Saturday, August 25, 2007
Brad And Angelina Get Matching Tattoos
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reportedly added to their collection of body art by getting matching tattoos during a trip to Chicago.
Rather than venture out to a tattoo parlour, the couple reportedly got needledђ at their hotel by an artist from the Chicago Tattooing Co.
A source said: "An artist from the company slipped up to the 18th floor of the Peninsula Hotel.
"He spent the better part of a day needling Angelina and Brad, and some members of staff and security team."
Chicago Tattooing Co. owner Nick Coletta refused to confirm whether or not the visit took place.
The alleged new piece is believed to be Angelinas fourteenth tattoo.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Angelina Has It All
The looks, the gorgeous husband, the perfect kids, and now there is proof that she really is a wonderful person!
Angelina Jolie took pity on a member of the paparazzi on Thursday, giving a lift to a photographer whose bike suffered a flat tire.
"She was one of the nicest people I have ever met. And it was one of the most surreal experiences of my life,” said 27-year-old Splash News snapper James Ambler of his 30-minute car ride with the actress.
The London native had been following Jolie on his bicycle -- which allows him to easily move in and out of traffic -- when he accidentally ran over a nail.
"When I realized I'd got a puncture I thought I was going to lose her and not get any pictures."
"The next thing I know, Angelina's car is pulling over,” he said. “Angelina winds her window down and says 'Lance, why don't you jump in the car?'"
The 32-year-old A Mighty Heart star told him that she and her family were so impressed that he was able to keep up with the car, they had nicknamed him Lance after cyclist Lance Armstrong.
"She said, 'We love having you riding alongside us. You're always happy, always smiling. The kids enjoy watching you whizzing along on your bike.'”
Even after he’d climbed into the actress’ car, the photographer remained dumbstruck.
"I got in and said, 'This is so strange'," James recalled. "She just laughed and said, 'Well, it's a strange world we live in.'”
The snapper said Jolie was “really chatty” and asked him questions about himself and his job and where he was from.
She even told him she and boyfriend Brad Pitt, 43, don’t understand why they were such hot property and asked which one of them made the best picture.
"She said, 'Brad and I always wonder which one of us is the priority,'" James revealed.
"She said, 'We just don't understand why people always want to take our picture. We never go out drinking or anything like that.'”
"I just laughed and said 'Well, you are quite popular, Angelina. I don't know how you do it, smiling for the cameras all the time.”
"She just said it was part of the job.”
He concluded: "I think she took a bit of a shine to me. Brad better watch out!"
Friday, June 15, 2007
Angelina Says Her Weight Loss Is Attributed To Her Mother’s Death
Angelina Jolie is finally speaking out about her significant weight loss over the last several months.
At the NYC premiere of A Mighty Heart Wednesday night, Jolie, 32, told reporters that the reason she’s been shedding pounds is because she’s been grieving over the death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died of ovarian cancer in January.
"I've always been lean and this year I lost my mom and I've gone through a lot,” said the actress, who is currently in New York with boyfriend Brad Pitt, 43, and their children, Maddox, 5, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and one-year-old Shiloh.
"I have four kids and I finished breastfeeding – it's been hard to get my nutrition back on track."
Jolie sparked concern among fans earlier this year when her already thin frame grew even smaller and the veins on her arms started protruding. But she insists that vanity is not to blame for her shrinking figure.
"Instead of people saying I look like a person dealing with something emotionally, they assume it's because I want to fit into skinny jeans."
She added, "Someone saying to me that I'm thin is not a compliment.”
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Brad And Angelina Buy A Yacht
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reportedly commissioned a 280-foot-long Italian luxury yacht for $268 million. The yacht will have a swimming pool, a heliport, and a submarine, and is expected for delivery in 2009.
There's conflicting reports about how much the yacht actually costs (between $140 to $268 million), but all the numbers sound way too high. Even combined I don't think Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are worth that much. And if they are, after the yacht they'll have, oh, about zero dollars left.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Want to Adopt for the 4th Time
Angelina Jolie is planning to adopt for the fourth time, it has been claimed.
The actress - who recently adopted Vietnamese son Pax Thien, and also has a Cambodian son Maddox and Ethiopian daughter Zahara - reportedly wants to adopt a girl from Chad to "balance the family".
