Mon, 01 June 2009 at 3:05 pm
Brad Pitt: On the Moneyball
Brad Pitt will be spending some time in L.A. soon, as he started shooting his new movie Moneyball.
Steve Elzer, a rep for the movie, confirmed the news to Life & Style. Meanwhile, partner Angelina Jolie is still filming espionage thriller Salt in New York.
Moneyball centers on the major-league’s Oakland A’s and their general manager Billy Beane (Pitt) who attempts to draft players to the team using computer-generated analysis.








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Don’t tell me I’m first! :smile:
I wonder how long the movie will shoot for?
Hey I am second! Cool!
Hey, I AM first! lalalalala
This sounds like an interesting movie.
Thanks Jared. I love baseball, so this is a movie I will definitely see plus Brad is in it
I don’t think it is going to be a long shoot
Thats really cool.
cheers to all the fans!
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keep it up, Jared!
Very Cool! Billy Beane lives in our town. Would love for them to shoot some of the scenes in our area for this film. We would welcome them with open arms!!
Look forward to more news on this film.
ciao~
I can’t wait to see the movie.
Salt is almost finished shooting,probably will wrap up in 10-14 days according to someone at simplybrad website
I heard SALT will be done filming in about one week, then off to LA!
Thanks for the Moneyball thread. Just a semantics clarification, brad has NOT started filming the movie already, if you click on the L&S link, it states he WILL begin in June. “Brad will begin shooting Moneyball in California in June, Steve Elzer, a representative for the movie, confirms to Life & Style. Meanwhile, Angelina is still filming Salt in New York”
Just wanted to be clear so the anti-B&A fans don’t start harping that brad started working on the other coast the week of her birthday. So to those who need things spelled out…Brad WILL BEGIN shooting sometime in june….he did NOT start already.
he’s amazing, i can´t wait for his movies
I am sure as much Angie loves acting she misses being home with her little ones.
BBfan====Thanks, the last thing we need is for the trolls to keep on talking more rubbish beause JJ failed to write the correct information. Was it a mistake Jared,or are you keeping the trolls alive?
God Bless the Jolie-Pitts
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Thanks for the Moneyball thread. Just a semantics clarification, brad has NOT started filming the movie already, if you click on the L&S link, it states he WILL begin in June. “Brad will begin shooting Moneyball in California in June
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Today is June 1st and Steven S confirmed on a interview filming begins june 9.
If marriage is the answer , then Jen and Brad were also married.
Then why did Brad DIVORCE Jen?
That means the whole family will be in LA soon . I wish we can see the kids.
Angie’s movie will wrap this week and then the family will be at LA for Brad’s movie.
jolie will finish filming SALT this week and pitt’s going to work next week - give and take. what a lovely couple.
Jolie Pitts family is together always.
All back in LA. That´s good news. Thanks JJ.
i doubt Brad’s movie has started filming. i think it’ll start sometime in mid june as it was stated before. so they will have time for relaxation and short vacation after Angelina wraps up filming this week.
Not a problem .., since, SALT is supposed to wrap within two weeks.
who is this butch lesbian poster and WTF is its problem. Must be fugly stalking the Brad and Angie as usual. Get a life, Brad has moved on, he has Angie and 6 kids, and a real life with purpose and meaning. Please go get your own life fugly, remember fugly is as fugly does!
Love Brad’s movies.
I don’t know why this is news. Steven Soderbergh has been saying for weeks filming starts in June.
I don’t expect the film will take long time to shoot maybe 6 weeks.
I will watch this film.
tks JJ for the new thread….as always, I will support both of them.
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http://www.nydailynews.co…e_rest_sugar_t_pitt.html
Best of the Rest: Sugar t***! Pitt
Monday, June 1st 2009, 4:00 AM
Brad Pitt accepts the “Fight Club Award” at the Spike TV Guys Choice awards.
Brad Pitt proved that “boys will be boys” at Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards on Saturday night. “Thanks, sugar t***!” Pitt exclaimed to Mel Gibson after the actor presented him with an award for “Fight Club.” Pitt was taking a tongue-in-cheek jab at the “Braveheart” actor, who called a female police officer “sugar t***” when he was arrested for a DUI in 2006.
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http://www.cinemaspy.com/article.php?id=2502
You may have read that a couple of days ago Angelina Jolie was taken to the hospital after being injured on the Long Island set of her new thriller, Salt. Jolie bumped her head during a stunt, sustaining a cut between her eyes that bled. The actress wasn’t seriously injured, and the production company released the following statement:
“This morning while filming an action sequence… Angelina Jolie sustained a minor injury. As a precautionary measure, Ms. Jolie will be taken to the hospital and examined. Production on the film has resumed.”
Meanwhile, new photos from the set have surfaced over at ComingSoon.net, one of which you can see to your left. To check out about 50 new shots, click here. The new images pertain to scenes filmed in the Borough of Queens in New York City yesterday (Sunday).
Jolie seems none the worse for wear after her little mishap.
Jolie stars as Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and ultimately prove she is a patriot. Using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture and protect her husband or the world’s most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.
The Phillip Noyce-directed film co-stars Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Salt opens in theaters on July 23, 2010
# 110 Observer2 @ 06/01/2009 at 3:07 pm
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Passing Through @ 06/01/2009 at 1:43 pm
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The movie doesn’t have funding? I thought it was due to start shooting the middle of this month.
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I checked around at a few movie sites a couple of weeks back and as far as I can tell, NO, the movie does not have financing. “Mid-June” was their target start date. Hell, GB hasn’t signed a contract and was still shopping around looking at other projects before he went to India…where he once again denied being interested in X. Doesn’t exactly sound like a guy who’s dying to work with her, does it? The tabs and X’s PR ho are the ones who keep saying the movie is going to start shooting soon. It was supposed to be a NYC shoot…but X went running back to LA to latch onto Courteney the millisecond she finished Turkey Baster. I’m more convinced than ever that they’re having threesomes. Otherwise why in the hell would DA put up with X being attached to Courteney’s hip like they’re Siamese twins.
you’re such an idiot always trying to slam the next person who has something to say, get a life moron!
it is nice JPs will be back to LA.
http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/article/64972/winona-ryder-didn-t-envy-jolie.htm
Winona Ryder has no resentment towards Angelina Jolie for stealing her thunder in ‘Girl, Interrupted’.
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The actress had the lead role of Susanna in the 1999 but it was relative newcomer Angelina who wowed fans and critics alike, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her portrayal of Lisa.
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She said: “I knew from the outset that whoever played Lisa was going to get all the attention. At one point they asked if I wanted to play Lisa and I said, ‘No, I want to be Susanna.’
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“But there was no resentment. When it came out people almost felt bad for me. But I expected it all along. I was really happy with the film, and really proud of it.”
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Winona also felt sympathy for her co-star because her talent was always overshadowed by her appearance.
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She added to Empire magazine: “At the time I worked with her, she was battling her looks because she’s so beautiful. She wanted very much to be taken seriously and not just judged on her looks. And she conquered that.”
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passing through plse shutup @ 06/01/2009 at 4:46 pm ========Hmmm PT looks like you have an admirer….LOL!
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Awwww…you guys…it’s soooooooooooo sad. misManagement was dropped by another 61 theaters this weekend and is now only playing in 49. But the good news for X is that the movie took in a whopping $59,268 to bring it’s grand total to $809,787 after 3 weeks. It was dropped by 62.5% of the venues it was in. At that rate it’ll never get to $875,000, let alone $1MIL. Does Hallmark make a card for people mourning the death of their career?
Wow, PT, your post about Bountyhunter being a romcom instead of an action movie was hilarious. Huvane and Filler Face must hate you with a passion. One of her Goddess Circle members must be the one harassing you on JJ.
PT===I think JA=Box Office Poison=Career Suicide=more obsessing o Brad and Angie. Oh my it will be a long year….
PT===I think JA=Box Office Poison=Career Suicide=more obsessing o Brad and Angie. Oh my it will be a long year….
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I did some digging around - according to the Variety article that said X and GB were in negotiations the movie is being financed by Columbia Pictures. It’s being directed by Andy Tennet who did Hitch, so maybe it does have funding. Several of the movie sites I checked a few weeks ago seemed to think the movie was stillborn and dead because many studios were being much more caucious with funds.
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It sure seems like a bad gamble - especially since misManagement just bombed big-time. Although PS I Love You did decent box office - $53.7MIL domestic/$103 foreign and only cost $30MIL to make. So Gerry’s not the risk…that leaves you know who… BBBBWWWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117997055.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&query=aniston+gerard+butler
The guessing game:
Who is a major box office risk right now, he/she is 40 year old aged sitcom hag, cannot move on, love to tan in me–hee-co while drinking margaritas, barren, selfish, lard face, and can whine, whine whine for 5 f…ck…inn.. years! I can hear the jeopardy theme song in my head…lol!
# 41 passing through plse shutup @ 06/01/2009 at 4:46 pm
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ROTFLMAO. My stalker’s been sitting around all afternoon waiting for me to post. I post and 3 minutes later she comes out of the woodwork like cockroaches when the lights are turned out. Awwwww….that’s so psychotic. Thankfully I don’t have any pet bunnies so the troll can’t emulate her idol…
# 46 an oldie @ 06/01/2009 at 5:06 pm
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Godless Circle member? I thought it was X doing her own dirty work for a change. She’s got plenty of free time. She’s prolly stalking me from her poolside after a few too many margeritas. Thank God she doesn’t have a video camera on that laptop!
it kinda sounds boring tbh
another sports movie….
but still it would produce a decent amount of revenue probs
and btw….why the oakland a’s
i no it’s not bradley’s fault
but the a’s? out of all the baseball teams
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What’s the deal with all of these 40ish and over 40 actresses signing on to do “I’m 40, waited to long and now I want a baby” movies? Now Halle Berry is going to do a movie about a woman with a psycho surrogate carrying her baby. It’s like a cross between X/JLo’s movies and Beyonce’s Obsessed. Barren wombs. Is this really all HW can come up with for chick flix? Enough already!
