Angelina Jolie - “Hello” Magazine Interview

Hell, Brad wasn’t stolen, he walked away on his own accord. Happy husbands do not leave!

Jolie’s “Heart” pumps life into Oscar chatter

By Gregg Kilday
Jun 22, 2007

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There’s no official starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn’t until February 24. But a number of races already have begun — some quietly, some not so quietly.

This weekend, Paramount Vantage is launching “A Mighty Heart,” director Michael Winterbottom’s re-creation of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl at the hands of Pakistani militants. Starring Angelina Jolie as Pearl’s wife Mariane, who led the search for her husband, the film debuted in May at Cannes.

As of Thursday, the documentary-like thriller rated an 80 percent positive rating on RottenTomatoes.com, but higher-end critics have been even more positive. Vantage isn’t being shy about using the “O” word: Print ads quote Ben Lyons of E! Entertainment proclaiming, “The early favorite for best picture at this year’s Oscars,” while TV ads also invoke its Oscar-worthiness.

Actually, months from now, when the Oscar campaigns are in high gear, “Heart’s” awards hopes probably will coalesce around Jolie’s performance as the actress succeeds in the tricky job of capturing a real-life woman whose tragic story made headlines in 2002. But a nomination isn’t automatically guaranteed since this year’s best actress field is one of the strongest in years.

Lionsgate already has released Sarah Polley’s “Away From Her,” a portrait of a couple coping with Alzheimer’s, starring a luminous Julie Christie as a woman battling the disease, which could earn the actress the fourth nomination of her career. Picturehouse recently launched “La Vie en Rose,” starring French actress Marion Cotillard as chanteuse Edith Piaf. At the Seattle International Film Festival, which concluded last weekend, Cotillard was rewarded with the audience award for best actress, a harbinger of future trips she could well make to the winner’s podium.

Next weekend, another possible contender enters the field when Focus Features debuts “Evening,” Lajos Koltai’s screen adaptation of the Susan Minot novel. Vanessa Redgrave stars as a dying woman looking back over her life.

And that’s just the best actress heat, which is destined to get more crowded as the year progresses and other films — like Universal Pictures’ “The Golden Age,” in which Cate Blanchett reprises the role of Queen Elizabeth I, which earned her an Oscar nomination for “Elizabeth” in 1999 — enter the field.

At the same time, other categories are just beginning to take shape. Next weekend also will see Disney’s release of Pixar’s “Ratatouille,” which is earning rave advance reviews. Although just nine reviews have been posted on RottenTomatoes to date, they have registered a resounding 100 percent approval rating. There’s still a wide array of animated films to come: among others, 20th Century Fox’s “The Simpsons Movie”; DreamWorks’ “Bee Movie”; and Sony Pictures Classics’ “Persepolis,” which uses animation to tell a very grown-up story of a young Iranian woman caught up in the Islamic Revolution. So “Ratatouille” isn’t necessarily a shoo-in, but by summer’s end, it’s likely to have established itself as the animation front-runner.

However it ultimately fares at the box office and with critics, Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” which also moves into wide release next weekend, is sure to kick-start discussions about the documentary race. The film itself already has elbowed its way into the national conversation.

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NEW THREAD!

Sorry,

While I do think that there are some disgruntled Angelina fans out there b*tching about Brad, I also believe that some of these people expressing their new-found concern for Angelina are the same people who prayed for the day when Brad and Angelina fans are at each others’ throats, should they break up. No, they haven’t broken up and there are no signs that it’s on the horizon, but they just couldn’t wait for the fireworks.

So here they are.

And as for Brad’s lack of gushing of Angelina, maybe it’s because he is a man. Men aren’t subjected to the personal questions that women are and they can shut that line of questioning down quickly, whereas, as demonstrated by the GGs, women are demonized for not cooperating. And he probably learned his lesson… when people couldn’t fathom why the Golden Age ended, they referred to his old quotes, as if his feelings were supposed to remain static.

