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Angelina Jolie Returns From Afghanistan
Angelina Jolie visited poverty-stricken families during a two-day visit to Afghanistan this past Wednesday and Thursday.
The 33-year-old UN Goodwill Ambassador commented that “the courage, resilience and quiet dignity of returnee families rebuilding their lives against the kind of adversity few of us can imagine shows the human spirit at its best.”
Angie appealed for long-term commitments to Afghanistan and greater humanitarian support for the population as the harsh Afghan winter approaches.
Read the full report at UNHCR.org. Watch the video of her trip at ETOnline.com.
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#50 , there’s much safer ways to get a good photo-op ya idiot piece of doo doo on my shoe. She could do what Brad does and just take zahara out on a photo-op paparazzi fest .
Not impressed @ 10/24/2008 at 9:21
pm uummm–what does the Pope have to do with this? Angelina is still a liar and hypocrite as far as I am concerned; fortunately, some good comes of it for less fortunate people.
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She’s not doing this to impressed people stupid…. how can u think this woman risking her life .. leaving her family… with no bodyguard just to impressed stupid people like u…
Why is there a moving green arrow??
I just love Angelina , she is an inspiration to all.
Deadbolt Interview
Finding Hope in Troubled Times with ‘Changeling’ Star Angelina Jolie
October 24, 2008
In an age when celebrity seems to be more important than the most critical events in both the country and the world, it would easy for Angelina Jolie to be just that, a celebrity. But Jolie is much more, as she’s used her celebrity to not only educate people on a variety of world issues that need attention but also teach her kids the importance of selflessness. Although Angelina lives in the constant glare of the paparazzi, she’s found a way to deflect attention away from her and onto those who need it most.
Now Angelina Jolie is shedding light on a completely different and unique issue through her role in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, a true story about a mother who realizes that the child that’s found and returned to her after a kidnapping is not her son. As Jolie’s character, Christine Collins, searches for her child and answers to the fraud, she’s denigrated, ostracized, and perceived crazy by the authorities.
While doing press for Changeling, Angelina shed light on the characters she plays, the emotional investment she had to make, her definition of hope, how she drew inspiration from her mother, and her approach to teaching her kids the value of humanitarian work and helping those in need.
Angelina Jolie on whether her Changeling role was difficult and if she had trepidations about it:
“I did because it’s such horrible subject matter and it is my worst nightmare. And after I read it, I didn’t sleep well that night. I just didn’t want to go near having to think about anything happening to my children. I didn’t want to spend months being emotional about it, but I couldn’t get her story out of my head. And it reminded me of my mom, who I had lost that year, and it is also a story of justice and democracy and action. There’s something about her that was so remarkable to me that I wanted to tell the story.”
Jolie on whether this type of story is still happening today:
“Oh, sure. Look at Burma. There [are] many parts of the world where peoples’ voices aren’t being heard and media is corrupting and hushing someone up. Absolutely…”
On whether it made a difference that her character was a single woman:
“I think that was a big part of how they felt they could manipulate the situation and they had power over her. I don’t think they chose to attack her because of it, but I think they thought she was an easy target. I think they knew at that time women didn’t command that type of respect, and certainly some were more looked down upon and questioned at that time.”
Angelina Jolie on whether the character was inspirational for the audience:
“I guess in some way, but it’s also, for me - Or thinking of my daughters, I tell them stories that I think are the type of women I’d want to meet, the type of women - even if they’re silly characters I’ve played, like Tomb Raider, there’s something about that that will be fun for my daughters to see one day. And I like this person. I’ve never really played anyone who I thought was a horrible person that said nothing. I wouldn’t have much interest in that.”
