Brad Pitt and The Tree of Life

OK now, where are the regular posting?

LMAO, his hair cut makes his face look so chubby. I guess even Brad has to get older looking. He was so yummy in Legends of the Fall.

almost met Brad PittFebruary 28, 2008 in FUN IN MY DAY, JAKE

This may be a long post, but I promise if you read the whole thing, you’ll be like “no way”.
Last week, I received this email from my friend Debbie from church:
This is a job opportunity for Jake if you can send a photo to the address below or if you want to send it to me i can do it. this would be around Austin but i would go with you if you want me to. this is a big film with brad pitt.

An independent feature is looking for infants and expectant mothers for
a late February shoot.
Needed:
* Infants between 2 days and 10 days (born between Feb 14 and Feb 24)
* Infants 1 month old (born around Feb 1)
* 1-yr old boys with brown or blonde hair
* 2-yr old boys with brown or blonde hair
* Expectant mothers around 7-8 months
Infants and parents will be needed between 3-6 hrs. There will be a
comfortable resting area available off set.
I was like “what?” Brad Pitt? My kid in a movie? Yeah right. So what did I do? I sent in two pics of Jake to the casting director, that’s what I did (thanks Bush, I sent in one of your pics . I thought, there is NO WAY he would get the part. However, complete strangers always tell me that he could be in magazines, commercials, etc. And I am NOT a crazy psycho showbiz mom type. Anyways…
The next day, I received a call from the casting director, and she said that they wanted to use him. There were going to be several other little kids that they would be using as extras and they would do different shoots to see which shots/kids they wanted to use. They would be shooting this movie in Smithville, where Hope Floats was filmed (about 2 1/2 hours away from us), and it would only be a day trip. He’d even get paid (not much, but it covered gas).
So, since my friend Debbie said she’d go too, I said ok. Debbie has a daughter in college and a son in high school, and they have both done a lot of acting, so I felt comfortable taking her with me. I thought, why not? I don’t have anything better to do, and it could be fun to be on a movie set. We honestly didn’t even think Brad Pitt would be there yet since it was the first day of shooting. I also thought that there would be like 50 little kids Jake’s age or something like that.
We loaded up and left Houston at 7 yesterday morning to make our 10am call time, and when we got there, we got the scoop. It was crazy. Lots of security because guess what….Brad Pitt really WAS there! There were several infants, a few one year olds, and only one other 2 year old besides Jake. Jake and the other 2 year old were set to play a 2-year-old version of one of Brad Pitt’s sons (during a flashback scene) in the movie! They often have a few of each age group in case one kid doesn’t cooperate or gets tired, etc. And they can shoot them differently for different scenes. I swear, Jake and this other kid looked like they could be brothers.
So we wait and wait, and they take the other kid to wardrobe and to shoot first. It turns out that all of these kids had scenes with Brad Pitt. He meets the families, holds the kid, plays with the kid, etc. And all of these parents were coming back from their shoot talking about how they met BP and yadayada. So we are still waiting (that’s the name of the game when you are doing something like this). They kept telling us they were going to use Jake, but 6 hours later (which is the limit on being able to work a child this young), they ended up not needing him! They had gotten sufficient shots with the other kid. Man.
Needless to say, we were super disappointed. I knew this could happen, but once we got there, it just seemed like it would work out. But that’s what happens in this business. Especially when you are an extra. So we didn’t get to meet BP, but I saw him from a distance ” class=”wp-smiley”> And it was pretty cool that Jake was chosen out of a ton of kids to be cast in this movie. It was truly a once in a lifetime thing since they were filming so close to Houston.
Oh well. It was a rough day with wrangling a 2 year old for 6 hours, but at least we went and tried. I wouldn’t say that it was “fun”. But it was an adventure and probably worked out for the best. Who knows? There may have been something in the movie that would have made me ashamed for Jake to be a part of it. The plot has been kept really secret for some reason. The film is called Tree of Life and opens next year, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. It is written and directed by the same dude that did “The New World” with Colin Farrell, and Heath Ledger was originally supposed to play the lead role. I was told that it is a coming-of-age film and that it would have a family rating. That is the only reason I agreed to do it. If it was rated R, no way. Still, we all know that PG-13 stuff can be edgy. So, we’ll see when it comes out. It will be really crazy to watch it and recognize all of the kids that we saw at the shoot.
And that’s how I ALMOST met Brad Pitt (everyone said he was really nice….by the way….but I’m not bitter….nope).
http://theamazingklog.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/almost-met-brad-pitt/

Came across this from an Austin Radio DJ Blog …..