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http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Halle-Berry-Gets-Scared-By-A-Surrogate-13361.html
passin on thru has posted 8 or nine times on one page. Tou truly have no life….sorry but you are weird an obbsessed.
passin gas to counts for 99% of all posts, no wonder B/A’s threads get so high. Thanks to guli n passing gas for that. LOSERS
lakers fan in boston @ 06/01/2009 at 5:37 pm it kinda sounds boring tbh
another sports movie….
but still it would produce a decent amount of revenue probs
and btw….why the oakland a’s
i no it’s not bradley’s fault
but the a’s? out of all the baseball teams
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Why the A’s? Because Billy Beane was the A’s manager when he built that winning team using that computer-generated analysis, on very little money. So a movie about Billy Beane isn’t going to be about the Yankees.
Hello everyone. Glad to see so much news about the Jolie-Pitts. Angie’s movie seems to wrapping up. I wonder if the kids are out of school yet. When does NY or LI students start the summer break?
anyway hope the family can have some time to unwind before Brad starts shooting. I mean even if the movie starts mid June it does not mean Brad has to be there yet. They may start by shooting some of the various Baseball stadiums and players and such..
Ok bbl.
Maddox and Pax will love daddy making this film.
rebecca
It is cuz pt likes to answer for everybody.
If you don’t like Brad and Angie why are you here?
Time for Brad to work and Angie to rest and take care of the kids.
I support all Angie and Brad’s movies.
Passing Through @ 06/01/2009 at 5:20 pm
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Thanks, PT, the Variety article is the last thing I remember reading on the movie. I guess we’ll see in a few weeks. Gerard Butler is in NYC right now though.
Was looking at the M Fox snaps with her bad gel hair
Who knows, but it could be that it was done intending that the rest of her hair went over one shoulder ala to copy Angie Cannes style but she changed her mind last minute.
Will support all of Brad and Angie’s movies.
hey, what happened to those really ugly pictures of Brad Pitt? I could swear I saw them earlier on this thread. I wanted to show them to my girlfriend.
# 53 Rebecca @ 06/01/2009 at 6:03 pm
# 54 Rebecca @ 06/01/2009 at 6:05 pm
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Golly, Becky. You sure spend an awful lot of your life monitoring my life. Stalking me twice in 6 hours? That’s beyond creepy. I had you down as a Bunny Boiler, but now I’m going to elevate you to Kitty Killer. Everybody keep a close eye on your pets…
IMHO, the typical Brad Pitt fan does not feel the need to defend him. Defend what? Here is a guy who was brought up (not dragged up) in a seemingly decent and stable environment infused with honor, good morals, quiet dignity, saying what you mean and meaning what you say. In the Pitt’s household I suspect that no voices or hands (as in hitting) were ever raised … perhaps an eyebrow (lol) but nothing else. Not saying that automatically makes BP a good person but there is truth to the adage: “the apple never falls too far from the tree”.
So he left “Podunk, USA”, $325 in his pocket that he didn’t beg, borrow or steal but worked for and with his country-boy naiveté headed to “La-La Land, Hollywood”, where dreams are broken faster than a Wal-Mart toy. Unlike most stars, he knew no one, didn’t have a parent or godparent or a sibling or a friend of a friend twice removed in the biz to give him the heads-up for a cattle call audition. Never mind that he had no experience– no school play or dinner theater experience on that résumé! When things got bad as they inevitably would, he didn’t whine or have some “adolescent meltdown”. Didn’t run back home to his parents either! Instead, he toughed it out in humiliating jobs, worked his ass off like a third-world immigrant for subsistence wages (wearing a chicken costume in semi-arid Los Angeles climate & standing at a street corner waving a big sign??!!) while schooling himself in the art of movie-making.
Now BP, against all odds, made it to the top of this food chain of twisted values and doubtful realities where “yes” means “no” and vice versa; where they build you up to tear you down; where back-stabbing is an art form; where you are only as good as your last box office returns; where the minutiae of your life become the cottage industry for yellow journalism and keeping your focus while being pilloried and filleted by a whimsical and fickle public. This guy stayed in the game without selling his soul, played against type when it was easier and more profitable to exploit his good looks. We all know that he has enjoyed himself in the process, …didn’t say he was a saint…He obviously imbibes yet we’ve never heard of any DUI arrests, no drunken brawls, no over-night stays in the pokey, no racist diatribes, no ego-driven maniacal outbursts at co-workers, no unaccounted for bambinos with his DNA running around, no paternity lawsuits, no spousal abuse allegations, no sexual harassment charges, no Heidi Fleiss black book, no “brown only m&m” contracts, no wandering into some stranger’s bed to sleep off a drug-related stupor, no holding up production because…I’m a star, dammit! & no assaulting of employee or hotel worker with telephones or battering the paparazzi either. In other words, never heard, “Brad Pitt, the Defendant”! So what if he has some harmless frat-boy tendencies? Paul Newman (RIP) had one foot in the grave while he was “punking” Robert Redford. Jack Nicholson, anyone? How about Dustin Hoffnan, Hugh Jackman, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Burt Reynolds, The Rat Pack, George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher, etc…?
What we have witnessed is a man who made some smart choices with his life- a life which he seems to be living fully, joie de vivre, if you will. He has judiciously invested in real estate, art, intellectual properties & a production company, parlayed $325 into a multi-million dollar enterprise, without the aid of Ponzi schemes, while giving something back to the society which, in a way, enabled his success. On top of that, Pitt has conscientiously pursued other art forms such as photography, jewelry design & architecture attaining respectable levels of competence. He seems to possess an intuitive intelligence in knowing what is good for him in his self-actualization; who he lets into his inner circle (no traitors need apply!); in knowing how to develop healthy relationships with people plus a good dollop of humor and charm. So far, not one of his real friends has ratted on him, leaked any unflattering info or any family member cashing in. All his exes, yes ALL, have good things to say which don’t seem contrived. Another thing, Pitt sees no need to explain himself…“You live your life and I live my life… thank you very much.” No wonder under-achievers hate this guy!
# 61 Observer2 @ 06/01/2009 at 6:55 pm
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I saw the pix of Gerry Butler on Jared’s homepage. Egads. He’s looking rough. He’s nowhere near as good looking as he was in LC:TCOL. I’m still laughing at X wanting so badly to work with someone who knows and worked with Angie. If the movie does get made, I wonder how long it’ll take her to start pumping him about Angie? LOL!
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PS - Becky, this is my second post in the last 5 minutes…just helping you with your counting…
Evergreen @ 06/01/2009 at 7:42 pm
Well said.
Evergreen @ 06/01/2009 at 7:42 pm
IMHO, the typical Brad Pitt fan does not feel the need to defend him. Defend what? Here is a guy who was brought up (not dragged up) in a seemingly decent and stable environment infused with honor, good morals, quiet dignity, saying what you mean and meaning what you say. In the Pitt’s household I suspect that no voices or hands (as in hitting) were ever raised … perhaps an eyebrow (lol) but nothing else. Not saying that automatically makes BP a good person but there is truth to the adage: “the apple never falls too far from the tree”.
So he left “Podunk, USA”, $325 in his pocket that he didn’t beg, borrow or steal but worked for and with his country-boy naiveté headed to “La-La Land, Hollywood”, where dreams are broken faster than a Wal-Mart toy. Unlike most stars, he knew no one, didn’t have a parent or godparent or a sibling or a friend of a friend twice removed in the biz to give him the heads-up for a cattle call audition. Never mind that he had no experience– no school play or dinner theater experience on that résumé! When things got bad as they inevitably would, he didn’t whine or have some “adolescent meltdown”. Didn’t run back home to his parents either! Instead, he toughed it out in humiliating jobs, worked his ass off like a third-world immigrant for subsistence wages (wearing a chicken costume in semi-arid Los Angeles climate & standing at a street corner waving a big sign??!!) while schooling himself in the art of movie-making.
Now BP, against all odds, made it to the top of this food chain of twisted values and doubtful realities where “yes” means “no” and vice versa; where they build you up to tear you down; where back-stabbing is an art form; where you are only as good as your last box office returns; where the minutiae of your life become the cottage industry for yellow journalism and keeping your focus while being pilloried and filleted by a whimsical and fickle public. This guy stayed in the game without selling his soul, played against type when it was easier and more profitable to exploit his good looks. We all know that he has enjoyed himself in the process, …didn’t say he was a saint…He obviously imbibes yet we’ve never heard of any DUI arrests, no drunken brawls, no over-night stays in the pokey, no racist diatribes, no ego-driven maniacal outbursts at co-workers, no unaccounted for bambinos with his DNA running around, no paternity lawsuits, no spousal abuse allegations, no sexual harassment charges, no Heidi Fleiss black book, no “brown only m&m” contracts, no wandering into some stranger’s bed to sleep off a drug-related stupor, no holding up production because…I’m a star, dammit! & no assaulting of employee or hotel worker with telephones or battering the paparazzi either. In other words, never heard, “Brad Pitt, the Defendant”! So what if he has some harmless frat-boy tendencies? Paul Newman (RIP) had one foot in the grave while he was “punking” Robert Redford. Jack Nicholson, anyone? How about Dustin Hoffnan, Hugh Jackman, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Burt Reynolds, The Rat Pack, George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher, etc…?
