Brad & Angelina Jet Outta Angouleme

#27 dumbquestion
try pittwatch.com

wondering and all the sicko’s in here like Mmmmm, who do u think is more interesting celebrity to look at??????? in real true-to life minus the FANTASY, it’s only jolie-pitts right now!!! unless u can come with another celebrity tht is really interesting and wht makes them interesting? the truth is a lot of women even celebrities dreamed to look like jolie and plus she GOT the MAN. so basically, there is a lot of CLAWS of ENVY right there . they look at angie and then look at the mirror and see their own reflection, wht a DISMAY. wait besides tht beautiful face, wht makes her really INTERESTING? oh i see, she is intelligent, articulate, philosopical, philantropic, goodhearted, great lover, nurturing and protective mother. ummm, did i say she’s a pilot?, a good biker, adventurer and yes! she is LARA CROFT. tell me any actress , who can do the stunts she does. tell me who is an actress , who can do actions better thn her. an actress who can maneuver guns easily and DO acrobatic acts. some of the might even scared and afraid of getting bruised. if u listen read and listen to interviews from many actressses, most of them are half empty, some are trying to be smart but don’t know , how to back it up. i like read angie interviews becoz u learn something, at times funny due to her candidness. other actresses of today, i don’t know. some actresses are talking more about fashion, their looks, how good their asses look, how goodlooking they are, how men are crazy to them, wht else she wanted to do next and etc. angie talks more about plight of poor people, the orphans, raise awarness, charity, human rights, lobbying to the congress,a bit about her family and brad when a reporter or interviewer ask.oh and some actresses talking about diet, how to loose weight, partying, boozing,vacation, exerecise and how to maintain a great body. mostly these kind of actresses has nothing else to do instead of worrying about ur weight, do something to help out others, u will forget thinking about and u will be active if ur helpng ur community w/ ur extra money, rather than spending it to the trainer unless u hv a movie role tht requires u to be in a certain shape and GET BUSY, make ur life productive. peace!

CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG??

Jen, what’s wrong with you ? this is Brad and Angie thread, why wasting your energy preaching us about your idol, it won’t change our opinion toward her, why don’t you go back to female first or perez hilton site, most of the looney their will agree with you. I never or even despise X, I swear I never bother or wasting my time going to her thread. blogging was supposed to be a relaxing and fun time, why waste your time arguing with an unknown person.

Hey wait a minute what happend to the picture?

LL

Angelina’s new Shisheido commercial!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD2Yt2zQsPg&NR=1

Hey guys, I’m sorry if this has been posted already. ABC’s Bob Woodruff wife (Lee) wrote this nice blog post about blended families on huffingtonpost.

The New American Family - Let’s Lose the Labels

I’ve been thinking a lot about people’s definitions of family. There seem to be so many more options today about how families are configured. Nicole Ritchie’s pregnancy bump, stalked and photographed like the dodo bird, caught my eye in the airport on the cover of a celebrity weekly magazine. Nicole, of course, being just one of many in a long line of high-profile, single, unwed moms. There was a day when this kind of news would have set disapproving tongues a-wagging. Now the speculation is more about whether or not the poor gal has enough meat on her bones to carry a child to term. For the most part, people seem to be fairly blasé and accepting of her single parenthood. Although I’m quite sure moral outrage still lurks in neighborhoods and pulpits throughout America.

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I’m old enough that I still have one foot in the era where it was shameful, downright socio-pariah stuff for a girl to become pregnant with no husband. I remember well the wedding of a friend I grew up with who walked down the aisle sprouting her own bump on her wedding day. I remember clearly the muffled conversation of the matrons in hushed tones and their disapproving, eyebrow-raising shorthand. The message was — maybe good girls do it — but the smart ones hide the evidence.

Before my time, heck, probably during my time, unwed moms were “sent away” disappearing mysteriously in the night when their delicate condition began to show. Movies and books always seem to depict them being banished to cruel aunts’ houses in the plains states or all girls homes, religious institutions which must have provided as much fun as watching a chemically-infused Twinkie harden in the open air.

And now, here we are, proudly proclaiming from the pages of OK and Star magazine the triumphant bump-hunt. Poor JLo seems to be on constant bump watch, as does fading honeymooner Nicole Kidman, or the stalked-like-a-gazelle Angelina Jolie. God forbid the poor young things just had an extra fish taco that day, and the evidence bulged over their low-rider waistbands. Some of them are so waiflike that a simple case of constipation could be considered a suspicious bump these days.

So as a culture, we’ve taken the flaming scarlet “A” out of bringing a baby into the world solo. And now we’ve moved on to viewing single parent adoption as de rigeur. Once it would have been deemed a bold move to adopt a child alone. Sheryl Crow recently adopted a baby boy, a single Meg Ryan added a Chinese daughter to her son, to name a few. Of course, the celebs we see doing it have plenty of means to offset the hardship — nannies, cooks, personal trainers all must surely ease the fatigue and downright loneliness at times of single parenthood. But I see regular Joes and Josies know doing it, too. Single women who have missed the call of the ovaries and decided they wanted to be mothers are going the route of foreign adoptions — without the fat wallet and with full knowledge that this will be an exhausting, sometimes isolating undertaking, a juggling act with three rings and two hands. But one with a huge pay-off, nonetheless.

