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Brad & Angie Book it Outta Bilbao
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fly into Prague airport via private jet after a relaxing two-day stay in Bilbao, Spain without the kiddies.
The loved-up couple stayed at the Hotel Marqués De Riscal in Elciego during their stay in Spain. Brad and Angie also checked out the Guggenheim Bilbao, designed by world-renowned architect Frank O. Gehry (one of Brad’s favorite architects).
A Mighty Heart opened this weekend, which starred Angelina and was produced by Brad. It opened to so-so numbers, pulling in $4 million.
Steve Carell’s modern-day Noah comedy Evan Almighty took the top spot, raking in $32 million, which was less than half of its predecessor Bruce Almighty starring Jim Carrey. For shame!
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#485 / Julia
Rotflmao….good one, very good one. I honestly didn’t think you’d respond. Alright, so you know…I don’t go around trying to identify people, it’s just that you make it too easy. It actually takes the fun out of blogging…it does. Yeah, it’s kinda hard to enjoy the comments when you know the person who wrote something nice, is the same person who wrote the opposite a few minutes before. Do us (well maybe only me) a favor….try to change your writing style, okay? And maybe if you could tone down the resenstment of BP and AJ fans that oozes from your posts….it might go along way in making your posts less recognizable. I can go back to enjoying the posts and you can continue to be Jekyll and Hyde in peace and everybody wins.
The “Not using my real name” bit….I gotta say, that’s a nice touch. Lol….of course I don’t expect you to use your real name….duh! But you do have a regular handle, one some have come to like…one which under normal circumstances actually does write something sensible…too bad it’s all a facade.
“Beware of African Girl”….Lmao, Classic! Reminds me of those “Beware of Dogs” signs you see hanging on gates, giving the impression that there’s something to worried about. The funny thing is, half the time….there is no dog
PS
BF = Best Friend.
BFF - Best Friend forever.
BBF - I don’t know what that one stands for….it’s quite puzzling.
Oh Shoot! I wasn’t supposed to respond, right? Oh well, I guess tonight is mot my night of listening to commands.
472 Frenchy | 06/24/2007 at 11:52 pm
So far Plan B has a good track record putting out distinguished films like A Mighty Heart as well as box office like The Departed. Brad’s been involved in really good quality films lately, producing wise. It just makes his company that more attractive to work with.
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Thanks. Good to know that Brad’s retirement plan is still on track. I realy think in a couple of years, he is going to act very little - like Robert Redford has done.
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499 Thank You | 06/25/2007 at 12:43 am
…. The audience were mainly women, which to me kills the idea that all American women hate Angie, and of course they were crying as they left the theater….
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According to an earlier poster, more than 60% of AMH viewers were women over the age of 30. Time to re-segment the minivan majority.
Frankly, I wasn’t at all sure when Angelina decided to accept being the face of S t john knits, an AMERICAN brand designed to appeal to women of a particular age. But, the numbers don’t LIE. Angelina has been very successful as the face of SJK.
Most of the minivan segment who can’t stand Angelina, aren’t gonna buy SJK’s clothes, because most likely, they can’t afford them, anymore than they will watch AMH, because they can barely understand the tablies reports.
from souliejolie.com
a very happy brad & angie plus a very cool bodyguard in lavender =):
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x188/elempee/brad-angie-airport-prague-23-6-0-2.jpg
Brad and Angie have left the kids in Prague and are headed somewhere on their environmentally-unfriendly private jet. To the US to try to save AMH from bombing further? To rehab for Anjawlina……
Mariane Pearl is everything that Angelina is NOT! There will be a few fans that like it, but overall the movie will bomb!
Brangelina are mediawhores, without the ‘celebrity’ crap they would be unknown as neither is particularly talented or intelligent. They are lumps of pouty, pretty meat who’s fake image sell’s magazines….
JOLIE fans, mighty heart is doing badly at the box office. I am glad it got those reviews, now the blame can solely be put on Angelina Jolie. Looks like even the numerous interviews detailing her lover and kids (read trophies)have not helped her cause……..
Totally awesome pics.
521 lylian | 06/25/2007 at 1:06 am
Most of the minivan segment who can’t stand Angelina, aren’t gonna buy SJK’s clothes, because most likely, they can’t afford them…
AND they can’t fit in them. Too many twinkies and little debbies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19265190/site/newsweek/
‘My Happiness is True Revenge’
Mariane Pearl on life since the murder of her husband, reporter Daniel Pearl, and the movie her story inspired.
