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Brad Pitt Resumes Daddy Duties
Brad Pitt holds hands with 3-year-old son Pax and 2-year-old daughter Zahara, taking them back to school at the American Embassy compound on Wednesday in Prague, Czech Republic.
Momgelina, aka Angelina Jolie, is busy shooting the forthcoming action thriller Wanted (The U.S. premiere is set for March 28, 2008) with Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy.
The Jolie-Pitts were recently in New York City for the premiere of A Mighty Heart, which Angie starred in and Brad produced.
A few bigger pictures inside of Brad, Pax and Zahara…
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but I think its **** that Brad gave his brother the green light to talk to People about him being friends with Jennifer still
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We don’t know that he did that. It wouldn’t be the first time Doug has said something that’s come back on him and he’s had to clarify. He also said in 2000 that the marriage between Aniston and Pitt “will never happen”
it’s a attempt to stop the tabloids stories
everyone is friend
now they are telling us it’s an old story,move on
but we know they are just civils
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If that was the case Doug would have made a comment how his mom spend a great week with angie the days before, but he only goes on record to tell that Jen is a fan fovorite between the Pitts.
Angelina doesn’t deserve this ****.
#74 / Help
He means “No Way” is it ODD that JA is still close to them, after all she is a friend of BP, which also makes her a friend of theirs.
So I gotta ask, how many time is that article gonna be posted today? Not that their anything wormg with it but I’d like to mentally prepare myself….you know.
By David Ansen
Newsweek
June 25, 2007 issue - Like old-time Hollywood movie stars, Angelina Jolie has always seemed larger than life. Not one to disappear into a role, she makes the character fit her fiercely glamorous persona. “A Mighty Heart” changes all that. Playing Mariane Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic militants in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002, Jolie does a miraculous vanishing act, down to her complex French accent, inflected with the Cuban and Dutch of her parents. Smart, prickly, courageous, her terror often covered over with steely flashes of anger, Pearl—as anyone who saw her on TV after her loss—refused the public role of victim that the touchy-feely American media tried to impose on her. Jolie honors her fortitude with a performance of meticulous honesty. Every flicker of Mariane’s conflicting emotions passes like quicksilver over Jolie’s face, but nothing is milked for pathos.
This is in keeping with the tone of director Michael Winterbottom’s taut, almost documentary approach to the search for Danny Pearl (Dan Futterman), who vanished in Karachi while pursuing a lead on a story about the shoe bomber Richard Reid. Following closely Pearl’s memoir, John Orloff’s screenplay unfolds like a police procedural. We are as much in the dark as Mariane as the investigation frantically proceeds, headed by the Pakistani counterterrorism expert known as Captain (Irrfan Khan, of “The Namesake”).
Winterbottom (”In This World,” “Welcome to Sarajevo”), who favors a handheld, vérité style of camerawork, has always been expert at gritty atmospherics. Shooting in Karachi, often in the very locations where the tragedy unfolded, he refuses to tart up an already riveting tale with Hollywood melodramatics. If this sometimes means that we are as confused about what is going on as the participants, so be it. Though we know the outcome, we still hang on every false lead, hoping against hope, like Mariane, that the story will have a different outcome. (Mercifully, the murder itself is not shown.)
Winterbottom’s aversion to sentimentality doesn’t mean you won’t be moved by “A Mighty Heart.” Jolie’s piercing cry of grief when she gets the news of Danny’s death cuts right into your heart. But like many of Winterbottom’s movies, it falls a step short of its full potential. Its tact is both its strength and its weakness. The climax feels rushed: it’s the rare movie these days that feels too short. The intriguing supporting players—Mariane’s friend and fellow journalist Asra (Archie Panjabi), whose house becomes headquarters for the search; the American security agent Randall Bennett (Will Patton), who seems perversely excited by the danger; the Journal editor (Denis O’Hare), who flies to Mariane’s side, and the dedicated Captain, whose relationship to Mariane is more fleshed out in the book—are all characters we’d like to know more intimately. Winterbottom gets the feel of reality pitch-perfect, but his British reticence prevents him from making the risky leap from a documentary surface into a deeper kind of art.