What we have witnessed is a man who made some smart choices with his life- a life which he seems to be living fully, joie de vivre, if you will. He has judiciously invested in real estate, art, intellectual properties & a production company, parlayed $325 into a multi-million dollar enterprise, without the aid of Ponzi schemes, while giving something back to the society which, in a way, enabled his success. On top of that, Pitt has conscientiously pursued other art forms such as photography, jewelry design & architecture attaining respectable levels of competence. He seems to possess an intuitive intelligence in knowing what is good for him in his self-actualization; who he lets into his inner circle (no traitors need apply!); in knowing how to develop healthy relationships with people plus a good dollop of humor and charm. So far, not one of his real friends has ratted on him, leaked any unflattering info or any family member cashing in. All his exes, yes ALL, have good things to say which don’t seem contrived. Another thing, Pitt sees no need to explain himself…“You live your life and I live my life… thank you very much.” No wonder under-achievers hate this guy!
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Great Post.
Cool!!
Good 4 hiim!! :)
GBU Jolie-Pitt’s♥♥♥
Evergreen @ 06/01/2009 at 7:42 pm
well said. his father said the same thing. don’t remember the exact thing (at BB premier) but his father said that he is very proud of him. came to hollywood not knowing any one and did what he did that’s pretty amazing. regardless, his career continue to do well if not better. how can haters call him a failure. many actors didn’t make it to where brad is now. you wrote a very nice piece and very true about him. that’s why i continue to be his fan.
I am looking forward to the movie.
haha @ 06/01/2009 at 8:29 pm
bwahahahhah still dreaming of the break-up FUGLY?? The best present Angelina ever got is to have Brad Pitt as the father of her kids..DEAL WITH IT!!!
Evergreen @ 06/01/2009 at 7:42 pm IMHO,
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That was a great post !
Evergreen @06/01/2009 at 7:42pm
Great post! Thank you.
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Last night on 60 Minutes Australia, Tara Brown did a 13 minute segment on Cannes, speaking to Brad, Quentin, and others.
You can view the entire segment at the link (can’t embed) and read the full transcript.
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=819495
Sam @ 06/01/2009 at 8:55 pm
open your photo album. you will sure fine them. the photos are really ugly.
Evergreen @ 06/01/2009 at 7:42 pm
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This is an excellent post.
Geez sam, you are mighty interested in those pixs of Brad. I guess they are for your “girlfriend”. Right, right. Nothing like crunching box office numbers while checking out your pixs of Brad. It is nice to see a lot of undercover fans of Brad blogging.
Full transcript:
STORY:
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TARA BROWN: They’re possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most famous couple in the world - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - the star attraction at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. They may be sharing the red carpet with a roll call of celebrities but their only rival in the glamour stakes is Cannes itself.
BRAD PITT: Cannes is glorious, Cannes is fantastic. Cannes is, you know, this international depot of great films with this great lineage and really fun to be here with a movie.
TARA BROWN: How would you compare it to being at the Oscars, for instance?
BRAD PITT: Well, I mean, it’s not really an awards show. It’s… you get to unveil something that, you know, by the time you get to the Oscars it’s been talked about to death and there’s been, like, 18 award shows to get to there and you’re a bit weary. This is just nice and refreshing and it, you know, it’s one of the great spots in the world and you get to show something, you get to unleash it.
TARA BROWN: And the film Brad is unleashing tonight is ‘Inglourious ********’, the much-anticipated movie from a very exuberant Quentin Tarantino. He’s hoping for second time lucky in this world-renowned film competition. The jury of film experts awarded Tarantino top prize, the Palm d’Or, for ‘Pulp Fiction’ in 1994.
QUENTIN TARANTINO: It’s the closest thing to the cinematic Olympics that there is. I mean, it is a place where film really matters, where if you’ve grown up knowing about the Cannes film festival which I did at 12 then it really kind of… it’s Oz you know. If for a film director even for a film enthusiast for a film critic it’s like you’re going down the Yellow Brick Road to get to the Emerald City and the Emerald city is Cannes and the Grand Palais.
TARA BROWN: You certainly looked excited on the red carpet?
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Yeah, that was fun.
TARA BROWN: And you’ve described the Palais as a holy place.
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Yeah, it’s a great place to see a movie. It’s a really special experience.
TARA BROWN: The drama doesn’t just happen in the cinema - the Croisette, the colourful beachside promenade, is a show in itself - a magnet for the world’s biggest attention seekers. From the quirky to the quaint, from stilletos to stilts, from the beach to the mega boats - film critic Jason Solomons has seen it all. A columnist with Britain’s ‘Observer’ this is his 12th film festival in Cannes.
JASON SOLOMONS: Cannes is a permanent circus, it’s a bubble, it’s a prism. It’s all of cinematic life rolled up and hurled into one. It’s the parties, it’s the premiers, it’s the art, it’s the artifice. It’s the brilliance, it’s the stupidity - all in 10 days. It is quite extraordinary and there’s nothing else like it. People describe it as Fellini-esque - a parade of the, kind of, freaks and geeks of the world - and this year really is like that. Even in the credit crunch it manages to kind of power through on the promise of God knows what.
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TARA BROWN: For all the chaos of Cannes - the hysteria, the photographers, the fuss - at it’s heart this film festival is all about cinema and in that sense Cannes is a great equaliser. The biggest names and absolute wannabes can get equal billing. If your film is selected it premiers here at the Palais and you get to walk the red carpet, the famous red stairs. If the jury likes your film you can go from complete unknown to superstar, overnight. And that’s what’s happened to unknown film director Warwick Thornton. All the way from Alice Springs, he and his young, shy stars Marissa Gibson and Rowan McNamara are about to become the toast of the town with their small-budget film ‘Samson and Delilah’.
WARWICK THORNTON: To get it into this place is incredibly special. It’s very exclusive and, you know, you sit next to Quentin Tarantino and Francis Ford Coppola and that’s pretty amazing and the audience just absolutely… they live cinema.
TARA BROWN: And to this discerning audience Warwick is bringing his first feature film. ‘Samson and Delilah’ is a story set in central Australia, a confronting tale of love between two teenagers who only have each other. Being selected to compete at Cannes is a big deal in itself. To walk the red carpet, to face the jury’s judgement is nerve-wracking. Warwick’s competing for the Camera d’Or prize awarded to the best novice director.
WARWICK THORNTON: In this place it doesn’t matter if you’re Steven Spielberg if they don’t like your film they’ll eat you alive and if they like you they’ll hug you to death.
TARA BROWN: And you don’t have to be Steven Spielberg to be loved and recognised?
WARWICK THORNTON: Absolutely you don’t have to be. It’s about good cinema and good story telling which is very, very cool.
TARA BROWN: And even if you’re Quentin Tarantino there are no guarantees. He’s in competition with 20 other top directors for the gold medal of film making - the Palm d’Or. So, Palm d’Or or Oscar? What’s better?
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Oh, I’ll take them both but.. I have them both, but I guess if I had to choose one or the other I would choose the Palm d’Or.
TARA BROWN: In true Tarantino style, ‘Inglourious ********’ is a mix of violence and comedy, set in Nazi-occupied France in World War II. Without giving too much away it’s a precocious Jewish revenge film shown here at Cannes for the first time even before its stars have seen it.
BRAD PITT: None of us have seen it. We’re all going to see it tonight.
TARA BROWN: That’s a bit weird, sitting here talking about a film you haven’t seen that you star in.
BRAD PITT: That you know nothing about. We usually bluff our way through these things.
TARA BROWN: Can I tell you one thing?
BRAD PITT: What?
TARA BROWN: You survive.
BRAD PITT: Great, great. I hear others die.
TARA BROWN: Yeah, quite a few.
TARA BROWN: What’s it like to be part of story that rewrites history, the ultimate get back movie?
BRAD PITT: Yeah, yeah, it’s, even history gets bastardised in this film.
TARA BROWN: Another surprise is the casting of comedian Mike Myers who played Fat ******* in ‘Austen Powers’. But in ‘Inglourious ********’ he plays a British general.
MIKE MYERS: I got a call from Quentin and he was, like, you know, “Would you like to be a British General?” Everybody, all my group of friends, were like, “What? That’s the craziest. What? That’s the craziest. “Of course you want to do this. “That’s all you ever talk about is World War II “and being a British general.” I talk like a British General for my friends as a joke. If we’re making plans, it’d be like, “Gentlemen, here’s how I see it - drinks first, then a steak dinner. “All right, let’s go. This way to the war.”
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TARA BROWN: You’ve been auditioning all your life, then, for this role?
MIKE MYERS: All my life. And Rod Taylor’s going to be in it. And I was like, “Get outta town! No way!” And Tarantino’s maybe… yeah, he’s our greatest filmmaker. He’s the most complete auteur there is. And all I had to do is micro-manage one soul, and get to wear the uniform and it was unbelievable.
TARA BROWN: And go to the party? How have you enjoyed the Cannes experience?
MIKE MYERS: Oh, I’m so shy. Those, that’s the hard part.
TARA BROWN: As red carpet royalty, the never shy Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie make it look so easy. Hard to believe there are six kids waiting for them at home. When you go away to promote a film like this what do you tell the kids? Dad’s gone away for work or dad’s gone away for play?
BRAD PITT: “Dad’s got to go to work.” And they get very angry.
TARA BROWN: Do they?
BRAD PITT: Sure, they don’t understand work. I mean the older one, my boys do, my older boys but, yeah, they don’t understand. It’s just the thing that takes mommy and daddy away.