The public, more specifically, Angelina fans, are not entitled to know how he feels about Angelina. Her children should know; her family should know; maybe even her friends should know but her fans, or rather, her fans who imagine themselves as members of her family, don’t need to know squat!

And to that @$$hole who is claiming that Brad is trying to gaslight Angelina in order to get the kids… gimme a fcuking break! You would think that Jamie, Mickey and Holly would step forward and intervene, since their loyalties lie with her. And as witnessed by many pap pics, Brad visited Marcheline during her illness, with or without Angelina. Do you really think that he could look into that woman’s eyes and then into Shiloh’s eyes, and press ahead with a plan to kill her?!!!

Whether you’re an Angelina fan or a hater posing as one, you really need to get over your jealousy or your fear that you are being left behind. She has someone- h#ll, she has five someones that she loves and needs to care for every single day. Something gets her up in the morning and it’s not your whiny chorus of ‘If you were mine, I’d slay every dragon for you’ bullsh*t!

this was from his interview with Diana Sawyer in 2005, before the VF and the pity party.
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Didn’t you heard?

BRAD AND JEN ARE FRIENDS!

Odd that the actress is still close to her former in-laws? No way, says Pitt’s brother Doug. “Jennifer is a friend of Brad’s,” he tells PEOPLE in its new issue. “Why wouldn’t she be a friend of ours?”

298 Jesse James Promo | 06/22/2007 at 2:05 pm
Jesse James will open in limited release, the studio will try to push Casey Affleck to some awards. Brad will do only 1 big interview and right now the magazine will be :Interview. He will not talk about his personal life, only a few mentions of him being a dad.

Brad is the producer and actor of Jesse James. He will do more than one interview. He will do tv. He will also answer questions from a pool of reporters. He will do international press.

Here’s the editorial Lainey wrote in January when haters attributed Page 6’s herion blind item to Angie.

Sure makes Ted’s blind item look like recycled trash, doesn’t it?

The Pitts,The Big Easy,The Gloat,and The Editorial

Us Weekly laid claim to the official confirmation this week: Brad and Angelina have bought a home in New Orleans, the French Quarter, and are said to be enrolling their children into local schools, making a permanent move away from LA to The Big Easy.

Warning: Gloat ahead. Stop reading if you can’t stand it…but didn’t you know that already?

As I first reported exclusively back in November the decision had been made as Brad’s involvement with the green housing project became more pronounced. In regards to the kids and their education, again January 3rd, I reported on the schools that were being considered: St George’s Episcopal and Audubon Montessori.

But enough smug, on to the smut and the editorial I promised on the Page Six blind item. Many, many, many of you have written to follow up, sorry for the delay - travel, awards, trying to stay warm in Park City. Still, the extra few days gave me more time to get some more information…recap below.

First a refresher on the Page Six Blind Item – a humanitarian who hooked up with a rock star friend in LA 5 months ago and got strung out on heroin. At the time, when only the item came out, I wrote that it sounded to me to be more Pam Anderson than Angelina Jolie.

Humanitarian: Pam is AIDs spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics, hardcore party rumours for years, contracted Hep C, commonly infected through needles, a long list of rock star connections…and of course, you have to admit, the girl looks bunk-f*ckin’ ROUGH.

However, in a subsequent column about Marilyn Manson two days later, screwed up in his own right, there was a mention of Marilyn’s friendship with Angelina, followed by the online dissemination of photos of a painting he created of her with nails popping out of her arm, which naturally led many to conclude that the heroin-using humanitarian is none other than Mrs Pitt herself, especially since she’s so thin and walks around pouting and reminding you of that Deep, Dark, Harrowing Past.

First of all, I have no idea if that is indeed the answer behind their mystery. It’s their blind item, not mine. I’m not sure how they go about giving clues and I’m not sure whether or not they deliberately drop red herrings to divert from the real culprit. All I can tell you is what is told to me about Angelina’s behaviour and the observation coming from my own sources.

