OlderBrad Pitt Goes on ‘Parade’
Brad Pitt tells Parade that one thing that is certain are his kids, Maddox, 6, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 16 months. Here are some snippets from his interview:
On his increasing doubt in religion as he got older: “I had crises of faith. I thought you had to experience things if you want to know right from wrong. I’d go to Christian revivals and be moved by the Holy Spirit, and I’d go to rock concerts and feel the same fervor. Then I’d be told, ‘That’s the Devil’s music! Don’t partake in that!’ I wanted to experience things religion said not to experience.”
On having scuttled his fundamentalist beliefs by the time he entered college: “When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self,” he says. “I had faith that I’m capable enough to handle any situation. There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.”
On his faith in his family: “What’s important to me is that I’ve defined my beliefs and lived according to them and not betrayed them. One of those is my belief in my family. I still have faith in that.”
On his early taste with fame: “When fame really hit me was when ‘Legends of the Fall’ was released. You get no warning about what celebrity is or how to deal with it. It’s sort of multitiered. The initial stage is feeling discombobulated and not up to the task. I didn’t understand the incessant attention when I went outside, the way people completely focused on me. It made me very uncomfortable. Then you start to see the fickleness of celebrity that it isn’t rooted in something of real value. There is this strange wanting by people to get next to you. It has nothing to do with you but with something they feel they are missing in themselves.”
On the crazy paparazzi: “I understand the tabloid machine. There’s money to be made off of Angie and me, but it has gotten so out-of-hand. There’s no decency, even when it comes to our kids. I mean, yesterday Angie was taking Maddie off to school. There were 30 paparazzi outside. One guy sticks a video camera in Mad’s face, yelling, ‘Maddox! Maddox!’ He doesn’t get a response. He doesn’t know my boy. Mad is already savvy to this, unfortunately. But my 2-year-old dreads being anyplace there are cameras. It scares her. They’re all in her face. My kids are faced with this every day! It’s disgusting. So we’ve been run out of L.A., all the major cities. We just can’t live there. You don’t understand–this is the hunt, the hunt, the hunt! I thought it might be over a year ago. It’s gotten worse.”
Read Brad’s full interview with Parade here and here.
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Thank you JJ for giving away the interview for Sunday’s Parade. He is so mature now and is truly an icon in the film industry.
To Dakota:
I noticed that behavior from the producers too at the MMS premier. Anyway, I read somewhere that when Brad was filming Babel in Morocco, about May 2005 (fresh from the separation news) Angie visited him at his suite and spent the night there. It was written in a magazine that Brad stayed only until 10 pm at the Babel party, politely excused himself and went back to his suite to be with Angie. Angie left early the next morning via private jet to her home in Fulmer, England. Also in May 2005, Angie went to dinner with her ex Johnny LM at a restaurant in London. Then you know the rest, June the premier of MMS in the States, and Mexico. In between, Brad surprised Angie with a birthday party, went to England midJune until July to attend the Live 8 concert, then to Africa for Z and went back home with some type of meningitis. Angie flew back to NYC, took Z to hospital, flew July 15 to be with Brad in Malibu while he recuperates. She waited until Z is in stable condition.
the United Nations Correspondents Association presents the 2003 Serio Vieira de Mello Citizen of The World Award to Angelina Jolie for her dedicated work of behalf of refugees
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God, keep blessing and watching over the Jolie-Pitt family.
World day of refugee 06-2005:
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Jen will not marry any time soon because she loves the way her life is right now. And it seems like she loves attention and the only way for her to get it is by public admiration of her situation - left for another woman.
See, you’ve got to wonder too…after seeing a therapist for 13 yrs..how come nothing changed. I MEAN..NOTHING changed in her life.
Jen’s issues are deep…goes back to her childhood and are still there. Whatever issues that this girl has have affected her self-esteem, personality, relationship, motherhood, caring, and practically anything that money can’t buy.
I mean, you would think that by now - a woman pushing 40 - she would have done an 11 hour dash to deal with whatever issues these are and is on the way to the 40s..having grown some and more and that we would see it one in form or another. Nope. It is still same old same old stuff - shooting films and signing up for the 10th films. Then the woman has the gall to wonder why her marriage failed and why she does not have a long term relationship. It is because she uses men to move up the industry and never marry them for the right reason.
In Jen’s world, men are for one and only two purposes - sex and career growth.
