pearl’s grieving.

The setting is utterly convincing. You really feel that you are immersed in this uncertain culture where the west is both an ally to be courted and appeased and a threat to the more extremist elements. Yet it’s not a simple case of the good guy Americans vs. evil Muslim terrorists. This is another key reason why I think Winterbottom is the ideal director for this material. He’s made two other fine films about the contemporary Middle East, “In this World” and “Road to Guantanamo,” and in both he showed an extraordinary sensitivity to the culture and people in this part of the world. In fact, “A Mighty Heart” serves as sort of a companion piece or flip-side to “Road to Guantanamo.” In that film, also based on a true story, a group of innocent British Muslims are caught up in the general round-up of “enemy combatants” in Afghanistan and held captive at Guantanamo. In “A Mighty Heart,” the victim is an innocent American held by Muslim extremists. The camp at Guantanamo is even referenced in this film.

I need to touch on one final issue, which is how can the film have any suspense when everyone who’s even glanced at the news in the past few years already knows how it will end up and that it will end up really badly? It’s really a question of how well the filmmaker practices his art. One of the most gripping scenes I recall from recent films occurs near the end of “United 93″ when the passengers are battling to regain control of the hijacked plane. Of course I knew how it would end, yet I was also living the moment with the characters. The same thing happened to me with “A Mighty Heart.” I was so caught up with the desperate search for the kidnappers that only when the dreaded video camera is delivered did the horrific ending of the real event come back to me.

In short, I would definitely recommend this film as a tonic to anyone interested in seeing something weightier than all the summer blockbusters out there.

Thanks for reading, and if you use this please cite my name as “The Stranger.”

US weekly has a picture of “what if Jen had played Mariane Pearl” the pic looks horrible. Also, Us film critic Thelma Adams think Jen doesn’t have the range to play Mariane

#190 Passing Through

ITA. Angie was better suited for the role than Hallie or Thandie. I love these ladies, but Angie’s skills out weigh both these lovely ladies by far.

Watch out with the trolls because today is MONDAY!! So today is the deadline for tabloids writers to present their story to their editor!! So maybe this “George the PIG Clooney” poster works for a tabloid and he/she is trying to create a story regarding how much george and angelina hate each other!

I have a feeling that the NEW BERMUDA TRIANGLE is going to be Brad/Angie/George

Oh Jesus. Bill O’Reilly? Gawd. I hope she takes some garlic and wears a cross. Ugh. Either way, it’s a win win for AJ, if he tries to screw her (pardon the disgusting visual) she wins, and if he doesn’t she wins.

wolf blitzer is going to excerpt parts of aj interview wih ac on the sit room in the next 1/2 hour

222 George “the PIG” Clooney SUCKS!! | 06/18/2007 at 7:13 pm
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Fcuk, if there is one thing that bug’s the **** out of me it is an illiterate hater! Learn to speak and write correctly before you shoot your mouth off!

What time is O’reilly?

228 Clooney? | 06/18/2007 at 7:18 pm
I’m sorry but clooney’s opinion to me at least doesn’t matter. I don’t have much respect for guys who only date brainless, easy bimbos. That goes to Leo D too, I actually respect men who can handle stronger, intelligent women.
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I don’t care much for Leo, but you shouldn’t assume that just because the women he dates are supermodels that they are “brainless bimbos”. I haven’t heard Bar talk, but I have watched at least 2 interviews with Gisele. The girl is very intelligent, and funny. I was very pleasantly surprised.

STOPING THE MADNESS?

Advid JJ fans have learned that every time a AJ/BP post that starts out positive … it’s soon infested with haters out to stir up drama.

The best way to beat them is… ignore them!

163 Dragonfly | 06/18/2007 at 6:01 pm
87 T&L | 06/18/2007 at 4:43 pm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/16/AR2007061601070.

We’ll just have to cross our fingers for the next project on Pitt’s schedule: playing John Dean (!) in Watergate drama “Dirty Tricks” — co-starring Meryl Streep as Martha Mitchell, Gwyneth Paltrow as Mo Dean, and Annette Bening as Helen Thomas.
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Brad and John Dean and GP as Mo Dean? Does this mean they will be playing husband and wife? hahaha!! OMG, just goes to show you that Brad has indeed put all his GP baggage behind him if he is willing to play that part. His feelings for GP are dead and buried, and he has moved on into a fulfilled life with Angie. I can’t fathom another woman ever turning Brad’s head again.