TARA BROWN: What does Brad Pitt represent here in Cannes?
JASON SOLOMONS: He is immensely handsome, very bright and very cool, and I think for Cannes to attach themselves to something like that it kind of reflects itself through him and he’s a pretty good poster boy for this festival.
TARA BROWN: During its 62-year history the film festival has had many glamorous poster boys and girls from the golden years of Hollywood. Today, Cannes is still synonymous with superstar quality but also celebrities desperate for the limelight.
JASON SOLOMONS: Well, Cannes is in fact so important that every celebrity wants to attach themselves to it kind of get a bit of it rubbed off of that movie stardust and people like Paris Hilton who, God knows, needs some stardust because she doesn’t do anything she just turns up and kind of attracts like moths to a flame, the paparazzi.
TARA BROWN: Gatecrashers like Paris may come for the parties but for most Cannes is about the films. What does Cannes mean for the films featured here, for the films that win the Palm d’Or and the other competitions? Does it mean commercial success?
JASON SOLOMONS: Oscars definitely does that’s ‘kerching’, you can market that, Palm d’Or not necessarily. But on the European scale outside Hollywood which is a market that is becoming increasingly important with every year that passes, yes, the Palm d’Or carries a lot of clout.
TARA BROWN: After 10 long days of frivolity and the serious job of screening after screening the Festival jury didn’t grant Tarantino gold this time. Beaten by another war film, a harrowing tale from Austria. But our own ‘Samson and Delilah’ charmed the judges and director Warwick Thornton took home the coveted prize, the Camera d’Or, and the prestige of conquering the world stage.
WARWICK THORNTON: I can look back on the rest of my life now and say, “I went to Cannes with my first feature film and got a standing ovation and have had these incredibly positive reviews not only from Australia but from the world.”
TARA BROWN: For 10 days in May every year the circus comes to Cannes. In the big top, centre stage - a passing parade of stars and their films. And ringside - celebrity worshippers and wannabes. For a short time the spotlight is on Cannes and it’s bedazzling and brilliant. But all too quickly the lights go out.
JASON SOLOMONS: The saddest thing in all the world is Cannes the Monday morning after the Sunday night of the awards when the billboards come down, the flags hang limply and dirtily in the mess, the scaffolding clangs as everything comes down. Basically the circus is leaving town. The artifice is coming down, crumbling around our feet, and you know who comes in after the film conventions? The dentists come in, and that kind of puts it into perspective. Cannes during the dentists convention. I wouldn’t bother.
Why did brad say his award from MTV was the “best f*ing moment of his life. Nothing about his kids or his baby ma ma. UH OH, you call that love?
@nolovefrombrad:
Wasn’t that one of his lines from the movie? I thought he was bouncing around doing the “Fight Club” character and saying his character’s trademark lines…
@nolovefrombrad:
Why Why is what Brad said at a silly award show taken seriously. Go look at the pics from that night. He was having fun.
Have you every been out with Friends and said this is one of the best days of my life. Plez get some perspective
I’m not an undercover fan of Brad Pitt at all. I like baseball and somehow I got sent here through a link. Do you have a way that I can see those pictures?
nolovefrombrad @ 06/01/2009 at 9:22 pm
its not the fcuking oscar or GG. btw, its guys choice award not MTV award. did you see any one at the MTV award thank their parents or wife or husband last night. idiot.
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Stop changing names. Plus it’s not the MTV awards.
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pokeman @ 06/01/2009 at 9:29 pm
nolovefrombrad @ 06/01/2009 at 9:22 pm
its not the fcuking oscar or GG. btw, its guys choice award not MTV award. did you see any one at the MTV award thank their parents or wife or husband last night. idiot.
EXACTLY babe. Not the Oscars or GG so why was THAT the “best f*ckng moment of his life???? hmmmm do tell sweety. I’d say that’s pretty bad coming from a father of six with the uh hem, love of his life, wouldn’t you.
@pokeman:
They are total idiots. I wonder if they saw the tribute to Ben Stiller on the MTV awards and thought it was real and not a joke on the Oscars.
Thank you for posting 60 minutes interview. Their kids are so lucky to have the most beautiful and most famous people in the world as their parents. They are also very caring, very good parents.
Haha, is anyone else being responded to by Jen-ho fans/ JP haters in other threads? Or is my name just too f****** famous?
Lol, paging Jill!
Lori in canada @ 06/01/2009 at 9:27 pm
@nolovefrombrad:
Wasn’t that one of his lines from the movie? I thought he was bouncing around doing the “Fight Club” character and saying his character’s trademark lines…
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KINGDORK @ 06/01/2009 at 9:32 pm
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pokeman @ 06/01/2009 at 9:29 pm
nolovefrombrad @ 06/01/2009 at 9:22 pm
its not the fcuking oscar or GG. btw, its guys choice award not MTV award. did you see any one at the MTV award thank their parents or wife or husband last night. idiot.
EXACTLY babe. Not the Oscars or GG so why was THAT the “best f*ckng moment of his life???? hmmmm do tell sweety. I’d say that’s pretty bad coming from a father of six with the uh hem, love of his life, wouldn’t you.
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I hope you have some type of brain development disorder as to explain why you cannot detect facetiousness, exaggeration, sarcasm.
<3 <3 <3 =) Thanks for the 60 minutes post.
If the media wants to find out accurate info about brad or Angelina, they should just check JJ or any fansite. Not Life & whatever/ If JJ wants to find out, just holla at any of the longtimers.
KINGDORK @ 06/01/2009 at 9:32 pm
so, if he has 1 kid it would be alright. since he has 6 its not ok that he was having a good time. just because he has kids and a partner doesn’t he can’t have fun. so what if its the best time of his life. is it so wrong. STFU.
would it makes you happy if he said its the worse time of my life. i has 6 six kids. i shouldn’t be having fun. this award sucks. i guess so. dumb@ass
nolovefrombrad @ 06/01/2009 at 9:22 pm
idiot it was not the freaking mtv awards………stoopid
http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/01/brad-to-mel-thanks-sugar-t-ts/
So disrespectful to the woman that Mel Gibson said that too. Just shows Brad’s mentality - low class.
notnice @ 06/01/2009 at 10:39 pm
So disrespectful to the woman that Mel Gibson said that too. Just shows Brad’s mentality - low class.
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Are you saying her name is “sugartits”? That’s really not nice of you. Brad on the other hand was addressing Mel.
notnice @ 06/01/2009 at 10:39 pm
So disrespectful to the woman that Mel Gibson said that too. Just shows Brad’s mentality - low class.
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Why? Because he’s making Mel remember what an a**hole he was and standing up for women by turning that term on its head and using it against a man? STFU
funny @ 06/01/2009 at 10:22 pm
http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/01/brad-to-mel-thanks-sugar-t-ts/
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Brad is badass. Mel must be pissed. Brad rocks.
Trolls are a fukcing joke!! How dare Brad have fun at the MTV awards!
It does not matter to them that he was’nt at the MTV awards! And if any-one is stupid enough to believe that BP was serious, well your an idiot. He was being honored for Fight Club, and was having fun and said a line from it. DUMB trolls can’t get anything right.
#102 Now #102 is all upset on behalf of the woman that got called sugar=t*ts by Mel Gibson, just a lame excuse to have a go at Brad. Why don’t you write her a letter saying how you have felt bad for her all these years? Lying Hating Troll
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You idiot, Brad was making fun of Mel Gibson.
those saying Angelina looks old for 33 please go check out the kate winslet thread and say the same thing.
# 106 hehehe @ 06/01/2009 at 10:49 pm
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funny @ 06/01/2009 at 10:22 pm
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http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/01/brad-to-mel-thanks-sugar-t-ts/
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Why would Mel be pissed? He and Brad have known each other for a pretty long time. By now he ought to know Brad’s going to razz him when he see’s him. I’m sure Mel has already plotted his revenge.
# 108 huh @ 06/01/2009 at 10:54 pm
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Not only do the trolls have reading comprehension issue, but apparently they have auditory issues as well. They only hear ever 3rd word…
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Evergreen@06/01/2009 at 7:42pm
Love that post.
Evergreen@06/01/2009 at 7:42pm
Love that post.
notnice @ 06/01/2009 at 10:39 pm
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You need to go back into the oven and bake some more. And grow a sense of humor.
pokeman @ 06/01/2009 at 9:02 pm Sam @ 06/01/2009 at 8:55 pm
open your photo album. you will sure fine them. the photos are really ugly.
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bwahahahha that was funny the braindead hag looking for UGLY pictures when all IT had to do is LOOK IN THE MIRROR!! BWAHAHAHHAHAH
LuckyL @ 06/01/2009 at 9:42 pm KINGDORK @ 06/01/2009 at 9:32 pm
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pokeman @ 06/01/2009 at 9:29 pm
nolovefrombrad @ 06/01/2009 at 9:22 pm
its not the fcuking oscar or GG. btw, its guys choice award not MTV award. did you see any one at the MTV award thank their parents or wife or husband last night. idiot.
EXACTLY babe. Not the Oscars or GG so why was THAT the “best f*ckng moment of his life???? hmmmm do tell sweety. I’d say that’s pretty bad coming from a father of six with the uh hem, love of his life, wouldn’t you.
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Jenhags are BRAINDEAD when it comes to Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie but they do DEFEND Halle Berry making out and capping Jamie Foxx’s balls as just PLAY ACTING.. beyotches are really MENTAL AND RETARDED when it comes to Brad & Angelina.
the reason either brad or angie thread break down is because the hags BAIT and some fans BITE. i have seen it time and time again here and on other blogs. if the hag/trolls are ignored the thread is dead to them. but when fans respond,even to dispute out and out lies, they are hooked and spend pages responding. if fans don’t respond, i know it is hard to overlook the vicious attacks, but if the hag/trolls are ignored, they disappear or show the internet they are deranged by agreeing with each other and making complete fools of themselves, thus showing the world the freaks that their idol JA attracts.
