Doug Pitt to Brother Brad: Let’s Care to Learn!

# 117 ? @ 04/17/2008 at 11:20 pm
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This is a horrible thing to say but if Grandma Betty was no longer with us, the tabloids would’ve alerted us of that fact with a bull$h*t deathbed story.

# 119 Jello @ 04/17/2008 at 11:46 pm
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Betty Russell’s second husband?!

Interesting…

Pitt, Jolie decamp

Brad Pitt wrapped up shooting his role on “Tree of Life” Wednesday and he, Angelina Jolie and their family are reportedly headed home to New Orleans. With them go the paparazzi. The Pitt-Jolie brood arrived in Smithville, where the Terrence Malick film co-starring Sean Penn is being shot, in late February. They’ve been staying at a rented house in Cedar Creek.

— Michael Corcoran

#114: I don’t know why it’s always the government’s fault when parents don’t take good care of their kids because they’re on drugs, ignorant, suspicious of everyone or simply too lazy to get work. If a place doesn’t work for you, go and find another.

If millions of illegal immigrants can find work and send enough money to their families back home, why can’t the people who have been born here with all their opportunities? Government agencies are practically begging to give away food stamps to anybody as well as shelter for the homeless (who wouldn’t leave the streets cause they can’t get drunk or take drugs) but there are still those who complain they are hungry and disenfranchised. These from the mouths of the same poor people who laugh at the ones breaking their necks trying to reel them in. All you had to do is say you’ve got depression and mental health agencies race to get you in their “programs”. They should move here to CA where soup kitchens are in a tizzy to find the hungry and food banks ply you with not just enormous amounts of groceries and other essentials but even food for your pets!

Why anybody would go hungry here where food are thrown out by the truckloads everyday and where obesity is a problem is beyond me.

1. Doug Pitt looks too dumb to devise this idea by himself. I just wonder who suggested it to him.

2. I visited the fund’s website and most links are not active at all. If he wants us “to really care to learn”, he should do something about it or call the webmaster.

3. The Pitt family seems soooooooooooo hell-bent on monopolizing all the glory on the charity market.

4. This piece of news simply confirmed my impression that America is a country for the rich and that it counts on the rich to provide whatever there is to provide for the youth etc. Your social welfare system sucks, guys! Europe is far better than anything you think you have and that’s not at the expense of any enterprising spirit at all.

#130: having a lot of people on the dole is not something to be proud about. When more lazy people live on the backs of the working class, does that make your country more successful?

It’s so funny. The fanistons and haters are in the habit of talking out of their azz about The Pitt family and Angie, yet the truth of the matter is…in 2 years of dating, and roughly 4 years of marriage, I’ve seen one pic of Maniston with Brad’s parents, one pic of her with Jane after Brad dumped her and I’d never seen her with Doug Pitt or Brad’s sister and sister in law (Doug’s wife). I personally think that one reason why it was not overly difficult for Brad to cut ties, was because while Maniston can do the phony warm thing, lots of hugs and mewly mouth pandering — it wasn’t genuine and authentic. Other than surface, I don’t think she had much of a relationship with his family. I recall one interview where she said emphatically that they don’t visit families at holidays.

Yet in the short time AJ and Brad have been together, Angie & the fam have visited the family at holidays enumerabe times, the family has visited with the JPs (in Nola, LA, TX, NYC, etc), they watch the children, they’ve joined them at museums and aquariums (pics of Lisa and Julie carrying Zahara and Pax), they all were out to eat just a few weeks back (Doug, Angie Brad and Mad), and the list goes on and on and on.

Jen is back @ 04/18/2008 at 7:07 am,Why post that article here?I wish Jen no ill will,but I just don’t give a damn what she does.

Sad that certain people hate to the point they can find fault with helping childern in need.

Angie & Brad donate their own money to charity … that is good. Matching up their donations is even greater.