Can you imagine the tabloid fodder on this one, though? hee hee!! But hey, if it knocks X out of the tabloid picture, then I’m all for it. GP seems to have grown a spine and owned up to her responsibilities, unlike curtain hair girl, and I can’t see GP allowing any rumors to grow before squelching them. Angie has nothing to worry about… not that she’s the type who would, anyway.

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Dragonfly - Brad is NOT doing Dirty Tricks. It’s scheduled to shoot in November, just like State of Play. And before anyone says he’s shot 2 movies at the same time before - O12 & M&MS - you have to remember that they called a hiatus in the shooting of M&MS in May 2004 so Brad could go to Europe to shoot O12 and then resumed shooting on M&MS in August 2004. So that is NOT shooting two movies at the same time.

Also, Dragonfly - the tabloids would have a field day if this happened, but to that I cackle gleefully. Angie scares the sh#t out of Putrid. When they did Sky Captain together Putrid pretty much admitted that. She said she found Angie “INTIMIDATING”. Some have speculated she meant as an actress, but I think she meant on a personal level! Angie would chop Putrid up and spit her out before she even knew what happened. The ironic thing is that after the movie came out Putrid tried to shine it on like she’d never said that and that she hadn’t actually interacted with Angie much on the set. In other words - she’s a big weenie, all talk, no walk…as Brad can testify to himself.

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I agree with you; because i ALSO don’t like that he is doing a movie, much less playing husband and wife with GP. I’m very disappointed with Brad for doing this movie with GP!!

231 Intruder Alert!!!!!! | 06/18/2007 at 7:21 pm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Wouldn’t surprise me.

After all, Jane Pitt was their last hope. The first woman in his life hating the new woman in his life. Coupled with the fact that she knew ___, though no one really knows to what extent, despite the tabs getting a hold of a ___/Jane/Julie shot mysteriously in the wake of the break up.

George has the sad distinction of being the next one on the block. He teases Brad incessantly, therefore, that’s an in for people looking to poison things.

Hey 234, great thanks - and you? :)

…and frankly dragonfly, re Dirty Tricks, I hope it is just a rumor. I think AJ and Brad (but particularly Angelina) already get enough flack in the tabloids without starting another round of ‘triangle part deaux’ bullsh*t with ridiculous ‘Brad and Gwyn back together again’ headlines - I can see it now, the rags will have Paltry and Brad in a Brady Bunch scenario (His 4 and her 2) with Angie crying on maniston’s (or Chris Martin’s) shoulder before it’s over. :lol Not to mention the fact that besides the gift that would be to the tabloids in general, it would also boost Paltry’s dead-in-the-water popularity and career, something she deserves about as much as Maniston. No need to give yet another one of Huvane’s boring obnoxious narcissistic clients a second life on the back and coattails of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Huvane should give both Brad and angie a cut of the 15% he gets from all those b*tches. Damn. So I hope Brad has some sense, and doesn’t do it.

Credit fati

Exclusive: The Mighty Winterbottom!
Source: Edward Douglas June 18, 2007

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21080

ComingSoon.net has interviewed British director Michael Winterbottom four times in the past three years though none of those situations might be considered the ideal. The first time was in 2004, when we talked to him over the phone using less than ideal equipment about his sci-fi flick Code 46. Then in 2005, we sat in a room with him, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon to talk about his period comedy Tristram Shandy: A **** and Bull Story–he let his stars do most of the talking. Last year, it was a crowded roundtable of journalists to talk about The Road to Guantanamo.

A Mighty Heart is possibly the director’s most high-profile movie in his eighteen year career, because it follows the investigation surrounding the kidnapping of journalist Daniel Pearl as told in the memoir of his widow Mariane Pearl, who was six months pregnant at the time. Mariane is played by actress Angelina Jolie, who controversially darkened her skin with make-up to appear more like the real Mariane.

ComingSoon.net hoped to have better luck this time, but let’s face it, being one of the most prolific filmmakers of the 21st Century so far, with only Johnny To offering any competition for that title, Winterbottom is a very busy guy, rarely having time to do interviews in the middle of finishing up one movie or starting the next one, and he was especially in demand to talk about this movie.

Sadly, our limited time didn’t give us a chance to ask him about his next project Genova or his third collaboration with Steve Coogan, Murder in Samarkand, also about a real person involved in recent Middle East affairs, but we did get another chance to look into the way this versatile filmmaker works before he had to run.