Web Exclusive
By Sean Smith
Newsweek
Updated: 2:31 p.m. PT June 16, 2007
June 17, 2007 - “A Mighty Heart,” starring Angelina Jolie, is based on the best-selling book by Mariane Pearl about the murder of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, by Al Qaeda members in Karachi, Pakistan, in early 2002. The movie details Mariane’s struggle—with the help of Journal editors, Pakistan counterterrorism experts, FBI agents and others—to unravel the terrorist network and find Danny. Much in Mariane’s life has changed since then, including the birth of their son, Adam, who is now 5 years old. The film opens June 22. Pearl spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Sean Smith from her home in Paris about the film, her friendship with Jolie, the politics of terror, and the true meaning of revenge. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: Were you prepared for the huge response to your book when it was published in 2003?
Mariane Pearl: Well, it wasn’t something I was writing to be successful, so I had no expectations. It was so personal, I didn’t know if it was something people would want to read. But I think you touch people’s hearts if you’re writing from that place within yourself.
Often people write books about painful experiences to find a sense of closure. Was that your objective?
When I started writing this book I was still pregnant, so it was kind of an emergency for me. I knew I had to write it for my son, Adam, and for Danny. But it felt like I had just came out of hell and now I had to go back in. I’ve never tried to really “heal.” I was more preoccupied with how to un-break my life and how to answer what had happened to me.
In March, the federal government released a statement from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay, claiming, in graphic detail, that he personally killed Danny. How did you react to that?
[Attorney General] Alberto Gonzales called to tell me that he was releasing [the confession] to the press, and I told him, “This is just PR.”
Because Gonzales was under investigation for the firing of eight U.S. attorneys?
Right. Gonzales was in trouble, and he was trying to look like he was doing a good job with terrorism, and that’s the only reason he released it when he did, and I told him so. This was not news. [Mohammad] had been saying that for a long time. I felt very sad because someone like Khalid Sheik Mohammad can have a gruesome, graphic description of a murder and every [media outlet] is going to pick it up.
What did you do?
I wrote a statement and sent it, but this is a repeated struggle. All you can do to oppose what [Mohammad] does—or what Gonzales does, for that matter—is show dignity. Dignity is the opposition.
Why did you want to have a film made of “A Mighty Heart”?
I didn’t want to do a movie. I just didn’t think it was right. It took me a while to agree to meet some studio producers.
Why?
The only way I was going to do a movie was if someone understood why I wrote this book in the first place. I was also worried that Danny would be turned into a saint, or that everything was going to be oversimplified. I see how people deal with issues related to terrorism, and it’s very hard for people to embrace complexity. And, when I started meeting with producers, my fears were confirmed. One told me, “This is a great political thriller.” I thought, “No way.”
Brad Pitt ended up producing it. How was your meeting with him different?
First of all, we were contemporaries. He understood that this was a serious time in history and that we all needed to do something about that. And he had actually read the book, and he understood why I wrote it. We had the same intention.
Do you feel you and Angelina have shaped each other’s worldviews?
We have very passionate conversations. [Laughs.] I always learn from her, and I never walk out of a conversation with Angie without learning something. She doesn’t acknowledge borders so much, and neither do I. It’s a voluntary view of the world. She’s capable of respecting other cultures while remaining herself.
What was your reaction when she said she wanted to play you?
She didn’t ask me. I asked her.
Really?
We had talked a lot and shared a lot of things. We had known each other for about a year, and I just felt that she understood my heart. That is what I wanted. I thought, “If somebody is going to play me, I don’t care that she looks like me.” It’s about something much more important. I asked her because I trusted her.
When she was preparing to play you, what kinds of questions did she ask?
We had very open-heart talks. We talked about our relationships with our mothers. Everything that was important to me I told her, so it was very intense. But she didn’t ask me about anything that’s in the book, anything she didn’t need to ask me about. She was very protective that way. When she started shooting the film, though, I decided not to go to the set, so she was on her own a lot. The other actors got to talk to their real-life counterparts more
I felt it would probably be harder for her if I was around, and it would be difficult for me. I absolutely had no desire to control anything. When I decided to trust them, I trusted them entirely.
Angelina said she had a tough time perfecting your accent.
[Laughs.] She said, “I love you, but your accent drives me crazy!” I’m not even aware of all the difficulties she went through, and that’s not having to do with skin color or accent. To be friends with someone and then have to embody the most difficult thing in her life, that’s not easy.