95 hey | 06/20/2007 at 9:40 am
it’s a attempt to stop the tabloids stories
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They can’t POSSIBLY think this will do anything but FUEL more tabloid stories about Brad wanting Jen back or them having “secret meetings” or him “using his mother to tell her he still loves her.” Like I said, they’re not stupid. The best thing to do was to say NOTHING as they have done in the past. They’ve thought it appropriate in the past to say nothing about things like, oh, I don’t know, Angelina hating her own biological daughter, but THIS….THIS they feel the need to issue a comment on? Please.
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96 Come on | 06/20/2007 at 9:40 am
Doug has come out and said anyone who says that they do not like Angelina is an insult to them
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Thats right, one time they say something, and what was that, more than a year ago? Have they said anything since? Not just them, but Brad? The negative tabloid stories about Angelina don’t stop. And I realize that she’s strong and may not care, but the fact that Pitt and his family didn’t feel the need to ever correct negative things or to spin them when the tabs attack Angie, but ONE TIME Jane Pitt is “caught” secretly meeting with Brad’s ex, he and his brother feel the need to issue a statement clarifying that Brad and Jennifer and the family and Jennifer are still friends is highly, highly bothersome.
Not only Jane but Doug loves jen too. The Pitt family has spoken they all are Team Aniston :D
Now the tabloids can go on for months how The Pitts miss jen and how Brad still loves Jen. Thank you family Pitt.
Review: Jolie Powerful in `Mighty Heart’
By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
(06-19) 16:09 PDT , (AP) —
When you’re an international superstar — when you’re Julia Roberts or Tom Cruise, for example — it can be difficult for audiences to accept you in challenging roles, difficult for them to dissociate the persona from the performance. Lately this phenomenon also has been true of Angelina Jolie, with her well-documented adventures in adoption and globe-trotting with Brad Pitt.
But in “A Mighty Heart” as Mariane Pearl, the wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Jolie reminds us that she really can act, that the supporting-actress Oscar for “Girl, Interrupted” wasn’t a fluke, that there is indeed substance beneath the sex appeal. She deeply immerses herself and, as a result, stands tall as the film’s graceful heart and soul. It’s pretty hard to imagine that her name won’t be at the forefront again come awards season this year.
(Likely to get overshadowed in the mountain of praise Jolie will duly receive is Dan Futterman as Pearl himself. The Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of “Capote” only gets about a half-dozen scenes to give us an impression of who this determined journalist was, mostly in flashbacks, and he does so with subtlety and intelligence.)
Director Michael Winterbottom (”24 Hour Party People,””Welcome to Sarajevo”) wisely applies his trademark documentary-style approach, making us feel the building tension and dread as a multicultural coalition of investigators and journalists drops everything to track down Pearl’s kidnappers. (The unadorned, fly-on-the-wall camerawork comes from longtime Winterbottom collaborator Marcel Zyskind. John Orloff wrote the no-nonsense screenplay based on Mariane Pearl’s memoir, “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny.”)
Like the stylistically and thematically similar “United 93,” this is a film that clearly needed no dramatic embellishment. And like “United 93,” we know the devastating ending from the moment we walk in, yet may find ourselves silently, futilely hoping that things will turn out otherwise. Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants because he was Jewish, and the killing was videotaped. Thankfully, though, we don’t have to see it.
But being aware of his outcome makes each early moment sadly meaningful — the image of Danny pulling away in a taxi for his fateful meeting while researching shoe bomber Richard Reid, a casual mention that he might be late for dinner, a perfunctory “I love you” on the cell phone before saying goodbye.
Once Danny fails to return to the home where they’re staying in Karachi, Pakistan, on the night of Jan. 23, 2002, Mariane — herself a journalist for French radio — puts her skills to use trying to determine what might have happened to him. She is six months pregnant with their first child, a son Danny wanted to name Adam, but she moves quickly and efficiently. At her side from the start is his longtime friend and colleague, Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi), but as the hours tick away and the situation grows more grim, their circle expands to include investigators, editors and ambassadors.
Winterbottom puts us smack in the middle of them, gives us a seat at the table as they piece together names and faces, times and places. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll always be clued into what’s going on. The sensation of realism that permeates every frame of this film means that we also experience the same chaos these people endure; it can be frustrating but, then again, making us omniscient wouldn’t make any sense.
