Brad Pitt Checks Out ‘Art Basel 40′

Passing Through…if you weren’t harping on something, we’d begin to wonder if you were okay. xoxo

passing Through @ 06/09/2009 at 8:22 pm # 120 guli @ 06/09/2009 at 6:15 pm
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Yeah…that was a hilarious night. You (and your gazillion ex-fiancees), Dragonfly and, IIRC, Maniston and Gitane were killing it that night.!
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That’s right… Ginate and Maniston were there that ‘firecrotch’ night. Crap it was over 3 years ago wasn’t it? Anyho…I know it was very late at night or early morning..and I thought geez you are revealing too much…but Dragonfly came with her trump card…all I could do was bow to the master and admit defeat ROTFLMAO…Geez I wonder if that thread is still in the archieves. I know we lost a few threads during the JJ black-out. If you know if it’s still around could you email it to me. It will be a hoot re-reading the posts….

From the previous thread:
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Passing Through @ 06/09/2009 at 12:30 pm
.# 402 lylian @ 06/09/2009 at 11:23 am
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Lylian -
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I saw that story a while back, but I was never sure if it was that Brad’s lounger or someone else’s. Do you know? IIRC there are less than 20 of them in the world?
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No, the lockheed lounge sold didn’t belong to Brad. According to the reports, the lounge sold in this auction had been used by Madonna in some music video called rain in the 90s.
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I imagine that a lockheed lounge with a Brad Pitt provenance would be revealed. After all, I would guess that that sort of provenance (not to mention, the fact that Angelina was photographed lying on it), would raise the price of his lounge a little. :-)
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The auction was held in April 2009, not a good time for the stock market generally. The uptick in the stock market still hadn’t taken hold. However, the lockheed lounge still fetched US$1.6m (using the pound - $ exchange rate at the date of auction).
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Only 15 of these lockheed lounges were made.
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apologies, I’m just catching up on the last thread.
OT for embo, please skip if not interested
From previous thread re: Kathy Lee
Re: 390 ebmo @ 06/09/2009 at 10:54 am; # 391 ebmo @ 06/09/2009 at 10:55 am; 395 ebmo @ 06/09/2009 at 11:03 am

Thank you embo for your postings of the Kathie Lee articles. I remember reading about this when it happened. This is such a sensitive issue…i.e. this is a jumble of moral, ethical and economic factors at play but there is always another side from which to take into consideration and then the dilemma of a dead end solution. I can understand the “sweatshop” conditions being considered horrible especially as it is viewed by America and other first world countries where standards of conditions of living and working are the frame of reference…certainly we should be appalled. These issues should be brought to the attention of all.

However, not to offend or touch upon anyone’s righteous sensitivities but unlike the worse conditions imaginable in a specific area of the US, millions of people in third world countries live on dirt floors, with no windows or doors, just curtains if they are fortunate…no running water, multiple families share just one room as living quarters, no toilet facilities at all and babies as well as the very old walk to the nearest river or lake to bath in p.o.o.p water shared with other animals. This is their life on a day to day basis.
I have volunteered in a free medical clinic for the poorest of the poor in Honduras and the normal living conditions for these people is typically dirt floors, no running water and if water, it smells out of the tap like sewage. I have seen babies and toddlers on respirators for hours at a time held by their mothers in the clinic’s hallway because the constant dirt inhaled leads to high repiratory problems and a high mortality rate. Only one out of six children ever finish the fifth grade due to poverty causing a high drop out rate. The equivalent of the “Governor” in the region I became familiar with has a fourth grade education.
I present this information only because “the sweat shop” concept is only as important as the usual and customary environment. Yes it is horrible but no more than the reality that what Americans want at the price that we want to pay is available off the backs and hard labor of the very young and old who work in terribly unsanitary and dangerous conditions in far away countries…however please be reminded that these people live every day in those environments, that without even these jobs, there would be no work for them at all, that the more comfortable countries demand of low price goods is what is propelling these very work environments, that third world countries offer no social service support system or financial aid and these people and their families would go hungry and/or die without those pennies a day, that “pennies a day” are worth more in a third world country enough to purchase food to get by on.
I’m not offering any solution, nor am I criticizing anyone including Kathie Lee or the people offended by this issue. However, one should put everything in perspective. The economic and social chain reaction is a lot more complicated and consequently people judge and criticize from their armchair based only on how it is presented in the media without having been there. The reality is these conditions exist and the demand and desire for inexpensive electronics, big screen TV’s, clothing, etc is also the responsibility of the buyer and our own economy, social status needs and wants. We are all apart of the total and simple indignation isn’t worth much, sorry to say.

Btw embo, I don’t know why Kathy Lee Gifford speaks disparagingly of AJ but I wouldn’t assume it’s because she was totally knowledgeable of what she was getting into re: her clothing line…Kathy Lee is not exactly the most intelligent nor worldly sophisticated of talk show hosts. She was just probably being the opportunist to get her name out there on a line of clothing. IMO…and it’s just an opinion, that Kathi Lee was more aligning herself with the “AJ stole a husband” theme since Frank Gifford had affairs on her and it was such a public humiliation at the time akin to JA’s one of many.

LOL. My bad. I just clicked on Gerard NO-Way-in-Hell-am-I-dating-fillerface-I’d-rather-marry-any-Indian-girl Butler is a bounty hunter thread.
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Now, I don’t mind GB as just another celebrity and all. But as far as fine male specimen goes, GB is looking somewhat tubby isn’t he. I swear that he’s sporting a little beer gut or pot belly.
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But never mind. I think the making of this movie is gonna be fun fun fun. Imagine all the reports about GB and Fillerface getting it on or off. YAHAHAHAHAH. Can he resist the publicity and the machinations of FF and Huvane? You know, FF and Huvance really really want to repeat TBU’s relationship with Vince. I’m sure of that. Will Gerard cave in and start “dating” Fillerface?
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Lastly, I read Jon Voight’s rant. sighhh…
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Let’s just say, I’m sooooo glad that Angelina and James will let JV into their outer circle only. Jon Voight is a toxic parent.

jp fan @ 06/09/2009 at 7:46 pm

credit jjb

U.S. actor Brad Pitt (2ndL) poses for a picture together with young people during his visit to the Art Basel art fair in Basel June 9, 2009. The Art Basel runs is opened to the public from June 10 to 14.

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Brad is so sweet and cute.

seahorse, seahorse. . .
If your parents didn’t have the patience, you’de be dead by now.

@Gambit: You are on the wrong thread.

Brad looks hot as usual. Don’t care what any-one says or how many lame photos are posted(WTF)Brad is now 45 not 20, morons!!!!

Megan Fox has an identity crisis.

LOL so much for his 3-day rule. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYEM, how many places has he been just in the last few weeks. I’m thinking it’s er turn with the kids so he’s off doing his own thing. Look for more of this.