Angelina Jolie on the Set of ‘Wanted’

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Why are making assumptions? Did she tell you that she’s not going to get pregnant any time soon? Did she tell you that she didn’t like being pregnant the first time? How do you know she hasn’t bonded with her daughter? Are you there with them everyday? YOU ARE INDEED STUPID JULOTTA!!!!

Very presumptious Julotta?

Hi cook!
How you been?

224 Kal
Thanks for the link. AJ did a great job in “A Mighty Heart. I also saw BP’s Jesse James movie listed as a potential candidate for films being released in November.

Thank you Gussie and Tita for the article. I am saving it to post when the vultures swoop on BAMPZS threads. They do that every weekday from 8am to 5pm EST. I find that fact very interesting.

Antony Lane from the New Yorker:

How do you solve a problem like Angelina? Ms. Jolie is now more of a brand than a person, and she comes in six flavors:

1. The celebrity. Angelina Jolie is so famous that when she looks in the mirror her reflection asks for an autograph. The only publication in this country yet to feature her on its cover is The American Numismatic Magazine, and even that will change the moment she bends down to pick up a nickel.

2. The sexpot. In this she is unchallenged, and yet her timing is off by fifty years. When it comes to channelling her carnal appeal, no current film director has a clue; the guy she needs is Frank Tashlin, who guided Jayne Mansfield through “The Girl Can’t Help It” (1956) and “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” (1957), and whose eyeballs, if confronted with Jolie in the flesh, would pop out on cartoon springs and bob around.

3. The Brad handler. She took one look at the world’s most widely desired man and scooped him up with no more ado than a Parisian grande dame tucking a Chihuahua into her clutch bag.

4. The mother. Official estimates as to how many children Jolie now possesses, and from how many continents, change on a weekly basis. When not giving birth herself, she likes to order in. How this has affected Mr. Pitt is unclear, but his expression is sometimes that of a man who stepped out to hail a cab and got run over by a fleet of trucks.

5. The world saver. Jolie is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Her father, Jon Voight, told the Biography Channel that “she’s developed into one of our great humanitarians.” This was clearly on the minds of political leaders when they met Jolie at a summit of the World Economic Forum in Davos two years ago. Half of them offered their entire foreign-aid budget for a chance to fetch her a mai tai.

6. Oh yes, the actress. This last talent, so often neglected, is displayed in her new film, “A Mighty Heart,” and without it the legend of Angelina Jolie would be little more than a vaporous joke.

The movie, directed by Michael Winterbottom, lies about as far from the trials of Lara Croft as is cinematically possible. Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, the wife of Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman), a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal who in 2002 was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi, Pakistan. The story begins on the day of his disappearance; as the horrors unfurl, we see Mariane replaying in her mind the moment when she bade her husband farewell—a wave and a smile, as he climbed into a cab. He was due to interview a Muslim cleric named Sheikh Gilani, but the arrangement was a trap.

Once Pearl has vanished, we follow the threads of rumor and report from the viewpoint of his wife, a cluster of friends, and the local police. The result, like many of Winterbottom’s films, lies an inch short of disarray; we can keep pace with the investigation, but only just, and that sense of splintering honors the unpredictability of the setting. We hurtle from the tracking down of taxi-drivers to the tracing of cell-phone calls and nocturnal raids on the homes of suspects; such momentum is undeniably but unpleasantly exciting, because we already know the outcome. However diligent the authorities’ chase against the clock, the clock will win. Promising leads hit a wall; when Mariane gets to see Pakistan’s Interior Minister, he blames the Indian intelligence services for having set up the abduction. Add the aggressive questioning of Daniel’s female colleague, Asra (Archie Panjabi), who happens to be Indian, and you get an itchy demonstration of regional mistrust.

Stronger still than the encroaching panic, however, is Mariane’s determination not to cave in to it. Those who saw her being interviewed at the time were struck by her preternatural serenity; her book, also called “A Mighty Heart” (2003), is Winterbottom’s principal source, although her title may be too noble for his manner—the dressed-down, on-the-fly approach that lends even his more formal endeavors, like “Jude” (1996) and “Code 46” (2003), an air of documentary. He is the very model of a modern moral filmmaker: not unromantic, exactly, and too impassioned for the scowls of cynicism, but baffled and perhaps a little bored by the traditional forms of romance. When his loving couples cling together—as they did, stickily, for “9 Songs” (2004)—Winterbottom loses interest. When they are yanked apart, as in “A Mighty Heart,” his own heart quickens its beat.

Mariane is French-speaking, with a Cuban mother, and Jolie is equipped with corkscrewed hair, tinted skin, and murmuring accent. We brace ourselves for a star turn, a hundred minutes of vanity project, but here’s the thing: it never happens. Jolie slips into the part, ducks in and out of the action, and generally plays second string to the onrush of events. Blessed with the world’s most recognizable mouth, she confines herself to a single, skeptical pout, as Mariane is reassured that “no one would ever want to hurt Danny.” Not so: he is an American Jew investigating Muslim extremists, and, as his wife knows, that makes him a marked man.

Only once does Mariane crack. Informed of her husband’s death and of its savage circumstances, she goes to her room, crouches over, and keens. It could be the howl from a Greek tragedy, except that our heroine is not disporting herself on a stage, majestic in her grief, but filmed from so close that you can count the ***** of vertebrae at the top of her spine. By this time she is heavily pregnant, and her screams are a terrible parody of birth pangs—an echo that Winterbottom makes explicit, without needing to, in the closing scenes. This hasty, high-intensity, barely consolable film is just the kind of tale on which he thrives—and, more surprisingly, on which Jolie will come to depend if she wants to keep her head above the tides of madness in which, partly on her own initiative, she has chosen to float. Will success spoil Angelina Jolie? Not yet. Can she help it? Yes, she can.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/06/25/070625crci_cinema_lane
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#6 is my favorite. It reminds me of George Clooney said about celebrity. You have to balance it with talent.

Marie Claire interview:

On whether or not she will give birth again:

Angie: I loved being pregnant and fortunately, I was with a man who found it really sexy too.

Hi everybody, hi CHQT. I am glad mostly fans are here now, not like during the day.

Missouri Fan,

Hey Ma. I’m fine. I’ve been away and checking-in occasionally. Thanks for asking. Hope all’s well with you.

Hello MF. Regards to your family members.

#234: you’re welcome, ntt. I just brought it here. It was Gussie who found the article. I laughed out loud at the reflection thing asking for an autograph. And although it was all in jest, it is still a testament to the power of her personna or her charisma if you want to put it that way. Even the New Yorker is a little bit in awe of her, don’t you think so? An elite mag as opposed to a tab.

But you’re right about the #6 though. Beauty without talent is like cereal without milk.

to the fans? | 06/28/2007 at 10:07 pm
Can someone share what her new movie ‘Wanted’ is about? I heard she is going to be doing stunts, so I’m assuming its a spy movie?
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Sorry about the lack of adequate response. You are welcome to join us anytime.

That is what Jane was telling Jen. Repeat of last time. Brad the coward. Angie loving that she is letting us know by the pix’s. Remember she said she didn’t sleep with married men. so like we are to believe her when she says she is not preggers. NOT

Andromeda: deberias venir para Venezuela a ver la Copa, claro si es que puedes. yo vivo super lejos de donde estan siendo los juegos, y cuando fui a comprar mi entrada, ya no habian porque los idiotas del gobierno como siempre, pusieron a la venta mas entradas que las plazas que verdaderamente habia disponible. como siempre todo es de lo ultimo