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Angelina Jolie is 33rd Smartest in Hollywood

Angelina Jolie is 33rd Smartest in Hollywood

Angelina Jolie recently made Entertainment Weekly’s “The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood” list, coming in at #33. She’s one of the youngest actresses to make the cut with 58-year-old Meryl Streep at #6, 45-year-old Jodie Foster at #30, 38-year-old Cate Blanchett at #45, and 28-year-old Sarah Polley at #49. Here’s what EW had to say:

Angelina, 32, is smart because… “she’s discovered the real value of fame. While keeping fanboys happy with films like Beowulf, she uses her celebrity superpowers for good. Continues to travel the globe as a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, the world media in tow, but this year she put her values on screen, too, delivering one of the best performances of her career as Mariane Pearl, widow of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in June’s A Mighty Heart.”

Angie also picked up the Good Penmanship Award because “she recently wrote for The Economist, alongside fellow contributors the Dalai Lama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy.”

Topping the “Smartest List” is director/writer/producer Judd Apatow of The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Superbad fame. Click inside for the full list…

Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Smartest People in Hollywood

1. Judd Apatow, director/writer/producer
2. Steven Spielberg, director/producer
3. James Cameron, director/producer
4. Ari Emanuel, partner of the Endeavor Agency
5. Will Smith, actor/producer
6. Meryl Streep, actor
7. Peter Rice, president of Fox Searchlight
8. Tyler Perry, actor/director/writer/producer
9. David Heyman, producer
10. John Knoll, visual-effects supervisor of Industrial Light & Magic
11. Brian Grazer, producer
12. Dick Cook, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios
13. George Clooney, actor/director/producer
14. Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
15. Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment
16. Peter Jackson, director/producer
17. Will Ferrell, actor/producer
18. Robert Zemeckis, director
19. Tom Rothman, co-chair of Fox Filmed Entertainment
20. Ben Stiller, actor/director/producer
21. Johnny Depp, actor/producer
22. Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation
23. Brad Bird, writer/director
24. Emmanuel Lubezki, cinematographer
25. Zack Snyder, director
26. Stacey Snider, CEO of DreamWorks SKG
27. Michael Moore, documentarian
28. Paul Greengrass, director
29. J.J. Abrams, producer/director
30. Jodie Foster, actor/director
31. Kathleen Kennedy, producer
32. Thelma Schoonmaker, editor
33. Angelina Jolie, actor
34. Sacha Baron Cohen, actor/writer/producer
35. Tim Palen, co-president of film marketing for Lionsgate
36. Modi Wiczyk, co-CEO of Media Rights Capital
37. Guillermo del Toro, writer/producer/director
38. Diablo Cody, screenwriter
39. Mary Zophres, costume designer
40. Jeff Skoll, founder of Participant Productions
41. Stefan Sonnenfeld, president of Company 3
42. Daniel Battsek, president of Miramax Films
43. Beth Swofford, agent at CAA
44. Roderick Jaynes, editor
45. Cate Blanchett, actor
46. Jeff Walker, Comic-Con impresario
47. Amy Powell, senior vice president of interactive marketing at Paramount
48. Gustavo Santaolalla, composer
49. Sarah Polley, actor/writer/director
50. Ben Affleck, actor/director/writer/producer

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hehehe @ 12/01/2007 at 11:10 am

idiot,she didn`t even mention Z and Pax and Shi,so she wants to break up with them too? :roll:

she wouldn`t even mention Mad`s name If the question was not about changing her life after being parent.

she wasn`t promoting movie,she was talking about act and her movies.

hehehe aka d.j.

Aren’t you tired ? It’s almost 3 yrs, you are still on the separation boat, give it up, it’s not going to happen at least in your life time.

I read Cliniqua’s article on the National Ledger, and I loved it. Proving her point without hating on anybody, or putting anybody down.

Angie is mor smarter than George Clooney…she should be #13 not Goerge ….and Brad #6

Wow…that’s awsome…
she deserves it………..although I think she should have been #1 ;)

she’s an AMAZING woman :
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20159869,00.html

I love Ange. She is clever, beautiful, kind and uses her celebrity to help others. I wish other celebs with that kind of influence did the same thing instead of just advertising themselves just to make more and more money.

great post, emily @ 12/01/2007 at 11:34 am

JLM’s name in parenthesis. That means the reporter put that in for clarification of which husband she was talking about. If you knew how to read an article from something other than a tabloid you might know these things.

If she talks about Brad, she’s not keeping her private life private enough, and hurting the pitiful hair ball, and if she doesn’t talk about him, then idiots like you predict a break-up.

Keep dreaming.

This article was about acting, and that is what she talked about for the great majority of it. And you, poor thing, just poured over all her words, just looking to pick it apart for any little thing. LMAO!

Geez, talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees. If you paid attention, you might actually learn something.

the two weeks that Jennifer Aniston spent in tiny Madras, Oregon, to shoot her romantic comedy Management seem to be under dispute.

One version has the 38-year old actress “loney and depressed” during the filming in the rainy Northwest, and another version has the producer of the flick Wyck Godfrey telling the media that Jen was a ball of fun who, at night, couldn’t pull herself away from the Silverado Bowling Alley, and eating at restaurants Ding Ho, Matzatlan and Mexico City. So what’s the truth?

Celebrity Babylon got in contact EXCLUSIVELY with a source on the movie set who had blogged on our site regarding a Jen Aniston gossip item we posted, that source got us in touch with somone who was assigned work directly with Jen and the other Management cast members like Woody Harrelson and Steve Zahn.

