Angelina Jolie Has Left the Studio

angie is looking HOT in black as usual. She looks so happy and fresh, haha.

Oh, and I agree with the person wo said that Kratzenberg is a bit of a stud (but in a nerdy kind of way)

Australia Finally Legitimizes Brad And Angelina’s Fame

Since you’re nothing in this world unless your likeness can be crushed onto an envelope with someone’s dirty thumb, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie — this actor couple with some kids; you may have run across them once — must be incredibly relieved that their star status is now fully legitimized.

The Australia Post, which sponsors the country’s Magazine Of The Year event, rewarded winner New Idea by sticking one of its Pitt/Jolie covers onto a limited-edition commemorative 50-cent stamp — no doubt their lowest appearance fee in recent memory. The release announced, “I don’t know of any other country in the world that has ever had Brad and Angelina on a stamp,” and you know what, it’s true. Namibia got The Divine Birth, Berlin and Prague has been getting the family lately… what’s left for us in all this? Their collection of empty houses and pathetic shells of their exes? Screw that.

http://defamer.com/hollywood/sticky-immortality/australia-finally-legitimizes-brad-and-angelinas-fame-285948.php
=====

Pitt flick finally ready for theatres

Alexandra Burroughs, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, August 03, 2007 Article tools
Printer friendly

That’s been the worry for Brad Pitt’s upcoming western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which was filmed in Alberta and in Winnipeg in 2005. After several delays, poor test screenings, and reports of infighting between its director, producers and studio, the movie looked like it was destined for the box-office boneyard.

But the bad buzz surrounding the film seems to be turning around.

The movie was recently selected for presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival, a positive sign for many movie buffs. Furthermore, key critics who have seen early versions of the film are starting to get behind it.

“This is going to be one of the best films of all time or it’s just going to be something unique — to put it politely,” says filmjerk.com publisher Edward Havens, who went into a test screening of an unfinished version in June.

After seeing the movie, Havens led an online backlash against naysayers, claiming: “Yes, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is better than Unforgiven. Better than Silverado or Wyatt Earp or any other Western in the past 30 years.”

With a limited release date set for Sept. 21, audiences may yet see a film worth watching, say a growing number of online critics, who say performances by Pitt and co-star Casey Affleck are worthy of Oscars.

“Brad Pitt doesn’t use a lot of words in his performance, it’s all looks and internal turmoil, he is truly mesmerizing in this performance, showing a more mature actor then we have seen before,” said blogger Bronson on movie website Ain’t It Cool News.

Others say Roger Deakins’ cinematography is some of the best in decades, which will bode well for Alberta as the movie’s host. Although Havens says the setting “isn’t a love letter to the landscape like Brokeback Mountain,” it is so striking other moviemakers may start looking to Alberta for future films.

Still, questions remain about the film, especially after The Times of London reported in May a feud between Warner Bros. and director Andrew Dominik, who had failed to change the movie “from a leisurely poetic film into an action packed crowd-pleaser, or even shorten its title.”

“Usually when a movie is delayed like this there’s trouble with it,” says CanWest movie critic Jay Stone. “Often delays occur when studios hold a movie because they can’t stand it, but in this case it sounds more like a creative dispute — they just can’t agree.

“My own thought is that this will be a meditative film about the nature of America as seen through the Wild West. This movie will give us something to think about,” says Stone, who expects to see the movie at TIFF.

“As a movie goer, I would rather go to see an hour and a half of wild west excitement. In my opinion, three hours is too long to be in a theatre.”

Others, however, say the film’s length is justified, and credit Pitt for pushing through with a film different than most Hollywood fare.

“The cut I saw clocked in at nearly three hours, taking its time establishing characters. When the studio asked my opinion on what parts felt too long, I was completely stumped,” said Cakebite, another Ain’t It Cool blogger.

“This is a case of a star using his power for good,” says Havens. “It’s a movie that goes against everything we’ve seen from Hollywood for 20 years. I can’t wait to see the final version.”

© CanWest News Service 2007

http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=ec42f859-152a-4c51-98a0-fdff984663da&k=97472

http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/2007/08/04/rows-tearing-pitt-and-jolie-apart-89520-19569061/

Rows tearing Pitt and Jolie apart
Exclusive by Dominic Utton 04/08/2007
It should have been the highlight of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s romantic French holiday.

But the exclusive table reserved for the couple at double Michelin-starred restaurant Chez Bru near Aix-en-Provence sat empty.

Instead, Hollywood’s golden couple were locked in yet another furious row, their dream stay at a chateau deep in the French countryside in tatters after just four days.