Speaking of skin color, there was a lot of uproar about Angelina playing you because she’s white. Some people think a woman of color should have played you.
I am Cuban, but I’m also Dutch. Should a Dutch person play me? It’s not about skin color, it’s about how a person behaves that matters. Aren’t we past this?
It’s ironic that this film hit that particular nerve, considering that it’s so much about cross-cultural unity. You had so many different races of people helping you search for Danny after he was kidnapped.
To me, it’s a story about Danny being held by extremely intolerant people, and yet we, in that house in Pakistan—Christian, Hindu, Jew, Buddhist, Muslim—came together to find him. It’s as if two visions of the world were fighting each other. That’s how I see it. That’s how I wrote it. So yes, it’s way deeper than the color of your skin.
We talk about the “war on terror” a lot since 9/11. Are we fighting the right battle? Has your view of how we should fight terrorism changed?
That’s a complex question, and there are two layers to it. One is political, which is complicated and depressing. With politics and governments there are always compromises. It’s just not clean. The second layer is personal. Terrorism is a psychological weapon, even though it uses physical means. It stops you from claiming the world as your own. It stops you from relating to other people. It creates fear and hatred. The only way to fight terrorists, as a citizen, is to deny them those emotions. That is the only thing terrorists don’t expect. Everything else they expect: retaliation, bombing, attacks. All of that is exactly what they want. Deny them fear, and they lose. I know that requires a lot of self-control, but if we don’t exercise self-control, I don’t think you can secure any kind of peace.
Yes, but how do you get the average person to see that?
I’m not saying everybody has got to start understanding that. It’s about the incarnation of that attitude. I write a column for Glamour magazine and I travel the world and write about people who are doing exactly that. I have to say, a lot of them are women—ordinary women, who are role models. It just takes one person, one leader, to do that, and it has the power to make people think.
It’s a pretty noble reaction to terrorism, especially considering what happened to you.
I’m not saying this because I’m a nice person. [Laughs.] It’s not forgiveness that motivates me. It’s revenge. Terrorists expect retaliation. It’s very easy to want to hurt someone who has hurt you. The one thing they’re not expecting is my happiness. That’s true revenge. And when I see Adam, and I see how happy he is, I think, “I’m winning.” But it’s not like happiness is something worry-free. I’m in a battle here. A world vision shaped by people who don’t want you to claim the world as your own can squelch the purpose of an entire life. Confronting AIDS in Africa or poverty in India, and when you see children suffer—it’s hard emotionally—but that’s your work as a human being. How could I live all this time without having any idea that it was going on? I’m more afraid of being in a bubble than I am of wide-open spaces.
What was it like for you to see this film for the first time?
Very difficult. It’s very, very close to my experience, so it’s difficult for me to be objective. But what I can feel is the respect and the friendship that I have felt from everyone involved in the movie, from day one. I was right to have trusted them
With the book, and now the movie, you have to keep talking about this period of your life. After five years, does some part of you want to put it on a shelf and move on?
It’s not that I enjoy talking about what happened to Danny. I don’t like to be thrown back into the most difficult moments of our story. But that’s not my story with him. I married him, and we had a really beautiful relationship, and we have a beautiful son. So I have much more than his death in my life. I knew that the way he was killed could hijack the person he was. My victory, I think, is that Danny is present, in a lively way, in my life and in Adam’s.
You were five months pregnant with him when Danny was kidnapped. Adam is 5 years old now. What’s he like?
He’s great! [Laughs.] I’m not claiming any objectivity. He looks a lot like Danny. He has the same sense of humor, the same sense of joy, and he’s a very wise little boy. Danny was very serious about being silly, and Adam is very silly.
I heard that Brad and Angelina’s daughter, Zahara, has a crush on him.
[Laughs.] Definitely. Which is really cool, because I love Z. They look very cute together. It’s perfect.
michael winterbottom interview:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1175073/reviews.php?critic=18&sortby=source&page=1&rid=1640517
In the Q&A with Sean Smith one of the people asking questions asked if maybe Angie made different types of movies, no Tomb Raiders, etc, then maybe people would believe her as a humanitarian. WTF. Why does this woman have to alter or change who and what she does to convince people that she is for really? The nerve of this b@tch. Peace.
I forgot this. People ask more of Angie than they do the president. Remember Jane Fonda was once hated like this, but because she spoke out against the Vietnam War. Angie has not spoken out against Iraq and she is still hated. Peace.