A source discussing Angelina's family - which also consists of Cambodian son Maddox, Ethiopian daughter Zahara and Angelina's natural daughter Shiloh with lover Brad Pitt - said: "Angelina and Brad want to make sure Zahara doesn't feel alienated as the only black face in their family.
"She feels the children need a balance of faces in their life."
Angelina is said to have fallen in love with a one-year-old girl from Oure Cassoni and asked her lawyers to begin the adoption process.
The source added to Britain's News of the World newspaper: "She is hoping to have her daughter home by the summer." Angelina, 31, recently hinted that she wanted to have a balanced family.
She said: "Should you balance the races, so there's another African person in the house for Zahara, after another Asian person in the house for Mad? We think so.
"Shiloh has Brad and me to look at."
Meanwhile, three-year-old Pax's mother Pham Thu Dung, 29, has spoken of her heartache at losing her son.
Dung said: "He is better off with a movie star because I am not a good mother. I wasn't able to take care of my baby, I left him."
Pax was abandoned in hospital when he was two days old because Dung couldn't afford to pay his $30 medical bill.
She added: "My dream is that one day he'll visit me and call me mother. But it's only a dream. I know it is impossible."
Friday, March 30, 2007
‘Us Magazine’ Stirs The Pot With Angelina
It has been reported that Jolie's latest addition, Pax Thien, was the subject of a kidnap plot by a LA gang. Her security team had reportedly learned of a plot to kidnap the 3-year-old once he and his famous mom returned to the United States, Life & Style Weekly claims.
"They’re highly skilled operatives with little regard for human life," the insider says to Life & Style. "Information came out that leaders of the gang ordered their LA members to devise a plan to kidnap Pax before demanding a ransom of $100 million for his safe return," the insider says. "Brad and Angie would have a number of days to hand over the money or risk the boy’s life."
However, it may well be a hoax, because their rep denied the allegations. Then again, it may be true: "She sobbed that she’d die if anything happened to Pax," a "friend" says.
"They have gone into total lockdown mode," the pal said. "He's (Brad) added manpower around their LA home and has told security he doesn't want Angie or the kids leaving the house without at least five security people."
"She isn't sleeping and barely eats," the friend said.
"She doesn't let the kids out of her sight. She seems on the verge of a breakdown."
Friday, March 23, 2007
Pax Jolie Makes $2 Million, Probably For Charity
The newest Jolie-Pitt kid will bring proud mom Angelina and dad Brad a reported $2 million for appearing in a magazine.
Looks like Angelina has agreed to sell pictures of her new son to People magazine for between $1.75 million and $2 million, according to Radar magazine.
Although a People spokesperson has described that figure as “absurd,” the rumors continue. The spokesperson added, “We don't comment on the specifics on any negotiations,” fueling further speculation.
Intimate pictures of mother and child are now appearing on the front cover of Hello magazine after they were given exclusive access to Angelina's family album. Pax is shown becoming acquainted with sister Zahara and falling asleep next to new brother Maddox.
Brad and Angelina commanded an astounding $4.1 million, which they donated to an undisclosed charity, for photographs of them with their biological daughter Shiloh just after she was born.
Angie also told Hello magazine (which presents photos taken at the Hyatt Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, where the actress stayed while the adoption was being finalized): “He is a very serious, very sweet little boy. We are slowly beginning to build his trust and bond but it will feel complete only when we are all a family.”
“You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings with new people and a new language. He is very strong.” She added: “It will take him a while to realize he has a family; that his new life is permanent and it won't keep changing.”
Wednesday afternoon, Angelina and her four children left Vietnam for the US. She and Brad met little Pax (formerly named Pham Quang Sang) when they visited his orphanage last November. He was abandoned there at birth.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Jolie And Sons Are On Their Way Home
Angelina Jolie left Vietnam early Wednesday afternoon with her newly adopted son, Pax Thien, who had been issued a US passport and immigration visa a day earlier.
Jolie's departure wrapped up a week-long visit in which she picked up 3-year-old Pax (formerly named Pham Quang Sang) from a Ho Chi Minh City orphanage and later flew to Hanoi to finalize his US immigration process.