Leading the investigation is the head of Pakistan’s counterterrorism unit, a man known as Captain (Irrfan Khan, with tremendous presence) who turns out to be more caring and sympathetic than he initially appears. He orders his men to scatter through Karachi’s crowded streets, dark alleys and hidden back rooms, rounding up the usual suspects.
This, by necessity, takes us away from Jolie. We truly miss her presence, and when she’s gone, “A Mighty Heart” can get a bit draggy. For a big chunk in the middle it feels like a standard crime drama — though it’s a strikingly crafted and stirring one.
“A Mighty Heart,” a Paramount Vantage release, is rated R for language. Running time: 108 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:
G — General audiences. All ages admitted.
PG — Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
PG-13 — Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
R — Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
NC-17 — No one under 17 admitted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/19/entertainment/e160920D80.DTL
#101 Come on - IMPOSSIBLE that Brad didn’t know that Doug was going to talk to People or that Doug didn’t get Brad’s permission first. Impossible. Doug has said in the past that he’ll call Brad and/or his people and ask what, if anything, do you want to have us say about story X, Y, Z.
Angelina does not need defending. She said on Larry King that she and Brad do not hide on each other’s back.
86 lara | 06/20/2007 at 9:35 am
You gotta love brad’s family, at the samllest thing they jump to defend jen and make her look like roses while angelina gets ************.
WHERE THE HELL WAS BRAD’S FAMILY TALKING TO PEOPLE MAGAZINE WHEN ALL TABLOIDS SAID HIS FAMILY HATED ANGELINA. WHERE?
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Why would they support someone who doesn’t love their son/brother enough to MARRY him?
They obviously don’t trust her, and neither should Brad. I bet she wants to vacation in France after Prague to be near Olivier Martinez.
Angelina’s a S-K.A.N-K and the Pitt’s don’t trust her. Smart people. Brad will wise up soon and dump her, he’s setting the groundwork.
Doug Pitt has expressed his family love for Angelina, his mother and sister were with Brad and Angelina at the premiere. He has said so many good things about Angie, calling Jen a friend, is just what it is.
so called fans who are pissed all the time about something and mostly at Brad. Um I don’t believe you are really fans of the Jolie-Pitts. You wouldn’t want drama and trouble for them constantly. The real fans know the deal. They are happy and enjoying their life, all this other crap means nothing to them. They are not as petty and immature as you guy;s, thank God.
Some of you just like to constantly fight and blow things out of porportion, its so ridiculous.
It’s not your life.
Love it that they didn’t waste any time and went to People magazine to tell everyone they still love Jen. :D
They NEVER did anything like that with angelina.
hahahahahaha
Pearl Film Could Help State Bureau
By MATTHEW LEE
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 19, 2007; 3:50 PM
WASHINGTON — The State Department’s little-known law enforcement and protection arm, eager to raise its profile, is trying to take advantage of the global buzz around Angelina Jolie’s film about journalist Daniel Pearl’s murder in Pakistan.
The department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security is trumpeting its role in the Pearl case ahead of the opening of “A Might Heart” on Friday.
DS, as it is known, focuses on the film’s portrayal of Randall Bennett, a Diplomatic Security agent who was posted to Karachi, Pakistan, when the Wall Street Journal reporter was abducted there in 2002. Bennett played a key part in the hunt for Pearl’s kidnappers and killers.
In the past week, the bureau has arranged interviews with Bennett for news outlets and has posted a three-part video discussion with him on the State Department’s home page under the title “The Daniel Pearl Murder: A First Person Account.”
“It’s a good news story for us because Randall was … instrumental in capturing the kidnappers and murderers of Daniel Pearl,” said L. Kendal Smith, a spokesman for the Diplomatic Security bureau.
Unlike government agencies that promote themselves in Hollywood, the State Department and Diplomatic Security normally shy away from publicity, concerned that attention might compromise their ability to work quietly behind the scenes.
The bureau’s 1,500 special agents provide embassy security, advise private U.S. citizens and companies, conduct criminal investigations and hunt for fugitives overseas.
“We walk a fine line on this,” Smith said. “On the one hand, you worry about publicity affecting your job, but on the other, you want to be recognized for your accomplishments.”