ComingSoon: Nice talking to you again. I’ve interviewed you four times, more than any other director so far.
Michael Winterbottom: (laughs) Sorry about that.

CS: Well you’ve made a lot of movies since I’ve been doing this.
Winterbottom: That’s true.

CS: Is this movie going to get the widest release of any of your movies?
Winterbottom: Yeah, I think so. I hope so.

CS: I remember talking to you last year for “Guantanamo”…
Winterbottom: Yeah, it was about this time last year I think.

CS: Yeah, that sounds about right, but was this movie already in the works at that time? It really seemed to come from out of nowhere.
Winterbottom: Yeah, I think we started work on it at the beginning of May last year, so yeah, I must have already been working on it. I can’t remember exactly how it worked, but I think I just popped over here for a week during preproduction. I think we’d probably already been to Pakistan and done a little bit, because what happened was we were offered it in April last year, beginning of May, and so I went out to Pakistan to do some research, and we did a little bit of filmmaking straightaway there and some second unit stuff. I think I’d probably already done that by the time I came to America last year.

CS: Well, you kept it a really good secret, because I don’t remember hearing much about it until September when we first saw the photos of Angie as Mariane. How did this come about? I know that the producer knew your work and gave you the book, where did things go from there?
Winterbottom: Yeah, well really. I actually had read the book a couple years earlier–I liked the book–and then the end of April last year, Brad and [ Dede Garnder ] called up and said, “Would you be interested in making it?” so I went and made Mariane in Paris, and then we all went down to Namibia and spent two or three days talking about the film and Mariane’s experiences and then we started making it.

CS: Was Dan Futterman cast fairly early as Daniel Pearl? How did he come onto it?
Winterbottom: I think the very first thing we did was we obviously started working on the script, so I went back and part of that was to meet all the people who were in the house. I think the first thing we did was I went to Pakistan and met the people like Captain, Dost and others in Pakistan. We also looked at the real locations and went round sort of filming in case we couldn’t get back, which is probably why I didn’t talk about it when I was here. I think we were trying to not tell anyone we were doing it for a while, to give ourselves a chance at getting stuff in Pakistan before it became too difficult, too public. So then, we went over to America after that to meet the people in America like the people from the Wall Street Journal and Randal Bennett, all those real people, and at the same time, do some castings. I can’t remember when it was, but basically we did one set of casting and as soon as I met Danny, I really thought he would be the best person for the part.

CS: Did they already have a script for the movie at this time?
Winterbottom: Yeah, but when they called, they said they weren’t really happy with what they had, and they wanted to have another go at it.

CS: So you ended up doing a lot of your own research rather than going with what was in the script?
Winterbottom: Yeah, obviously meeting the people and talking to them, we had all their stories as well as Mariane’s and then a writer called, Lawrence Coriat, that I worked with before on “Wonderland,” and then I just had another go, going back really to try to work on what the chronology of the story was, to make sure it was as factual as we could, to make it as accurate as we could, and that was the process really. Having dialogue that explains and tells you what need to do, we kind of always knew–especially in the house where all the main stuff happens–that we’d be allowing people to improvise around that, so we didn’t start agonizing about exactly what was said here or what was said there, because we knew it was going to be a guide rather than the sort of final dialogue.

CS: Was there anyone who didn’t want to be involved in the making of the movie like the Pakistani police?
Winterbottom: No, one of the things, and it’s kind of part of the story, was that Mariane managed to make all those people who came to the house get closely involved, so they’re part of the team really. She stayed in touch with them, they’re still close, so Captain, for instance, I think he’s Adam’s godfather. She’s really close to him. The fact that Mariane has introduced me meant they were all entirely cooperative.

CS: Did you shoot the flashback scene of Mariane and Daniel very early in the production?
Winterbottom: No, basically we did a little bit of 2nd Unit when we first went to do research, then we spend quite a long time trying to get permissions to film in Pakistan properly. That section of the film we did in July I think, so we brought Danny over to Pakistan, and we did all the Pakistan casting and did all the stuff with the police, really all the exteriors in Pakistan in July, shooting for a couple of weeks, and then we sort of went off and prepared India. We didn’t really shoot Mariane… the first thing we did was all the French flashbacks, which was the wedding, but that was like September. It was early in the sense of Angelina’s shoot, but we had already done the Pakistan first. Basically, we sort of agreed to do it in the beginning of May, and then it was a mix-up between researching, writing and filming all the way through the year. We still were doing a bit of something in March back in Pakistan, so it’s sort of been spread out and mixed up really, rather than being like “This is the filming, this is the prep time.”