AdvertisementThe bust-up was the latest in a long line of rows that has soured the most talked-about romance in showbiz. And, say insiders, the couple are already planning a future apart.

As the Mirror revealed this week, the pair were spotted arguing so ferociously in France that Angelina threw a glass of red wine over Brad.

It seems that after two years together, the world’s most beautiful couple can’t stand the sight of each other.

“The spark has gone but they have a bond because of their children,” confirms a source. “They want to call time on their relationship but they are working out how to do it.”

Friends say that the pair have already hammered out a plan to share custody. “Angelina has no desire to take the kids away from Brad,” says one. “Regardless of their issues, she thinks Brad is a fabulous father.”

Although there have been rows before, things have become so serious that last month Brad, 43, informed his family - parents Bill and Jane, his brother Doug and sister Julie - that a split could be imminent.

Their four children - 14-month-old Shiloh, as well as adopted Maddox, six, Pax, three, and Zahara, two - are currently the only thing keeping them together.

“Brad only has to look at Angie right now and she seems to lose her temper,” says a friend of the pair. “She doesn’t care who’s there or who sees it.

“I was at their rented house in Prague when suddenly Angie started tearing into Brad for asking if she wanted something to eat.

“Brad’s always seemed so besotted with her and from what I have seen she treats him so badly. I’ve even heard her telling friends things like Brad’s always too busy highlighting his hair to keep up with her UN briefs.

“And when she’s reading she demands that he sits in silence and not speak to her.”

At home, it’s Angelina, 32, who wears the trousers. With Brad being the one who cooks and cleans and changes Shiloh’s nappies, Angelina is often to be found with her feet up and a glass of wine in her hand.

According to friends, the root of their problems is their fundamentally different characters. Once you get past the drop-dead gorgeous looks and the millions in the bank, Brad and Angelina are very different people.

At first they both relished their differences, with Angelina recently confessing: “Brad’s cool, playful and organised - completely the opposite of me so we balance each other out”.

But the things that initially proved so attractive are now driving them apart. “Angelina hates answering to anyone and craves time alone,” confides a mutual friend.

The loss of her mother Marcheline Bertrand to ovarian cancer in January this year has affected Angelina’s mood too.

An insider said: “The couple’s only conversations are about which child’s diaper needs changing or who needs dropping at school.” The holiday in the Chateau de la Couronne in the Charente region of France last month was meant to be a relaxing family break before Angelina starts filming her new movie, Wanted, in Chicago in early August. But the reality was the opposite.

The couple had row after row - one so serious that Brad stormed off to Berlin to hole up with his friends Lars Krueckeberg and Thomas Willemeit, who helped design his Malibu home.

He returned on Friday, July 20, and the next day, the pair pulled up on motorcycles outside a small coffee shop in the tiny village of Villebois-Lavalette.

“They were speaking in hushed tones,” says an onlooker. “It seemed as if something was wrong and they were hammering it out.”

After half-an-hour, the pair got up to leave. Then fellow customer Alexandre Sallee, 19, pulled out his mobile phone and took a picture. “That was it,” says the witness, “Angelina turned on her heels, got on her bike and roared off without saying a word to Brad.”

Angelina arrived “stormy-faced” back at the chateau and was later seen locked in intense conversation with a nanny, waving her arms in frustration, says an onlooker.

Still, the couple were determined to salvage their trip. On July 24, the family paid a brief trip to a bowling alley called le Palace Vert in the town of Bussiere-Badil, where Brad shocked onlookers by drinking beer and smoking at the bar. “Angie hates him smoking,” says a source.

The holiday ended in tears. During one emotional bike ride the pair finally realised they had exhausted all their options. “Brad and Angelina stood by their motorcycles in the gorgeous, lush countryside and both cried like babies,” said a close friend.

The next day the family boarded a private jet for Avignon, cutting short their trip by nine days. “Angie wants to run away from everything at the moment,” says the friend.

For his part, Brad is feeling the strain too. And it seems that one of the primary causes of tension lies in their fundamental disagreement on how to raise the children.

Friends say that Brad has had enough of following Angelina around the globe. He wants their children to grow up in a stable environment, to forge strong friendships and see their grandparents and cousins.

“He hates when his tiny kids are jet-lagged and waking up at 3am in a strange country in yet another hotel,” confirms one insider.

“Just this year Maddox has been in school in New Orleans, LA and Prague. Brad has put his foot down and told Angie they have to move back to the States.”

Angelina, however, has other ideas. When asked where she saw herself in 10 years’ time in a recent interview with French magazine Public, she said: “Not in Hollywood that’s for sure! Maybe in an isolated farm in Cambodia.”

