New ‘Benjamin Button’ Stills!

http://www.123greetings.com/events/thanksgiving/wishes/thanksgiving17.html

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

I feel extra thankful today so I thought I’d share this gem to the X fans. Home girl is trying to repair her image, if you beleive this article. Take with grain of salt, lots of them. LOL! :lol: AS IF…

Jennifer Aniston Says NO
Jennifer Aniston has reportedly turned down John Mayer’s marriage proposal.

The former ‘Friends’ star – who recently rekindled her relationship with
‘Gravity’ singer John after a brief split earlier this year – is said to
have declined John’s offer because she doesn’t want to damage their
relationship.

A source said: “Jennifer said no when John asked her. She told John that
everything is so perfect between them right now, they shouldn’t ruin the
focus of their relationship.

“A wedding would be so stressful and Jennifer just wants to enjoy this
phase, falling madly in love and getting a thrill if the other one texts
when they are apart.”

However, despite being taken aback by Jennifer’s refusal, John is determined
not to let her decision affect their romance, and still thinks they have
what it takes to go the distance.

The source added to Look magazine: “John told Jennifer she is the girl for
him and he is sure of it. He is willing to do anything she wants as long as
they are together. He is like a different guy.

“John was over the moon when Jennifer took him back last month and he never
wants them to be apart again. He really wants to settle down with her. He
wants children, marriage - the whole thing at some point.”

http://www.hollywoodrag.com/index.php?/P8/

2 comments:

This story makes no sense considering last month all of the “sources close to Jen” were saying she was dying to get married.
I guess they are trying to make her look less desperate.. which will never happen until Jen stops talking about Brad/Angelina in every interview and/or refuses to answer questions about them.
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she could do sooooo much better than him.
i hope to god when they are having sex he doesn’t make the same faces he makes on stage. it would hard to get off with that looming over you in bed LOL!

Thank you, my cyber friends @ JustJared,
For sharing, caring, laughing and crying with me.
I’m truly blessed to have each and every one of you in my life
And I am thankful you have allowed me
To be a part of yours.
May you and yours have a safe and memorable Thanksgiving.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! ^-_^

BBL

Hy Guys, I did not read any post, just say hi
and HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF YOU IN AMERICA.

Hey, MF, glad to se you back, wish your father get well soon, waving to Nelah. I have to go, have a great day everyone.

For this thanksgiving weekend, see Changling

Save December 25, see The Curious case of Benjamin Button

Before the end of 2008, do a tax deductible contribution. Make it Right is a good non profit organization for donation. They have done a good job for the victims of Katrina.

THE BEST OF BRAD PITT

By Kim Morgon

When “Inside the Actor’s Studio” host James Lipton requested the thespian insight of Brad Pitt, the actor declined. Why? Though Lipton has featured the likes of Jennifer Lopez on his smarmy chat fest, Pitt’s reason was modest: He said he didn’t have a “sufficient body of work” to account for the appearance.

Oh, but we beg to differ. The sandy-haired hunk has been one of cinema’s biggest stars for nearly 15 years. He’s an actor who, in spite of his almost obnoxiously pouty good looks and occasional lapses in judgment (”Meet Joe Black,” “Seven Years in Tibet”), has weathered his worst critics by taking chances. And though the media are obsessed with his every move (a relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow, marriage to and separation from Jennifer Aniston, and his ceaselessly chronicled relationship with Angelina Jolie, now complete with six children), he’s been smart to never oversaturate himself. Not by choice, anyway. He keeps a relatively tight lid on his personal and professional life, and lets his work speak for itself.

The upcoming Coen brothers comedy “Burn After Reading,” in which he plays a dopey exercise instructor, is no exception to his risk-taking. And we can’t wait to see his comedic chops up against the likes of George Clooney (in their fourth screen collaboration), Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich. And his performance in the eagerly anticipated “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is already receiving Oscar buzz, both for director David Fincher and his ultimate muse, Pitt. So, small body of work or not, we’re sorry, Brad - we’re officially giving you your own top 10 list, detailing your greatest performances. It’s a list that will, for sure, expand through time, and one that should prove to detractors once and for all that Brad Pitt is not just a pretty face.