Jolie on her mother:
“My mom was very soft spoken and her name was Marcheline, and she always called herself marshmallow [laughs]. She was a very soft spoken person, and even if she came in and wanted me to clean my room, she just couldn’t yell and she couldn’t swear, and yet I would want to do anything to make her happy because she was that sweet. But when it came to her kids, if anybody crossed her children or if they needed anything, she somehow found this remarkable strength. But it came out like it came out with Christine, she would still… there’s this scene where I’m angry in the film but I’m still apologizing because she doesn’t like being ugly or angry. She’s very uncomfortable in that.”
On whether the role was hard for her to do:
“It was. It was the hardest thing for me to figure out and to map her emotions and to figure out how she got from the person she is in the beginning to the person she is in the end, and without it being some moment where she just flips. It was gradual that she would find and then lose her strength again, and she’d find it and then something else would happen and it grew into something. Yes, absolutely, because usually it happens in films that you go with your instincts.
My instincts were so often to scream and look at the person like, ‘You’re nuts! I’m not listening to any of this!’ So something in my face would betray - but again I guess I tried to put myself in my mom’s shoes or somebody else’s shoes where you feel I’m not going to get my son home unless I ‘behave’. And I have to get my son home. So whatever bullsh*t, I’m going to put up with it and do the best I can. I’m nervous to cross the line.”
Angelina Jolie on back to back emotionally grueling roles, including A Mighty Heart:
“Well, I did do Wanted in between [laughs] and that’s actually why I did. After Mighty Heart, I lost my mom, I had a baby and I’d just finished Mighty Heart where I was emotionally drained and I really wanted to pull the covers over my head. And I knew I’d be going into Changeling in six months. I called and said, ‘Is there anything there that is just physical and aggressive and something original? Because I’m going to start turning into a little flower if I can’t - I’m breaking.’”
Jolie on not sleeping well after reading the script:
“Yeah, all through the film my children were irritated at how huggy [laughs] I was, constantly asking, ‘Where is everybody, and what’s going on?’ But it was a very difficult film to do, and one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. And at the end of each day it was really draining. But sometimes you go through something so deeply and you come out the other end better. It was one of those projects where I just love my children that much more and I’m so grateful I know where they are and that they’re healthy at the end of the night. And I’m so grateful I’m not living through what she lived through. And so you get through it but it was certainly very difficult.”
On her definition of hope:
“I think we have to have [hope]. I had this amazing experience. I got to meet Jane Goodall and spend some time with her because she was working for refugees. And somebody said - she was asked that question, actually it was more pointed. It was more, ‘How can we have hope in the situation today?’ And I’d never seen her angry and she slammed her hand down on the table and said, ‘We absolutely have to. There is nothing if we don’t have that.’ We have nothing.
So it’s about survival and it’s one of those things - we must focus on, on how we’re going to get through things and thinking about the past and this story, this horrible thing that happened to this woman and yet she confronted the police department. She fought, she changed the law, she never found her child but I’m sure she made people that much more careful about their children and maybe protected somebody else. If you think to the past of all the times where it must have seemed - women’s right to vote, or racial equality - somehow it does change. Walls come down, things happen, we have moved forward and we have new obstacles and new very difficult things to face - we have to be if we’re going to face them.”
Angelina Jolie on talking with her kids about the humanitarian work she does and whether she hopes they will follow her lead:
“We do hope so - we have programs started in our kids’ countries and we hope that just with that, and visiting those programs as they grew up, and being a part of it will be something they will feel responsible for. But they travel with us to those countries, and so the biggest thing we can do for our kids is - they live in a lot of different worlds. They’re having fun running around this hotel right now, but they’ll also be in Ethiopia in a few weeks and they won’t have everything they have here. And as they travel so much, they tend to notice.
We show them different worlds. They go to Cambodia and they help go buy candy and shoes and water and go bring it to the local people and hang out and talk to the kids. They see that the world is not balanced and they see that - they ask those questions and instead of preaching to them, we’re going to keep showing them and hope that that sinks in and that they will find in themselves a desire to always help and strike a balance.”
Angelina Jolie on the most uncomfortable situation while traveling:
“Oh, God, the most uncomfortable situation? I was somewhere where the local corrupt government was trying to get my passport and I was hiding in the corner, pretending I wasn’t there because I had heard they had a history of ripping up passports.”