This inability to agree on a future has been a continuous source of disagreement.

Meanwhile, Angelina believes Brad is putting himself first. “She keeps bringing up the fact that Brad didn’t make time to go with her to Vietnam to pick up Pax,” says the friend.

“She doesn’t feel they have bonded and she told Brad she’s not sure if she even wants to adopt another child with him. And as soon as she said that, Brad packed his bags and headed for Germany. It was as if she’d put a knife through his heart.”

The tensions reflect just how different they actually are. When Brad and Angelina met on the set of Mr And Mrs Smith in 2005 the sexual chemistry was explosive - but the spark has fizzled into a damp squib.

Now sources say the relationship may have run its course. “It sounds terrible, but it seems like she’s simply bored of Brad,” says a friend.

Another source agrees: “Brad got into the motorbikes and taking flying lessons and getting tattoos just to impress Angie, whereas she’s genuinely into all that stuff.

“He’s much more of a takeaway in front of the TV guy. He misses his friends in LA and his simple carefree guys’ nights out. They’ve only just realised how mismatched they really are.”

DATELINE OF ROMANCE

March 28, 1996 - Angelina Jolie marries British actor Jonny Lee Miller. She wore black leather trousers and a white shirt with Jonny’s name written in her own blood on the back.

February 3, 1999 - Angelina and Jonny Lee divorce, citing “relationship difficulties”.

May 5, 2000 - Angelina marries Hollywood actor Billy Bob Thornton.

July 29, 2000 - Brad and Jennifer Aniston get married in a lavish celebration with hundreds of guests, over 50,000 flowers, a gospel choir, four bands and fireworks at the reception.

July 2002 - Jolie files for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.

May 27, 2003 - Angelina and Billy Bob’s divorce is finalised.

January 2004 - Brad and Angelina meet on the set of the hit action movie Mr And Mrs Smith.

November 22, 2004 - Angelina declares that Brad is a great kisser after snogging him for the film.

January 7, 2005 - Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston announce that they are separating.

January 18, 2005 - Angelina denies claims that she had an affair with Brad Pitt, saying she would never sleep with a married man.

March 25, 2005 - Jennifer files a divorce petition citing “irreconcilable differences”.

April 9, 2005- Pictures of Brad, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya are published.

July 2005 - Brad and Jolie appear together in the American magazine W, posing as a married couple.

October 2, 2005 - Brad and Jennifer divorce is finalised.

November 19, 2005 - Brad and Angelina are spotted on their first public outing together at the Muhammad Ali Centre in Louisville, Kentucky.

January 11, 2006: Jolie confirms she is pregnant with Brad’s child, of ficially confirming their relationship for the first time.

By Sean Smith
For one brilliant, flickering moment, she was poised to become a star. By the age of 17, Lindsay Lohan had played lead roles in four major films, two of them significant hits. In 2004, her first album had gone platinum. Mean Girls had opened at $24 million and had transported her from cute kid to budding sex symbol and style icon. Hollywood wanted to mold her into the next Julia Roberts. By last week, at the age of 21, she had blown it all away. ”She had the world at her feet,” says the head of a major studio. ”And right now, she’d have to pay a studio to get herself into a movie.”

On July 24, just 11 days after leaving rehab, Lohan was arrested for cocaine possession and suspicion of drunk driving. Whether she does time or not, she’s built her own prison in Hollywood. Her latest film, I Know Who Killed Me, premiered last week to an abysmal $3.5 million. ”The rate at which she has fallen, and gotten back up, and fallen again, does not inspire confidence,” says one producer. ”It’s always challenging for a young actor to mature into an adult star. It takes great planning, sophistication, and judgment. She hasn’t shown any of those things.” Lohan has not had a hit since Mean Girls, and her grosses have been declining. She hasn’t opened a movie above $10 million since 2005’s Herbie: Fully Loaded. Of the producers and high-ranking execs who spoke to Entertainment Weekly — some of whom have worked with Lohan, and most of whom insisted on anonymity so they could speak frankly — almost none would hire her now. ”Her career was over long before she had these troubles,” says the studio head. ”The media treat her like she’s Will Smith or Tom Cruise, like she’s some big star, but she simply isn’t.”

If Lohan wanted to blame somebody other than herself, she wouldn’t have to look far. There’s her mother, who seems to want to be a best friend rather than a parent. There’s her ex-con father. There’s the L.A. bar scene that serves underage stars and Hollywood’s compulsion to turn child actors into products, plus a frenzied 21st-century media culture that has made Lohan and other celebs into exotic prey in flashbulb cages. ”It’s ridiculous how different things are than they were 10 years ago,” says Robert Downey Jr., who declined to speak about Lohan specifically, but waged his own public battle with addiction. ”Nowadays, the leap from instant stardom to instant bad boy or girl is so quick. It’s a real challenge to reconcile your own process of becoming an adult with the temptation of celebrity.”

