Angelina Jolie @ Good Morning America

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Yes, AJ is very eloquent and consciously try to infuse substance into what she says. Different from most other actresses who giggle and flutter eye lashes all the way. Great to hear that she is celebrating these children’s cultural heritage.

Hopen the kiddies are doing well.

Seems good and interesting.

AMH:

Domestic: $9,176,787 55.0%
+ Foreign: $7,509,584 45.0%

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= Worldwide: $16,686,371

Loved the interview. Short & Sweet.

Angelina is just so adorable you just can’t help but love her i’m so proud that she is teaching her children about their culture.and i just love Anthony Hopkins he is such a great actor no one better than him,and i love the way Angie mentions Brad and children with so much love,with a happy mama you know the family this happy.

Working with one of the best actors Anthony Hopkins that’s our Angie, she is so good & she can answers question so smart, she has also good sense of humor.Brad will be with Angie tonight, wait & see.Love Brad & Angie.

Brad will be there for Angie tonight. no question about it.

Oh, please, please, people!
You can’t hate my Brad!
How can you say his merger was effed up
before Angie?!
He and Man were so happy, esp WHEN THEY
WERE SEPARATED FOR 8 MONTHS! Remember that!
So nice man! Never lies!
Oh, please, please!

I LOVE ANGELINA, SHE HAS SUCH GOOD SOUL.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2007
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It’s weird. They call these things junkets. It’s a word that means either “a sweet dessert”, “a party” or “a trip made for pleasure at someone else’s expense”. And the pleasure trip aspect is certainly there for the journalists, who get flown to somewhere nice by the film company, put up in hotels, see the film and then spend a day or a few hours talking to the people who made it. When I was a journalist, getting on a junket was always considered a good thing - a small amount of work for a fair amount of pleasure and adventure.

Having done a few of them now on the other side of the press conference table I think it’s worth mentioning that they aren’t really junkets for the people organising them or for the people being interviewed. They are work.

We assembled yesterday morning early in a hotel back room. A lady did hair and make up for the cameras (which means, in my case, a bit of powder, and then her looking at my hair and asking “Is it meant to be like that?” and me saying, um, yes, sorry). Then into a back room to be led onto the stage for a press conference. Ray Winstone and Crispin Glover had just seen the film and loved it (Crispin: “And mostly I don’t like films I’m in,”), John Malkovitch, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie haven’t yet seen it. Bob Zemeckis was there but decided some years ago not to do things like interviews and junkets and press conferences (very wise, and I rather wish I could do likewise).

I like Angelina. She’s nice, very professional, and has a slightly goofy sense of humour. Last time I met her was November 2005, when she was doing the acting bit of Beowulf. Even then, it had already been reported in the papers that she had closed down production on Beowulf by walking off the set after a fight with Ray Winstone - two weeks before her first day on set. I realised that where she was concerned the press were happy to simply make up stuff that sounded credible. It didn’t need have to have any basis at all in reality.

It was obvious during the press conference that a large contingent of the press just wanted to talk to her and talk about her private life, something she declined to do and handled with grace and aplomb. Overall, the press conference went well (I think my favourite bit was the way Ray Winstone, answering questions, always refers to me and Roger Avary as “The Boys”, as if we’re a couple of writing hardcases who will come over to your house and beat you up with our typewriters.)

And then on to interviews. Round tables: a dozen journalists in each room, and Roger and I go in, talk for half an hour and are then moved to the next room, where another dozen journalists are waiting to ask the same questions, while Anthony Hopkins, always one room behind, is moved into the room we were in.

And then it was off to hotel rooms for individual interviews, and telephone interviews with journalists in Kansas and suchlike places. And then, brain dead, we were done.

The reaction to the film from the journalists and interviewers, who had seen it the previous night, seemed overwhelmingly positive, which was a relief.

It’s nice that people have started to see the film, and are now actually talking about the thing they’ve seen. (I got a bit tired of reading online “reviews” of the film, which were always mash-ups of what people thought they’d seen in the trailers with what they imagined we were doing to the story, along with complaints about visuals they hadn’t properly seen yet, which then normally concluded with the loud and proud announcement that as they knew they wouldn’t like it, they wouldn’t be seeing it, and it certainly wouldn’t be Beowulf. Several of them were written by people who should, I thought, know better. I’ve never minded getting bad reviews, but in the past they’ve always come from people who had at least read or seen the thing they were complaining about.)

Anyway, now we’ve started screening it, real reactions are coming in.

Here’s a letter Jeff Wells that he put up at his blog in advance of his review appearing, which he’s posted I think partly because he was embarrassed by having said nasty things about Beowulf last week before seeing it http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2007/11/beowulf_2.php
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I really love what he said about Angie. I love the fact that there are people out there willing to write the truth about Angie and how the media is full of lies where she is concerned instead of writing lies just to get hits on their sites. :)

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Why the hell did those reporters ask that stupid question? I love Angie’s answer “Why would I comment on that?” Exactly.

49 stefanie : 11/05/2007 at 12:34 pm

I wonder how much longer Brad is going for this “global family” concept.
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Excuse me??? How long did your father stick around? Did he get tired of life with you?