"Her plane took off at 1:45 p.m. for Kansai City in Japan," said Chu Van Nguyet, deputy director of Noi Bai Airport Authority's office.
"All of her three children, security guards and assistants were on the plane," Nguyet said.
Her final destination was believed to be the US, where Jolie is expected to join partner Brad Pitt, and introduce him to the new member of their fast-growing family.
Jolie's latest adoption brings her international family with Pitt to four children. Pitt was reportedly under contract to a movie in Los Angeles and could not be with Jolie to pick-up the latest addition.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Angelina Just Can’t Stop Being Perfect
Angelina Jolie and her four children left Ho Chi Minh City for Hanoi on Monday in order to obtain a passport for her new son, Pax Thien, at the U.S. Embassy.
The actress, along with her 5-year-old son Maddox, 3-year-old son Pax, 2-year-old daughter Zahara, and 10-month-old daughter Shiloh, checked out of the Park Hyatt hotel at around 2 p.m. on March 19, and the clan left behind their toys to be given away to needy children.
"There are lots of toys still here," a hotel maid tells Usmagazine.com, but added that they are "not putting them in the rubbish. They are maybe giving them [to the orphanage]."
The 31-year-old actress made many fans during her week-long stay at the hotel.
One staffer, who noted that Angelina left a tip in the room, tells Usmagazine.com: "She is very kind. It was very nice to have her here."
A male staffer added, "She is very beautiful."
Shortly before 3 p.m., the Mr.& Mrs. Smith star departed from Tan Son Nhat International Airport on a chartered plane bound for Hanoi.
According to the Associated Press, Jolie will meet with U.S. Embassy officials in Hanoi on Tuesday, and apply for a visa for 3-year-old Pax. Once the visa is issued, she will be able to take her son back to the United States. She is expected to leave Hanoi on Wednesday.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Angelina Has Now Made It Final
Angelina Jolie is a proud new mom once again, now that her adoption of a 3-year-old Vietnamese boy is official, Jolie's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
The boy's name is Pax Thien Jolie, born in November 2003, according to the orphanage where he has lived. His name means Peaceful Sky – Pax is peace in Latin and Thien is sky in Vietnamese.
Jolie's rep says she took custody of the child on Thursday in Vietnam. They will remain in the country for about a week while the child's American passport is processed, the rep says.
The boy had been living at the Tam Binh orphanage outside Ho Chi Minh City ever since he was abandoned at a hospital as a baby, according to adoption officials. Shortly after he arrived at the facility, staff attempted to locate his birth parents, but to no avail.
Jolie went to the orphanage Thursday morning with her 5-year-old son Maddox, whom she adopted in Cambodia in 2002. Jolie's companion Brad Pitt did not accompany them to Vietnam.
"Brad very much wanted to be there but is under contract working on a film in Los Angeles and as a result couldn't go," Trevor Neilson, Jolie's adviser on international affairs, tells PEOPLE.
About two dozen children in traditional ao dai formal garb greeted them and offered flowers at the orphanage. Jolie left carrying the boy to a waiting van.
"He is in good health," orphanage director Nguyen Van Trung told the Associated Press, adding that the boy gets along with the other children and likes playing soccer. "He is a little bit shy."
Trung also said Jolie's adoption was swiftly processed because the boy is older and his files were already nearly complete.
Because Vietnamese law makes it difficult for unmarried couples to adopt, Jolie applied solo – but she and Pitt together will welcome their new Vietnamese child to their family, which along with Maddox includes Zahara, 2, and 10-month-old Shiloh. The adoption was a "process that began shortly after Shiloh was born [in May]," a source told PEOPLE in a recent cover story.
As for why Vietnam was selected in the first place, Jolie has traveled extensively in Southeast Asia and has visited the country at least twice – including, with Pitt, last Thanksgiving.
After adopting Maddox from Cambodia and Zahara from Ethiopia, she mused to Good Morning America in December that it might be a good idea to "balance the races so there's another African person in the house for Z [and] another Asian person in the house for Mad."
Angelina Arrives In Vietnam To Pick Up Her New Son
Angelina Jolie arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, in the company of her son Maddox, to adopt a boy from Vietnam.