CS: So essentially, you were able to shoot a lot of the search and investigation in Pakistan even before you had Angelina shooting anything?
Winterbottom: We wanted to do that partly just because obviously once Angie has started, as you say, that’s when all the publicity comes out. We wanted to get as much done in Pakistan before people were too aware of the project really.

CS: That’s actually pretty smart. A lot of people were talking about movies like “United 93″ and “World Trade Center” being too soon after the events. This movie follows Danny Pearl’s death in the same amount of time, five years, so did anyone you talked to feel it was too soon to tell this story?
Winterbottom: I don’t know. Obviously, Mariane wrote the book maybe three or four years ago, so in a way, this is Mariane’s story. This is a story that takes place in the aftermath of 9/11. It’s clearly a story that could only have happened since 9/11, because Dan and Marian were in Pakistan in order to cover the aftermath of 9/11, but at the same time, it’s Mariane’s story, more even than Danny’s story, and it’s a story about someone who is incredibly strong in a terrible situation. Given that Mariane is comfortable about it being told, I think the key thing really, ’cause it’s her story we’re telling.

CS: I’m not sure how much you’d been reading in various places about perceptions of the movie, but there seems to be somewhat of a stir in the African-American community questioning the fact that you had Angelina playing the role of Mariane with darkened skin, rather than getting someone who already had dark skin such as Thandie Newton or even a Latina actress.
Winterbottom: I can’t really understand that. How would a Latina woman be more like Mariane, who’s French, half Dutch, half Cuban and a quarter Chinese. It just seems incredible generic, like a non-American is somehow more like another non-American than an American, which is kind of bizarre. I mean Angie’s mother is French, but I think the most tricky for Angelina becoming Mariane was the accent, so I think if there was any issue, it would like, “Why not get a French woman to play the part?” But then of course, you got another set of issues, because the whole film is English. From my point of view, I first met Angelina in Namibia and it was with Mariane, and when I got there, they already knew each other and were obviously friends. Mariane trusted Angelina, and apparently–I hadn’t realized it at the time–but Mariane said in France at the press conference in Cannes that she was the person that asked Angelina to play the part. So Mariane thought she was the best person to play the part. It’s really incredibly weird in America that you kind of feel that anyone who’s not American is the same. It’s a very strange thing.

CS: I’m not sure if it’s an American vs. foreign thing. I think it’s more about getting someone less high profile or someone who looks more like Mariane without having to use make-up.
Winterbottom: As I say, from my point of view, it was perfect, because it’s incredibly difficult to tell a story about someone who’s a real person who’s alive. When I got there, they clearly were very similar people, they’re friends and when they talked about, not only about the film or Mariane’s experience, but when then talked about how they see their roles as women and their roles as journalists or actors, they’re very similar people. As I say, Mariane actually wanted Angelina to play the part, so it was perfect.

CS: Did Angie have to stay in the accent or make-up throughout the shoot to be able to stay in character as Mariane?
Winterbottom: Not in that sense, but the way we film is that we have quite short days, we film for about eight hours, but a lot of the time within the day, we’re actually filming. We don’t really light and it’s handheld, it’s very simple and we shoot the whole scene, so we might be filming for like ten minutes, then we stop for a couple minutes, then we film again for ten minutes. Actually, during the day, they’re probably spending more time filming than not filming, so in that sense, she’s obviously in the accent the whole time, but not in the kind of massive way… I’m sure when she went back to Brad, she wasn’t still talking in Mariane’s accent.

CS: You have all this experience shooting in the Mideast and Pakistan and all these places, so has it gotten any easier at this point? Did you have to do any of the guerilla-type shooting that you’ve had to do on some of your previous films?
Winterbottom: In fact, the stuff we did in Pakistan, we just shot the way we always do, so we had a very small crew. First of all, we just ran out–me and the cameraman and a couple other people–and did some general shots of the real places in case we couldn’t go back, but then we were able to get back, so then we took Danny, so all that stuff like hotel bars, the restaurant where he’s kidnapped, all those places are the real places. We just took our actors into real places, into real Pakistan police stations. We were working with the Pakistan police and doing rounds with them, so yeah, all of that was exactly how we normally film, then most of it is really just inside the house, and again, it was a very simple set-up with seven or eight actors, and we shot in chronological order, so we shot for about five weeks. We just began with the day Danny’s kidnapped and gradually worked our way through to the end when Mariane leaves.

