Angelina Jolie: Hire Some Fast Elephants!

fr other thread:

Angie is driving getaway car- very MAMS-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfurmW5PNh8

maybe she planned this trip as part of fathers day gift (recall his bday gift in PA)

yipee!!! daddy & mommy time!

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:46 am Post subject: The tide HAS turned on Jolie

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America’s Disgust at ‘perfect Angelina’
Brad Pitt’s partner is accused of hypocrisy as she tries to control interviews about press freedom movie, and bans selected journalists from its premiere.
She’s one of the most beautiful women in the world, a talented actress who lives with a man many claim is the sexiest man on the planet and she has a penchant for doing high-profile good deeds. But now - perhaps inevitably - the Angelina Jolie backlash has begun. The stunning movie star generates headlines almost every day but now those headlines have taken a distinctly negative turn.

For the backers of her new film, A Mighty Heart, which tells the story of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, negative publicity around Jolie’s recent activities is becoming a potential threat to its success.

First was a disastrous PR gaffe after one of Jolie’s overzealous lawyers tried to force journalists to sign a contract before they could interview her for the film’s publicity drive. The document said they could not ask Jolie any personal questions and that the interview ‘… could only be used to promote the picture’.

Though the world of celebrity interviews is often full of such tacit agreements, the existence of a legal contract saw many reporters, including those from USA Today and the Associated Press news agency, cancel interviews. The fact that A Mighty Heart is about the issue of press freedom made the story all the more ironic. ‘Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press,’ said Fox TV’s Roger Friedman.

But that move was just the latest in a series of press kerfuffles for Jolie’s staff had previously tried to ban Fox journalists from covering her new film’s premiere, until the studio behind the film, Paramount, intervened. At the same time some of the adulatory coverage of Jolie associated with the film has itself become the subject of intense criticism. Men’s magazine Esquire is putting Jolie - barely clothed - on the cover of its July issue. The magazine is also running a lengthy profile and interview with Jolie inside.

Yet instead of drawing people into watching the movie, the piece has been the subject of intense media-bashing. On the popular _ magazine Slate the article was trashed under the headline: ‘The worst celebrity profile ever written?’ And elsewhere a review of the film was headlined: ‘The Mariane Pearl movie can’t escape the shadow of Angelina Jolie’ and went on to say that casting had trumped acting because Jolie was an actress whose ‘global recognizability quotient is exceeded only by that of the sun’ and hence we cannot suspend belief long enough to believe she is Pearl. Its a damning turnaround for the actress.

Perhaps some of the backlash is the inevitable consequence of how Jolie and Brad Pitt have skilfully exploited the intense media interest in their lives in return for publicity for charities and causes that they are interested in. But even that has started to backfire. Several US newspapers reported last week that she has abandoned a charity in her eldest son’s name. She established the Maddox Jolie Project to protect the eco-system and watershed conservation values in his homeland of Cambodia. But according to ’sources’ Jolie has stopped funding it.

Other recent stories in celebrity magazines have criticized her child-rearing skills and speculated that Pitt is reluctant to marry her. She is constantly compared with his ex, Jennifer Aniston.

But she still has support. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell last week heaped praise on the actress for her work raising awareness of landmines and refugees. ‘Her work with refugees is not something to decorate herself. She studies the issues,’ he told Newsweek.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/142678.html

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:) perfect timing :) just before i go to sleep! there’s another brangelina thread here. love it!!!

I love that MSN interview. I hope they enjoyed their Mommy and Daddy alone time.

JJ was it necessary to print where they are staying? How important is that? Is the hotel paying you? Yes I know this was printed somewhere else but how is this relevant? At least use the past tense. What next? Social Security numbers?

Thank you for this interview.. We all know about the MJP and knws she’s dediated to this endeavor.

now everyone sees why brad and angelina are together???
i just can’t imagine jennifer aniston spending an entire day sightseeing and visiting museums…
it would be great if they came to madrid too.. we also have plenty of things to see. And almost no paparazzi..
here they are more respectful. Beckham could see it while he was here.
he had a quiet and private life.

Wouldnt it be cool if they left those kids in a hotel and decided to live alone now?

34 sam p

ATTENTION…that all she wants attention. She read the scipt before she signed on. The real question is did she give back her pay check for being an consultant on the movie.

Hello, I’m from Brasil and I’ve posted a few times in these threads. I have a great admiration for them both, first for their acting skills, but also for their use of their power with the media to attract attention where it’s needed. Films like “Twelve Monkeys” ,”Seven” and Guy Ritchie’s film (can’t remember the title in english) showed that Pitt was far more than just a handsome face. Jolie’s talented piece of work don’t need to be ennumerated. They are committed to their causes, but also to live a real, significant life. I can’t understand why people, specially in the US are so eager to hate them, criticize them, and analyse all their moves in a negative way. I guess this is part of north american culture that produced that guy who murdered John Lennon, or that other who shot Reagan (wasn’t him crazy about jodie Foster, claiming he was doing that because of her, etc ?). People seem to have a very sick relationship with those stars. I’ve read the questions posed to Sean Smith, the guy who interviewed her for Newsweek, I think, and those where sick, hatred people. I’m so glad to see they manage to live their lifes above all this. Once Jolie said that Pitt is a very down to earth person, specially because he has a wonderful family who love and support him, and is very close to his family. Family, friends and values. Living life how you believe it must be lived (and not spitting hate through the net), making a difference as citizens and as parents. I guess this is what keep them safe from the negative feelings. Wish them all the luck, a happy and long life.
The same for you all

As much as I enjoy seeing photo’s of this couple (& thier kids) … I feel so sorry for them. They can’t even get away for some much needed persoanl down time without being photographed.

He went with aniston too, so don’t lie.

that muslin girl ashri(frend of daniel pearl) bash again a mighty heart in today washington post she call it a migty shame.so why she keep doing this,she is being stupid and arogant.she should just shut up because why keep bash over and over if you had tell your opion to the producers ,she start to bringing bad publicity ant its shameful
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I read it too and at least is not a bashing editorial to angelina, she’s still pissed at the producers (Brad) and at Paramount. I don’t get why she would to this so public, forget paramount and the producers, what about showing a little respect to marianne?