Is she weird? Yes. Is she demanding? Yes. Can she be a *****? Hell yes. Has she had a troubled past? Absolutely. Did she make out with her brother? Uh huh. Did she use heroin in the past? Rumoured to, yes. Was she headed for self destruction not too long ago, pre-Maddox? Obvious and admittedly so.

But seriously y’all. The Pitts might be courting the media and they might do it very well but have you ever for a second characterised Angelina Jolie as America’s Goth Sweetheart and Favourite Homemaker?

Please.

The girl is a badass. She looks better with blood dripping from her lips and her neck than she does in a bikini sunbathing in Malibu. Angelina Jolie was Lindsay Lohan BEFORE Lindsay Lohan – a dysfunctional family, a dangerous and wild past, and the anti-everything that glossy Hollywood usually peddles.

In recent years however, since Maddox, since ditching BBT, since becoming involved with the United Nations, Angelina Jolie has said that she’s become a new person – the kind of person who no longer hurts herself, Earth Mother and Mother Theresa, saving the world one adoption at a time, criticising Madonna, pissing off the MiniVan Majority, playing perfect wife to Brad Pitt, shunning Hollywood and the luxe life.

According to the anti-Angelina movement however, the façade is starting to crack. According to some, Angelina is too f&cked up to be this mentally stable and too strong willed to be tied down and she buys babies and she hates The Chosen One and is going to ruin her baby’s life and now…courtesy of Page Six, she’s shooting up.

Because heroin is apparently so benign one can use it casually without fear of addiction. Because she supposedly used to be an addict and she fell off the wagon and when you fall off the wagon after a serious addiction, it is actually possible to have the self control to avoid the feast or famine syndrome, only using occasionally without affecting your work life and family life and self destructing all over again. Because that’s how addiction works? Because that’s how harmless heroin can be?

Okay. Sure. Why not?

But take this for what it’s worth – even though she’s absolutely freaky and manipulative and calculating and bitchy, even though she’s all those things, I absolutely agree – according to my sources, Angelina Jolie is not using heroin.

Angelina Jolie is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN. Representatives of the UN are expected to go through medical procedures like immunisation and drug testing before and after missions on a regular basis. As you know, a Goodwill Ambassador is responsible for drawing attention to important issues advocated by the UN, Angelina’s star has certainly helped the organisation in the few years she’s been involved. And of course the UN is happy with the relationship, so long as her celebrity and her actions do not jeopardise the message and the work.

Which is why she, like all employees and representatives of the UN, is tested and tested often. Which is why I hear she has never been observed to be engaging in behaviour that would compromise the organisation. Which is why she hasn’t yet been fired. Which is why there hasn’t been a carefully worded statement announcing her intention to step back from her duties because she needs more time to care for her children.

If that were to happen, perhaps the suspicions might be founded.

Right now however I’m told she passes each drug test with flying colours. But then again, you are welcome to draw your own conclusions about cleverly avoiding detection. Conspiracy, coincidence, conspiracy, coincidence.

As for her body and her behaviour at the Golden Globes: does she exhibit signs of a junkie? Is she bored with Brad? Was she fidgety? Did she hate being there? Is she a smug ass ***** who can’t be bothered to speak to people?

I spoke with the always delightful Nelson Branco who had the privilege of being inside the ballroom that night, seated behind Kyra Sedgwick. Nelson is a writer for TV Guide and In Touch, a ‘Mo of course, and therefore as catty as they come and deliciously so, with the trademark gay man’s eye for detail and observation and a nose for the dirtiest smut ever, especially the kind barely noticeable to some, but absolutely 100% obvious to a Queen.

According to Nelson, the Pitts were lovely, Angelina did not leave the table once, she is extremely calm, she was engaged and chatty with her tablemates, she and Brad sipped water all night, they sat close together, and she is thin but not disgustingly so.