CS: As far as working with the authorities, you actually had real policemen in some scenes?
Winterbottom: Yeah, yeah, obviously we were there before and we spent a lot of time talking to people in Islamabad trying to make sure everyone was happy with the idea that we were filming there, and we had a lot of interaction with the Karachi police. The only kind of problem was we had a lot of hassle from the intelligent agencies, the ISI and the other intelligent agencies, so they were always in the hotel, they were always on set filming us and hassling our crew. It did get quite tricky at one point. We sort of had to stop and decide if we were going to leave or just go and do it somewhere else and we were going to tell everyone what kind of place Pakistan is… but then we finally got results. Sorry, I’ve gotta go, but thanks so much.

And just like that, he was gone, off to catch a plane or a train to somewhere else, most likely to start shooting his next movie.

A Mighty Heart opens everywhere on Friday, June 22, and look for more attempts to get Michael Winterbottom to sit down for an interview in the next couple years.

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I don’t know if it is confirmed. But if it is true, i hope Angie will be on the set all the time, keep an eye on GP. It appears to me that the marriage between GP and CM is not very well. I heard that CM got very angry when reporters ask him about his famous wife GP. why?????

245 Passing Through | 06/18/2007 at 7:34 pm
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This rumor showed up on the thread last year. Brad was being considered for a role as an investigative journalist, not John Dean.

185 coalharbourqt | 06/18/2007 at 6:28 pm

Coalharbourqt - Did you ever hear back from Jared? Not that I want to dredge all that stuff up again…

61 andrea | 06/18/2007 at 4:29 pm
Two points I wanted to bring up. In the Cinematical Interviews, Angelina said she didn’t do comedies because she didn’t think she is funny and so stays away from that. I hope she changes her mind. Personally, I would love to see her do a completely zany, funny character and just let loose.
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I agree. I would love to see her do a not convencional comedy. Like a wes anderson movie.

Angie did make an unconventional comedy-Pushing Tin-and she was brillant in it. It was dry, sophisticated comedy and one of the funniest movies I’ve seen-I bought the DVD as soon as it came out. Angie was so good because she played her character absolutely seriously-much like she did Jane Smith in MMS. I think that it’s her ability to play such “extraordinary characters” (for want of a better description) without being silly that makes her so good at comedy. And whether she believes herself to be or not she’s very good at comedy.

As for Angie acting goofy or silly in a movie-I don’t think so.

Talking Points Memo & Top Story
The far-left, Angelina Jolie & Fox News
Guest: John Diaz, San Francisco Chronicle

Why is there so much unprecedented hatred towards the Fox News Channel?
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I’m not going to watch just to see them rip her apart.

203 J3$$!C@ | 06/18/2007 at 6:54 pm

I rather hear about the “Porgie”(who the heck makes up these names?)triangle than the X triangle. So ill jump on this bangwagon. Brad + George= LOVE.

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“Porgie” was a name given to Clooney by someone who used to post here - Gitane - who’s been MIA for the last month or two. It’s from the children’s nursery rhyme “Georgie Porgie”…

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.

206 sharon | 06/18/2007 at 6:55 pm
193 Passing Through
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I didn’t see any chemistry between Angie and Denzel.

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No, I said Brad for chemistry. Denzel as the most talented actor Angie’s ever worked with. I’m not counting De Niro, who’s a fcuking God as far as I’m concerned, because she really didn’t work with him that much in front of the camera.

Good news PT, re Dirty Tricks then. Hope that’s the case.

I can see how O’Really is setting this up, he’s so f**king OBVIOUS. He will have an evil SF Chronicle Reporter on to continue the Jolie bashing, while he puts on a facade of being restraine, tempered, and ‘balanced.’ Hahaha! What a pantload.

Fox News suck. ..and if Angelina and her peeps didn’t ban them, then they f**king should have.

If it doesn’t go down JUST the way I say, I will eat my cyber hat.

Bait, bait, bait, bait, bait, bait.

Trolls are working hard to try and keep a certain network in the news!

Don’t fall for it —- they have an agenda and we all know it!

