New ‘Benjamin Button’ Stills!

Happy, Happy, Thanksgiving fans!

Jill @ 11/26/2008 at 12:16 am I think they will adopt another child from Ethiopia or another African country — or maybe from Latin America?
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I agree, Jill–but I hope after that they will have at least one more bio.

Hey another adoption thread! yay!

Didn’t we discussed this already? including the prospective countries where they would adopt ? But obviously another baby from Africa is the conclusion because of Z.

# 146 sugarfairy15 @ 11/25/2008 at 11:59 pm
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Thank you.

Okay I am getting sleepy. dina #1 at 80 SWG should read SAG. Peace

I still haven’t seen Changeling, I can’t wait to see it when I go home. I heard & see the trailer that Angie’s performance is Oscar worthy. Brad & Angie have the chemistry & magic together, they are the best couple ever that hit HW.
God bless the Jolie-Pitt’s.

In its December Issue, Details pays tribute to the Power players who have helped shape one of the most transformational years our country has seen in decades.

In its annual Power Issue, Details, on stands nationally December 2nd, recognizes John Mayer as one of the Top 40 Most Influential Men Under 40, for both his earnest, soulful emo-balladry and shameless blabbing to the press.

The talented singer keeps us intrigued with his clever blog posts, ad-hoc
comedy routines, and mysterious infatuation with testifying to, and against,
the ever-curious paparazzi.

John made number 11 on the Details Power List:

11. JOHN MAYER
Press ***** (Age: 31)

There are two John Mayers: the first an arena-filling blues-pop prodigy prone to earnest emo-balladry, the second-the interesting one-a starlet-bagging Lothario as shamelessly efficient about the telling as he is about the kissing. The secret of his success is his sensitive exterior. With his clever blog posts and ad hoc stand-up routines, Mayer seems too smart, too sweet, too self-aware to revel in celebrity climbing. But the proof is in the photo op: In July he delivered eloquent, scathing testimony at Los Angeles’ City Hall pleading for anti-paparazzi legislation; a month later he held court outside his New York gym, telling the shutterbugs who mysteriously knew he’d be there why dumping Jennifer Aniston was actually the ultimate sign of his respect for her. “Instead of a ‘no comment,’ he launches into a speech about how he wants them to ‘write some real stuff’ and what a ‘great’ girl Aniston is,” says Seth Abramovitch, the editor of Defamer. “At most, it’s something you tell your best friend after eight beers-not a reporter from OK! after spin class.” Given Mayer’s compulsive codependency, Johnifer’s (or is it Mayniston’s?) rumored reconciliation in October came as little surpise. The way we learned about it was less surprising still: They were reportedly spotted canoodling in the oh-so-private confines of LAX.

In its December Issue, Details pays tribute to the Power players who have helped shape one of the most transformational years our country has seen in decades.

In its annual Power Issue, Details, on stands nationally December 2nd, recognizes John Mayer as one of the Top 40 Most Influential Men Under 40, for both his earnest, soulful emo-balladry and shameless blabbing to the press.

The talented singer keeps us intrigued with his clever blog posts, ad-hoc
comedy routines, and mysterious infatuation with testifying to, and against,
the ever-curious paparazzi.

John made number 11 on the Details Power List:

11. JOHN MAYER
Press Wh**ore (Age: 31)

There are two John Mayers: the first an arena-filling blues-pop prodigy prone to earnest emo-balladry, the second-the interesting one-a starlet-bagging Lothario as shamelessly efficient about the telling as he is about the kissing. The secret of his success is his sensitive exterior. With his clever blog posts and ad hoc stand-up routines, Mayer seems too smart, too sweet, too self-aware to revel in celebrity climbing. But the proof is in the photo op: In July he delivered eloquent, scathing testimony at Los Angeles’ City Hall pleading for anti-paparazzi legislation; a month later he held court outside his New York gym, telling the shutterbugs who mysteriously knew he’d be there why dumping Jennifer Aniston was actually the ultimate sign of his respect for her. “Instead of a ‘no comment,’ he launches into a speech about how he wants them to ‘write some real stuff’ and what a ‘great’ girl Aniston is,” says Seth Abramovitch, the editor of Defamer. “At most, it’s something you tell your best friend after eight beers-not a reporter from OK! after spin class.” Given Mayer’s compulsive codependency, Johnifer’s (or is it Mayniston’s?) rumored reconciliation in October came as little surpise. The way we learned about it was less surprising still: They were reportedly spotted canoodling in the oh-so-private confines of LAX.

Good Morning to all. Do not worry about Angie..She is having fun and enjoying her children with her loving partner-Brad.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the fans from the States. God bless the Jolie-Pitt’s.