Though the Associated Press reports that the actress is picking up her 4-year-old son this weekend, sources tell Usmagazine.com that she might collect her new child as soon as tonight.
Jolie is scheduled to attend an adoption ceremony with Vietnamese officials in HMC City on Thursday morning, the officials told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak about the matter.
After she receives the child, Jolie will meet with U.S. consular officials, who must review the adoption before a passport can be issued for the boy.
If all goes according to plan, the 31-year-old actress could bring the child home by the weekend, officials told the AP.
The boy has been living at the Tam Binh orphanage on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City since he was abandoned at a hospital as an infant, according to adoption officials.
Shortly after he arrived at the orphanage, the Tam Binh staff tried unsuccessfully to locate the boy's birth parents.
The boy is healthy, friendly and a little bit shy, they said. He gets along well with other children and loves to play soccer.
The swiftness of the adoption comes as somewhat of a surprise, as earlier this week Vu Duc Long, Head of the Bureau of International Adopted Children, said that Jolie wouldn't receive the official notice which allows her to claim the child until next month, and therefore couldn't take the child home until April.
However, Long has admitted that Jolie's adoption case is being processed more quickly than most because "a celebrated person is certainly treated a little bit different from others."
Jolie filed adoption papers as a single parent, because she and partner Brad Pitt, 43, are not married.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Angelina’s Son Will Be Home Soon
A "shy" 3 1/2-year-old Vietnamese boy will be joining the Jolie-Pitt clan in a few weeks. A Vietnamese official says Angelina Jolie's adoption application is being processed quickly and should be finished by March 31. Vu Duc Long, director of Vietnam's International Adoption Department says Angelina can pick up the child anytime after the application is approved.
The child has been at the Tam Binh orphanage since he was abandoned as a baby at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital. "He is in good health," says orphanage director, Nguyen Van Trung. "He is a little bit shy." He also loves to play soccer, added Trung. It looks like Brad Pitt's dream of starting his own soccer team is already coming true!
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Angelina’s New Baby On The Way
Now that adoption officials have confirmed that Angelina Jolie, 31, is adopting a 4-year-old son from Vietnam, the question remains: When will the world get to meet the newest Jolie-Pitt?
The latest addition to Brad Pitt and Angelina's posse may be moving into the couple's $3.5 million New Orleans mansion sooner than you think.
The adoption procedure takes no more than four months, says Nguyen Cong Khanh, the deputy head of the country's International Adoption Department.
And the A-list actress won't be given any preferential treatment.
"[Jolie] will have to follow procedure like any other American," Vu Duc Long, head of the Ministry of Justice for Vietnam, tells Us.
Still, it's not out of the ordinary to speed up the adoption process when celebs are involved, à la Madonna's scandal with baby David Banda in October.
And there may be an added incentive to rush things along.
"She promised to give $2 million to the Tam Binh orphanage on the very day she receives the child," a Vietnamese insider tells Us. Of note: The actual adoption fee is only about $125. (Jolie's rep didn't respond to a request for comment; Pitt's rep had no comment.)
Friday, March 02, 2007
Angelina Applies To Adopt Again
Angelina Jolie has applied to adopt a Vietnamese boy from an orphanage she visited last Thanksgiving with partner Brad Pitt, a government official confirmed Friday. The boy, said to be 3-4 years old, will be the third adopted child in the fast-growing Jolie-Pitt brood, which also includes the Hollywood couple's 9-month-old biological daughter, Shiloh.
Jolie filed adoption forms with the International Adoption Department under Vietnam's Ministry of Justice on Thursday, according to Vu Duc Long, director of the department.
Pitt's name is not on the application, according to Long.
The boy, whose name is being withheld, lives at Tam Binh Orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, where the couple spent Thanksgiving last November passing out toys to the children.
The adoption paperwork could take as long as four months to be approved, Long said.
"We will consider her letter and complete necessary procedures without any special privileges," Long said.
However, he did say that Jolie would likely be able to simply fly in and pick up her new son because the US-based adoption agency she works with has an office in Ho Chi Minh City to handle the paperwork.