10. ‘Thelma & Louise
Though Pitt had appeared in pictures before director Ridley Scott’s beloved female-bonding road movie, his entrance was so star-making you could literally feel the audience’s hot-and-bothered awe. In some cases, gasps could be heard by female popcorn munchers. Clad in good-ol’-boy Levis, a T-shirt and cowboy hat, his devilishly charming scoundrel seduced Geena Davis’ smitten Thelma in one of those steamy sex scenes that make husbands uncomfortable. No viewer cared that his character eventually steals Thelma’s money - the camera loved him. His James Dean-like good looks and agreeable, naturalistic demeanor were absolutely effortless. Though Pitt had struggled for some time before this splash (as an extra, doing commercials and a soap opera role), the collective thought was, “Where did this guy come from?” And you just know former casting agents everywhere - the ones who second-guessed his big-screen appeal - openly wept.

9. ‘Kalifornia’ (1993)
Pitt had played a role slightly similar (abusive, druggy pimp) and with the same co-star (Juliette Lewis) in the made-for-TV movie “Too Young to Die,” but in “Kalifornia,” he upped the anger ante to serial killer. Unkempt, bearded and smarter than he looked, Pitt’s sociopathic Early Grayce was an unsparing portrait of violent lawlessness. Scary but still sexy, Pitt’s performance was simultaneously gritty and sickly seductive, which is the very reason David Duchovny’s character was fascinated by him. And it’s an intriguing, ballsy follow-up to Pitt’s family-friendly “A River Runs Through It.”

8. ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ (2004)
Yes, “Ocean’s Eleven” was a better movie. But that was George Clooney’s film. “Ocean’s Twelve” belongs to Brad Pitt. Though he is engulfed by the combined high-wattage superstar ensemble of Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould Bernie Mac and Don Cheadle, Pitt manages to make the crime sequel his (starting with the initial, hilarious cameo scene by Topher Grace). Reprising his role as Rusty Ryan, the well-dressed crook/Danny Ocean team member, Pitt is beautiful, affable, charming and clever without being cute. It’s a terrifically unpretentious performance in a glossy, designer suit of a movie but one in which you never doubt Pitt is a movie star. Director Steven Soderbergh amusingly plays with one reason why we go to movies - eye candy - and then allows the candy (Pitt) to be immensely likable and intelligent in the process. It really is tough to be that attractive and that congenial, but Pitt has the knack.

7. ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ (2005)
How do you get through this picture without bringing up the dreaded “Brangelina” moniker, the supposed nonaffair (but, please, we’re all adults here) that gave Liz Taylor and Richard Burton’s “Cleopatra” frolic a run for their money? Well, you can’t. Even if whatever was really happening between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt once director Doug Liman called “cut!,” it doesn’t much matter; it’s all there on screen: the chemistry, the sexiness and the wit. A violent but at times hilarious and smart satire on the eventual boredom of married, suburban life, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” delivers the goods, with big guns, big lips, big set pieces and big stars. It’s a movie star movie, and for those of us who enjoy our gods and goddesses larger-than-life, it lets us revel in the glamour while dissecting, with unexpected twists and turns, scenes from a marriage. As husband-and-wife assassins who wake up to discover they are their next hits, the Smiths’ typical greeting of “Hi, honey! I’m home!” takes on a whole new dark double meaning, largely thanks to Pitt. A star who can poke fun at his image, he did something that doesn’t happen very often: He made Angelina funny.

6. ‘True Romance’ (1993)
You’re on your way to becoming the biggest movie star in the world and what is the next role you choose? Lead in wacky romantic comedy? Starring role in important period piece? Headliner of an action-adventure thriller? No, no and no. How about a hippie pothead who tokes from a honey-bear bong? Probably against his agent’s advice, Pitt decided on Floyd in “True Romance,” a barely articulate stoner who was in a mere few scenes. He could have been a simply funny afterthought to Christian Slater’s protagonist. And yet, if you ask any Pitt fan to list their favorite Pitt performances, Floyd will invariably be mentioned as a peak moment. Showing his comedic chops, Pitt creates an understated yet hilarious dude stuck in the middle of drug dealers and mobsters who is comical and endearing. If an Academy Award for best supporting, supporting, supporting actor existed, Pitt would have won.

5. ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’ (2007)
There’s so much about this gorgeously shot, thoughtful, wonderfully acted movie that was ignored, misunderstood and badly buzzed, that anyone who loves it feels absolutely perplexed. What were critics and audiences not seeing? Or, given many of the complaints concerning the picture’s running length (just past 2 1/2 hours), what is wrong with viewers’ attention spans these days? Who knows? In any case, director Andrew Dominik (who crafted the masterful “Chopper”) gave Brad Pitt one of his greatest roles as the iconic, moody outlaw Jesse James. Sure, Mr. Pitt’s a little older than young Jesse, but never mind - the man suits the tabloid-attracting, charismatic and, by all accounts, good-looking western anti-hero beautifully. One completely understands why Casey Affleck (in a career-defining performance) as the legendary backstabber (or shooter) Robert Ford works as both agent of death and love-struck groupie - an almost Valerie Solanas to James’ Andy Warhol. Though Pitt, one of the biggest stars of our time, more than likely had to dig deep into James’ bouts of psychopathology (or return to his role in “Kalifornia”), he surely related to much of the picture’s message concerning celebrity: It’s toxic and weirdly sublime

4. ‘12 Monkeys’ (1995)
Pitt turned down a lead in the critically lauded audience hit “Apollo 13″ to appear in Terry Gilliam’s demented, bizarre vision of sci-fi dystopia times 10. In a brave, purposefully over-the-top performance, Pitt played the seriously wacked-out fanatic Jeffrey Goines, an insane-asylum inmate who also happens to be the head of a radical animal-activist group who may or may not have something to do with the virus that has destroyed 99 percent of humanity. Got that? Pitt’s wild-eyed, fast-talking and perpetually twitching performance garnered him a Golden Globe and his only Oscar nomination to date.

3. ‘Seven’ (1995)
Director David Fincher was the best thing to happen to Brad Pitt, who, even with a past Oscar nomination, was still fighting his stereotype as a simple pretty-boy lead. In “Seven,” Fincher worked the movie star to perfection, understanding the actor’s strengths and weaknesses and infusing them into a hot-headed character who’s not as smart or cool as he thinks he is. As a cocky, newbie homicide detective, Pitt worked wonderfully opposite a somber and darkly reflective Morgan Freeman as the two track down Kevin Spacey’s famed “Seven Deadly Sins” serial killer. Pitt had never shown such range. When he’s turned into an ire-filled mess by the film’s head-in-a-box finale, it’s both heartbreaking and morbidly bleak.

2. ‘Snatch’ (2000)
After botching accents in films like “The Devil’s Own” and “Seven Years in Tibet,” a game Pitt would finally get one right in Guy Ritchie’s flashy crime caper “Snatch.” More interesting, however, is that the accent was his own creation and, hilariously, something barely anyone - even the characters in the film - could understand. As a rough, grubby gypsy boxer set up as a ringer by two promoters, Pitt looked the part, but his Cockney, whatever-the-heck vocal stylings were the topper, resulting in a movie that would be dull without him. Pitt was able to swipe a movie from that great scene-stealer Benicio Del Toro, confirming that his unusual performance was the correct move. Now that we think about it, we’d have loved to hear him explain that one to James Lipton.

1. ‘Fight Club’ (1999)
The greatest role in Pitt’s career and one, if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had any guts, that should have earned him at least a nomination. But “Fight Club” was too scary and likely too downright subversive for the Academy or the masses. A “Clockwork Orange” for the new millennium, the film cast Pitt as Tyler Durden, the transgressive, prankster alter-ego of Edward Norton’s splintered psyche and head of Fight Club, a movement for disgruntled men to violently get back at society. The film re-teamed Pitt with “Seven” director David Fincher, who understands how to be subversive within the Hollywood system. Fincher consequently took the ideal hunk of Pitt, all grunged-out and glamorous, and turned him into something seditious and satirical. And Pitt got it. Dangerous, cruel, sexy and smart, he proved the perfect figment of Norton’s frustrated, IKEA-obsessed and ultimately insane imagination. Fincher’s casting of Pitt was smart on many levels. By using Pitt’s star persona as a comment on how most guys can only dream of envisioning themselves, he deconstructed how we watch and feel about movie icons. So when Tyler yelled at his Fight Club recruits that they would never be movie stars, the scene worked as both a hard truth and a delicious satire. Absolute genius.