Jolie on whether she got involved with charities to deflect attention away from her as a sex symbol:
“No, I haven’t done anything because of an image of me. I do what I want to do because I love - I’ve gone into the field years ago because I wanted to understand what was going on in the world, because I started to travel and felt ignorant and I love spending time with refugees. Selfishly, it’s the most I’ve ever grown and most I’ve ever learned, and some of the best times I’ve ever had speaking with other human beings. I love it and I think they’re remarkable survivors, and I genuinely, genuinely love it and want that example for my kids. I want to raise my kids right, and if there’s anybody who I want to be looking at me and understanding a balance of who I am, it’s certainly not for the media, it’s my six kids that are going to question what my life is about.”
On how she explains a violent movie like Changling to her kids:
“I’ll talk to them about it when they’re older because they won’t’ see those films. But they often ask me, and if they say, ‘Who’s the bad guy?’ Pax is very into who’s the bad guy, and we always say, ‘Are they doing bad things to someone who’s not doing anything bad to them, or are they defending themselves?’ ”
Angelina Jolie on whether she only picks violent roles that appear justified:
“No, it’s more complicated than that. My kids play video games but I’m not somebody that… in Cambodia we have rangers working with us and we have - I’m not somebody who doesn’t… I let my kids play with toy soldiers, and they ask me about war. My son recently said, ‘Which country is good and bad?’ And he was pointing to all these different flags, and I had to explain to him its from where you’re standing. I’ve got to explain to my sons the history of America’s involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia and their relationship with each other and their border issues. So we don’t take lightly war and violence and we don’t hide and don’t say, ‘You can’t play toy soldier in the house. And mommy and daddy have movies where we play these characters, but there’s real death and real life and real responsibility.’”
Source: http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/105154/joliechangeling_interview.php
#5 Theodora @ 10/24/2008 at 8:50 pm, # 6 plz @ 10/24/2008 at 8:51 pm , #7 Charlotte Corday @ 10/24/2008 at 8:53 pm, #14 doesn’t work anymore @ 10/24/2008 at 8:58 pm, #18 milla @ 10/24/2008 at 9:01 pm, # 21 dnd @ 10/24/2008 at 9:02 pm,
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WOW! Look at all the people who are “sick of her” jump on this thread!!!
Listen up Wackos!!!
#5 You sound like the kind of person that believes if you tell kids “just say no” to drugs and sex you have done your job.
The reality is that kids are very aware of the realities of this world, war just being one of them. To be a responsible parent is to recognize that and to be responsible in teaching your children. She has said over and over she and Brad do this by talking about what is pretend, what is real and differentiating between fighting to defend oneself or others and hurting for the sake of it. All kids play one form or another of “war” or “superhero” where they are “protecting from the bad guys”
#6 Because she makes millions and gives millions away to people in need she can’t keep any of it? Go to a message board and hold all the other celebs who do NOTHING accountable for their lifestyles!
#7 Ever hear of a secret ballot? It is a Constitutional right. Angie will have to work with whatever government is in office to help refugees. She should jeopardize her position to make a stand, that will have no affect on the outcome of the election? She is exercising her right to keep her vote to herself. Blame the rest of the populace that do not realize that we have a constituional duty to dissolve a government that no longer serves the people.
#14 She had already left Afghanistan, when the details were released. She did her job as a UNHCR representitive, which is to make people aware of the plight of refugees.
#18 Well, you just babble….Get a good translator!
#21 She has worked for the UNHCR and has been a Goodwill ambassador for years. She gives a third of her income to help those in need. According to you, she can’t enjoy the rest? Maybe you should not be enjoying your income!