Life & Style Harassers

Life & Style called Bobby asking what he knew about Angelina Jolie being in town. Bobby wrote them back an email and said that all he knew that they were in town. They responded back by saying we know that you know more than that. Bobby admitted that their response intimidated him and he spilled everything he heard from everyone… including callers! He’s not even sure what all of it is true. They should have given Bobby some money for the dirt he dished out!! We talked about how a guy who took a picture of Brad Pitt, gave it to a radio station, then asked them to take it off their website because they didn’t pay him for it. So we just wanted to say thanks to all of our listeners who are way cooler, cause they never asked anything of us when sending us the pics. You guys are so much cooler than other station’s listeners. SO THANK YOU!!!

Radio DJ from Austin @ 03/01/2008 at 8:24 pm

Came across this from an Austin Radio DJ Blog …..

Life & Style Harassers

Life & Style called Bobby asking what he knew about Angelina Jolie being in town. Bobby wrote them back an email and said that all he knew that they were in town. They responded back by saying we know that you know more than that. Bobby admitted that their response intimidated him and he spilled everything he heard from everyone… including callers! He’s not even sure what all of it is true. They should have given Bobby some money for the dirt he dished out!! We talked about how a guy who took a picture of Brad Pitt, gave it to a radio station, then asked them to take it off their website because they didn’t pay him for it. So we just wanted to say thanks to all of our listeners who are way cooler, cause they never asked anything of us when sending us the pics. You guys are so much cooler than other station’s listeners. SO THANK YOU!!!
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Oh great LOL!! Let’s see what Lies&Stuff does with this unsubstantiated information.Will they be keeping track of what Lies&Stuff was told versus what they publish?

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/03/02/sweet_response_to_boxing_book/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Today%27s+paper+A+to+Z

Now Halloran, 44, is winning plaudits for a new boxing book, “Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward,” based on the life of the Lowell native whose trilogy of fights against champion Arturo Gatti captured the imagination of sports fans worldwide.

He has also signed on as a technical consultant on Paramount Pictures’ upcoming film “The Fighter,” which is based on the lives of Ward and his half-brother, Dickie Eklund, and will star Mark Wahlberg as Ward and Brad Pitt as Ecklund. With the end of the writers’ strike, filming is set to begin in Lowell this fall.

http://www.dvdtown.com/news/the-devils-own-on-blu-ray/5288

The Devil’s Own on Blu-ray
Devil’s Own on Blu-ray.
What’s New
By Tom Landy
FIRST ONLINE Feb 28, 2008
Sony is preparing to release the action/thriller “The Devil’s Own” starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt on Blu-ray on May 6.

Synopsis:
Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt star in this harrowing thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire (Pitt) is one of the IRA’s deadliest assassins. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O’Meara (Ford), a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie’s real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom’s growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/entertainment-catch-all/2008/02/29/will-ferrell-movie-q-a-86908-20335281/

Will Ferrell: Movie Q&A

Feb 29 2008

Will Ferrell Semi Pro
Q CAN you talk about adopting the house in New Orleans? Did Brad Pitt call you?

A NO, that was literally my wife who had seen what he was doing. She went on the website and saw you could help contribute for a certain portion or piece of shingles, or all these little things.

And we thought, ‘Why don’t we go in for a whole house?’ We were really inspired by that programme and the fact that he’s kind of keeping alive the redevelopment of the city. Most people seemed to have forgotten Katrina ever happened. We’ve all kind of moved on so were inspired by that and thought what a great thing to contribute to.

I have no idea where everyone is posting.
Here’s the video (that goes along with these pictures).
Brad spots the paps and decides to split. LOL.

http://publish.vx.roo.com/pagesix/portal/?vxSiteId=69c2a39d-024b-4162-aef8-3f82f173917d&vxChannel=Page%20Six&vxClipId=2214_246624&vxBitrate=700

Hello BAMPZS Fans! Happy Sunday :-)

bdj–thank you for the articles!

Janice–thanks for the video link :-)

Rememmber MAMS will be on fx at 7pm EST :-)

Hi guli. No problem.

I don’t know if MF’s new video was posted here on this thread. I love it, thanks again MMF :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aJeCMQ8BXM

You guys pretty much said what I was thinking. This stupid DJ knows right from wrong and the idiot chose to act wrongly.