Here are the highlights:
jen was bored stiff, and she went out two nights total to be with the cast, who she ignored, and both times it was to the restaurant Matzatlan, that reportedly makes a “mean margarita.”

There were paparazzi in the town, eager to get her photo doing something other than on the set, and they came up empty, as Jen didn’t leave her dreary hotel room at night. “She watched TV,” says our source, “read books, and talked on the phone. The same stuff she did in her trailer on the set.”

Pal Courteney Cox Arquette had told Jen that she and Coco, 3, were going to visit her, but they never did, “This bummed her out,” says our set source.

The budget of the film left no room for lavish accomodations for Jen, “She stayed where we all did, [at the Inn at the Cross Keys Station], but she didn’t even use the gym, she said she worked out in her room,” says the source.

What’s more, “Jen liked Steve [Zahn], but she thought Woody was a jerk. The problem was, Woody is a strong personality and the cast and crew loved him, he became the ring leader, and Jen was pretty much left out.”

Jen also didn’t get the usually fawning over her appearance that she usually gets from her personal hairstylist Chris McMillan. “She came to the set having done her own hair which when not flattened out, is really frizzy, especially with the climate [in Oregon]. She showed up in sweats and Ugg boots, looking kind of unkempt. Not at all like the Jennifer you see in other situations. I think she wanted to do the work, but this wasn’t where she wanted to be, and who she wanted to be with.”

Getting Jen to leave her house, hotel room, or anything is a major feat, and we can’t help but notice that as the years drag on, she’s going deeper into seclusion. If Jen really wanted to say “goodbye” to the media, the paparazzi, etc., she could buy a home in a place like Madras, Oregon, and no one would ever bother her.

Instead, Jen rents on one of the most famous beaches in Malibu, has homes in the center of the Hollywood Hills and Beverly Hills, and wants to be left alone.

What we wonder is why the movie’s producer finds the need to “cover” for Jen — to make her seem “normal?”
http:///features/loneiston-in-oregon-what-really-happened/

She does not have to mention Brad she should protect her love for the public since the public is sick wanting something wrong anf thier was no question about Brad so stop it guys

.” Angelina is a woman who has boundless patience when it comes to protecting the rights of those in other nations however, she falls short of it at home.
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Angelina has the right to choose a cause that speaks to her and which she is passionate about and where she feels she can make a difference whether it is at home or abroad. What difference does it make? No cause is unworthy.

One thing I will never understand is why Anyone would ever hope for A family with four small children to break-up. There has got to be something really missing in your life when the prospect fo that makes You happy.

I think Will Smith paiid to be in this list so he is the damest of all I like but not smart he has to bring Tom Cruise to be recognize and that boring of his wife

Julia, EXACTLY! You don’t have to be a fan, but that kind of mindset is just pathetic isn’t it? Put your energy into something useful people.

Trolls=stupid They are shameless, I would’nt use Tom and Nichol as model for good parenting If I were them. Nichol is slowly outing her self as a questionable parent at best. This is a woman who has her only children living in LA full time with their father (supposedly, or boarding school?) and yet she does not own a home there (she can afford it, I would be living at the flea bag motel down the street) just to have some imput in my childrens life, and don’t give me the bullshit arguement that they are teenagers and want to be in LA, I dont believe it. I think teenage girls/boys want to
1) Spend time with their mothers/fathers if there was good bonding at the unset.

2) If the bonding was lacking and Mommy only wants to be seen with the children when there is trouble in her marriage and she wants to convince the MVM that all is well, or daddy is desperately trying to convince the MVM of his ability to impregnate a female.

Talk about using your kids, what a laugh. I bet you any money Z&Shi will have a better relationship with Angie than Nichol’s kids have with her.

Will Smith was smart but smarter than other Studio CEO ? I don’t think so . and the most surprising one was Ben Affleck, if not for his new directorial job, he’s almost down to C listed.

hehehe, dj, sam please aniston need you people go to oregon and visit her, because cox is busy, her hairstylist Chris McMillan is not interested on working with her and her PR is busy denying GP marriage on the rock, no love for aniston.

please sam, dj, hehehe aniston need you weak women right now for another pity party.

Congratulations to Angelina! Brad and Angelina should be on the top five. Brad came a long way from pretty boy to producer and brilliant actor and millions of people out there with intelligence knows that and for Angelina, from a rebel young person to a successful actress, a wonderful mother and a humanitarian.

Angelina could just easily went the wrong way but she found the right direction all by herself.

i love shiloh @ 12/01/2007 at 11:47 am

70 Felinelilly
Hi Felinelilly :D yes is the new people with Dennis Quaid on the cover. If you could PLEASE said what the article said about little Shi, you make me sooo happy :D
I’m sorry to respond just now but the difference of hours is huge :D i think when i am sleeping you are lurking here :D

vajenjen too is a k-mart.

to the trolls @ 12/01/2007 at 11:48 am

Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. What goes around comes around. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. Literally, karma means “action.” Good action equals good karma. Bad action equals bad karma. Each individual is solely responsible for his or her own behavior, and every deed will produce a reaction equal to it in every way. Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. People see more retribution than reward because their own behavior has been more selfish than selfless

#170, if you want to have a go at NICOLE Kidman’s parenting skills, you might want to learn how to spell her name before you criticize someone you don’t even know.

hottest couple ever @ 12/01/2007 at 11:51 am

Beautiful, sexy, talented, compassionate and smart, yes that’s our girl. Angelina Jolie.

C`mon you all know I`m talking about truth.

Love you Angelina!

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