Brad & Maddox: Ice Cream Social

Worth reposting. Thank you whoever you are for collecting these posts.
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152 collection of opinions on Ms Nomani | 06/26/2007 at 2:31 pm
I’ve collected some of the opinions on Ms. Nomani.

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We’re just DISGUSTED that she (Ms Nomani) 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. Nomani) 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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Somehow, Maddox’s Mohawk haircut isn’t amusing anymore. It’s just looks out of fashion now. They should just turn that page.

Yeah, and if they had just released AMH in NYC and LA as they did wih La Vie, AMH would have cleaned the floor with La Vie.

Just like conversely, if La Vie, had been on 1300 theaters it would have had trouble even making 500,000.00, let alone almost 4 like AMH.

Face it, the ONLY reason the studio released AMH as wide as it did, was because of Angelina Jolie - what she was able to do, with hardly no ad budget, and all on the strength of her personality/press - for THAT kind of film (small, complex, about geo-politics) is an accomplishment the studios recognize.

It’s the same reason why The Good Shepard made almost 100 million (and counting) - the studios know it would have done not even HALF that, say if somebody like ‘Gretchen Mol,’ had been in Angelina’s small part.

She’s a powerhouse, and more than that - as they wanted, Paramount Vantage will be recognized come awards season in a big way - which is what they wanted.
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Hey ntt — thanks so much for those asra bits in Marianne’s book, LOL…Marianne does kind of have her number, I knew it - :lol: …even the film as I said, kind of alluded to how Asra was with Archie’s great portrayal (like I said, she seemed a bit TOO gleeful upon seeing herself in the paper).

Someone help me out here. Isn’t all of this investigating IP addresses flowing out of the Scotter Libby case. Judith Miller from the New York Times went to jail rather than give up her sources but the ruling went against her and then the question came up about whether people who have websites can protect people who are commiting a crime - libel, slander etc. I think this was when it was determined that if they get supoened, they have to comply by giving over the information.

I think it was really aimed at political web sites that might get dirty trick information but I don’t know that it much matters if someone wants to pursue the matter.

Someone step in and correct me if I am wrong.

222 AMH update | 06/26/2007 at 3:43 pm
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Actually it is right on traget for an Indie movie. If you compare it to other indie movies. After Babel’s first opening weekend it went down by 63% the following Monday and another 35% the following Tuesday. Not a lot of people go to movies the beginning of a work week. Babel started gaining by 43% on Wednesday and went on to have a more productive weekend than its opening weekend earning $919,235 in comparison to its opening weekend of $389,351. Then of course went on to make $34 mill domestically and $135 mill total. So, actually AMH is right on target. It should go down at least another 35% tomorrow and then start gaining speed on Wednesday for the weekend.

Mamara:

Why do you have to qualify, “his Asian Boys”? Brad loves his boys, period. THOSE ARE HIS SONS!

224 AMH update

La Vie En Rose is about a woman in decline, drugs, sex, and alcohol. AMH is not. People like sex, drugs, and alcohol. Can’t compare the two. Edith Pilaff was world renowned. Peace.

Thanks JJ, love seeing Daddy Brad with his children, love the Jolie-Pitts

#175 CLINIGUA—ARE YOU TIRED TODAY BECAUSE THIS PART OF YOUR POST MADE NO SENSE!

When the rescue team is hunkered down, working to save Daniel, Archie, playing Asra makes the paper (during the DP kidnapping), she seems a bit too excited if you ask me. Also, it is Asra’s house that has the Islamic woman constantly on her knees scrubbing floors (the Mom to that cute little baby/toddler who is in several shots).
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MAYBE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BUT YOUR WRITING IT IS CONFUSING—TRY AGAIN, MAYBE?

Not you 243, I mean 242.

Also, this is to 243, what exactly don’t you get?

When the rescue team is hunkered down, working to save Daniel, Archie, playing Asra makes the paper (during the DP kidnapping), she seems a bit too excited if you ask me. Also, it is Asra’s house that has the Islamic woman constantly on her knees scrubbing floors (the Mom to that cute little baby/toddler who is in several shots)

why do you say ‘when the rescue team is hunkered down and then add (during the DP kidnapping)—that’s redundant.

archie makes the paper—explain that please, what paper and for what?

what has the house got to do with this?

229 Maria | 06/26/2007 at 3:58 pm
Somehow, Maddox’s Mohawk haircut isn’t amusing anymore. It’s just looks out of fashion now. They should just turn that page.
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Yeah, but maybe Maddox likes it.