World day of refugee 06-2005 # 2:
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The hat came back
Celebrities help lead trend to high-fashion headwear
Sarah Petrescu
Times Colonist
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
You can blame it on Brad, but the hat is back.
Blame it on Brad Pitt sporting slouchy tuques in sweltering Africa, Britney Spears pairing a white fedora with cut-offs or Samuel L. Jackson’s backwards Kangols — hats are back and anything goes.
You can feel the buzz in Roberta Glennon’s store, Roberta’s Hats, on Government Street. Tourists loaded with shopping bags stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the local coffee-break crowd, trying on the latest caps and tuques on one of the first brisk days of fall.
“I might have to change the name to ‘Roberta’s Caps,’ ” says Glennon, who opened the store 15 years ago. “They are getting so popular.”
Hats of all types were a noticeable focus on the runways of Paris and New York this year, with Marc Jacob’s Gatsby-esque collection and Proenza Schouler accessorizing the entire fall collection with a similar heavy, black cloche (or bell hat).
Glennon says it’s a high time for headwear, and celebrities are setting the trends.
“Those slouchy Brad Pitts fly outta here a dozen a day,” she says, wearing a feathered top hat by Vancouver milliner Renata Crowe. When Naomi Watts appeared in the 2005 remake of King Kong wearing a 1920s cloche, women started requesting the vintage style en masse.
“Right now fedoras, Fidel-style hats and pork-pies are very in — especially in tweeds and plaids,” says Glennon. “The interesting thing is people are wearing them with anything, from street clothes to something more dressy.”
Sissy Spacek came into the store every day for a week while filming Pictures of Hollis Woods in town this summer.
“She bought a lot of fedoras,” says Glennon. “All fedoras, she loved them.”
Spacek isn’t the only celebrity who has come hunting . Roberta’s has had Nelly Furtado, Bif Naked, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar as customers.
Kurt Browning brought his whole family in to shop for hats. British actor Bill Nighy (famous for his role as Davey Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean) bought a fedora, and when asked to pose for a picture, insisted it be beside a portrait of the Queen that hangs on the wall.
One time, Billy Joel brought his entourage in to treat them to hats. He ended up turning the stage at the back of the store into a dance floor.
“Colin James was playing on the stereo and Billy Joel says, ‘Who is this, I love this?’ ” says Glennon. “Then he just started dancing around.”
While Glennon and her staff agree the only heinous hat trend is the backwards ball cap, they are often surprised with what becomes a hit. Like the novelty animal tuques and knitwear by the Toronto company DeLux.
“Ones with kitty ears and devil horns did really well. Even the sock monkey and chicken hats were big sellers,” she says.
The bulk of people who come into Roberta’s browse and try on dozens of hats looking for something they like. Hat prices range from $20 to $400 for some of the fancier handmade pieces. The average price is in the $30 to $50 range.
Even though I collected vintage hats throughout my teens, I tell Glennon I’ve always had a hard time wearing hats — particularly because I’m short, and if they have a brim, I can’t see anyone taller than five-feet-six.
She says the hat weary should keep trying, particularly different styles and sizes. A simple beret is a good place to start.
“You have to try things on to know what suits you. People will try on 30 to 40 hats,” she says. “The funny thing is they often go back to the first few — I think we instinctively know what suits our face.”
funny to me:
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198 lars
I don’t have a problem saying that you idiot if that’s what I meant. You said you are a guy like we should know that but how could we? WE CAN SEE YOU you nasty dumb idiot.
with Condi Rice:
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WDR 2003:
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212 saraicita
Nice Pic but when was it taken?
she(Jen) pays the men by offering sex.
TO:
LARS &
JUST SAYIN
I am here to back you two. Listen…these crazy JP fans all think the haters are one person….that’s how delusional they are. I like to call them stalkers! I completely agree with you guys. If the JP’s have a huge premiere leave your children with the ten nannies that they have (that the public is not supposed to know about) Leave them with Grandma and Grandpa or a brother. Give me a break! You don’t have to expose the kids like they do. I love the “living in the country” comment. I think the press should call them on it. Live in a remote area where you have all this land. In the country you can live on acres of land and NO ONE will be able to trespass because it’s private property. Sure they can snap pics from afar but who cares? It’s not in the kids faces……idiots. That goes to show that they are attention whores.
Seriously got to love the trolls. The Big Problem In their life is, in their opinion, They don’t think Brad has publicly said that He loves Angie enough..LMAO
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They hear what They want to hear.