So, Jolie’s decision to make a film version of Mariane Pearl’s book, “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life & Death of My Husband Danny Pearl,” was an opportunity, especially given the centrality of Bennett’s character, played by veteran actor Will Patton.
“This is a unique situation since Randall was an integral part of the resolution,” Smith said. “We want to say, ‘Hey! Here is one of our guys and he does great things.’”
Bennett attended the premiere of “A Mighty Heart” last week in New York and will soon be heading back to Pakistan to serve as the regional security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad after a yearlong stint in Baghdad.
In Karachi, he was one of the last people to see Pearl before his Jan. 23, 2002, abduction while researching a story about Islamic militants in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The day before, Pearl saw Bennett to ask advice about his intent to interview an alleged colleague of would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid, a meeting the agent recommended take place in a public venue.
“We just sort of hit it off,” Bennett said of the meeting. “He had a really great smile, a good personality, good character, a goodhearted guy who was trying to do what was right. We liked each other and had made plans to get together after.”
That second encounter never occurred as Pearl went missing and was eventually killed by his captors despite frantic efforts to secure his release. During that time, Bennett became close with Mariane Pearl.
“Everybody became very tight,” Bennett says, full of praise for her. “We were crushed that we had not been able to get Danny back for her, and yet two days after she found out this had happened, she pulled herself together and threw a thank-you dinner for everybody who had been involved.”
With Bennett’s help, several men were arrested and convicted for Pearl’s murder. The investigation continues, and earlier this month Pakistani police detained two more suspects.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061901233_2.html
Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearl’s movie
Mighty Heart, Mightier Spotlight
Solo for diva: Angelina Jolie in ‘A Mighty Heart’
Image: Paramount Vantage
by J. Hoberman
June 20, 2007
A skilled actor vanishes into a role; a movie star appropriates it. As presence trumps character, the star personifies Brecht’s alienation effect, and whatever its ostensible subject, the movie becomes a vehicle—the latest installment in an ongoing career or, in the case of a great star, a public myth.
Angelina Jolie is the major alienation effect in A Mighty Heart, although she’s not the only one. The hectic pizzazz with which hired gun Michael Winterbottom directs this tale of terrifying terrorism is another distraction—and so is the movie’s true-life premise. An addendum to last year’s 9/11 movies and a sequel of sorts to Winterbottom’s Road to Guantanamo, A Mighty Heart is based on one of the most disturbing events of the 9/11 aftermath—namely the case of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, abducted by jihadi extremists in Karachi and, five weeks later, brutally executed on video, in part because he was a Jew.
A mondo-global, insanely urgent, staccato procedural in which each shot arrives like a bulletin, A Mighty Heart is characterized by sensational, quasi-documentary location work in swarming Karachi and a sense of near-constant frenzy. Pearl’s briskly staged abduction sends the movie into controlled chaos. The crime triggers a dense montage of flashbacks and action cuts, accompanied by head-spinning techno-babble—a manhunt with a half-dozen agencies busily tracking emails and cell phone calls.
After his capture, Pearl (Capote writer Dan Futterman) appears only in flashback—a few video teases notwithstanding, the movie resolutely refuses to show him in captivity. A tough Pakistani cop (Irrfan Khan), wholly committed to the case and willing to torture prisoners when necessary, serves as a minor hero. But the heart of the movie, of course, is Pearl’s wife, Mariane (Jolie), seven months pregnant and compelled to endure the torments of the damned. Based on Mariane’s memoir, the movie is true to her clear-headed politics, even while refracting them once more through the media’s rainbow prism and the glamour baggage that its star necessarily brings.
Oscar notwithstanding, Jolie belongs less to Hollywood than to the magic kingdom of publicity—in Cannes, where A Mighty Heart had its world premiere, she was referred to as the planet’s most photographed woman. Google serves up 358,000 wildly clashing images. Over the past decade, her persona has mutated from tattooed Goth girl to possibly incestuous cyber-dish and Esquire’s “sexiest woman alive” to its current, suitably contradictory state—most fully expressed by Kate Kretz’s five-by-seven oil painting Blessed Art Thou, in which, posed as the Virgin Mary, a beatific Angelina floats along with three cherubic children on a cloud above a Wal-Mart checkout line. Jolie is Our Lady of Humanitarian Narcissism: Not we but she “are the world,” good deeds illuminating her divine person in a blinding blaze of glory.