Bill O’reilly is a hoker. He got on his soapbox to ho out FOX news. He called Angelina an ultra liberal but there was no interview so far. They just used that tape where a Fox reporter asked Angelina why she banned Foz News. She explained that she didn’t and that was that. LMAO. I doubt there is anymore. Fox is all about the gotcha new but guess what, the gotcha was egg on FOX

224 aintitcool.com

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Thank you for your post, The Stranger. I enjoyed reading it and will look forward to watching the movie.

Who’s going to be the brave fan who watchs angelina getting slaughter on O’reilly and gives a recap?

222 George “the PIG” Clooney SUCKS!! | 06/18/2007 at 7:13 pm

So BAMPZS fans don’t be fool with George Clooney because is NOT a nice guy and he is trying to cause trouble between Brad and Angie!! YES!! George is very very JEALOUS of Angelina!! So don’t defend George; because he is NOT a nice guy!!

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Dude…why are you telling us? What are we supposed to do? The most we can do is laugh at your posts. Go talk to Brad!

I dont think Brad cares about Angelina’s feelings so I wouldn’t put it past him to star in a movie where he plays Gwyneths husband.

227 pokeman | 06/18/2007 at 7:18 pm
US weekly has a picture of “what if Jen had played Mariane Pearl” the pic looks horrible. Also, Us film critic Thelma Adams think Jen doesn’t have the range to play Mariane

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Two comments -

1. US has a film critic?

2. No sh#t Sherlock. I hope she works for free because the donkey from Shrek could’ve told the world that X “doesn’t have the range to play Mariane.”

38 kimbara | 06/18/2007 at 4:13 pm
Angelina is much better than george. Clooney is the one leaking all those quotes to the tabloids and Ted casablanca. He doesn\’t like angelina and has been very chatty about it (I\’m not talking about that stupid joke he made on cannes). Brad knows but ignores it.
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You are lying. I have heard George say nothng but good things about Angie. He likes Angie. He also likes Brad and Angie being together.

275 Brave new girl | 06/18/2007 at 8:11 pm
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Don’t know if you’re a hater or not, but Bill O’Reilly basically said that often times than not, liberals opt to listen to liberals’ interpretations of what he said, resulting in unjustified bias. He questioned whether Angelina was one of the victims of this brainwashing. They showed the clip; she mentioned the memo, noted that it was excessive, and that her staff has apologized for it. Bill O’Reilly then said that he’ll take her at her word and noted that he liked Angelina very much. He then went after the San Francisco Chronicle which apparently used a liberal’s interpretation of his quote about immigration.

Bill O tore into that guy, not Angelina. Besides, he was probably saving his teeth for another story about a judge who gave light sentences to pedophilles.

Angelina did not do anything wrong. She did not ban Fox, why would you worry about her. Brad and Angie are also going on vacation after Brad finishes his latest project. Brad and Angie are not as stupid as some people want to believe, I don’t believe for a second he’s playing GP’s husband. If he does, he has Angie’s blessings but I don’t believe that. Angie is also always on the set with him.

The beaoch didnt even read the book until she shagged the producer for the role. You nutbags would turn on your 1st born if they said they didnt like Brad & angie.

Why doesnt it bother you to be known as a loonies and know that everyone is laughing at you but it bothers you to read someones opinion bout someone you dont know and never will?

255 piper, with a low | 06/18/2007 at 7:46 pm
245 Passing Through | 06/18/2007 at 7:34 pm
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This rumor showed up on the thread last year. Brad was being considered for a role as an investigative journalist, not John Dean.

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I’ve always heard he was set to play John Dean, not the journalist. That’s too close too Redford in “All the President’s Men”. It’s a moot issue - Brad’s not in the movie, he’s just producing it. I really can’t see him WANTING to work with Putrid again after the cr@p she pulled on him. They are on friendly business terms, but acting opposite each other as husband and wife? Nah. As we’ve been saying - when Brad’s done with a relationship he doesn’t look back.

**** Scrolling over all the Clooney BS nonstory gtabbed from a baby’s loaded diaper ***

Angelina was not on The O’Reilly Factor.

the newsweek article is great.

Oh Yeah, i forgot that GP is Huvane client!! Okey, now i’m more worry about this; because if Brad do the movie with GP…. Huvane is going to create a NEW TRIANGLE in the tabloids to give GP publicity!!

Re Brad & Dirty Trick…

Red-hot “Nip/Tuck” creator Ryan Murphy suddenly has Hollywood at his feet, and he’s using his newfound clout to push forward several projects — including the star-studded political satire “Dirty Tricks.”