Lohan’s young, but to say she’s a victim of the blogarazzi misses the point. She was, after all, created by that very same culture. And she didn’t exactly object. Without all the tabloid covers and red carpets and cell-phone photos and mug shots, Lohan would not be a household name; she would simply be a talented ingenue with a substance-abuse problem, a messed-up family, and a mediocre box office record. Harsh? Maybe so, but that’s the cold calculus of Hollywood. ”Her troubles are what made her famous,” says one studio exec. ”Her films don’t open. She’s a pain to work with. I think she’s done.” Others go so far as to worry that career death may be the least of Lohan’s concerns. Says another exec: ”I think she has to stay alive.”

to be continued

The industry also views her recent stint at Promises in Malibu with skepticism. The celeb-friendly rehab has a reputation, deserved or not, for being indulgent. ”It’s so luxurious and the celebrities are so coddled, it’s like a four-star hotel,” says an industry source who knows one person who has sought treatment there twice. Kathy Griffin makes a joke about it in her stand-up act, calling it ”total fake bulls— celebrity rehab.” But Ken Seeley, who conducts interventions on addicts for the A&E series Intervention, says Lohan’s relapse represents her own failure, not the facility’s. ”She had some of the best doctors in the world,” he says. ”I know a lot of people in the sober community who went through Promises.” The problem, he says, is that Lohan has not taken responsibility for her actions. ”I predict it’s only going to get worse,” he adds. ”There’s a pattern to the disease of addiction, and she’s just following the pattern. The only thing that’s going to save her is when she hits rock bottom.”

The light on the horizon is that if Lohan does recover, she has a chance at resurrection. ”Is she hireable again?” asks the studio head. ”I can’t imagine under what circumstances, but I never say never. Lots of people have second acts.” Lohan’s may come from a very unlikely source. James Robinson, the producer of Georgia Rule, famously wrote her a letter scolding her for her lack of professionalism on the set. Now, he says, he would hire her again ”in a heartbeat.” ”She’s a good person who’s making some bad choices. She needs time to get the proper medical care, [but] when she’s in the right emotional state, I’d put her in a movie right away…. She’s probably one of the most talented young women in the movie business today.” Or was. What happens next is up to her. (Additional reporting by Nisha Gopalan, Shirley Halperin, and Nicole Sperling)

Angie is so beautiful. She looks well rested. She must have enjoyed her vacay with family in France. Indeed, Brad is so lucky to have her!

Oh, FYI on the mirror (#234) - don’t even PRETEND to read that garbage, they are the nastiest tabloid in Britain, and are joked to be read by British people with an IQ of 55 (and I think that’s an insult to those Brits with IQ’s of 55, lol) — they are known for FICTITIOUS and extremely LONG-WINDED, extremely VILE science fiction on Brangelina and other famous people. Always a day late and a dollar short, they miss legit info and real time events of the couple (much like the paper tabloids for the walmart PC illiterate in the U.S.), being across the pond does them no favors, they accumulate their ‘research’ from US tabloids like In Touch, Star mag, and Natnl Enquirer. One thing they did probably read in time, was the stats that 2 of 3 tabloids in the United States, had best-selling covers once again making up ‘Brangelina’ fiction. They of course, follow suit.

Good Saturday Morning/Afternoon BAMPZS fans around the world!

I’d been looking for Angie’s interview saying something about having the understanding when you look deeply into your partner’s eyes and that’s love… or something that goes along with those lines?

Anybody remember this interview?? Please post the link or the excerpts of that interview. Thank you very much!!

lol @ the mirror, just ignore it people,

a little information about the mirror, the former editor of the mirror now a judge on america’s got talent, was fired for publishing FAKE photos of british solders abusing iraqies, so no sane person believes anything from the mirror, they not only published the fake photos but they also made up a story featuring eye witness account and sources to make the story authentic, if a ‘newspaper’ can publish fake stories that puts it’s country in danger,then fake stories about the jolie-pitts is to be expected they are after all the most talked about ppl on the planet. i agree with cutie though they always paint angie as the evil bully, which is sad.

To fans
sheri and cutie and cliniqua
that article was post by ritz and we know that she like to start a fight.that article it bullshit,brad and angie say that are ok and
WE SHOULD IGNORE IT,AND DON T GIVE HER(RITZ)WHAT SHE WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok samp i know but i was just proving something lol