Angelina Jolie Hits Hollywood Film Festival

#154 :lol: @ 10/28/2008 at 6:48 am …Yes,you do need mental heath!BTW please stop lying.I know lying is like breathing to you trolls.Such a coward can’t even post it’s crap under it’s REAL name.

This thread is disgusting!These low-life haters need to fix whatever is broken in their lives for real.Why must you advertise your misery?Angelina own’s what is left of your sad little lives and that is the truth!!!!

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Are you real? I can’t believe you can wish and say horrible things to another human being even if you hated her. What happened to your life? Why would you take it on Angelina? What has she done to you? Wishing someone to die is the worst thing that a person could do. Is it because you are frustrated that many wonderful things happened to her everyday while your idol is having a miserable life?

JJ please don’t allow these kind of posts They are below the belt and totally out of line.

She definitely looks older in these pics. Maybe it’s her hair colour or style. Yes, I think it’s because her hair is wavy.

Thanks for the new thread. AJ looks simply beautiful. She has a glow about her and very contented look. I am sure that she is enjoying being a Mom with her six adorable children. Congrats to Clint Eastwood. Whine on hens. AJ is setting standards that no whiny ex sitcom star and her rabid fans can measure up to, so why try.

http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=10459837

Stars honoured in Hollywood

Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, and Josh Brolin have been honoured at this year’s Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala in Beverly Hills.

A host of A-list celebs, including Angelina Jolie and Oliver Stone, turned out to help the leading men celebrate as they picked up Director of the Year (Eastwood), the Hollywood Career Achievement Award (Hoffman) and Actor of the Year (Brolin).

http://www.thenewstribune.com/ae/story/517380.html
Looking forward to seeing Changeling

Jolie excellent in Eastwood’s ‘Changeling’
SOREN ANDERSEN; soren.andersen

There are exemplary Clint Eastwood movies. “Unforgiven” falls into that category. So do “Mystic River” and “Million Dollar Baby.”

And then there are pictures directed by Eastwood that are well-crafted, solid pieces of work. “Changeling” is one of those.

It’s an admirable movie: deliberately paced, handsome to look at and well-acted, particularly in the lead role. But it lacks a certain spark, that extra something, call it an intensity of feeling and complexity of artistic vision, that Eastwood’s best works have and the rest don’t.

“Changeling” is a dark story, as are all of his better pictures made in what is now the autumn of his career. Life is hard in the world according to Eastwood. His protagonists are terribly tested, and happy outcomes are rare.

“Changeling” has a pallor to it. Washed-out blues and greens dominate the palette chosen by Eastwood and director of photography Tom Stern, who also bathed “Mystic River” and “Million Dollar Baby” in bleakness. It’s a fitting choice for a story about kidnapping, child murder, corruption and loss.

The script, by J. Michael Straczynski, is based on a true incident from the late 1920s and ’30s. It’s the story of an appalling miscarriage of justice. A 9-year-old boy, Walter Collins (Gattlin Griffith) vanishes from his Los Angeles home in March 1928. His mother Christine (Angelina Jolie) is frantic, but the police are less than helpful at first. They assure her most missing kids soon return home. Not this time. Months pass, and then a boy is found who the police say is Collins’ son. He’s not.

The police insist he is. Finding him is a big publicity coup for the headline-hungry department. The mother’s protestations to the contrary, they want a happy ending to this saga at any cost. The boy claims Collin is his mother for reasons she can’t fathom.

The cops pressure her to take him home. Alone (her husband abandoned her when the boy was born, and she seems to have no close friends) and dazed by developments, she consents. And once she has him at home, clear proofs that he’s not her child come quickly to light. For one thing, he’s several inches shorter than the real Walter.

The cops refuse to believe her. They accuse her of being delusional. They pack her off to a psychiatric hospital, drug her and otherwise abuse her and threaten to hold her there until she declares that the boy is hers. It’s a nightmare.

Meanwhile, on a parallel story track, a serial killer (Jason Butler Harner) is preying on young boys. The cops’ focus on Walter’s mother blinds them to the possibility that he could have been abducted by a murderer.

“Changeling” is a hair-raising feminist fable. A loving mother and a responsible member of the community (she’s a well-regarded supervisor at the city’s phone exchange), Collins is systematically denigrated and mercilessly bullied by male higher-ups in the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD of that era is depicted as a lawless organization, “violent, corrupt and incompetent” in the words of a crusading minister played by John Malkovich who becomes Collins’ main advocate.

It’s a most unequal battle, but as her mistreatment continues, Collins’ grief turns to defiance and determination to withstand the worst these domineering men can dish out.

The picture rises or falls on Jolie’s performance, and she’s never been better. The maternal tenderness she shows in the early scenes contains no hint of treacle, and the dismay she displays as Collins’ world is turned upside down and her integrity is impugned does not stray into showy histrionics. Under Eastwood’s steady-handed direction, Jolie reveals the woman’s strength of character gradually and with the utmost conviction.

The acting of the male members of the cast, most of them character actors and with the exception of Malkovich, none particularly well-known, is at best serviceable and a bit stolid. At worst, they’re grating. And the worst of the men is Jeffrey Donovan. Playing an LAPD captain who’s Collins’ chief tormentor, he gives a one-note performance as an overbearing bully.