Give until it hurts.

http://media.www.middleburycampus.com/media/storage/paper446/news/2008/04/17/Arts/The-Reel.Critic-3330188.shtml
(Great Movie Rent/Buy on DVD this weekend. )

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” was initially completed in September of 2005, but after a first cut that didn’t please Warner Brothers studio heads or test audiences, the film languished in post-production hell as director Andrew Dominik cut and tested several versions of the film, before finally settling on the version that was released in September 2007 - two years after principle photography wrapped. It’s impossible to tell exactly what was left on the cutting room floor or what the original cut of the film looked like, but the film that Dominik completed is staggering.
Continued…

Brad Pitt won a Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for his performance as Jesse James, and he deserved it. Pitt’s James transforms over the course of the film from confident outlaw to a paranoid and psychotic insomniac, afraid of being betrayed by everyone, except for Robert Ford. It is a towering performance that could easily stand alongside any of the best performances last year and is Pitt’s finest work to date. As Robert Ford, Casey Affleck proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is one of the best actors working today (not to mention a much better actor than his brother). Affleck takes what could have been a whiny 19-year-old interloper and turns the character into a much more tragic figure, a young man who has the idyllic image of his hero shattered and who is forced to murder the man whom he respects more than any other. The film transcends its traditional Western genre and instead becomes not only a meditation on fame and the glorification of celebrity, but also about the tragic loss of youthful innocence.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/movies/story/17CC6DAA5F5D567F8625742E005CB9C1?OpenDocument

(And since it is Friday, Cool Video. Cut and paste link below to see Papa Pitt talking about the rules of Fight Club)

Viral video of the week

04/18/2008

‘The Eight Rules of Fight Club’

Listen to Brad Pitt explain the rules of joining “Fight Club” (”The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club”) while the printed dialogue runs across the screen. It’s a clever example of kinetic typography, the art of combining animation and type.

tinyurl.com/2or9rz

word is jen will give a HUGE amount of money to O’s show.

Cool. Love it.

Wish there was something like this in Australia.

HELPING IRAQUI ORPHANS

By Richard Engel, Middle East bureau chief

Watch Richard’s story from Nightly News.

I have been humbled, overjoyed and, at times, brought to tears by their ability to cope, even smile and play, despite their tragedy. For the past two years, we have followed the lives of the Hussein sisters, Marwa, Aliya and Sora, orphaned and institutionalized after their parents were murdered in front of them northeast of Baghdad. When we returned last month to the Baghdad orphanage where they now live, my first impression was that the girls are stuck in time. I saw them in the same dining room eating the same lunch (rice with a little chicken and yogurt), playing the same games (basketball and ring around the rosy) in the same yard surrounded by (new) barred windows. But after visiting Marwa, Aliya and Sora for several days, it was clear their future is as uncertain as Iraq. Marwa has become a victim of her growing beauty. She’s only fifteen, but has matured physically and been forced to move to an orphanage for older girls. Now men are trying to marry her. Even her teachers are trying to set her up, believing it’s a good option – a future, a degree of stability — for an orphaned girl. In Iraqi culture orphans are often ostracized. Once they turn18, orphans sometimes end up on the streets. The younger Hussein girls, Sora and Aliya, miss their sister. She used to take care of them. They still have nightmares.

060516_baghdadorphanage1_hmed_2p_1Our previous story about the Hussein sisters and Iraqi orphans have generated an enormous outpouring from generous NBC News viewers. Some have even offered to open their own homes. Unfortunately, it is illegal under Iraqi law for foreigners to adopt Iraqi children, even Iraqi-Americans. There are, however, several charities working to help children like Marwa, Aliya and Sora. One is the International Rescue Committee. The group accepts donations. Please also feel free to ask questions or comment directly on this blog. There are many causalities in Iraq – not least of which are the American soldiers and Iraqi civilians — but at times children are most vulnerable to the unpredictable vicissitudes of these violent and changing times of war.
http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/07/867267.aspx

P.T……..thank you baby.