http://movies.msn.com/mov…t-of-brad-pitt/?GT1=28101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Lg6NFdooI&feature=related

# 200 D. kay @ 11/26/2008 at 12:01 pm

I would like to know the back story about Angie getting Salt and TC out……no wonder he is watching them……….he is likely Team Aniston….for his own reasons of course and none of them admirable.

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ITA. I think they probably came to her and not the other way around. Although I’m sure the media will eventually claim that Angie lobbied for the role. Angie said what she usually does is call Geyer and tell him what she’s interested in doing and if she’s looking for an action role, then ask what scripts he’s gotten for her and he gives her the scripts he thinks she’ll be interested in. But…by the time the movie comes out the tabs will be claiming that Angie forced Tiny Tom out of the movie and MADE the studio hire her. Cuz ya know…everything’s Angie’s fault…

“You and I” by LLM.
This video shows their deep love for everyone to see. Beautiful. I want them to be married. They are so happy together. The music was perfect.

Hey Guli -

Looks like we owe Tiny Tom an apology. He DID mention the “other kids” by name…

http://www.hollywoodrag.com/index.php?/P16/

“It was especially nice as it was Kate’s first time. I’ve been
around kids my whole life but it’s different when they’re yours. So I feel I was a very helpful husband and excited about it.

“I’ll never forget my first night with Bella. I was looking at every breath she took, and we laugh about it now as I told her, ‘I think I kept you up more than you did me that first night.’

QQ @ 11/26/2008 at 1:13 pm

November 26, 2008
Oscar Watch: ‘Benjamin Button,’ One Classy Movie, Takes the Lead

If you subscribe to the theory that the film with the most potential Oscar nominations is the frontrunner, which I usually do, then “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which I saw last night at MOMA, is the clear-cut leader for Best Picture. There are 10 or more possible nods here, including Best Actor for Brad Pitt and Best Actress for Cate Blanchett. Director David Fincher and screenwriter Eric Roth’s very free and very long (167 minutes) adaptation of a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a sweeping, decades-spanning romantic fantasy that I got totally caught up in. I just couldn’t wait to see what happened next. Aided by some astounding digital effects, Pitt — or in some cases actors on whom Pitt’s face, appropriately aged or de-aged, was digitally pasted — plays a man who is born in 1919 New Orleans, looking like an 85-year-old and ages backwards to infancy (it’s actually most creepy to see Pitt as a teenager). Benjamin meets Daisy (mostly Blanchett), the great love of his life, when he is chronologically seven years old — about the same as her — but appears to be in his late ’70s. They drift tantalizingly in and out of each others’ lives except for a period in the early ’60s when both are in physical sync, but tragically they can never grow old together. I was skeptical about the premise going in, but this four-hankie movie totally won me over, even though too much time is devoted to flash-forwards of Blanchett’s dying aged character telling Benjamin’s story during Hurricane Katrina, not to mention another framing story around that one. There are, as noted previously, some resemblances to Roth’s Best Picture Winner “Forrest Gump” in the movie’s challenged, basically passive main character and his globe-trotting adventures. But Fincher has held Roth’s tendency to schmaltz in check far more than Robert Zemeckis ever did and added more visual grace notes than can be absorbed in a single viewing. This is a really classy, old-school movie movie at heart. It will be interesting to see if the public at large, particularly the under-25 crowd, connects with this challenging idea for a very expensive-looking flick, a love story very much obsessed with physical decay and death. Domestic distributor Paramount (Warners has foreign) is planning to open “Benjamin Button” wide on Christmas Day, but I wouldn’t at all be surprised if they announced a limited opening in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, December 19, to take advantage of early critical enthusiasm. It’s already locked up a spot on this professional cynic’s 10 Best List.

QQ -

Are you WEEPING now after reading post # 221?

BBL