Greetings fans.. I have some catching up to do on all the new threads.. Ange is looking good in those SALT stills and Moneyball will be a fun summer movie next year.. Hope they premiere it in Cannes next year!!
val @ 06/01/2009 at 5:25 pm The guessing game:
Who is a major box office risk right now, he/she is 40 year old aged sitcom hag, cannot move on, love to tan in me–hee-co while drinking margaritas, barren, selfish, lard face, and can whine, whine whine for 5 f…ck…inn.. years! I can hear the jeopardy theme song in my head…lol!
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LOL..
See this is the difference, BA fans come up with Jeopardy quizzes, the fans of JA come up with meaningless Blind items..
those two will never take time off for the kids. lmaoo
12:17, you say their kids,not your kids, it’snone of your business.
Great actor love him..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMUvPmEYQA
Passing Through @ 06/01/2009 at 5:05 pm
Awwww…you guys…it’s soooooooooooo sad. misManagement was dropped by another 61 theaters this weekend and is now only playing in 49. But the good news for X is that the movie took in a whopping $59,268 to bring it’s grand total to $809,787 after 3 weeks. It was dropped by 62.5% of the venues it was in. At that rate it’ll never get to $875,000, let alone $1MIL. Does Hallmark make a card for people mourning the death of their career?
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Brad is an A** @ 06/02/2009 at 1:05 am
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Ashhole, why are you stalking Brad? And why should we believe a twitter post? Any jackass can make up anything and post it on twitter. What the hell is it to you where Brad is? He doesn’t want your stank ass. Let the man alone will you?
The ***** has to spend her b-day alone! lololololol
Don’t start cutting again Angie!
Evergreen @ 06/01/2009 at 7:42 pm
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# 122 Brad is an A** @ 06/02/2009 at 1:08 am
twistedrocks: I’m not joking, BRAD PITT flew right here into the Livermore Airport! My dh fueled his G3 and said “hey” to him!! So wish I was there.
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What would you do, Ashhole — climb into his plane and try to seduce him? Like you’d have a snowball’s chance in hell.
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See, Assley, this is the deal: Brad goes to LA. Brad goes to Vegas. Brad goes a lot of places. And every single time he finishes doing whatever he has to do, he comes right back home to Angie and the kids. Why doesn’t Angie go with him? Because she’s working too, Ashhole. And also because she knows people need space. They aren’t joined at the hip. People who cling to their partners like leeches end up like you and Fugly, Assley: dumped and alone with nobody who wants to be bothered with them. You could write a book on that from personal experience, couldn’t you?
@angel: why would she cut herself over brad pitt? she has six kids that are way more important to her than he is.
# 93 LuckyL @ 06/01/2009 at 9:42 pm
I hope you have some type of brain development disorder as to explain why you cannot detect facetiousness, exaggeration, sarcasm.
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How many times do I hafta tell ya: The common denominator of Aniston’s fans is they aren’t very bright. That’s why they are her fans.
That’s the problem with tabloid readers/women. they look at Angelina and think to themselves “hmmm, she’s like us” so what do they do when they end a relationship, or their men dump them? they whine and snivel and try to kill themselves. Angelina is not like you. She was madly in love with Billy Bob and she left and never looked back, she lost her mother (lost weight) and kept going, she has seen suffering from children that have no LIMBS and that have lost parents to war. Angelina is stronger than you.
When ( I say when because it is going to happen) Brangelina Breakup… you are all going to be in for a rude awakening as Angelina continues her humanitarian work, mothering her children, making movies, traveling … Basically moving on with her life.
huh? @ 06/02/2009 at 1:49 am
When ( I say when because it is going to happen) Brangelina Breakup… you are all going to be in for a rude awakening as Angelina continues her humanitarian work, mothering her children, making movies, traveling … Basically moving on with her life.
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Give us the date, Shitzy. You know so much about this family, look into your crystal ball and tell us when they are going to split. Either that, or STFU.
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BTW, when are you going to pay Lylian the $300 you’ve been owing her since 2007? Lousy welsher you are.
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1. assley, you run out of names? get your own name
2. Keep Dreaming, you idiot :lol:
# 130 Brad is an A** @ 06/02/2009 at 1:44 am
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Billy Beane is GAY!!! I bet Brad is going to kiss his partner in this movie really hard.
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It’s well past your bedtime, trollette. Change your Depends and hit the hay!
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Assley, stop agreeing with yourself. Keep dreaming, you idiot.
# 132 huh? @ 06/02/2009 at 1:49 am
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What are you going to do when they DON’T break up? Hare kare? Please video tape that shite. We want to watch your swan dive from the curb to the gutter. Put that shite on YouTube, please.
25 huh? @ 06/01/2009 at 4:12 pm
“Brad will be spending some time in L.A soon” So tabloidish. If Brad is going to be in L.A , you can put your money on it that the whole family will be there as well. They have 3 days rule.
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Tabloids and people who don’t like this couple deliberately ignore what Brad said. This must be one reason both B & A ignore all of them.
So Brad is doing some pre-production work for his new movie. Good for him. Very soon the family will relocate to Oakland, CA.
@passing Through: nothing. I’m just saying I think it will happen. Reading Angelina’s old interviews leads me to believe that she thought this whole tabloid thing would be over by now. My prediction is that she will be the one to end it because of the horrendous media glare that is getting to be too much. she doesn’t have a publicist but I’m willing to bet that her Manager is giving her tips on how to get out of this situation. Leave brad, or better yet, make it look like he dumped her and hopefully knowing Brad’s record he’ll move on really fast and the new ***** will be the tabloid target. Got damn, I should be a publicist. Angelina give very few interview and never mention Brad Pitt. Just move on with her life and eventually the tabloids will leave her alone and Brad will be the Tabloids cover boy for infinity and beyond. okay, now i’m babbling. good night.
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you think? please, you are brainless. LMAO.
nina @ 06/02/2009 at 2:12 am
So Brad is doing some pre-production work for his new movie. Good for him. Very soon the family will relocate to Oakland, CA.
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Correct.
Just like when Angelina flew to LA when Brad was still filming IB. Remember Angelina went to a salute to Clint Eastwood then went to his movie premiere. But also had prep work for Salt.
Just like when Angelina was filming Wanted in europe. and Brad had to fly to chicago to film a portion of CCOBB.
@huh?:
Yep because tabloids aren’t into single moms with lots of kids.
You are stupid if you think the tabloid glare would end if b and a broke up.
“People can think anything they want about me if it makes their time at the checkout counter go a little quicker. I’m all for killing time in the supermarket. “—– Angelina Jolie in Vogue 2007
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If the haters think Angelina Jolie is afraid of tabloids, they don’t know Angelina at all.
huh? @ 06/02/2009 at 2:14 am
My prediction is that she will be the one to end it because of the horrendous media glare that is getting to be too much.
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Just one problem with your assessment, honey — Angie isn’t a weak-ass whiner like Fugly and her fans, one of which is you. Angie doesn’t give a damn what the tabloid say about her and she never has. That, incidentally, is what drives you trolls batshit crazy.
@loveAJ: no , I know she says she doesn’t care but did you read the interview I was talking about? she said the attention was because they were a new family and once people got used to them the attention would stop. She was wrong because almost 4 years later the tabs are going strong with the exact same headlines from 4 years ago. This Wednesday she will be on the cover of in touch, star, life and style and whatever else AGAIN. to be honest i’m surprised she stuck it out with him for this long. The latest article I read pointed out the fact that Angelina doesn’t like the media glare on her anymore. Since when has that report made the waves? NEVER! Smells like Angelina is getting tired of it. Bye Bye Pitty. g’night for reals this time.
Pitt in LIVERMORE,CA @ 06/02/2009 at 2:06 am
Brad Pitt WAS HERE!!!
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Okay Assley, Brad Pitt was there. So fcuking what?
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Look, fool, we know you hate Brad. We also know why you hate Brad. You hate Brad because you’ve got the hots for him and you know damn well if he knew you were alive he’d run 90 miles an hour in the opposite direction from you. Just like every man you’ve ever wanted, right? They all run like hell away from you. So there you are, scorned, sad, manless, childless, friendless, bitter and alone, stalking a celebrity who couldn’t care if you live or die.
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Better luck in your next life, honey, because you can write this one off as a total waste.
huh? @ 06/02/2009 at 2:56 am
The latest article I read pointed out the fact that Angelina doesn’t like the media glare on her anymore.
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Don’t tell me, let me guess: You read that in Star, Lies and Sh*t, or Outa Touch. So of course it has to be true. Right?
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Honest to God, Shitzers, if I was half as stupid as you, I’d jump out the window and call it a life.
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OT ~A new show by the makers of Family Guy making fun at what a loser X is. They missed Paul S replacing her with Diaz
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Basically Cleveland tries to replace his stepson’s dead dog and the tyke replies that you can’t simply replace a dog the way Brad Pitt replaced Jennifer Aniston, or John Mayer replaced Jennifer Aniston, or Vince Vaughn replaced Jennifer Aniston. The guy from the Counting crows… The point is my dog is not Jennifer Aniston.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1545148137?bctid=23645700001
@Jill:
So there you are, scorned, sad, manless, childless, friendless, bitter and alone, stalking a celebrity who couldn’t care if you live or die.