Not only has He said Angelina is MY GREAT LOVE.
He LIVES IT EVERYDAY!
Get a life Drama Queens.
OT…
Good to see you African Girl.. We sure missed you around here..
Cheers.
HAPPY LIBERATION DAY TO BRAD AND TO JEN.
I can spot an idiot from a mile away! : 10/02/2007 at 4:07 pm
198 lars
I don’t have a problem saying that you idiot if that’s what I meant. You said you are a guy like we should know that but how could we? WE CAN SEE YOU you nasty dumb idiot.
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LARS IS A MAN’S NAME!!!!!! I told you that maybe three posts back. Do you know any girls named LARS???? If you do, I would double check them for a package. Your moniker is ironic. You say you “can spot an idiot from a mile away”? Why don’t you go grab a mirror so you can see the idiot right in front of you!
181 hummmmmmm =wobler30
honey even Angie in her interview in GCI try not to use brad`s plans something that was related to her.
remember that you all came here and said that she doesn`t have any opinion what to call him,no honey as I see she didn`t want to use my love or my partner brad did this.she wants to give more credit to what he is doing of his own.HONEY Angie herself said that he was doing things before her but in quite way and now brad didn`t say anything against what Angie said in her interview.
and another things, yes he said he is new man .but you just see his changes in his charity work.No he is new man personally he becomes commited man,he becomes good father,he becomes good partner,he becomes better actor.and you don`t see this as his changes.
so I know you will believe what you want, but I told these things to whoever don`t know him and want to judge from your post.you sound like one sad hater that you can`t accept the fact that they are one happy couple and family .the couple that don`t need to defend what they are doing to anyone and they don`t even need to share what they feel about each other to any one,the only person who needs to know his love for herself is Angie and as matter of fact she knows it because she is with him in all of his causes and supports him in every way.
Thank you LAM, but do you think Angie saw Brad with his super blond hair before the MAMS premier? When he was at the premier it was like he zeroed in on her as if he hadn’t seen her since their night in Morocco? Any info? Thanks again LAM
215 KEARNIE:i believe that,you think O.B. already left after one night??????
214 isitreallythatserious? : 10/02/2007 at 4:10 pm
212 saraicita
Nice Pic but when was it taken?
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World Refugee Day, Washington, june 15 2005
Well, he certainly missed a good opportunity to give a shout out to his girlfriend for the folks in the US to see - Parade would have been a great venue for that. Instead, the article is somewhat depressing and the fact that he calls the notion that Jolie had a hand in making him the better and more humanitarian/giving/thoughtful person he is today than he was 2 years ago “Idiotic” is kind of a let down. Hasn’t he said before that she made him a better man? Why is it suddenly an idiotic notion?
He missed the opportunity to give credit where credit is due.
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i completely agree and I don’t understand how angie could be with someone who barely acknowledges her. the other day someone said they watched a red carpet video that showed his pr lady trying to get him to doge questions about Angelina.
You KNOW, it has to be hurtful for her. the man she loves can barely even talk about her because he’s got the pr stick so far up his ass.
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Because he wants to be taken seriously as an actor, he thinks angelina killed her carreer talking too much, and he doesn’t want to do the same. He’s so much better and smart than her.
Lars and Cindy - let just say you aint BRAD and Angelina. Come to think of it, how are we JP fans suppose to believe two posters here who HAVE NOT WALKED IN THEIR SHOES.
Heck, a large number of us fans here are HUMBLE enough to say - we’ve got no idea what it is like to be Brad and Angelina and therefore do now have the right to critize or tell them how to live their lives. We’ve got no idea.
Meanwhile, you two talk as though you have 100 suggestions of what they can and should do..yet you are just a blogger.
You know who you remind me of…
the arm chair fans who are all up in arms and about to attack when the goalie says - they are acting as though they are better players than me.
Brad and Angelina’s Miltonic moment
By Nigel Andrews
Published: September 22 2007 03:00 | Last updated: September 22 2007 03:00
This has been an amazing fortnight for followers of Brad and Ange. Two simple September weeks have given an extra polish to a screen-biz legend already buffed to a dazzle. Brad is the one who came up via commercials, minor TV shows and a bit part in Thelma and Louise to become the cinema’s most beautiful leading male. Angelina is the one who emerged from a stormy parental chrysalis (and still won’t pick up the phone to father Jon Voight), followed by humungous fanzine exposure, to become the screen’s most beautiful - or sexiest at any rate - female.
