Brad Pitt: The Next Naomi Campbell?

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Yeah, if there’s a lot of airheads out there, yeah why not.

449 Interesting!!!! | 06/26/2007 at 8:01 am

The tragic death of DP has been reduced to bankable project for Hollywood; undeniably AJ & BP have tried to raise their popularity to a higher level with the story of this man. Hence, the numerous PRs they did for this movie.

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Why don’t you go talk to Sam, AMH WIll Bomb, Twila and the rest of YOUR alters? According to her/them because the movie isn’t doing Spidey and/or Pirates type “bank”, the movie is a failure. Therefore your logic is flawed. Furthermore, had the intent been to make a gazillion dollars off the death of Danny Pearl this movie would’ve been some overwrought melodrama starring Halle Berry and looked like a MOTW. It doesn’t and isn’t, therefore it’s not meant to be a huge moneymaker.
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I would respect your opinion, if you comment had made sense!!

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I rest my case. You can’t even decypher a simply blog comment saying the movie wasn’t intended to make a huge profit. So your siding with Nomani makes perfect sense because you obviously don’t see that her issue with the movie is a moot point - it was not her decision to make. End of story.

Unwed couple with children are now welcome to all society, as a Catholic I prefer for them to get married, but that’s what they prefer let’s honor that decision. Time will tell if they will get married or not I’m glad they are together as a couple with 4 kids.

I took the liberty of collecting some opinions and put them together. I think Ms. Naomi should read the following and SHUT UP

