Brad Pitt’s Futuristic Odyssey

I hate how Jolie has become the stay at home mome and housewfie of the 1950s. She used to be so independent. Now Brad is piling up projects like there’s no tommorow. He gets paid MILLIONS for one movie, yet he keeps trying to avoid homelife.

He looks very tired in that picture (lots of children to take care of; maybe he and his wifey should stop collecting children:)).

By the way, Brad Pitt is for me one of the most overrated and overexposed actors there are.

28 Darko @ 10/17/2008 at 8:47 am
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Quick call 911!
Someone is forcing Darko to read about Brad Pitt.
Not only that, someone is forcing Darko to see Brad Pitt movies.
Darko has even had to agree with him/her/it self on a Brad Pitt message board.

When will Darko be freed from having to post on the first page of every single Brad Pitt or Angelina thread?

Oh the humanity!!!

Microsoft, 25 law firms and Angelina Jolie team up to represent immigrant children
Leigh Jones / Associate editor
October 16, 2008

Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with actress Angelina Jolie and 25 law firms and corporate law departments to launch a major pro bono initiative to represent immigrant children in the United States.

The program will seek to help the nearly 8,000 children who each year are separated from their families and go through the U.S. immigration process, often unrepresented by counsel.

Kids in Need of Defense, or KIND, represents the widespread coordination of a pro bono effort, something Microsoft hopes will serve as a model for other pro bono projects.

“Part of what we’re trying to do is approach pro bono in a holistic rather than piecemeal way,” said Brad Smith, general counsel of Microsoft.

Microsoft is expected to announce the initiative Friday with Jolie in Washington, D.C. The corporation is partnering with the actress to raise awareness of the program and because of her experience as the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees and her previous efforts in providing free legal aid to unaccompanied children.

So far, Microsoft has received commitments from firms and legal departments totaling more than $5 million in time and money for the project, Smith said.

Children from other countries end up unaccompanied in the United States each year for a variety of reasons, Smith said. They may become separated from their families in the process of fleeing another country for their safety or they may come to this country on their own to escape abuse. KIND estimates that as many as half of the 8,000 unaccompanied immigrant children who go through U.S. immigration proceedings each year are not represented by counsel.

The law firms included in the project are Arnold & Porter; Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersol; Berry Appleman & Leiden; Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Covington & Burling; Crowell & Moring; Davis Wright Tremaine; Holland & Knight; Howrey; K&L Gates; Latham & Watkins; Lowenstein Sandler; and Morrison & Foerster.

Others include Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads; Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe; Perkins Coie; Shook Hardy & Bacon; Sidley Austin; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom; Steptoe & Johnson; Sullivan & Cromwell; Weil Gotshal & Manges; and White & Case.

In addition to Microsoft, the corporate legal departments of Merck & Co. and News Corporation are supporting KIND.

Personally, I think it’s a bad idea- the version of Troy (based on The Iliad) was a terrible adaptation. It took too many liberties and by the end of the film, there was little left of the real Iliad story (and being in a Greek/Roman class right now, we all discussed how terrible the film really was and how the title rightfully couldn’t be The Iliad).

We can’t really judge this until we see exactly where they are going, but I’m not too keen on the idea. Greek mythology is hard to pull off (especially if we include the gods)…I guess Brad loves the mythology, but at least try to retain some of the original elements of the story line…

GoBrad! If you are in the movie i will be there. Angie is starting “Salt” in /09 as well as Kung Fu Panda 2. If anything else comes along she is interested in doing she will be there as long as it does not conflict with Brad’s schedule. That’s the family rule.
Angie enjoys staying home with her kids.. I can’t wait for Angie’s upcoming movie Changeling end of Oct.. As well as Brad’s TCCOBB in Dec. Angie and Brad are my fav couple.
I would like to hear more about this project of Brads. Papa Pitt will bring hiome the bacon.. He has a family of 6 to feed so hope to be seeing more of him..

I’m a Greek and I know first hand that Brad looks more like a Swede rather than a Greek man… Oh, and Odysseus in space it’s a bit weird and odd. Sounds like bald Hugh Jackman in The Fountain (which Brad at first dumped to make in 2008 a movie called ‘The Tree of Live’…). No problem with The Fountain (great movie) or Jackman (great actor), but in this case we are talking about history. And I wonder: Is Hollywood ever going to consider poor Greeks and the history of their nation and stop doing films like Alexander, 300 and Troy?… Just a question…

thx for all the news bdj.. Jared should have a thread up for the MS project that Ange is working on.

Um, do you haters want to calm the f*ck down — Brad is producing, he may or may NOT star in the Odyssey pic. Ditto with the other film. There have been no casting announcements, just that warner’s “hopes,” he will star. Studios do that sh*t all the time, that way, when they do cast the lead they may not have to pay someone who isn’t Brad Pitt as much, because they say they have Brad waiting in the wings.

That said…

Nice to see, The National Law CLARIFY and highlight Angelina’s involvement with KIND, seeing as the Seattle paper has her as “spokesperson.” Since she funded the program on her own initially, got laws passed, and had her own project — that they could have easily researched, saying she was a ’spokesperson’ was slap in the face.

Like Angelina is going to leave her family, traveling with two infants, just to stand on a stage as a ’spokesperson.’

…oh and true to form Huvane has Maniston visiting an elementary school today, smart water bottle in hand on a ‘charity,’ run — great timing Stephen…as ‘andamentothat,’ said — hacking into the JPs calendar was an excellent idea. LOL

National Law Journal: Microsoft is expected to announce the initiative Friday with Jolie in Washington, D.C. The corporation is partnering with the actress to raise awareness of the program and because of her experience as the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees and her previous efforts in providing free legal aid to unaccompanied children.

Seattle Times: Partnered with some of the nation’s legal powerhouses — and with actress Angelina Jolie as a spokesperson — Microsoft today launched an initiative to provide free legal help to hundreds of illegal-immigrant children who are on their own and facing deportation.

YOU SUCK Seattle Times. lol

The Odyssey should never be made into any film. It should be read.

I don’t like the idea of the Odyssey being made into a futuristic film but I won’t worry about it because it’s just talk right now. I do think that baseball movie would be good but only interesting to real baseball fans . . . and there are a LOT of those around!!

Nice to see the EX doing “charity work” with the kiddies in L.A. She “shook hands” with them and showed them her bottle of Dumbwater. Wasn’t that nice? I applaud her amazing charity work with children. Must have taken Huvane months to think of it. Good for them to come up with something so wonderful.

CLINIQUA @ 10/17/2008 at 9:50 am
Big difference. Thanks for pointing it out. AJ has been in the forefront of this initiative and a big supporter of Children ’srights and aid. I think the Seattle paper (home of Microsoft) was playing up the Microsoft part. However, it is a good program and worthwhile cause.