Thanks to Brangelina, we have ushered in a new level of acceptability for the blended family. They’ve created a wonderful patchwork quilt of adopted and home grown brood, from different continents and cultures, some just hers legally? Some his, too? Who knows, does it matter? While for decades, friends have been adopting from China or Russia or the former Soviet Union, Brad and Angie put the “cool” stamp on multi-ethnic families.

So here is the thing I still don’t get. Flipping through my guilty pleasure celeb rag on an airplane recently, I stumbled over an article about Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s kids. The thing was that the reporter used the word “adopted” kids. And it struck me as a little too much information. These kids have to be in their teens. Haven’t they now logged enough time in the family to qualify as just plain “kids” rather than focusing on the way they came into the family?

I don’t hear people refer now to Joan Lunden’s surrogate twins. Or furthermore — people don’t say — “his missionary position child and the one by IVF,

Our family had just such an untraditional formation in 2000 when we used a gestational carrier to bring our twin daughters into the world. I’d had a hysterectomy after losing a child, our third, and after looking at many options, Bob and I decided to give surrogacy a shot. It was a lot more bizarre then, let me tell you. We had a lot of “splaining” to do in the neighborhood once we announced the news. But I’m quite sure they’d feel affronted or bemused if we referred to our girls as “the implanted embryos.” We could meet with a little resistance on that one. It’s a sure path to a couch in the shrink’s office.

We’ve been very open with our twins about how they came into the world. I dare them to say that with all that effort and all those needle jabs of hormones we didn’t want them fiercely, desperately. This was no spontaneous tryst on a summer night during a blackout. But the rigors of IVF are way beside the point when describing my girls. In fact, come to think of it, due to laws that haven’t caught up with the technology of fertility, we actually had to legally adopt our own biological kids once they were born. So, truth be told, they are adopted too. Like Tom and Nic’s two kids, or Brad and Angie’s brood, it’s simply old news. Absolutely unimportant.

When my husband Bob Woodruff was in a coma after having been hit by an IED while covering the war in Iraq for ABC News, our family went through its toughest trial yet. When it became apparent Bob wasn’t waking up, I came to terms with the fact that it was time for my children to see their father, however frightening that sight might be.

In a moment I will remember forever, my eldest daughter approached her father for the first time in his hospital bed, his brain swollen out of his head with a traumatic brain injury from the blast. The side of his face was disfigured, his skin peppered with hundreds of tiny rocks and dirt that had been packed around the bomb.

In a supreme act of love and hope that her Daddy was still in there somewhere, Cathryn leaned over Bob’s good side to play the “kissing game” — their father-daughter routine of kissing as long as they could on the phone when Bob was covering stories long distance.

“Daddy,” she said in a soft but amazingly brave voice. “You have to wake up, we all need you to come home.”

What happened next was the first sign to me that my husband was in there. As Cathryn kissed his “good” cheek, a tear ran out of Bob’s eye and down his face. We both screamed for the nurse to come and see — proof that somewhere in that swollen, damaged brain, Bob recognized his daughter.

“There is a connection there of blood and of DNA,” the doctor had told me. “It’s a genetic connection that is stronger than his bond with you — no matter how much he loves you.”

I’ve thought a lot about what she said to me that day. And I’ve thought about it in terms of my friends with adopted kids. Would that connection to their dad be any less strong? Would a “mere” adopted child have been able to reach her father that way?

I’m no parenting expert to be sure. And I don’t have all the facts on the nature/nurture debate. But I do know all kinds of families, families who love their children, no matter what their color, genetic make-up or how they came into the world. They love them with all their hearts, genetics be damned.

I’d like to think love does conquer all. The supreme bond between a parent and child is sacred, whether they came into the family with a donated egg or from an orphanage in Mali. I think its time we lose the labels and be grateful that there are loving homes, open arms and people willing to get down in the trenches of parenthood and slog it out. Every single exhausting, lonely and wonderfully rewarding day.

224 lg : 07/24/2007 at 12:15 pm
Mary we can have a peaceful thread when everyone focuses on flaging hate posts and focus on being positive.
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is this nazi germany now?
it’s called freedome of speach you idiot but i guess that if you are from china or whatever you wouldn’t know aboyt democracy.

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And if they are hitting the “report abuse” everytime someone says something they don’t agree with I am sure Just Jared is calling them a few choice words.

227 [Fug Face Cadaver Jolie] : 07/24/2007 at 12:15 pm
What is wrong with you? In the past, you make snides comments that are sometimes funny but now…now you’re just plain sad and psychotic. You need help, seriously you do.

HEY EVERY ONE the family looks great i wonder were are they going now i didnt made a new video a long time about BAMPZS so here i made a new one
if any one want to see it heres the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HoN3SNXngc

Thaks JJ for the new pics. I voted for you as best blogger.

I agree with the person who said that Brad & Angelina are one of the more normal Hollywood families out there. Yeah they travel a lot but don’t we all?

240 julia

i agree….poor baby….having a temper tantrum :lol: