Brad Pitt Goes on ‘Parade’

Love the bampzs fam

HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I”M MELTING…..I’M MELTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Domestic: $117,154,724 37.7%
+ Foreign: $193,215,222 62.3%
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= Worldwide: $310,369,946

WOW!!! Another hit for Brad.

There should be a code of conduct codified by the law !

This isn’t journalism and has nothing to do with fans, it’s harrasment and child abuse in the conduct of the media ! Pure and simple

There is clearly, at times a legal case that sustain that. Freedom of the press or certain dangerous behaviour has its limits ! You cannot come to someone and says that you are going to hurt him/her or sexualy abuse him/her or act accordingly so that the person feel threaten or discomfort because of your dangerou or agressive behaviour. The law protect that kind of behaviour. Hell, you cannot even says everything publicly or get closed to the president of the USA without the law protecting him. So how come such behaviour, even more agressive and indecent towards kids isn”t forbiden ? Some stranger coming close to a child, talking to him, over and over can be put on a restrain order to not approach the child if the parents take that to a court, especially if the child is emotionnally hurt and feel threaten and is scared to go out because of that. That’s pure harrasment and putting some little ones in danger.

The problem is not the fan, there, there are fans everywhere in the world but some countries have clearly defined what is considered as harrasment and have a stronger code of conduct when it comes to the children.

Once again, children rights and protection are not a priority in one of those advanced democracy. the press is protected even when it clearly hurt little ones and violate their private integrity.

I think he is a spiritual man. For him, as for many others, organized religion did not answer the questions in his heart. Why should one’s religion be better than others’, etc. Why can’t the wonderful people from other parts of the world with different beliefs and very good hearts wouldn’t be able to go to heaven just because they are not Christians, etc. I also think that he is still in search of something..that thing.. we are all searching for. For now, he seems to have found it in family. Good for him. Because no matter what heppens in his life his kids will always be his kids. All the changes an chances of this worlds won’t matter. He is there for them for life.
I think he is a good, decent man. He is fair and just. I don’t believe that he cheated on Jennifer as some suggested at the beginning. I think he does have a conscious. He is sensitive and genuinely trying to do good in this world. And, for the fanatic Jen fans aout there, give it up. Jennifer is totally OK with him. They are friends. No hard feelings. It is natural that divorce brings out hurt feelings. It has been over two years. They have all moved on. They only wish the best for each other. Peace out!

haters and lies&stuff,he won`t betray to his family,he has faith in it.

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“I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma,” he says. “My dad ran a trucking company. When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up. My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life. He did that for us.”

Brad Pitt has seen much of the world since leaving small-town Missouri for Los Angeles two decades ago, yet he seems to miss the boy he was and the place he left behind. Brad speaks with unusual warmth about his family and the region where he was raised.

“I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself,” he says. “When I was a boy I would ask about my family history, about my blood lines. We really didn’t know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears. We were situated in southern Missouri, right along the Mason-Dixon Line, between the North and the South, where you have this confluence of different cultures-Texas and Oklahoma from the south, the hillbilly from the Appalachian range to the east, the Midwestern coming down from above. There was all these different influences and ideas and accents coming into this place.”

Brad begins to use various regional dialects to illustrate for me the variety of influences. “As I look around now I hear different accents, like Arkansas’, that are much more colorful,” he says in a soft, Clintonian drawl. “Then there’s Texas. You know Texas,” he twangs. “Then you get into Kentucky, and it sounds more like this…and then in St. Louis, where it’s a cleaner, more Midwestern accent. But where we were, southern Missouri, our accent is more flat-lined, it’s kind of like this… I find it very interesting now, but I didn’t realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.”

On Leaving Home

I ask Brad about the pivotal influences on his 1986 decision to abruptly leave the University of Missouri before his graduation Surprisingly, he mentions a girlfriend but asks me not to use her name.

“You made me think about this girlfriend I had in senior year,” he recalls. “She was a Methodist preacher’s kid. She wasn’t that into me, truthfully, although we were together for a semester. ”

When I tell him I am the son of a preacher, too, he smiles and nods.

“Well,” he continues, “she was tough, man, although really cool. She had an older brother who was killed in a four-by-four accident, which was not uncommon out there.” He refers to a four-wheel drive crash. “She was a hardcore realist. She called me on so much bull-about any romantic ideas that I had grown up with about life. It was my first year in college.”

Brad studied journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia, hoping for a career as an art director in advertising.

“She helped me more than anyone else as far as setting off in my own direction,” he explains. “It was my first year in college and I was pushing back against the religion thing. In my eyes it was a mechanism of guilt , this engrained system, used to keep the flock in servitude.” Brad was raised a conservative Southern Baptist. “Guilt is the thing I find most evil about it. It’s the thing I rail against the most. She helped me in defining what I believed.

“Religion works,” he goes on. “I know there’s comfort there, a crash pad. It’s something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it’s comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn’t last for me. I didn’t understand this idea of a God who says, ‘You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I’m the best, and then I’ll give you eternal happiness. If you won’t, then you don’t get it!’ It seemed to be about ego. I can’t see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me.

“When I left Missouri I wasn’t ready to call it quits as far as getting out into the world,” he goes on. “It wasn’t leaving something behind, it was heading for something that was nascent and ill-defined. I did not know what it would be when I got to L.A., and to me not knowing that has always been the most exciting thing about making a trip.

On Seeing the World

“Seeing the world is the best education you can get,” Brad asserts. “You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive. But you have to go off the beaten path of St. Bart’s Island, Rome, Paris, wander off the path and go beyond that. It is where you meet people and hear personal stories. It is a huge eye-opener. The extent of the numbers of people dying. You know, we forget this very simple truth: we’re basically all the same. There is so much focus on our differences. Again, this thing of ego-my high school is better than your high school! We forget that we all have the same feelings on any side of the world. Why can’t we find common ground instead of this obsession with our hatreds? I don’t want to be part of that hatred.”

On Movies

” Saturday Night Fever was a big influence on me,” he admits, grinning. “I snuck in to see it when I was underage. It wasn’t the dancing and the music I’m referring to, it was this culture of families who argued at the dinner table and popped each other in the face! It was this whole other way of people relating to each other that I found really interesting.”

Brad’s family was white-bread, straight-laced-undemonstrative, calm, private. He still has something of the nice, winsome, small town Southern boy to his character-he is polite, attentive, reluctant to brag on himself, with an easy, though not overly-familiar, charm. In person, he has the qualities of a popular high school heartthrob-handsome, friendly, correct, even sweet, yet out of reach.

“Films were a portal into different worlds for me,” he continues, “cultures I had never seen before and was absolutely taken with. I was also taken with the power of films to define things for me that I’d not been able to define for myself. So I became an actor.”

http://www.parade.com/celebrity/articles/071002-brad-pitt.html

isitreallythatserious? : 10/02/2007 at 2:22 pm
Great interview!

42 lars
Should they keep their kids hidden? Locked in a deep dark cave to protect them or continue to live their life as a family and do what they do?
_____________________________________________________________________YYeah….you’re being a BIT extreme. There is such a thing as middle ground. It’s called not exposing the kids to the sidewalks of a MAJOR city where they will obviously get A LOT of extra attention. Try, I don’t know…leaving them with Grandma & Grandpa Pitt while your doing a media blitz that EVERYONE in the free world knows about. For whatever reason, there are a select group of celeb children that the paps/public that a more then “usual” interest in. These kids are part of that group. If Brad & Angie wanted to keep them happy and stress free (Like most parents want their kids to be) they would shield them from unnecessary situations that can cause them to feel these emotions. He can obviously see that this causes stress so he should probably do something about it…if he cares. And NO, I don’t really care overly much….just making good observations. They aren’t my kids and it’s not my job to care about them…it’s their parents job. So they should start doing it.

Brad looks fantastic. I liked his interview. I wish the paps would give them some space when they go out with the kids. and thanks guli I think I can post again.

For those of you who figure they should find creative ways to dodge the paps–they are the most hunted subjects on earth right now. Yes, Angie went to the back door of the school with Mad–and wow, there were the paps–video tape too. Like the Princess of Wales, they can’t walk down a street or do normal family things without dozens of paps flashing them. Unlike Parasite Hilton and Britney the Unfitney they don’t notify the paps of their every move. A Chicago Trib reporter wrote an article on the paps that pursue them. She was in the car interviewing one of them when his walkie-talkie squawked with a potential Angie outing siting. She said it was terrifying–the pap was in radio/phone and walkie-talkie contact with others. He was going double the speed limit in downtown Chicago, running red lights and stop signs and changing lanes from far left to far right. The owner of the toy store that Angie took Z too even came out and yelled at them. Angie tried to leave the back way, but half the paps were there.
Both of them must be terrified at times for their kids.

#46: I love this article. Shows you what he was going through before and how a changed man he is now. Keep it up, Brad. You’re doing a great job as a partner and as a father. You are at a great place in your career and have so much to give for humanitarian causes.

Thanks, luv Brad for posting this…and in color too! nice :-).

Ohhh I love it!!!!! They are losing it again.

OK my favorite Angie and Z picture….What did Z say to mmake Angie crack up??? :lol:

http://s2.supload.com/free/angie-zee-cracksup-mom-20071002133835.jpg/view/