Thanks for the new thread. AJ is an inspirational woman. She walks the talk. It is easy for the hens to whine about AJ because she makes the rest of the self-absorbed, narcissist whiny actresses of Hollywood look like underachievers. AJ is not in competition with anyone. She is merely doing her UN duties that she has been doing for over 7 years. Through her travels and field work, AJ is giving a voice to Refugees and children in need. Best wishes to the entire family.
Fake attention hypocrite media ho ….oh angie take theme with you in your huge castel…don’t forget to take theme as well with you sleeping in your 12000 dollar night hotel oh and whene you finish take theme on your private jet who is just standing nex to theme for a private trip okay ?
Pitt must be great with 6 kids.
# 28 loonies @ 10/24/2008 at 9:08 pm cj/ at 25 years old she was cutting herself <——— Not at 25.
wearing a vial of her blood, <———it was a spot on a flower press paper, inside a locket.
Want to commit a suicide, <———- When? Late adolescents frequently have thoughts of this. She never attempted it.
f@cking her costars and even a females like Shimiizu<———-Whats it you you?
spending time in a psychiatry<————–No she did not. She saw a counselor in high school.
Stealing married mans like Billy Bob that what she was doing<————–BBT was not married. You can not “steal” a man, she said they fell in love. Maybe you are some kind of SL@g that drops your knickers for anyone who tells you that they love you but that doesn’t mean everyone does.
.…and now she wants to clean her disugusting image but it’s too late we know her real fake self. <———”real fake” LMAO the MORON can write an oxymoron!
Angie lives her life, she doesn’t need to “clean up her image” apologize or make anyone happy. She has it all!
Not impressed @ 10/24/2008 at 9:30 pm
I find you repulsive and disgraceful, period. This is a woman who goes to third-world countries on her own dime because she cares about the people who live there and the conditions in which they have to live. Which is evidently more than you give a sh*t about. All you care about is a washed-up sitcom actress who can’t get over her divorce which happened three years ago.
As you stated, there are a lot of people with a hell of a lot more money to help the unfortunate, who do nothing. So why does it bother you so much when Angelina does something? Is it because every time she does, she makes Aniston look like the selfish, uncaring beeyotch she is by comparison?
Tell you what, honey — you get up off your ass and do something constructive for once in your life, and then you can rag on Angelina. Until then, STFU.
Oh yeah, and stop changing your screen name every ten seconds to post more negative comments. We can see through that a mile away.
It does get old addressing the negative stuff every time a post about Angie is put up. I keep wondering why people have to say such ugliness about HER. I watched some of the entertainment shows and saw lots of celebs on the red carpet giving a “Mouth Support” to several causes. They were dressed in their designer best making sure that everyone knew “Who they were wearing”. They posed and smiled big. They had to make sure that their photos would be in the next People, Hello, US, Ok magazines. You never hear or see a follow up to them doing anything. JLO and POSH both pose and attend every event.. YET where is the criticism about these people who live in large mansions, and spend money like there is no tomorrow. OH I forgot, Brad and especially Angie have to live by different standards. They must live in a hovel to prove that they care about the causes they shine light on. I wonder how many of you ever stop to think… The people in these countries do not know Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt. They do not get magazine in an Interment Camp. They don’t serf the Internet.. They don’t give a Sh** about what team someone is on. What they care about is that she arrived, listened, brought a camera to show the world what they are going through. They hoped that Governments of this world would see and act to help them to have a Basic life. That is what she is trying to do for them. Perhaps she would be celebrated by you if she had phoned it in like most do. Perhaps she should have shown up for an event just for the camera time. Taken a few pics, smiled then went back home and done nothing. NO Angie has character and regardless of what some of you think, she has been involved in these causes for more the 8 years. That is a long to time to FAKE it.
I have wondered why she receives so much of the hate(Negative responses), even more so then Brad. I have come to a conclusion. We in our society love to attack the woman. No matter what the situation, the woman is the one that is attacked. But even more then this, I think the underlining cause is that most of these people are hoping and praying…Wishing upon a star… Searching for a 4 leaf clover…Crossing their fingers…. For what you ask?