The picture captures the period with a nice exactitude. Vintage cars and the red streetcars that became a symbol of the city back then evoke the era well.

At two hours and 21 minutes, “Changeling” feels a little long, but Jolie’s performance and Eastwood’s judicious handling of his material make it a movie not to be missed.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081028/ENT02/810280343/-1/rss

Jolie, Eastwood question authority
By Anthony Breznican • USA Today • October 28, 2008

Angelina Jolie is the brash young rebel. Clint Eastwood is the wise, grizzled veteran.

The mix sounds like the foundation of a buddy-cop movie, but it summarizes the creative chemistry behind Eastwood’s “Changeling.” Jolie stars in the true story of a single mother searching for her kidnapped son in Depression-era Los Angeles after the wrong boy is returned to her.

It’s fitting that motherhood is central to Jolie’s role in the film. The actress and her brood of six with actor Brad Pitt have become a global sensation.

Fitting, too, what happened to her on the set. “I got pregnant during filming, yeah,” she says.

Eastwood, sitting beside her, looks stunned and says, “Don’t tell me on my watch!”

Though “Changeling” is a dark drama, Eastwood and Jolie together bring out each other’s playful sides. Eastwood jokingly calls their friendship “Clintalina.”

The director, 78, is famously mellow behind the camera, but his tough-guy bluntness was something Jolie, 33, preferred.

Jolie recalls shooting one pivotal scene: At a train station, the mother, Christine Collins, meets the boy who is pretending to be her son and is bullied by police into smiling for the cameras. “It was very frustrating,” Jolie says. “I couldn’t figure out how to do that scene. I kept thinking, ‘How do you respond to something like this? It’s not your kid, and somebody is telling you it’s your kid.’ ”

Eastwood recalled the scene with a touch of sarcasm: “I was a big help. I just said, ‘Do it! Just do it.’ ”

Jolie tells him, “You don’t give yourself enough credit. You said to me something like, ‘She must be thinking this is a (expletive) joke.’ It was a great piece of directing! That little bit of help. I thought, ‘It is that way! It must be some kind of cruel joke.’ ”

Eastwood and Jolie say “Changeling” celebrates the virtue of disobedience.

“I think that’s just part of growing up,” Jolie says. “You learn to question your parents, you learn to question your teachers. It’s the evolution of trying to find your way and not just let any one person or one entity tell you exactly how you should think or feel about anything.”

Jolie says it wasn’t necessary to draw on her own maternal instincts for “Changeling.” Quite the opposite: She tried not to think of her own children.

To play Collins, Jolie instead drew on another part of her life: her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007.

“Christine is very much like my mother, who was very soft and soft-spoken, and it was hard for her to get angry and fight for something. But she would do anything for her children.”

Eastwood, of course, believes in Jolie’s talent, but even he was wary of her presence at first.

“When we were going to start this film, I thought ‘Here is somebody who is on the cover of every magazine, and she gets a tremendous amount of attention, she and Brad (Pitt) together, but by herself as well.’ I thought, ‘This person could be a real jaded creature.’ But she isn’t. She’s very normal. I joke with her. I called her Angie Dickinson all the time, and she never got upset.”

Jolie lets Eastwood have it with both barrels. “He is, to me, very much the ideal man. Maybe it’s generational, but I think we could use more of it. He is absolutely who he is. He doesn’t apologize to anybody. He has very, very strong, decisive opinions and is very gracious as a man, as a friend and somebody on set as a director.”

She is the most beautiful woman ever and she looks truly happy - her eyes are smiling! I love everything about her.

http://www.examiner.com/x-538-Relationship-Examiner~y2008m10d26-Healthy-greed-and-philanthropy

Living well is not wrong. Taking care of your family and yourself first actually makes good, practical sense. If you are well and healthy, with sufficient funds, you are in a much better position to help others.

Being realistic there are things you need in life and those things are not many. Shelter, food, water, and clothing are the bare necessities.

But there are things that make your life better, more comfortable, and healthier. Those things are ‘wants;’ a comfortable home, nutritional food, clean water, quality clothes, and medical care. Add to that a car that is in excellent condition, the ability to provide well for your family, and you have a life that is good and solid. The ‘wants’ are more practical and economically sound than the necessities because you are in a better position to give back to society. Your good lifestyle actually will help to benefit others through your charitable works.

Bill and Melinda Gates live quite well but they also are very mindful of using a portion of their wealth to help humanity. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have an enviable lifestyle but, they too, use their money to make others’ lives easier and better. There are lists of people who help make the world a better place through charitable giving.

http://www.makeitrightnola.org

Good morning all and whiny hens. Mama Angie is looking beautiful and happy. She is a good friend and admirer of the Legend Eastwood to come and honor him with the Director of the Year award. I am looking forward to seeing Changeling. AJ is getting raves for her determined and courageous performance. She is a talented Actress with a big heart and spirit. Best wishes to the entire family. Thanks for all the videos and links. Peace to all.

ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!!!

ate char!!! my love luv!!!! hehehe miz dear.