They don’t celebrate Thanksgiving Day here in Germany.
We are going to the castle on Saturday, I am so excited. Weather is sunny & cold today.
God bless the Jolie-Pitt’s.

http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/feature.jsp?V=3&SV=2&id=170506

Angelina Jolie on Changeling
Angelina Jolie, star of Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, talks about a story that’s stranger than fiction, taking kids to a Tarantino set and the man’s role she plays in her next project Edwin A Salt

Why do you think the story had never been heard of before this film?
It’s bizarre. The writer looked through old disks of the ‘LA Times’, and he read all the stories. It was an amazing discovery. I don’t know why it hasn’t been told. I don’t know if it’s just another conspiracy! It was front page of the ‘LA Times’, many of the front covers. The murderer got the death penalty. It was a giant case. She took the police to court. So it is very strange.

It is such a harrowing story, how was it to portray a character in that situation?
I was pregnant by the end of the shoot, so I remember in the scene in which Gordon Northcott is attacking me and I was trying to break away, people were telling me to jump at him, and I said I didn’t think Christine would do that - she’s more timid and less physical than I am. I had times when I would sit with [co star] Amy Ryan and look around the hospital and just think about how this really happened. It wasn’t that long ago that all these women were locked up without anyone knowing anything about them, except a policeman saying ‘you’re no good and so you go in there’. It was an eerie feeling. Although, we knew we were explaining there was a victory for these women and we were very happy about that.

http://www.reuters.com/article/reviewsNews/idUSTRE4AP0HX20081126

Reading between the lines of Fitzgerald adaptations

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - As Paramount readies its Christmas Day opening of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the long, difficult relationship between the film industry and F. Scott Fitzgerald again will be put to the test.

“Button,” starring Brad Pitt as a man who is born a wizened old infant and gradually ages backward, is based on a 1922 short story by Fitzgerald that has long captured the imagination of filmmakers — producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy took on the project 18 years ago — but is just now reaching the screen, thanks to the latest digital wizardry orchestrated by a team led by director David Fincher.

But if “Benjamin Button” proved a particularly hard nut for Hollywood to crack, it’s not unique among Fitzgerald’s work. The author might have had a fascination with the movie industry — serving two tours of duty as a screenwriter — but his books, for all their popularity, have not been easy to adapt to the screen.

“The Great Gatsby,” Fitzgerald’s most celebrated novel, first published in 1925, has given rise to three films and one TV version without Hollywood ever quite getting it right. The first attempt, a 1926 silent film, has been lost. A 1949 version starred Alan Ladd as the quintessential American striver Jay Gatsby, but Bosley Crowther of the New York Times complained, “Except for a few pictorial tracings of parties and brittle high-life, the flavor of the Prohibition era is barely reflected in this new film.”

Paramount’s sumptuous 1974 version starring a glamorous Robert Redford as Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan, his one true love, arrived with a much higher profile. But though the film turned a profit, it ultimately became more about its trend-setting costumes than anything else. Despite the high-profile cast, it was nominated for just two Academy Awards — for Theoni V. Aldredge’s costumes and Nelson Riddle’s score — winning them both.

Hollywood went to the Fitzgerald well again two years later when Elia Kazan directed an adaptation of Fitzgerald’s final, uncompleted novel, “The Last Tycoon.” A study of a Hollywood mogul, inspired by MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg, the book contained much of Fitzgerald’s hard-won understanding of Hollywood. But like so many of the screen’s efforts to do justice to Fitzgerald, the movie, starring Robert De Niro as the Thalberg figure, captures the surfaces without fully unlocking the emotions. Tellingly, its only Oscar nomination was for art direction.

CAPTURING THE SPIRIT

Over the years, there has been an occasional adaptation, like Joan Micklin Silver’s charming TV movie “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” that captured Fitzgerald’s spirit. But most of the adaptations, like 1962’s luxe “Tender Is the Night,” have turned his plots into romantic melodrama. Given that Fitzgerald died in Hollywood, something of a broken writer, of a heart attack in 1940, it’s almost tempting to talk of a lingering curse that hovers over the town’s subsequent efforts to do him right.

“Benjamin Button,” though, could break that spell. For while the project carries the Fitzgerald name, screenwriter Eric Roth hasn’t slavishly followed Fitzgerald’s text. In fact, he’s thrown out most of the short story’s specifics: He’s moved the fable from the 19th century to the 20th. The action has been relocated from Baltimore to New Orleans; that decision was made based on the economics of filming, to take advantage of Louisiana’s tax incentives, but it provides the film with an evocative sense of place. Roth also created a new love interest for Benjamin, one that is deeper and more haunting than that in the original story. His adaptation jettisons most of Fitzgerald’s details, retaining only the author’s basic conceit of a life lived in reverse.

“The story itself is a beautiful story for a magazine piece in 1922. I think it is a little farcical for my taste anyway,” Roth says of his decision to reimagine the material. “I felt I had permission to put it in a modern vernacular. It’s a slightly different story, but the central core of it is the same.”

If audiences agree, then Fitzgerald might finally get his due on the big screen. If so, there are other filmmakers waiting in line to take up his mantle. Baz Luhrmann, for example, recently suggested that he’d like to take a crack at his own film version of “Gatsby.”