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^^This should be posted each time that troll makes a comment. Because anyone with a brain can see she takes too personally. Her rage has nothing to do with Angelina.
get reality and shut up.
Love Brad,Angie&all the kids. Why are some people so invested in where’s Brad, leave him alone
Angie and the kids got into DC last evening,sorry brad pitt was no where to be seen, there is going to be a wrap party at GEORGIA’S BROWN on saturday,i got to try to crash that muther,got to get pics of her birthday thursday while on set filming,later.
Here comes the insiders, LMAO! I’ll bet you’ll not come back here when Brad’s there on her birthday, wanna bet. You only post cr@p, hahha insiders my foot. You didn’t even have information oh how they celebrated Shiloh’s b-day & you’re an insider! Why don’t you people give up & probably live longer, you’re not an insider nobody is except the family, their managers & those few people they wanted to know.
Stop you freaking hard on for Brad will yah? He doesn’t go for trolls.
i was heading out the door when i saw your post, honey i live in DC not new york,how would i know how they celebrated shiloh’s birthday, and the wrap party is at GEORGIA’S BROWN my firm does accounting for them, relax honey ,and brad was not with them when they flew in last night,nothing trollish about that just the facts, i’m late see ya.
@DC FLY:
How would someone who works at an accounting firm for a restaurant know who was on a flight with Jolie. If there was a flight with Jolie.
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I wish Jared flipped names like he use to. I bet DC fly is reply who is one of the trolls that will be here all day whining about Brad.
I do like how you wrote “got to go” then as reply wrote “go back to bed”. Sadly for you most of us are not as stupid as you.
DC fly = reply
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# 159 DC FLY @ 06/02/2009 at 5:54 am
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Same fake ass insider troll.Notice the insider “popped up” after the twitters had been posted. :roll: Jared really needs to ge a handle on these name changing trolls posting lies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/business/02flierbox.html
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A. Times have changed. Now, the worst thing is I stand by magazine racks and read trash tabloids. I don’t buy them. But I still need to find out if Angelina Jolie got another tattoo.
Well,I didn’t miss anything skipping this site lastnigt.Assley/ changing troll posting lies.This Assley person is a VERY sick individual.I can’t speak for everyone,but I’m beginning to find her little “obsession” for Brad freaking creepy.For her to hate Brad she sure spends a lot of time obsessing over him and his “daily” actions.Like 24/7.And what kind of sicko would hope/wish for a family with 6 small children to break-up?Also what kind of person would find joy/happiness in that?If you do,something is seriously wrong in your life.
# 65 Evergreen @ 06/01/2009 at 7:42 pm ….Well said!
http://jjb.yuku.com/topic/513684?page=263
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DC FLY, i believe you, you crazy mother-trucker!
you better not be lying to me though, because if this wrap party at georgia brown’s does not happen, i will most likely kill myself! so, please don’t lie to me.
wow, this place is deserted. where are all the fans? sooon it will just be trolls talking to them-selves, i can’ t wait!
note to all fans = leave the just jared comment section. do not stay in the cess-pit. get out of the muck, you will be clean and free of muck from crazy trolls if you never post or read stuff here. leave JJ!
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Yeah, Deejy, we get it. You got the inside dope. In your dreams, honey. Now GTFO. You’re stinking up the thread.
# 145 reality @ 06/02/2009 at 3:14 am
^^This should be posted each time that troll makes a comment. Because anyone with a brain can see she takes too personally. Her rage has nothing to do with Angelina.
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I swear to God Assley is batshit crazy. She stalks Brad like a maniac. She tracks him every single minute. Why? Does she want to make a play for him when Angie isn’t around? Does she want to make sure he is out of the way so she can harm Angie and/or the kids? Something’s off about this person. If I were Brad report her to the authorities. Stalking is a crime in most states.
# 162 Jill @ 06/02/2009 at 9:42 am ….swear to God Assley is batshit crazy. She stalks Brad like a maniac. She tracks him every single minute. Why?
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Because the woman is mentally disturbed.She can NEVER just post her opinion once or twice the sicko has to spam the thread for hours.Also notice how she posts under several different aliases to post her lies.Now she is stalking Brad on twitter everyday.This is a FULL blown obsession and I just find it scary.
I just read the article abou Hollywood’s most bankable actor but wonder why Angie didn’t make on the list ? Isn’t she spotted at no.2 tie with some other actors, including Brad, Johny, Leo?
I have to say this…..I do not like twitter.There is NO need for fan’s to know a celebrities whereabouts 24/7.Twitter is just feeding into stalkers like “Assley” and “DJ” sick ass obsession.I for one have no need to know where Angelina/Brad are every damn day.There is a fine line between being a “fan” and being a “fanatic.” Assley and DJ have crossed the line to becoming fanatics/obsessed nut jobs.
# 135 huh? @ 06/02/2009 at 2:14 am
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Sorry, trollette…I went to bed last night. Clearly you’ve got a wee bit too much time on your hands if you were still up speculating about Angie ending the relationship. You keep right on dreaming. Angie says she doesn’t pay attention to all the tabloid crap because it has nothing to do with her real life. It probably annoys Brad more than it does Angie. And even if Angie does hear about some of the fake stories, it’s no skin off her nose because they’re not true. Is it irritating? Sure, but the easiest way to not be irritated by it is to ignore unless she NEEDS to know it, ie, if they’re being hounded for baby pix.
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As for Geyer giving Angie advise on how to get out of the relationship - stop being ridiculous. Geyer is the one who thought she and BBT should meet and look how that turned out. I think Geyer has stepped away from giving Angie relationship advice. Geyer is Angie’s friend as well as her manager. I would think he’d just want her to be happy. And if she’s happy ignoring all the tabloid bull, then good for her and bad for people like you who WANT her to affected by all the shenanigans the tabs are up to.
# 164 Neng Geulis @ 06/02/2009 at 10:01 am …..The list is compiled by author James Ulmer, whose book Actors Hot List ranks the box-office clout of 1400 actors.So the author picked the people who would be on the list and “ranked’ them.BTW Angelina might be on the the list.Because I have flipped though this author previous book and Angelina was in it.The person who wrote the article for Blomberg might have just left her name out of the artice.
Good morning all. It’s good to see the regulars here.
I wish some of you wold ignore the trolls or have thir posts deleted. it’s soooo obvious that they are trying to annoy us. They bring nothing but chaos. The trolls are nothing, nothing, just like the tabloids.
By the way the tabloids are gonna be extinct by the end of the year. Trying to make money by lying and making up stories on a regular basis doesn’t fly in this economy. The public is furious at the tabloids and their lies.
Lou..there was some talk about the twitter people creating a game/reality show where people would try to find celebrities! As soon as that came out, there were rumblings of FBI, stalker laws being broken, lawsuits, etc…We’ll see how that pans out but I think in the end it won’t.
Waving to all the fans who make the Brad & Angelina threads the mose popular and relevant on the web!! yeah!
# 145 funny @ 06/02/2009 at 3:03 am
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Basically Cleveland tries to replace his stepson’s dead dog and the tyke replies that you can’t simply replace a dog the way Brad Pitt replaced Jennifer Aniston, or John Mayer replaced Jennifer Aniston, or Vince Vaughn replaced Jennifer Aniston. The guy from the Counting crows… The point is my dog is not Jennifer Aniston.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1545148137?bctid=23645700001
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ROTFLMBAO!!! OH SNAP! They really put X on blast, didn’t they? But hey, X ought to understand - didn’t she say Norman was more important and more irreplacable than any man she’d ever been with? BBBBWWWHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!
# 163 Jill @ 06/02/2009 at 9:42 am
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I have decided that Assley/Shitzy/Tres Jolie/Bet/etc. have a hard on for Brad because they’re lesbians and want Angie for themselves. It’s not about wanting Brad at all. It’s about the fact that Brad is the MAN who, in Angie’s own words, “…made all my dreams come true.” They can’t stand that. They’re probably plotting to kidnap Angie and spirit her off to Lesbos for secret mountaintop wedding and ritual goat sacrifice.
# 168 Frenchy @ 06/02/2009 at 10:27 am ….Lou..there was some talk about the twitter people creating a game/reality show where people would try to find celebrities! As soon as that came out, there were rumblings of FBI, stalker laws being broken, lawsuits, etc…We’ll see how that pans out but I think in the end it won’t.
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Wow,that’s some sick sh*t.Enabling stalkers to make a buck.(shaking head)
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Isn’t the meaning of twitter to let people know what’s going on with yourself. Like “oh guess what,. I’m sitting on the throne, hee hee”?
LOL!!! It’s not about twittering about anybody else or am I so out of it?
I thinnk twitter was originally meant to make people feel important and giving them the tool to let people know what’s going on. But see, when you aren’t that fabulous, you become important only if you twitter that you saw someone famous. That’s what I see it turning into.
A little off topic why does he cover his body with tattoos and hide them. That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever seen. He has new ones old ones and noone really has seen them completely and he doesn’t really want to talk about them when asked because it’s something that he shares with his partner. What a load of crap is he like on drugs?
wobbler30 @ 06/02/2009 at 11:02 am
Go back to school.
# 172 Frenchy @ 06/02/2009 at 10:52 am ….I thinnk twitter was originally meant to make people feel important and giving them the tool to let people know what’s going on. But see, when you aren’t that fabulous, you become important only if you twitter that you saw someone famous. That’s what I see it turning into.
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I agree with your assessment.Unfortunately twitter has been turned into a celebrity stalking tool for nut jobs.I just find that scary..
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http://economictimes.indi…icleshowpics/4502808.cms
Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the most powerful celebrity couple on the planet, according to a new study.