If the adoption is approved, the Vietnamese-born future Jolie-Pitt will be joining an international family of 5-year-old Maddox, born in neighbouring Cambodia; Zahara, age 2, from Ethiopia, as well as baby Shiloh, who was born in Namibia last May.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Jolie Named Top Sex Symbol Of All Time
Angelina Jolie has been voted the ‘Sexiest Ever Sex Symbol’ in a new poll, beating off some stiff competition from Elvis Presley.
The Hollywood siren not only came top of the Channel 4 poll, but also kind of featured at number six too with Lara Croft, the computer character who Jolie played on film.
Curvy Angelina would certainly get out vote too… if we actually had one and the poll wasn’t just ‘imagineered’ by some TV bods sitting round a table... allegedly.
The top 100 Sex Symbols will be revealed tonight on Channel 4, but to stop you having to actually sit through it, we’ll tell you the full top ten now:
1 Angelina Jolie
2 Elvis Presley
3 Marilyn Monroe
4 Beyonce Knowles
5 Brad Pitt
6 Lara Croft
7 George Clooney
8 Kylie Minogue
9 Johnny Depp
10 Scarlett Johansson
Monday, February 05, 2007
Angelina Will Marry Brad
Angelina Jolie has allegedly made a promise to her dying mother that she will wed boyfriend Brad Pitt.
Both Pitt and Jolie were reportedly by Marcheline Bertrand's bedside when she lost her seven year battle with ovarian cancer January 27 at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA
Jolie is reported to have made the pledge hours before her mother passed away.
A source close to the family told the Sunday Express, "Marcheline held Angie's hand and told her, 'You marry that man. He's an angel sent to look after you.' "Marcheline almost looked on him as a son.
She thought the world of him and was constantly nagging Angie to 'wed that man'."
The friend adds, "Brad has never stopped trying to push (Jolie) down the aisle but she's always resisted, saying that it's the children who legally bind them together. Now she'll make good on her death bed promise."
Monday, January 29, 2007
Angelina’s Mom Dies
Angelina Jolie’s mother Marcheline Bertrand has died after battling cancer for over seven years at the weekend.
The 56 year old actress passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles on Saturday Jolie said in a statement to the Associated Press.
Jolie and Brad Pitt as well as her brother James Haven were at her bedside when she died.
A private funeral is being planned and the family have asked well wishers to make a donation to the Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Angelina Goes To Vietnam
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may be setting up house in New Orleans, but Jolie wasn't there last week – she was in Vietnam.
The actress traveled to the Asian country to take a meeting on behalf of the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project, her charity aiding her son's native country of Cambodia.
According to MJP executive director Stephan Bognar, he and Jolie met with officials from the International Finance Corporation's Mekong Private Sector Development Facility, a privately funded World Bank initiative that promotes economic development in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
In particular, Jolie is interested in a project to help subsistence farmers grow and sell bamboo, a business that, Bognar says, could increase their monthly income from $25 to $100-300. Bamboo crops also filter toxins from water and help stem soil erosion.
Despite Internet rumors, Pitt was in New Orleans, where he's filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and couldn't make the trip – and Jolie was not in Vietnam for another adoption.
Now the actors, along with kids Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 7 months, are back together in the Big Easy, where Pitt and Jolie recently bought a six-bedroom, $3.5 million house.
Pitt is also been working on a development project of his own in the city: He worked with the environmental organization Global Green USA to find an Earth-friendly plan for rebuilding neighborhoods ravaged by Katrina – a project that is on track to begin construction in February or March.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Brad And Angelina Have Moved To New Orleans
We all know it must be tough to come up with an outfit for the Golden Globes. But, when you’re the spokesperson for a certain clothing label, usually the choice is made for you – that is, unless your name is Angelina Jolie.
According to a report in Women’s Wear Daily, Jolie, 31, (who will attend the Globes tonight in support of her Babel-nominated partner Brad Pitt, 43) has been “less than ecstatic” with the threads offered by St. John, a label she signed a reported three-year, $12 million contract beginning in spring 2006. Now, says WWD, the St. John people are scrambling to appease her, driving up from their Irvine, California headquarters for a special fitting in Beverly Hills January 11 (baby Shiloh, 8 months, was said to be in attendance).
Was Jolie satisfied with the extra attention? “She is definitely very particular,” one fashion insider told the New York Post, citing Kitson, Theory and alice + olivia among the actress’ faves. “I am not at all surprised she is making them tweak things." (A rep for Jolie couldn't be reached for comment.)