A Mighty Heart, which was co-produced by Jolie’s consort, Brad Pitt, is the celluloid equivalent of Blessed Art Thou. Jolie’s Pearl is an almost mystic presence. Not since Lara Croft has the actress had so apposite an avatar. Jolie plays Mariane as an icon—her complexion darkened and hair tortured into a perfect mass of ringlets. Jolie as Mariane Pearl is not as extreme a notion as, for example, John Wayne playing Albert Schweitzer, or Jennifer Aniston in the role. As striking and preternaturally poised as she is, Mariane Pearl is herself a great performer—as demonstrated when she went on TV to argue for her husband’s life.
No less than Jolie, the actual Mariane ascended the red carpet at Cannes; in the movie, her character is imagined as a star. Possessed of an iron will and a miraculous presence of mind, she’s surrounded by an entourage yet awesomely solitary in her tragic isolation. When the worst inevitably occurs, no one is able to hug or even comfort her—she goes off alone. The movie is fundamentally a solo, and the creepiest thing about A Mighty Heart is the ease with which this terrible tale becomes a meditation on divadom. A limited actress but an overwhelming presence, Jolie cannily saves all emotional fireworks for her big scene.
Has Daniel Pearl been eclipsed? Blame Brecht. As Mariane, Jolie not only thinks faster but looks better than anyone else. Whatever happens, she’s never less than gorgeous. There’s hardly a moment when Jolie is onscreen that you can’t sense the presence of makeup artists and hair stylists hovering anxiously just off frame.
I believe there is an article from a Missouri newspaper that had quotes from Doug Pitt saying they all loved and accepted Angelina.
Somebody posted it here months ago.
But eh, I agree this is damage control over Jane getting duped by X. I believe the scenario that Jane was lured over there into a trap. Possibly the elder Pitts were in Malibu enjoying Brad’s Beach house? Makes sense, especially since Brad and Angie had to go back to work in Prague.
This was it for X and Jane. Do you think Mrs. Pitt wants anything at all to do with X after this? Hell no! I hope the fannytoons enjoyed it while it lasted, because this is the LAST they will see of anything like this.
Meanwhile, Brad and Angie are all loved up in Prague working on yet another movie. Yes!
My gosh, what is with people acting like the people article means the end of the world? Some reactions I just don’t get. Maybe it’s just me. :)
Pakistan at “Heart” of Pearl story
Tuesday June 19 10:17 PM ET
Pakistan is not the safest place for western visitors these days, but English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom knew he had to shoot his movie about murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl on location in the world’s largest military regime.
“A Mighty Heart,” which revolves around Pearl’s 2002 kidnapping and his wife Mariane’s subsequent search for him, opens on Friday through Paramount Vantage.
“Given that one element of what Daniel and Mariane were doing there was trying to report and show people back home what Pakistan was like, it seemed to be essential that we try to film there,” Winterbottom said.
Having used actual locales where key events took place, such as the Hotel Akbar and the restaurant where Pearl was kidnapped, the director said: “It’s not only about being in the right country, it’s about being in the right place.”
Winterbottom, who had worked in Pakistan twice before, first flew with a small crew to the country for a quick research trip. There, he met with officials and others involved in the Pearl story and filmed some locations just in case the movie wasn’t going to be allowed to film there. But he didn’t have to film on the sly because the country is more open than one would think, he said. “When you’re there, Pakistan is a pretty relaxed country. It’s like being with a video camera in New York. You’re not being surreptitious.”
For the Pakistan portion of the shoot, crew members took a hostile terrorist training course, which was required to get insurance. The American actors, including Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman, had security personnel also assigned to them.
But that still didn’t prepare Winterbottom and his team for the mixed signals they received from the bureaucratic system. Many government agencies in Islamabad, as well as police agencies, were cooperative and supportive, but others in the intelligence community were not happy.
He recalled that a Pakistani intelligence agent had the film’s extras — who received official permission to dress as police officers — arrested for the crime of impersonating police officers.
The cast and crew also began noticing that people were following them to the sets and videotaping them while they were filming.