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We’re just DISGUSTED that she (Ms Naomi) seems to be of the opinion that she knew Pearl better than his wife and parents and knew he wouldn’t have approved of the movie. She (Ms. Naomi) needs to get over herself. If the man’s wife and parents don’t have a problem with it and she wasn’t made to look like “the servant girl”, then SFTU already. All she’s doing is trying to get her 15 minutes and make some money for herself.
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I think Ms. Nomani’s continued commentary is very insulting to MP, and also to DP’s memory, and the more she talks, the more it seems to me she has a personal axe to grind that goes beyond her so-called disgust with Hollywood.
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She sure does and it’s quite obvious. All she wanted was a personal gain. Just her name to be highlited. Well she somehow acomphlished her goal but she chose the wrong way.
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I think that Ms. Nomani just need to shut her mouth, and realize that this was Marianne’s story and not hers. IMO she is going about like she was the one married to Danny. I do think that her commentary is insulting to Marianne and to Danny’s family and also to Danny’s memories. She said that she is a friend of DP, but what kind of friend do something like this. She is looking for attention and she is getting it. She should gaive the movie “thumbs up” and not bashing it.
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More and more people in here have the impression that she has a personal vendetta against MP and that the reason lies on personnal feelings she may have had for her late husband. The way she pour herself over and over again like she has some legitimate reason to, not having one bit of respect for his child, widow or parents is a reminiscence of a betrayed legitimate wife. She acts as if she was her long time mistress.
This is a personal story written through the eyes of his widow, the way she saw, perceived, felt lived those terrible time. In what rights has anybody have something to say about the way she lived that and decided to portrayed her feelings (through an actress), what she lived ?
If this is not the DP, that bitter woman knew, then fine, she wasn’t her wife who probably knew some aspects of her husband personality like most partners do.
If that is not what she knew from him, then why don’t she writes her own book whith her side of the story, with her impressions of the man she knew as DP and make her own moviea bout it ? Why the SICKENNING exploitation of someone’else grief related in a movie which relayed her way of feelings at that time ?
What makes her think that she detains the truth and all the truth and can exploit the memory of a dead man whose wife and future child was his last memory before he last breathe ?
What a sickenning ego this woman has, questionning the way of seing and perceiveing things of a widow towards her late husband and make it seems like it is right to do so !
She is immoral to the least !
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M.Pearl wrote the book about the search for D. Pearl, not a good friend, a co-worker or an “assistant”. It is based on her book and her story, not a Washington Post writer, a disguntle X fan, supporting players etc. It is a powerful film told through the eyes of M. Pearl and the people(of all nationalities) that helped in the search. She can argue about the Hollywood pomp surrounding the film that mainly consisted of Cannes, premiers and special viewings. Most artists give interviews in support of the film. The fact that AJ is an international superstar and was able to submerge herself into the character is a testament to a great actress. Plan B, AJ and the supporting cast did an excellent job. It is a fitting memorial to D. pearl for his son. The film has been well received and I urge others who haven’t seen it to go see it. Peace to all.
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well just one advice for you and Ms.Naomani.
READ THE BOOK!!!
She acts like the movie should be based on her and what role she played in their lives. The movie’s screenplay is based on MP’s book which is about the struggle SHE pasted when her husband died and the research SHE did to find out the truth. It’s not a biopic of DP’s life.
It’s also about a whole message of love and understanding and not putting borders around us and labels on people.
It’s really funny to me that the critics can so easily judge abour Brad’s or Angie’s and even MP’s motives and not saying a word about Ms Naomani’s article which it seems that she wrote out of anger because her name wasn’t as bold as she wanted to be just to get some attention. Maybe she is even mad that she wasn’t invited in the premieres and screenings. And she didn’t found any other way to get the attention she craved than to bad mouth the movie.
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MP is certainly not the first or only woman to ever lose her husband tragically in a war. Sadly, it has been happening to women since the beginning if time. BUT, how many of those women allowed themselves to be carried away by bitterness and hate, broken and consumed by revenge for the rest of their lives? A pretty good amount of them do allow those feelings to have power over them until the day they themselves die.
That is MP’s message by telling her story. That is what Angie kept saying in all her interviews, that you can still honor your dead husband (or father or brother), but you don’t have to give your soul over to hate.
I think the hope of Angie and MP of telling the story would be that it could somehow serve as a source of strength for other families going through loss of all kinds.
Also, DP’s murder was sent around the world on the internet for all to see, whether the public was horrified by it or got off on it, it was broadcast, which also sets this situation apart. Yes, many men have been tortured and died horrible deaths in the past, but it all seems somehow removed from us because either it was long ago or we didn’t see it play out on tape in front of our eyes the way DP’s did (no, I myself did not watch it). MP didn’t want her husband remembered as “that guy who got beheaded on the internet”, she wanted people to know he had a family, a wife, a child on the way…he was a real person with people in his life who loved him, and MP told the story of those people.
I think Ms. Nomani’s continued commentary is very insulting to MP, and also to DP’s memory, and the more she talks, the more it seems to me she has a personal axe to grind that goes beyond her so-called disgust with Hollywood.
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She sure does and it’s quite obvious. All she wanted was a personal gain. Just her name to be highlited. Well she somehow acomphlished her goal but she chose the wrong way
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Really!!!! | 06/26/2007 at 2:30 pm

To all of you who replied to interesting

Ms. Nomani made a good and valid point despite the excuses that some people in this thread (PR staff of BP & AJ) are trying to find.

stop trying to transform the tragic life of a man to showbusiness!!!
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Well Ms Nomani is exploiting DP death and turning what should have been a testament of his wife into a circus where she is acting like a bitter woman whose passing her personal feelings and perception (we all have one regarding that movie) as more important that any other one, more important that the minimum respect she, the so called friend should give to his widow, family and son.

In what name does she think that she has the right to question or dissmiss the view of a woman towards her late husband ?

Her lack of respect and morals are such that she trades the humility that should accompany those kind of movies for her super huge ego and bad taste bublicity stunts on the back of a dead man who was no member of her family.

She has transformed the tragic life of a man to a vulgar cheap soap opera with a pubicly whinnings…just to feed her own ego cause her feelings is so much more important that she has to disrespect pubicly all his direct family and himself through them ! I bet, where DP is, he should be turned in disbelief in its own grave.

There is just a line that should never be crossed and she did it…exploiting PUBLICLY the death of a man she is no familiy with because her perception has so much more weight than those of his widow which should be dismissed, a wife whose book is the one that has been taken into account as the sole basis of this movie !

SHE IS UNBELIEVABLY GROSS !

wow! the basic black suit! who wore it best? wentworth miller? or brad pitt? ;)

Funny how he looks in the first pic.
Good pictures and a awesome Brad Pitt in suit.