Listing a cast that includes Meryl Streep, Annette Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow, the writer/director also revealed who’ll be playing the president in his movie about the behind-the-scenes women of the Watergate scandal. “Jim Broadbent is going to play Nixon,” he said of the “Iris” Oscar winner.

In addition, Murphy has coerced a longtime supporter into a star-powered role. “I’m talking to Brad [Pitt]; he’s producing it and I’m like, ‘Well, you’ve got to play Maureen Dean’s husband [John] — you have to play him.’ ”

Murphy added that he and Pitt — a producer on Murphy’s “Running With Scissors,” due in theaters later this month — find the Nixon/Dean story particularly relevant today. “It’s so applicable to [now]. It’s about a woman who basically says, ‘This government is corrupt. This government is not correct.’ Meryl is Martha Mitchell, and that’s what she did to Nixon, and I thought, ‘That’s so timely.’ ”

Murphy is currently developing the film and targeting additional actors.

271 EGG ON FUX NEWS | 06/18/2007 at 8:09 pm
Bill O’reilly is a hoker. He got on his soapbox to ho out FOX news. He called Angelina an ultra liberal but there was no interview so far. They just used that tape where a Fox reporter asked Angelina why she banned Foz News. She explained that she didn’t and that was that. LMAO. I doubt there is anymore. Fox is all about the gotcha new but guess what, the gotcha was egg on FOX

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Like everyone else O’Reilly used the public’s interest in Angelina to sell his show. I tuned in for about 2 minutes and it was obvious Angie wasn’t going to be on, so I turned the channel. Thank God I don’t have a Nielsen box in my home.

284 comingsoon | 06/18/2007 at 8:20 pm
Comingsoon Exclusive
A Mighty Winterbottom
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Thank you for the interview. It’s so much better to hear it from the people involved in the film, than to read about it from some stupid gossips.

Thanks for the o’reilly recap, at least it wasn’t that bad.

Ryan Murphy shouln’t be allowed to make more movies, he did a terrible job with Running with scissors.

i don’t understand why AMH is not released in every theatre in US. I just check the theatre closest to my home to play AMH is 12 miles away. Damn it. anyway, i will go see it.
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AMH will be released in 1350 theatres. A big number for a movie like this, Paramount must have a lot of faith.

297 QQQQ | 06/18/2007 at 8:38 pm

In addition, Murphy has coerced a longtime supporter into a star-powered role. “I’m talking to Brad [Pitt]; he’s producing it and I’m like, ‘Well, you’ve got to play Maureen Dean’s husband [John] — you have to play him.’ ”
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Well that’s how this stupid rumor started. Brad is just producing the film. He hasn’t sighed to play any role in it. There is not a sigle comfirmation. The director was just thinking loudly.

But everyone took his words as the Gospel. Something that it wouldn’t have happend if Paltrow’s name wasn’t in the cast.

Brad’s next projects for this year is “Burn After Reading” which starts shooting in late August and it’s a brief role and “State Of Play” which starts shooting in November. But other than that..NOTHING ELSE!!

I’ve always been an Angie fan, but never followed BP until he got together w/ Angie. Can someone tell me his connection to Ed Norton?

Brad is doing a movie with Gwenyth? WOW, think it will be some nude scenes like before?

313 WOW | 06/18/2007 at 8:58 pm

Brad is doing a movie with Gwenyth? WOW, think it will be some nude scenes like before?
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Like before?? When exactly?? In your dreams?? LMAO!!

this week ok has “scoop” on french vacay

309 think positive! | 06/18/2007 at 8:55 pm
Brad’s next projects for this year is “Burn After Reading” which starts shooting in late August and it’s a brief role and “State Of Play” which starts shooting in November. But other than that..NOTHING ELSE!!

Thank you. He will continue producing but not any acting for a little while so he could be with his babydoll Angelina.

Thanks Jared for the new thread and that great Newsweek article about Angie. She is truly amazing

this week ok has “scoop” on french vacay
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say more!

111 Mmmmm | 06/18/2007 at 5:02 pm

LOL! You’re so cute when you get mad. I imagine you get mad a lot here.

this week ok has “scoop” on french vacay
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can you do a recap of the article?

135 sick of it | 06/18/2007 at 5:18 pm
I am not jen fan either 122. I am sick to death of hearing about jolie too.
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Then why are you on this blog at all? Indulging in your masochistic instincts?