Brad ~ get your own style. Johnny is the only one that can rock that look, he just doesn’t seem to have an identity of his own so he morphs into the same style of whomever he’s dating or whatever the latest style is.
another pic from souliejolie.com:
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x188/elempee/brad-angie-airport-prague-23-6-0-1.jpg
523 reply | 06/25/2007 at 1:07 am
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I’ve read quite a few bizarre posts on JJ, but that one really is near the top of the list. What drug or drugs are you taking?
529 reply | 06/25/2007 at 1:18 am
Brad ~ get your own style. Johnny is the only one that can rock that look, he just doesn’t seem to have an identity of his own so he morphs into the same style of whomever he’s dating or whatever the latest style is
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So anyone wearing a fedora is copying Johnny Depp and anyone wearing a scarf is copying Jen?
Well, thank god I’m wearing my undies. Guess that means I’m not copying Lohan and Britney. Wouldn’t want that comparison, lol.
hey there poster-friend #372
thank you for that link to the charlie rose interview with Daniel Pearl’s father.
I watched the whole thing and it was very moving and thank you, because it also explained the last thing Danny Pearl said on that wretched video…….(about the his grandfather…)
Unless I missed it, I wonder why in the movie Angie/Mariane does not explain why that line is so heartening for her and the family?
It is such an uplifting thing to share with the audience……….anybody have any ideas?
there is no prophet in their own country
no matter
Angelina is usefull in the rest of the world
520 African Girl
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i think you need to back the **** off. i don’t know why you are so insistent that you know who i am but just because i give my opinion on comments and my answers vary does not mean i have a jekyll and hyde thing going on. you are a ******* freak for trying to call people out on a world wide anonymous blog. i don’t see anyone here trying to guess who you are, so why are you trying to peg me? and if you don’t enjoy my comments then don’t read em, and if you don’t enjoy the comments of the people you think i am then don’t read those either. i’m not here to do you any favors or tone down anything. i am just here killing time like everyone else, not here to answer personal questions about my BF or anything else. Beware of African Girl is a warning that you are keeping tabs on someone and that is unnatural and strange.
532 :lol: | 06/25/2007 at 1:26 am
So anyone wearing a fedora is copying Johnny Depp and anyone wearing a scarf is copying Jen?
Well, thank god I’m wearing my undies. Guess that means I’m not copying Lohan and Britney. Wouldn’t want that comparison, lol.
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523 reply
What in the world are you? What planet do you live on? Can you even read? These pics clearly say they are returning to Prague from an overnite visit to see FGehry projects in Spain. They are in Europe, distances are not so great, so one is able to visit many interesting places. There are also pics of them in Spain.
Your brain must be totally scrambled. AMH has not bombed, it has only been in theatres for three days, it is an indie, made for only $16 mil. It has already made back 25% of its budget.
AMH is a movie for intelligent and rational people, a group you most definitely do not belong to.
You sound like a most bitter miserable person.
Reading positive reviews about AMH makes me want to watch the movie more. I am wondering when will this great film be shown here in the Philippines. Angie is a very popular figure in our country too. Lots of Filipino celebrities/journalists/politicians/newscasters/students/employees,people from all walks of life, not just ordinary citizens, really look up to her. She is admired not just because she’s evidently an excellent, talented, gorgeous, beautiful, stunning actress but because of what kind of a person she has become. She has become a role model to us. I mean, from her dark years to her being a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador & recently became a member to the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, not to discount the fact that she’s a good family woman, it seems everything falls into the right places. She must have done something really good to deserve all this. She must really be a sincere, good person. She really must have a mighty heart.
There are different kinds of moviegoers. There are people who go to the movies merely for entertainment, to give them some kind of relaxation after a hard day’s work or what have you, who prefer “pop-corn’ kind of films. However, there are those who also want to be educated in the process, just by watching a certain film. AMH, as i understand, is an intelligent film. It wants to give a RELEVANT MESSAGE to the public. I will watch this film because I want to learn what it is trying to say. Yes, I also watch entertaining films but once in a while I also want to watch films WITH SENSE & SUBSTANCE. Those that have SIGNIFICANT HUMAN EXPERIENCE (S.H.E.)… Intelligent films can be entertaining at the same time. We just have to appreciate & acknowledge what it can do to us, as indvidual persons. The feeling is rewarding if you felt a different kind of satisfaction after leaving a moviehouse. The satisfaction that stays in your mind for a longer time.
