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126 think positive! (the real) | 06/22/2007 at 9:06 am

Thank you MMS for clearing that up!!!
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Anytime. :)

130 missouri girl | 06/22/2007 at 9:08 am

123 Hot Taz | 06/22/2007 at 9:04 am
What did Zahara say to make Brad laughs so hard? She was pointing at the paz n then brad laughs at something she said. Did anyone hear what she says
—————————–She said there’s the ‘people or the paps’ and Brad said yea there everywhere arent they. SO CUTE!!
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Thanks! Lol! She’s such a bright girl! And brad’s funny as hell!

Washington Post.com review
A Blow to the Heart
By Ann Hornaday
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 22, 2007; Page C01

Amournful sense of inevitability pervades “A Mighty Heart,” in which Angelina Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, whose husband, Daniel, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan while his wife and a team of colleagues and investigators frantically tried to find him. The movie, an adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s memoir and directed by Michael Winterbottom, brings those dreadful weeks back with brutally vivid detail as a taut, meticulously crafted police procedural. Part thriller, part melodrama, “A Mighty Heart” recalls last year’s “United 93″ — in its technical prowess and artistry but also in its harrowing emotional arc, one that clearly aims to inspire viewers, though it may just as likely leave them feeling utterly wrung out.
Welcome to the new Cinema of Compulsive Reenactment, wherein excruciatingly painful recent events are rushed to the screen with breathless, almost fetishistic detail, and whose precise aims are subject to interpretation. Is this instant mythologizing a form of catharsis? Closure? Rank exploitation? Or a particularly American, impatient brand of revisionism, designed to create an immediately usable past?
In “A Mighty Heart,” Angelina Jolie is transformed and transforming as the woman whose journalist husband was murdered by terrorists in 2002. (By Peter Mountain — Paramount Vantage Via Associated Pr
These are the philosophical questions that haunt “A Mighty Heart,” and it answers with a degree of subtlety and sophistication that skeptics might find surprising. The film begins on Jan. 23, 2002, the day Danny was taken hostage and a day like any other for the Pearls, both working as journalists in Karachi. (He’s played in the film by Dan Futterman.) Danny is tracking down a lead to a possible connection between al-Qaeda and Richard Reid, the British “shoe bomber”; Mariane, a freelance journalist and six months pregnant, does some interviews, goes shopping for that night’s dinner and checks at regular intervals with Danny by cellphone.
By dinnertime, when he hasn’t come home, the first clouds of apprehension begin to gather. Awareness dawns slowly, then with a terrible, crushing certitude as Danny doesn’t pick up and Mariane makes the first call to the U.S. Embassy. Soon the house the Pearls have been sharing with fellow journalist Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi), is filled with American diplomats, Karachi police and eventually the FBI, portrayed in one of the film’s few comic flourishes by an amusingly no-nonsense female agent played by Jillian Armenante.
Winterbottom, like his countryman Paul Greengrass (who directed “United 93″), has been experimenting with realism to terrific effect in recent years, with films such as “Welcome to Sarajevo,” “In This World” and “The Road to Guantanamo.” In “A Mighty Heart,” he brings all his talents to bear on a vivid, densely layered portrait, not just of one woman but of a city. With handheld cameras and a fearless sense of urgency and spontaneity, he plunges viewers into the neon-lit thrum and impossible beauty of Karachi (where some scenes were filmed), conveying not only its fascination for foreign correspondents like the Pearls but also the daunting, needle-in-a-haystack task of finding Danny in all that teeming humanity. Even amid the polyglot cacophony and chaos, “A Mighty Heart” skillfully threads viewers through a complicated skein of players, political agendas and dead ends in an investigation that ranges from al-Qaeda to Mossad to Pakistan’s political opponents in India.
Quite wisely, Winterbottom doesn’t get too caught up in the ticktock of Danny’s fatal journey, instead using brief flashbacks to speculate on how his abduction occurred. “A Mighty Heart” instead focuses on Mariane, played by Jolie in brown contact lenses and a diadem of black curls to resemble Mariane, who like Joan Didion in “The Year of Magical Thinking” reacts like any good journalist would to being ambushed by personal horror: She keeps her head, assumes control and takes notes. Like Didion, she’s one cool customer.
Jolie is a star of such super-stratospheric proportions that the chances of her disappearing into a character role would seem slim at best. But it turns out that she is the perfect choice to play Mariane, not only because she delivers a restrained, understated performance but because her persona as a citizen of the world — as a U.N. representative, activist and mother — so seamlessly meshes with the global consciousness that the Pearls represent. She blends just as seamlessly with “A Mighty Heart’s” fine ensemble of supporting actors, including Panjabi and Will Patton as U.S. consul Randall Bennett.(Mariane’s quietly appalled gaze as Bennett extols the virtues of Pakistan’s notorious interrogation methods is a moment of physical eloquence typical of Jolie’s astute, vanity-free performance.)
Mariane and Danny emerge in the film as two people at home no matter where they are on the planet, plunging headlong into the countries they’re covering. They’re not adrenalin junkies, as so many foreign correspondents are characterized, but connection junkies, reveling in vagrant moments of mutual comprehension. Of course, it was precisely comprehension that failed when Danny was murdered for being an American, a journalist and a Jew — a blow to his own ideals that makes the film’s agonizing denouement all the more shattering.
But Mariane refuses to put her husband’s murder in a context of American exceptionalism or even personal outrage; during one of her first television appearances, she notes that during Danny’s captivity several Pakistanis were victims of terror. One gets the idea that for Mariane, her fiercely held humanism isn’t a matter of sentiment but rather seasoned practicality: It’s about accuracy.
A central, even existential contradiction vexes “A Mighty Heart,” which is that one can deeply admire it as a piece of filmmaking and still harbor misgivings about why we need to have these stories packaged for the big screen. If that bigger question will never be easily resolved, “A Mighty Heart” still avoids its genre’s twin pitfalls of gratuitous masochism and cheap sentiment. “United 93,” for all its rigorous refusal to engage in reassuring theatrics, never quite transcended the former; as for “World Trade Center,” which also focused on the events of Sept. 11, 2001, its eagerness to impose redemptive meaning on that day resulted in a surfeit of the latter.
“A Mighty Heart” threads this needle with sober assurance, offering a clear-eyed retelling of Danny Pearl’s murder but finally, in focusing on Mariane’s response, delivering an affecting and, yes, redemptive lesson in moral comportment. Faced with unspeakable grief, Mariane doesn’t give in to xenophobia or selective indignation, but with her best self turns her loss into a plea for the cosmopolitanism she and her husband personified.
One can only hope that the nuance with which the filmmakers make this point won’t be lost on audiences more accustomed to the rhetoric — political and cinematic — of retribution. Ultimately, “A Mighty Heart” is an epic romance, at once doomed and full of hope, about two people in love with the world, even when it didn’t love them back.