“They weren’t beating anyone up, but they were clearly trying to dissuade people not to work with us,” Winterbottom said.
In addition, “Heart” filmed five weeks of interiors in India, with a house in Pune doubling for the Pearls’ home in Pakistan, the story’s central location.
The world might recall the images of dozens of motorized rickshaws chasing Jolie down the streets of Mumbai, but Winterbottom said filming in the second-most-populated country in the world was considerably easier.
“It didn’t affect filming at all, to be quite honest,” he says of the press attention. “I’m sure it was a hassle for them, but (the photographers) weren’t on set. It wasn’t like people on the street hassling her at all. The whole thing with Angie was really just press photographers.”
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
:D :D :D :D
Brad and his family really SUCK bigtime. Wishing Angie the BEST!!!!
Actually, if I was Aniston I’d be pissed by that statement from Doug. It’s patronizing. Like it’s been said up thread everyone knows Jennifer and Brad are not friends. Too many snarky comments between and by both of their PR reps to believe that and Aniston’s friends. Her friend Lee came right out and was quoted in USWeekly (about shiloh) “how do you think Jen feels? Brad acts like she never existed” That’s not friends. I kinda think it’s a big F.U. to Aniston, like she’s Brad’s friend why wouldn’t we be friends with her? It’s all about Brad which leads me to believe that’s Aniston sole purpose in keeping communication with his family.
Maybe it’s just me but I took his statement as an insult
93 Interesting | 06/20/2007 at 9:39 am
86 lara | 06/20/2007 at 9:35 am
You gotta love brad’s family, at the samllest thing they jump to defend jen and make her look like roses while angelina gets ************.
WHERE THE HELL WAS BRAD’S FAMILY TALKING TO PEOPLE MAGAZINE WHEN ALL TABLOIDS SAID HIS FAMILY HATED ANGELINA. WHERE?
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Lara - exactly.
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I agree with you! That is so wrong of them! It is not OK to talk about one visit, and say nothing about 2 years of rumor that they hate Angelina! It was also easy for them to say to People magazine : We love Angelina and we are proud on her and kids and everything that she does!
the kids look so adorable where is brad tattoo?love both angie and brad and that won’t change for anything!
Brad family is publicly go on record because Brad is going back to jen. He’s just preparing the field.
The Pitt clan happy for Brad and Angelina and their children.Remember this old wonderful interview:
Jolie and Pitt expecting baby; Springfield family members elated
Sony Hocklander
News-Leader
Doug Pitt confirmed this morning to the News-Leader that Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby with his brother, Brad Pitt, as reported on People magazine?s Web site.
When asked if his family was ecstatic about the baby, he replied,
Absolutely.?
First and foremost, I’m just happy for Brad and Angie. It’s a big step. I’m just happy for them, he told the News-Leader.
Doug, who by early this morning had already fielded half a dozen calls from media worldwide, said he’s glad speculation has ended.
He hopes the media will give his brother and Jolie a break.
They just want a chance to enjoy it, like everybody else, he said. I would love for the press to just give them some space, to let them enjoy it.
According to People magazine’s Web site, Jolie told a charity aid worker Monday, Yes, I’m pregnant, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she is filming ‘The Good Shepherd’ with Matt Damon.
Representatives for both stars confirmed the report, according to People.
It’s the first biological child for Jolie, 30, and Pitt, 42.
A month ago, Pitt’s publicist, Cindy Guagenti, confirmed a legal petition was filed in Los Angeles seeking to change the names of Jolie’s adopted children to Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt.
Doug Pitt wouldn’t say how long his family has known about the baby, but they’ve had several opportunities to get to know Jolie.
It’s great, he said of his brother?s relationship.
Brad Pitt brought Jolie and her kids to visit his family in Springfield on Nov. 20. Brad’s nieces and nephews had a blast, with Maddox, 4, and Zahara, 1, Doug told the News-Leader a few weeks later.
Pitt’s mother Jane Pitt, visited her son in California around his Dec.18 birthday on a girl trip, with Doug’s wife Lisa,sister Julie Neal and Brad’s nieces.
None of the family visited Brad in California the week of Christmas or New Year’s Eve, Doug said, despite what celebrity tabloids have reported.
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