320 egad | 06/18/2007 at 9:03 pm

this week ok has “scoop” on french vacay
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They are saying that because Angie said somethig about France when she was asked if they will continue to travel but she talked about other places too. I think it was in her interview with Larry King. That’s the only source they can have. Whatever details they may write will just be made-up.

come on…we here all have high IQ enough to realize that nothing is the gospel when it comes to tabloid OK.

move on to something else…

PT - why the name Porgie? where did it come from? I know I should know but….

The reason why most of us who dislike Jolie are on this blog is because it is a public blog and we may not like her but if she does or says something that sparks our opinion it is our perogrative to voice that opinion on a public blog just like it is your right to say how perfect she is on a public blog. Just because we don’t like her doesnt mean we can’t share our opinion of her.

Brad and Gwyneth doing a movie…it would be hilarious if Karma bit Angie in the rear and Brad and Gwyneth started up their romance again. KARMA

You make movies without huge stars and here you have Angelina Jolie, one of the most famous women in the world, starring in this movie. Was it weird?

A Obviously, Angelina is one of the famous people you can think of. But I have to say in all honesty, from my point of view the whole thing was made easier by the fact that Angelina was in it. Angelina already knew Mariane. Angelina wanted to play the part. Mariane wanted Angelina to play the part. They’re very similar in lots of ways, in terms of how they saw the world and what they wanted to do in the world. And of course there were loads of paparazzi trying to get photos of Angie, it’s true. But she was fantastic on the set. I know this sounds boring, but she was so low-key. From the beginning Angelina was very conscious of her position. She brought all the different people in the cast and crew together. She was great with everyone. She said, “I’m going to be the Mariane of the set.”

FACT: About Jolie, Pitt & Clooney friendship

During filming of Ocean’s 13, Maddox “pesters” Mom (A. Jolie) to call UNCLE GEORGE (Clooney) to hear his impression of Mr.Krabs from Sponge Bob Square pants.

http://www.topcelebrityblog.com/2007/02/07/maddox-jolie-pitt-loves-uncle-george-clooneys-humor/

340 Hideous | 06/18/2007 at 9:37 pm

Keep dreaming

I think it would be better Karma if Angelina dumped Brad for a woman. A hotter chick than Brad.

Lucy,
Kamusta na ? Did you read Tondogirl’s post this
morning ?

Here’s my theory on Ted C:

Ted C. was making a lot of jokes at Ryan Seacrest’s expense right after Seacrest started working for E! After a very short while Ted’s on-air spot disappeared without anyone being told in advance, including Ted. That same week Ted announced that his contract with E! wasn’t going to be renewed when it came due in June 2007. No further explanation, but the jabs at Seacrest stopped. Now, all of this happened last summer and I don’t read Ted’s columns every week, so if he’s given updates on the situation please let me know. But there has been a discernable change in his demeanor lately, he’s been less professional and concerned about his reputation as a “journalist.” He previously always took pains to let it be known when he was right and didn’t want to pedict things he wasn’t really sure of. I’m certainly not saying that he was often right, but now he doesn’t seem to care either way and just throws things out there. I really knew something was up when he did a “hotie or notie’ sidebar on Angie-I think she was wearing the dress from the TGS New York premiere. He praised her as a hotie but at the end wrote(not a quote) that he was begrudgingly being nice to her this time, but she shouldn’t expect it in the future. It read like a declaration of war. I had never heard him do anything like that before. And it especially surprized me because, for the most part, he had been reasonable and even complimentary towards B&A before.

So my theory? Ted’s being allowed to keep his column in exchange for towing the E! party line. That is-make it into a tabloid column. And go negative on Brad & Angie.

338 Hideous | 06/18/2007 at 9:31 pm
The reason why most of us who dislike Jolie are on this blog is because it is a public blog and we may not like her but if she does or says something that sparks our opinion it is our perogrative to voice that opinion on a public blog just like it is your right to say how perfect she is on a public blog. Just because we don’t like her doesnt mean we can’t share our opinion of her.
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She ain’t perfect that’s why we like her. But more importantly it’s not cute to clog up this board known for the latest accurate information used by all media with immature rants. There are other places that appreciate your type of commentary. Go there.
There is nothing wrong with trying to keep a blog clean and respected. JJ is only 25 but he’s 100 times more mature than the other bloggers. You could own a coffee shop open to the public but you would not tolerate a bunch of vandals coming through your business. get it?