I was impressed when Angie said during LK interview that the movie is not really intended to make money but to get the message across. That’s what amazing about her. She’s not consumed with material things. In fact, she is feeling some kind of guilt when she’s very privilege while knowing/seeing that there are many people who are very unfortunate in life.
I often read this site, & I am amused by some of the postings here, esp. the so-called triangle thing about Angie, Brad & X. Why is there a need to always connect Angie & Brad’s name or to whatever activities they have to someone as X ???
Can everyone move on to their respective lives & make the best of their lives?? There is too much negativity on some of the comments made!! I mean, Brad’s marriage to X failed because it just didn’t work out, period. Brad & X only knew why it didn’t turn out the way they promised during their wedding vows. It’s really their personal problem/issues as a former couple. Angie should not be dragged or made as a SCAPEGOAT to the real cause of Brad’s marriage failure. It doesn’t necessarily mean just because Brad & Angie is now a couple after X, it follows that Angie is really the cause of the said failure. I would like to believe that Angie & Brad has bonded as real friends during the filming of MR.& Mrs. Smith. I mean, they may have formed a friendship wherein they confided individual problems to each other. May be, they found an emotional connection with each other. All of us have close friends, right? One time or another, we also share our problems with our friends, right? Now that Angie is Brad’s significant other, it is because she is only the EFFECT of the REAL CAUSE of Brad’s marriage failure. Angie is not the cause!!! It is just no surprise why Brad & Angie became a couple after X. It is said, “the best foundation of love is friendship”. Who else Brad would turn to after X but to someone he has already connected with!
I hope let us just be happy to whatever good things that are happening to Angie & Brad & to the whole family. And to X, may she finds peace & contentment in her heart. To her supporters too, may you start moving on & just be happy for X without bashing other people who, in the first place, have nothing to do with her life anymore. PEACE!
Kate Winslet is supposed to be universally loved, right? Then why didn’t all her millions of fans worldwide turn up to watch her movie? It was a damn good movie too.
Little Children
Production Budget:$26 million
Domestic gross:$5,463,019
Foreign gross: $8,850,365
Worldwide: $14,313,384
Angie is no doubt a very good actress
446 B*tch think she is important | 06/24/2007 at 11:34 pm
Is This Really Necesary???
Filed under: Jennifer Aniston
Maniston has not one but two bodyguards!
Does she need this much help just to get into her car while leaving her house?
The failed film actress was spotted leaving her Malibu mansion on Sunday.
Does she fear for her life?
Does she really need TWO bodyguards for day to day stuff???
Seems a little excessive and paranoid!
Perezhilton
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ROTFLMAO. If the beeyotch would stop leaking info to the razzis where she’s going to be she wouldn’t need ANY bodyguards! I guess this is her pathetic attempt to pretend like she didn’t call the razzis to alert them that Jane was going to be at her house last weekend. She was stalked…that’s why those 4,000 razzi knew to be outside her house at 2pm on Father’s day. So now she needs 2 bodyguards to protect her from all those razzi following her. It would be a whole lot easier…and safer…if she’d just quit telling people her damned itenerary.
Lolita | 06/24/2007 at 9:06 pm
rainbow #130 kate #123 loved your posts.
Constantly responding to haters that try to provoke by suggesting this movie will be a flop shows a deep insecurity, dontcha know?
As fans, we have NOTHING to fear.
This movie is a class act. Nobody, not even a hater will see this movie and (honestly) pan it. It. just. is. a. really. welldone. piece. of. cinema. The cream will rise to the top.
Stop being so impatient to get ‘revenge’ or whatever it is. (and believe me, I have friends who would not go with me to the movie last nite because they’re team aniston STILL—
Sure they irk me –but I know why they can’t stomach going: ’cause they know damn well that Angie is the real deal and this movie is genuinely good. Its just a matter to time for that to be the consensus. When you honestly know something you don’t need to protest like a maniac–it belies your confidence.
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Thank you for saying this and I absolutely, totally, agree with you!!
We know our truths, so why respond to such idiots?
I wonder sometimes if it’s an ego thing, in hopes that their response would suddenly enlighten the fanistons, who are still upset that Brad Pitt had the nerve to divorce Rachel Green.
THE NEW YORK POST SAYS: JOLIE IS A MIGHTY FRAUD………..
Hahaha everyone knows what a fraud this liar is. “A MIGHTY FRAUD” says it all. Too much exposure is starting to backfire with this control freak. This psycho needs some mental help…………………..
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