Nelson also said that Matthew Perry was nuzzling the neck and kissing the shoulder of his co-star Sarah Paulson who has had a longterm lesbian relationship with Cherry Jones for years…weird, non? Sorry, I digress. But I’m kind of bored now. Editorial over.

Reported On 1/19/2007

http://www.laineygossip.com/ArticleList.aspx?ID=5626

I just wanted to add that I know that there are fans who don’t like Lainey because she criticizes B&A. And she calls those fans loonies, though I always feel that it’s with a bit of affection. But, whatever, I like Lainey. I like her writing style, her ability to turn a phrase, get to the heart of the matter and the way she keeps journalistic credibility by writing about her subjects’ pros as well as cons. And I especially like that, in the end, she always recognizes who the good guys are. (except that her fashion sense can be really wanky)

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Yep they are friends. Just like Brad is friends with Juliette Lewis and Robin Givens and any other ex he has. Real dear to them all…LMAO. Plus…did you answer my question…With all that defending Pitt did of Jen, why did they break up? You are showing your true colors b/c I don’t know any Angelina fan who has interviews at their fingertips of Brad/jen.

318 BRAD DEFENDING JEN | 06/22/2007 at 2:17 pm
this was from his interview with Diana Sawyer in 2005, before the VF and the pity party.
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BRAD AND JEN ARE FRIENDS!
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Please no one believes that not even People magazine. Jane and Jen are friends but Brad and Jen are not. Doug was just trying to put his best spin on the pictures. One more time Brad has not spoken her name since Spring of 2005. Jennifer on the other hand has said his name many a time.

320 think positive! | 06/22/2007 at 2:18 pm
That is what Angie said in her recent interview with Larry King.

JOLIE:The one thing I have learned in my life is that a relationship is not about having fun together, it’s not about hiding behind each other and trying to protect each other, but it’s about having a shared view of what you want to create and what you want to do in this world — how you want to raise your family or, if you have a bigger purpose together. And Danny and Mariane had that.
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Whoever thinks that Angie cares what kind of idiocy the Tabs and the outlets who are basing their stories on the tabs will say next and that she needs any kind of defending because of that then he/she needs a quike connection with reallity.

Angie had this thing in her life from when she endered the Hollywood scene. There was always critisism about her in the press. Not just now.

I’m so sick and tired of hearing Brad has to do this and Brad has to do that when from the first time they got together he rearly left her sight. He was beside her when she gave birth.He was right there when her mother died. He adopted the kids and he loves them and conciders them as his own blood. but somehow he will all of a sudden show his love and support if he will say something so Star and Life and Style will stop saying that she is too thin or that she a bad person and blah blah!!

You people are something else. And at the end of the day if she will ever feel that something needs to be said she will say it on her own. They are both two grown ass people and they can talk about them selves as they want and whenever they want.
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You illustrated your point perfectly!

What else do they want Brad to do? Oh, yeah…they want him to talk to OK! and Life & Style. Figures, since haters live and die by what the tabloids say.

#320: TP, do you think it would help if Brad put out an ad in the newspapers about how much he loves Angie and how he cares enough to sue anybody who issues a wrong word against her?

I think that’s the only way they can get some people to shut up. However, he would be opening up a new can of worms because then they’ll even make more fun of him and never hear the end of it.

Nah…there really is no way around it. They showed some PDA at the red carpet and look at what all that accomplished…this new squabble on does he really or don’t he? They really can’t win no matter what they do.

Let’s just support their movies. We fans will talk with our money and show the haters they can’t get us down with all their rhetoric.

“The disturbing thing is that instead of somebody saying, “Oh, this looks like a person that’s actually dealing with something [emotional],” they say, “does she want to fit into skinny jeans?” When I [read] anything that says I’m too thin, I think “Good, good!” Let it be a criticism. I don’t want to encourage young girls to be too thin.”

What a fantastic comment. It reveals a lot about her self-awareness and maturity.