The star pair scored a perfect 30 on 30 on a test that used a formula to work out how much stronger they are together than they would be individually, pipping David and V
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http://www.theage.com.au/…06/02/1243708434091.html
Will Smith is up and Tom Cruise is down in the latest ranking of Hollywood’s most bankable actors.
Smith tops the list, scoring 96 out of a possible 100 points. Smith, whose last three movies have averaged $459 million in worldwide box office, was 12th in the previous rankings.
Cruise fell from the top 10 for the first time in more than a decade, placing 11th with 80 points. His most recent movie, the Nazi drama Valkyrie, grossed $200 million worldwide.
Following Smith in the rankings are Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Will Ferrell, Reese Witherspoon, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.
The list is compiled by author James Ulmer, whose book Actors Hot List ranks the box-office clout of 1400 actors.
The rankings are based on a survey of more than 100 movie buyers and sellers.
A former editor and columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Ulmer resumed publication of his annual list this year after taking a year off.
Mel Gibson, whose public image took a beating when he made anti-Semitic remarks to a police officer who arrested him for drunken driving, fell to 62nd after ranking 11th on the previous list.
Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves and Julia Roberts also dropped.
For more than a decade, the salaries for screen stars have risen along with production budgets, with actors like Smith and Cruise getting as much as $20 million a picture.
Even though ticket sales have increased this year, the recession, dwindling DVD sales and uncertainty about the impact of the internet have made studios more circumspect about spending.
“Actors were bid up like the derivatives market,” Ulmer said. “Now there is a certain amount of wariness of the production entity to pay these fees. The upper echelon is shrinking.”
A little off topic ,why did you come here and wrote LIES?
Your post is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
You told us you have mental problems but did not want to talk about them when asked by your wife or your doctor.
What a load of crap , are you on drugs?
# 174 wobbler30 @ 06/02/2009 at 11:02 am
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He’s doing it simply to annoy YOU, Weeble-wobbler. You’re so darned smart I would have thought you’d have figured that out by now.
Maybe this has been posted already. I will like this movie! Brad Pitt AND beautiful cars.
http://www.motorauthority.com/brad pitt to play leading role in steve mcqueen bio pic.html
Put a hyphen in the spaces, including between steve and mcqueen.
I spilled tea on my keyboard and now several keys, including the one with the hyphen, don’t work.
Does anyone know if I need to buy a new keyboard or can I just wait and it will work again when it dries?
I do have another keyboard somewhere, but of course now that I’m looking for it I can’t find it.
# 181 Orchid @ 06/02/2009 at 11:49 am
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I spilled tea on my keyboard and now several keys, including the one with the hyphen, don’t work.
Does anyone know if I need to buy a new keyboard or can I just wait and it will work again when it dries?
I do have another keyboard somewhere, but of course now that I’m looking for it I can’t find it.
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More than likely, yes, you’ll need to replace the keyboard. Once keys stop working I’ve very rarely seen them start working again. Especially if you spill liquid on the. That tends to short-circuit the wiring in the keyboard…
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BTW - that story about Brad playing McQueen is probably bunk. The rumor has been floating around for about 4 years…and nothing has ever come of it. I just really can’t see Brad wanting to play Steve McQueen. This is just like the rumor of Brad remaking Bullitt - it makes the rounds every year or two. It’s usually just the tabs/gossips recycling rumors.
# 181 Orchid @ 06/02/2009 at 11:49 am
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ROTFLMAO at this part of the story…”Examiner”? As in Daryl-I-Pull-Shite-Out-Of-My-Ass-D Examiner? That alone tells you it’s bull.
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http://www.motorauthority.com/brad-pitt-to-play-leading-role-in-steve-mcqueen-bio-pic.html
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The choice for the actor to play the leading role will be a crucial one in making the movie a success, and the latest reports confirm nearly two years worth of rumors, tipping Brad Pitt as the man about to sign for the spot as McQueen, according to the Examiner.
Brad Pitt Keeps Fresh with Baby Wipes, Reveals Costar
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20282658,00.html
People====Brad is way too cute! At least he keeps it real, no need to have a facade!
Brad Pitt Keeps Fresh with Baby Wipes, Reveals Costar
By Nicholas White
Originally posted Tuesday June 02, 2009 11:00 AM EDT
While filming Quentin Tarantino’s movie about World War II, Inglourious ********, superdad Brad Pitt offered up some unconventional hygiene tips for his sometimes smelly costars.
“He shared that when you’re sweating and don’t have time to take a shower, you just take a baby wipe and rub it under your armpits,” Pitt’s costar and pal Eli Roth told PEOPLE at Saturday’s Spike TV Guys Choice 2009 in Los Angeles, set to air on the cable network June 21 at 10 p.m.
“After a scene, Brad had to get next to me for a close-up shot, and he said, ‘Damn, you’re ripe,’ ” recalls Roth, 37. “I said, ‘I didn’t have time to shower.’ He said, ‘Baby wipes, man, baby wipes.’ ”
When it came to Pitt’s pits, Roth said the leading man explained, “I got six kids. All you’ve got to do is just take them, a couple quick wipes under the pits.” Pitt further said, “Man, I’m getting pissed on all day. I don’t have time to take a shower.”
“I thought that was the greatest tip,” says Roth, who took the advice to heart. “My character is called the Bear Jew. If I ever started to smell like a bear, I would just use a couple baby wipes under the armpits, and it made it safe for everyone else to act around me.”
Awesome Angelina
Roth, Pitt and company recently returned from the Cannes Film Festival, where they promoted their movie, which hits U.S. theaters in August. While in France, Roth was seen partying with Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Jolie, Roth says, “is awesome, totally cool,” just like Pitt.
“He’s such a funny guy. He has a great sense of humor, and he’s so into it. He’s really there to have a great time. Now, he’s at the point in his career where he’s the biggest movie star in the world, he can do whatever he wants, so when he’s there, he just wants to have a great time.”
Roth – who’s built his own cult following as the director of such horror flicks as Hostel and Cabin Fever – is also quick to say Pitt was very generous with his time.
“I remember the first day, he taught me a lot of acting tricks,” Roth says. “We all wanted to ask him about Kalifornia, Fight Club and True Romance, and he was so cool to talk about all that stuff with us. Right from the first day, we were all a little shy. But then somebody asked him about 12 Monkeys, and he talked about everything.”
# 184 People @ 06/02/2009 at 12:56 pm
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http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20282658,00.html
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ROTFLMAO. Ruh-roh…I can smell the trolls coming…they should take advantage of the tip Brad gave Eli Roth…
Brad is too funny.
Brad sure makes Angie and kids laugh every day.
Babywipes are also great for other nooks and crannies you want to keep fresh….. :)
DC FLY @ 06/02/2009 at 5:30 am
Angie and the kids got into DC last evening,sorry brad pitt was no where to be seen, there is going to be a wrap party at GEORGIA’S BROWN on saturday,i got to try to crash that muther,got to get pics of her birthday thursday while on set filming,later.
DC FLY @ 06/02/2009 at 5:54 am
i was heading out the door when i saw your post, honey i live in DC not new york,how would i know how they celebrated shiloh’s birthday, and the wrap party is at GEORGIA’S BROWN my firm does accounting for them, relax honey ,and brad was not with them when they flew in last night,nothing trollish about that just the facts, i’m late see ya.
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Jeez, I hope you don’t really work at HB&P. Read what you wrote. Be smart, girl, and zip it when it comes to clients. Though how someone at a restaurant’s accounting firm would know this other info about Angie & Brad strains credibility. Knowing about one thing doesn’t logically follow you’d know the other. Unless she can tell us how she knows all these things I’m not buying her info about Angie & Brad. She’s just guessing.
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And I hope she’s not a professional at the firm or I would be concerned about the accuracy of the work - it’s Georgia Brown’s NOT Georgia’s Brown.
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So if little Miss Indiscretion above is correct about the wrap party, GB’s doesn’t have private rooms so Saturday afternoons are the only times you really can have private parties there. I can’t imagine they’d shut down the restaurant on a busy night. For those not in D.C., Georgia Brown’s offers very heavy and very sweet Southern cooking. Personally I hate it and haven’t been back there in many years but it was very trendy for a while and seems to be regaining its trend with the Obamas in the WH.
Brad is a gem. He is handsome, sexy and FUNNY. He has it all.
# 183 People @ 06/02/2009 at 12:56 pm Brad Pitt Keeps Fresh with Baby Wipes, Reveals Costar
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20282658,00.html
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My youngest is 5 and I still keep baby wipes on hand.They come in handy in a pinch for “fast” clean-up.Especially away from home.Brad is just keeping it real,lol.
Just found this old NYTimes article on 2nd generation actors which features Angie (1996) thought I’d share here since no new AJ thread (Brad is mentioned, albiet in regards to GP). Very interesting how back then when she was barely 21 she wanted to make sure of who she was apart from being JV daughter & JLM wife. Interesting article.
Following, Ambivalently, in Mom or Dad’s Footsteps
By ALEXANDRA BANDON
Published: Sunday, August 25, 1996
SHE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE one thing clear: Angelina Jolie is not Jon Voight’s daughter. O.K., technically she is, but that’s not her identity. (Once, on Spanish television, she denied she was even related.)
How Ms. Jolie perceives hereself is still difficult to say, a problem that plagues many second-generation actors. As they gain prominence, so do their family ties, and that leaves many of them feeling as if they are taken less seriously.
The 21-year-old Ms. Jolie, for example, has played many strong, intelligent women, from a smart and sexy computer whiz in last year’s ”Hackers” to a tough but ultra feminine criminal in the forthcoming ”Playing God.” In ”Foxfire” she plays Legs Sadovsky, a drifter who captures the attention of four high school girls.