76 think positive! | 06/22/2007 at 8:38 am
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I know it is hard but let it go. Let ignorance talk to itself. If we engage they will never go away.

The videos of brad taking pax and z to school get better and better everyday!! Z was sooo cute today, pointing out the photographers to Brad and saying “People” and his laugh..just melted my heart. I can totally see Brad giving Angelina a call right away, saying something like “Honey, Z said the funniest thing today!”

Passing Through! Hey lady-miss u 2 dath-I think someone stole your idea up thread-That came straight from U-thieving beyotches! Miss thta mind of yours and oh when the Jane pic came out all I could think of is your fic with Doug and Vince on the phone-You’re sooo talented-

Oh My! How cute are these kids. Absolutely adorable. Z is such a cutie pie…just want to pinch her cheeks. And what a beautiful smile. She really has lots of personality. She’s probably thinking, yeah take my picture, cause I’m beautiful, but don’t mess with me. She’s pointing and saying don’t get too close, just stay right there, o.k :)

Reuter / Hollywood Reporter
Jolie’s ‘Heart’ pumps life into Oscar Chatter
By Gregg Kilday
29 minutes ago
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% 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.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Yeah Brad has been looking hot as Las Vegas lately; I noticed that a few threads back when he had on a Tee. His mucles was showing; and he’s looking sexy as hell. Angie and their kids does the body good.

All toddlers have such infectious smiles and Z is no exception. Looking at the photo of her smiling, makes me want to smile right back at her.

heyheyhey….Scooby doo = ROTFLMAO!
grow up!

Will be seeing A Mighty Heart today.
I am pumped!!

Brad said it was just a turtle crossing the road and Pax was fascinated, but Z was ready to go to school!