For Brad to get back with Jen. I know…But think about it. They say a few things about Brad.. Mostly the attacks are that he looks old, and that Angie is sucking the life out of him. Again notice that it comes back to Angie. They say that he is only there for the children, again dismissing any love for Angie. They claim that he has lost his hotness.. Who is to blame..Angie.
This is all a smoke screen to cover the underlying cause of all the hate. They want Brad to get back with Jen. If you have the time, go to some of the Archives and see what was said about Angie before Brad. She never got this much negative comments. Again, she is the same person. Doing the same things (supporting her causes). She was seldom if ever called fake. Just when she and Brad fell in love.
The reason is they want Brad to leave her and go back to Jennifer to fulfill some kind of weird Fairy Tale Romance. They should remember that these are just children’s stories. When we grow up, we learn the a story is just that… A story. I believe that they spare Brad to some end because.. How could you crucify the Prince and send him back to the Princess. How can you chew him to bits, and have anything left to deliver to her. the Princess Jennifer. YOU cant. You must attack the witch that stole him away. Forgetting that he has small children.. forgetting that he and she love each other… NO the Prince must return to the Princess in order the the Fairy Tale land to continue. I don’t understand if the Prince is a Frog.. Why would you want the Princess to end up with him.. OH Yeah… He is BRAD PITT.
Maybe if they let this dream go, and wake up, they will understand that the Prince is just a man in love, and that the Princess is not his Queen. He has his Queen (Angie) the 6 kids, the portable Castle. and are working on living Happily Ever After
I know I used the Fairy Tale ending… It was so that they would understand.
The end/ and The Beginning
Night all.
I don’t need this psychotic dirty freak to educate me, oh my god in which world are we living if you’re an idiot fanatic with no brain ( which is certain) with no eductaion who need to get educated by a freaking celebrity like her that’s your problem but not ours, it’s an insult and shameful to be educated by an insane publicty freak celebrity of that kind geez.
ebmo @ 10/24/2008 at 9:36 pm
Eb — it’s the same troll in ten different disguises. Probably Shitzy having another meltdown. Don’t sweat it.
But #21
1) How do you know she’s not being sincere and truly cares about these people?
2) And if she ISN’T being sincere, who cares? Certainly not the poor Afghans.
She has the right to spend her hard-earned money as she pleases and anyone, in whatever class, should be commended for doing their part no matter how small.
How are they not mature enough to commit to one another, #22? You don’t need a piece of paper to prove that.
# 58 Not impressed @ 10/24/2008 at 9:30 pm
I find it repulsive and disgraceful that people like you, Jill, can only defend your idol Angelina by attacking Jen Aniston and anyone who even remotely likes the woman.
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JA is mentioned just to show how you, haters, are biased against AJ. You don’t criticize JA for doing nothing for others, but you will come to criticize AJ for her humanitarian works.
Fake attention hypocrite media ho ….oh angie take theme with you in your huge castel…don’t forget to take theme as well with you sleeping in your 12000 dollar night hotel oh and whene you finish take theme on your private jet who is just standing nex to theme for a private trip okay ?
I couldn’t agree more !
Hmms sun tanning, botox, faking pregnancies, living in a multi million dollar Malibu estate, foreign trips amount to Mexico, selling bottle water and hens have the nerve to rant. Too funny.
angie oh angie
you’ve got big sponge lips
and some seriously crazy fans
one day you went to afghan
and brought home some afghans
angie oh angie!
you hid brad’s balls
maddox thought they were his desert
but it didn’t matter much cause
you’d much rather adopt
angie ohhhhh angie
shiloh is still a little blob to you
but when she turned 18 she
started dating johnny lee
you can’t tell me that didn’t hurt
angie ohhhhhhhh angie!
now you’re heading to the wrong
side of 45 and Mick Jagger said that
your someone that he would never touch
we can see all lies behind your eyes and
all the kids have grown and they ran away and
brad no longer wants to play and the
sad sack fans have gone away
oh angie its now just you and the that
needle sticking out of your left arm
what is brother james going to say?
angie ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh angie
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28699&Cr=afghan&Cr1=
UN Ambassador Angelina Jolie urges greater support for Afghan returnees
[UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie]
24 October 2008 – International film star and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency Angelina Jolie has appealed for greater support for Afghan returnees, particularly as the harsh winter approaches, as she wrapped up her first visit to the strife-torn nation.