Now, in a synchronised coup, they have both been anointed as serious actors.
Last week Brad was named Best Male Performer at the Venice Film Festival, to gasps of respectful surprise. We who had seen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford admired Pitt’s work as the first-named outlaw but thought the prize likelier to go to the second outlaw, showily played by Casey Affleck. (His brother Ben won Venice Best Actor last year.) Either that or the gong would be bestowed, as so often, on a non-Hollywood actor no one outside Europe had heard of.
Then yesterday, in the UK and other parts of the planet, Angelina opened in A Mighty Heart, playing the seriously serious role of Marianne Pearl. Pearl was the wife, then widow, of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel, famously slain in a jihadi execution. Jolie received praise at Cannes in Michael Winterbottom’s film for dowdying down and accenting up to impersonate an everyday-attractive French brunette with a high anguish quotient. The actress’s strong performance culminates in an ear-piercing primal scream on receiving confirmation of her husband’s murder. (I thought the scream the single false note, the one that said, “This is my Oscar bid”.)
For Mr and Mrs Pitt the moment is almost Miltonic. They are no longer babes in the Edenic backyard; they have joined the acting grown-ups. This is both good news and bad. There is something lapsarian - something a little cast-out-of-paradise - about beautiful people who risk martyring their beauty with talent. Not content with the elite status granted them by a deity who has placed them in the Garden of the Eternal Photo Opportunity, they risk all on raiding the Tree of the Knowledge of Passion, Emotion and Character Exploration.
(If you think invoking the Book of Genesis is overdoing it a bit, I would argue that Brad and Ange have already been acting out this scenario, wittingly or unwittingly. Both actors have spent an unseemly amount of recent screen time toying with snakes: Jolie in Alexander, as witchy-sexy Olympias, the hero’s mother;and Pitt, for no detectable plot reason but eye-catchingly and biblically, in Jesse James. He is even seen in one sequence wreathing his arms in a whole variety of serpents.)
The world feels ambivalent - both intrigued and apprehensive, or even a bit resentful - when beauty is joined on a single person’s mantelpiece by other trophies of accomplishment. “It isn’t fair” is part of our feeling. No one should be so blessed. In cinema the love-hate attitude to the beauty-talent linkup has been particularly keen. The paradigm is surely Marilyn Monroe. A tendency to reduce men to vaporous emanations of concupiscence, by a presence suggesting a pre-cognitive pulchritude, an unthinking animal perfection, cannot and must not, we feel, be sullied by conscious artistry. The need continues today, among many, to believe that Monroe had no intelligence, no discipline, no technique, no application. She just “was”.
In the same way, on screen, Gary Cooper, a male beauty, just “was”. So was Valentino. So, in her most iconic scenes, was Garbo (that impassive face blown by the sea breezes at the end of Queen Christina). And Marlene Dietrich so determinedly and near-totemically “was” - presenting to the glow of the production lights her impassive beauty with its sculpted cheekbones and elevated eyebrows - that she, for me, rather gave the game away. I always pictured Dietrich, at the end of a take, tearing off her air of elevated inanition and rowdying with the boys and girls behind the camera. (Pretty much true to reported fact.)
For the actuality is this. Beauty is not enough for stardom. It never has been. There has always been talent too, whether that extra gift is acting ability, charisma - and knowing how to use it - or an engaging richness of mannerism: all those things that are most simply summed up in the words, “the camera loves him/her”.
Pedants will have positioned themselves by now to point out that Pitt and Jolie have won acting acclaim before. Yes, I know. Each has been noticed by the Oscar voters. Brad won a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Twelve Monkeys, Jolie a Best Supporting Actress award for Girl, Interrupted. But I don’t count Oscars. Those handouts - especially for supporting roles - are given by the mad to the glad. Their yardsticks measure the yardage of shtick; their criterion is a showy quirkiness. Winning a performance prize at Venice and being good in the lead of a Michael Winterbottom movie are, in each case, a quite different thing.
So let’s salute Mr and Mrs Pitt. They have raised their game. At the same time let’s state once more: it is naive to be surprised. If an actor has reached the point of being a star, that actor has already made it clear that he or she is more, much more, than just a pretty face.
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B&A do go to the countryside with their kids……….When they film a movie. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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