Yet no matter how strong the characters or her performance, Ms. Jolie keeps being introduced as Jon Voight’s daughter. She doesn’t go by her full name, Angelina Jolie Voight, she says, ”because I’m not my dad, and I think people might have expected me to be him.
”I might never have known if I was being treated a certain way because it was me or because as soon as they were introduced to me they connected me with my dad.”
Ms. Jolie is just one of many new actors and directors who are the progeny of successful Hollywood players, a group that includes Mira Sorvino (daughter of Paul Sorvino), Fraser C. Heston (son of Charlton Heston), Jared Harris (son of Richard Harris), Liv Tyler (daughter of the rock singer Steven Tyler), Toby Stephens (son of Maggie Smith) and the ubiquitous Gwyneth Paltrow (daughter of Blythe Danner).
Following not only in their parents’ footsteps but in the wake of earlier star offspring like Bridget Fonda (granddaughter of Henry Fonda, daughter of Peter Fonda), Campbell Scott (son of George G. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst)and Laura Dern (daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd), these newcomers are finding that having a famous name can be a mixed blessing. They might get auditions based on their parents’ reputations, and sometimes with the help of their parents’ agents, but they can also be referred to as ”members of the Lucky Sperm Club,” as the executive producer of ”Foxfire,” Paige Simpson, puts it.
The children of stars are constantly expressing frustration that as much attention is paid to their parentage as to their talent. Nick Cassavetes, the son of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, prefers not to talk to the press about his family, even though he just finished directing his mother in ”Unhook the Stars.” Most second-generation actors (just as most second-generation business executives) share his sentiment. ”They don’t want to think they get work just because their parents are famous,” says Marcia Ross, vice president of talent for Disney and Touchstone feature films. ”They want to be cast on their own talent.”
Mr. Voight and Angelina’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, deliberately gave their two children middle names that would work as last names so they could choose anonymity. ”It’s kind of hard for the children of leading actors,” Mr. Voight says. ”If they say, ‘Oh, you’re Jon Voight’s daughter,’ then there are some expectations.”
Ms. Ross agrees. ”I think you are scrutinized a lot more if you have talented parents,” she says. Your blood line may get you in, ”but if it turns out you’re not good, you are out the door a lot faster.”
She adds, ”You get held up to the standard of your parent.”
That’s what Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, found when she began. ”It’s true that in the beginning somehow you haven’t worked yet, but people know who you are because of your parents,” Ms. Mastroianni says, ”and they expect more of you. It’s understandable, because if I went to a doctor who is the son of a famous doctor, I would expect him to be good, too.” (Ms. Mastroianni appears with her father in the French film ”Three Lives and Only One Death,” which will be shown as part of the New York Film Festival in October.)
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Part 2/ Following, Ambivalently, in Mom or Dad’s Footsteps
By ALEXANDRA BANDON/ NYT 8/25/1996
Such comparisons can be harmful for actors just starting out. Their first performance is often compared to one by a parent who has practiced the craft for years. Ms. Ross points to the example of Sofia Coppola, who had a supporting role in her father’s ”Godfather, Part III.” Ms. Coppola’s performance was savaged by critics. ”I bet if she hadn’t been his daughter, the reviews would have been bad, but they wouldn’t have been that bad,” Ms. Ross says. Ms. Coppola has since given up acting to become a fashion designer.
Some parents, Mr. Voight included, discourage their children from following in their footsteps. Paul Sorvino, father of Mira, tried to persuade his daughter not to become an actress. ”I didn’t want her to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous rejection,” he says. ”But she persevered.” She won an Oscar for her performance in ”Mighty Aphrodite.”
Ms. Jolie, like Ms. Sorvino and Ms. Paltrow, is proving that her talent can stand on its own. She will be in several movies opening this year and next. Until recently, she belonged to the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, working on her skills alongside the veteran actors Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. From them, as well as from her parents — her mother, Ms. Bertrand, studied with Lee Strasberg before quitting to raise her children — she learned some valuable techniques.
With sleepy blue eyes that are clearly her father’s and full lips that would rival Liv Tyler’s, Ms. Jolie exudes intensity. One moment she can be sultry, the next she can charm you with mischevious eyes. Her presence — and perhaps her tattoos, which are visible in the movie — is what landed her the role of Legs.
”She was introduced to me as Jon Voight’s daughter,” Ms. Simpson says. ”But she comes in and you can’t not look at her.”
Renee Taylor, who cast Ms. Jolie in ”Love Is All There Is,” which Ms. Taylor is directing with her husband, Joe Bologna, says: ”I gasped when I met her. She was the first person who read and the last person who read. I just thought she was breathtakingly beautiful.” Ms. Taylor says she didn’t know until later that Ms. Jolie was Mr. Voight’s daughter.
Of course there are advantages to having a working actor as a father. For one, you get to play together. ”Before I was about to do ‘Foxfire,’ he was going to do ‘Heat,’ ” Ms. Jolie says of Mr. Voight. ”And I remember meeting him in his bedroom and showing him my butterfly knife and saying” — her voice turns to mock excitement — ” ‘So this is what I’ll carry and these are the pants I’m wearing!’ And he came out with his bracelets and his necklace and his pinky ring and said, ‘So I’ve got this and I think I’m going to have this on my face and I’ve got hair extensions . . . ‘ And it was just like two kids playing dress-up.”
Besides, as Ms. Mastroianni says, ”I know I’m lucky, because so many people want this job. I would find it very obscene to be complaining about my name. When people change their name, you always find out” their identity anyway.
Emerging from her father’s shadow is only half the battle for Ms. Jolie. Like Ms. Paltrow, who is dating Brad Pitt, she’s doing double duty as both a famous daughter and half of a famous couple.
In March Ms. Jolie married the English actor Jonny Lee Miller (”Trainspotting”), whom she met on the set of ”Hackers.” The wedding, a small civil ceremony attended only by her mother and Mr. Miller’s best friend, was a testament to Ms. Jolie’s offbeat approach to life. Mr. Miller wore black leather, while the bride donned black rubber pants and a white shirt with the groom’s name written in her blood across the back. Why, you ask? ”It’s your husband,” she answers with a sly grin. ”You’re about to marry him. You can sacrifice a little to make it really special.” (She drew the blood herself, ”very carefully,” she says, ”with a clean surgical needle.”)
Soon after, on a European junket for ”Hackers,” she found people caring more about her father and husband than about her. ”It was weird to immediately be married, and then you kind of lose your identity,” Ms. Jolie laments. ”You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.’ We went on some morning show, and they threw rice on us and they gave us toasters. I was thinking, ‘I need to get myself back.’ ”
The search for self led her to take the part in ”Playing God,” which will be released in the spring. In it, she plays opposite two experienced actors, David Duchovny (of ”The X-Files”) and Timothy Hutton (also the son of a famous actor, Jim Hutton), and she found that she could play characters who have a strength matching her own and the clear sense of identity she once worried about losing.
”She’s not a married woman,” Ms. Jolie says of her character. ”She’s strong and independent, and I realized could get it back.”
To: cc,omg, pokeman, xxxx, Tijen, loveAJ, LYNN, lylian, the real lou:
Thank you for your nice comments regarding my post.
this ties right into examiners diaper fetish story.
funny @ 06/02/2009 at 3:03 am
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OT ~A new show by the makers of Family Guy making fun at what a loser X is. They missed Paul S replacing her with Diaz
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Basically Cleveland tries to replace his stepson’s dead dog and the tyke replies that you can’t simply replace a dog the way Brad Pitt replaced Jennifer Aniston, or John Mayer replaced Jennifer Aniston, or Vince Vaughn replaced Jennifer Aniston. The guy from the Counting crows… The point is my dog is not Jennifer Aniston.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1545148137?bctid=23645700001
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:lol: Jenhag is a serial dumpee.
People @ 06/02/2009 at 12:59 pm
“He’s such a funny guy. He has a great sense of humor, and he’s so into it. He’s really there to have a great time. Now, he’s at the point in his career where he’s the biggest movie star in the world, he can do whatever he wants, so when he’s there, he just wants to have a great time.”
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Brad is a the top of the world. Brad rules
Thanks, PT! I’ll get a new keyboard.
I didn’t know the Examiner is a lying paper/magazine.
# 190 ang @ 06/02/2009 at 1:29 pm
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Babywipes are also great for other nooks and crannies you want to keep fresh…..
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Terrence Howard once told an interviewer that his “women” needed to be super-hygenic and use babywipes instead of toilet paper. And I’m not kidding about that…
I didn’t know that. I’m not that anal….. hahahaha, but I always keep a supply with me. You never know when you have to freshen up. I just like to be prepared……. :)
Hola! Bonjour! Hi hatera!…the champ is here…
…what da f uck am I doing that I need babywipes?…
…soak in da f uckin tub…take a long a ss shower…clean your a ss regularly…
…this ain’t gunsmoke and the well run dry…soak and wash your d amn a ss…it ain’t hard to do…
…it ain’t g ay to bathe…stank f uckers…hahahhhhaahhahahahahha…
# 197 not surprised @ 06/02/2009 at 2:33 pm
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this ties right into examiners diaper fetish story.
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BBBBWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Did I call it or what. The trolls are so predictable…
Passing Through @ 06/02/2009 at 4:08 pm
Yeah I was waiting for that one too. Didn’t take long. There is comfort in predictability.
IB LA premiere is on August 10 at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
Oh for gods sake, who doesn’t carry some type of wipes with them? It has nothing to do with germaphobia either. It’s second nature for parents to carry them. I’m always trying new ones like the lemon ones.
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