Ms. Jolie’s three-day visit, which ended yesterday, was aimed at raising awareness of the refugee issue ahead of an international conference on return and reintegration to be held in the Afghan capital Kabul in December.
Although this was her first visit to the country, she is familiar with the Afghan repatriation operation – one of the biggest carried out by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – having met with Afghan refugees in neighbouring Pakistan twice in recent years.
The courage, resilience and quiet dignity of returnee families rebuilding their lives against the kind of adversity few of us can imagine shows the human spirit at its best
During her trip, Ms. Jolie visited recent returnees in the eastern province of Nangarhar, where almost 20 per cent of all Afghans who return to the homeland have settled since 2002.
The returnees, who are living on desolate, desert land in tattered tents and makeshift shelters, told her they could not return to their places of origin due to a lack of land and poor security. She also visited UNHCR income-generating projects for vulnerable women in Jalalabad city.
“The courage, resilience and quiet dignity of returnee families rebuilding their lives against the kind of adversity few of us can imagine shows the human spirit at its best,” said the actress, humanitarian and mother of six.
Ms. Jolie also visited families in Kabul who had returned from Pakistan in 2003 but have still been unable to go back to their home villages. The families have been squatting in public buildings in Kabul for several years due to the lack of available land in Parwan, their province of origin, according to UNHCR.
The returnees explained that landlessness and insecurity were not the only obstacles to return. Economic problems in rural areas such as a lack of employment opportunities also influenced their decision to remain in Kabul despite the difficulties they face there.
Despite the huge returns to Afghanistan – over five million people have gone home over the past six years – some three million registered refugees remain in neighbouring Iran and Pakistan.
Next month’s conference in Kabul, co-chaired by the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNHCR, will address how best to ensure the sustainable return of refugees and the displaced in the years to come.
#58 Not impressed @ 10/24/2008 at 9:30 pm No Jill, you are the twit and the loser. Every time someone voices their opinion of Angelina, and it isn’t favorable, people like you, begin the crap about Jen Aniston. I could care less if JA lays in the sun all day and turns into a prune. I could care less if JA bangs the entire city of LA. It would not alter may life in any way, shape, or form. And, frankly, there are people with a hell of a lot more money and ability to help the less fortunate, BUT DO NOTHING.
I find it repulsive and disgraceful that people like you, Jill, can only defend your idol Angelina by attacking Jen Aniston and anyone who even remotely likes the woman.
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Maybe for once you could consider that the reason JA gets bashed, (even the tabloids are reporting that she is desperately trying to grab attention any way she can, by riding on the coat tails of the JPs) is because people always, always, always have to jump on a Jolie Pitt thread and bring up how “Angie stole Brad” You cannot steal another human being. If a marriage is strong, you cannot break it up.
But for some reason no one seems able to accept the fact that JA and Brad’s marriage was in trouble and ended. Sadly, just like over 50% of marriages do. No, there has to be a bad guy. Why? Because JA started it with her tell all interviews. It is dragged here endlessly.
Personally, I hope JA and John Mayer or ANYONE get together, have children and live a long and happy life forever and ever. She gets more mileage out of being “the victim” then she ever has for anything else.
#58 — it is more disgraceful people like you bashing someone like Angelina who makes a good deed. How can somebody say bad things to someone who willing to rise awareness of such serious case like this? Forget a moment of your hatre/jealousy and absorb the main goal of Angie’s trip, rise awareness to those misfortune refugees.Thank you
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