But this isn’t the first time Jolie’s been involved in a St. John-related controversy. Back in late August, the L.A. Times reported that the usual customers for the venerable label (which features conservative knits in muted colors) were unhappy with the direction of the brand with Jolie as spokeswoman. “She is so far removed from who their customer is, it’s just laughable,” said one St. John devotee named Priscilla Wright. “You know she would never wear those clothes.”
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Brad And Angelina Spend Christmas In Costa Rica
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt continue to spread goodwill worldwide during the holidays. Jolie, accompanied by Pitt, spent Christmas Day with Colombian refugees in Costa Rica, due to her work as a United Nations ambassador. "We had a marvelous Christmas Day with the Costa Rican people and the families of the Colombia refugees that we met," the Oscar-winning actress said in a statement released by the refugee agency UNHCR. Jolie and Pitt played Santa and Mrs. Claus, giving out presents to the young refugees. Afterwards, they met with representatives of the Costa Rican government in the Central American country’s capital, San Jose.
There are currently about 11,500 refugees in Costa Rica, most of whom fled Colombia. An estimated 3 million Colombians have been forced from their homes by two decades of armed conflict. "My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them," declared Jolie.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Angelina Talks About Life At Home
Angelina Jolie says that she and boyfriend Brad Pitt will likely adopt their next child in an effort to add to their mixed-race family.
The A-list Hollywood couple already have a son and two daughters together: 5-year-old Maddox, whom Jolie adopted from Cambodia and has nicknamed “Mad”; 23-month-old daughter, Zahara, who was adopted from Ethiopia and goes by “Z”; and 6-month old daughter, Shiloh, who was born to the couple in May.
"I want Mad to know that as our family grew and we all came together, we didn't just start having children, biological children," the 31-year-old star of The Good Shepherd said Thursday on ABC's Good Morning America.
Jolie says that while having another biological child with Pitt is a possibility, it is more likely they would adopt another child first.
"I even think that I did make it clear that we, we would think about adopting next, which is important for me in the balance of how — in our own family, our kids perceive it," Jolie said.
"Yes, we have Shiloh and it's been a wonderful experience, but we want to find another brother or sister in the world for our family."
She added that she’s currently taking birth control. "I'm on the pill,” she said.
"You know, now the questions are more when you have a mixed-race family, do you balance the races so there's another African person in the house for Z? So there's another Asian person in the house for Mad? Shiloh has Brad and I she can look at," the actress said.
"What's best for the children as they grow?” Jolie mused. “We don't just want to have different children from different countries. That's not the point.”
The actress said that she and Pitt make special time for each child, and that they enjoy the normal aspects of parenting.
"Really, the big special times are just like this morning, just very, just a lot of nothing together. Just sitting around coloring. We broke the coffee machine. We tried to fix it," she said. "We were playing with the kids, just trying to find somebody's bottle, change somebody's diaper that's, you know, gone leaky and just all that good stuff."
She says that Pitt, who turns 43 on Monday, is a conscientious father and partner.
"He really enjoys them," Jolie said. "He woke up very, very early this morning and let me sleep in because I had this interview. ... Dealing with the two girls and bottles and food, which is not easy to do, on his own, for quite a few hours this morning so I could rest. ... He's just a really great partner, a great, great man."
Monday, December 11, 2006
Angelina Wants More Kids
She already has three kids, but Angelina Jolie says she wants more.
"I'm very, very lucky. I love the different elements of my life. I love working abroad, and I love being with my kids and I love being with Brad," Jolie, 31, said Friday at a press event for her movie The Good Shepherd. "I'd like to add many more children and many more obstacles and many more things to my life."
Asked if she'd ever again work with Pitt, with whom she costarred in last year's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, she replied with a laugh: "Who's going to watch the children?"
Indeed, she chooses her films with Maddox, 5, Zahara, 23 months, and Shiloh, 6 months, in mind. "I don't think that I've shot for more than seven weeks on a movie in two years," she said. "I need to make sure that I have time with my kids."
And she makes every effort to give her children a normal life, despite her own fame. "I've made a point to not let it change the way that I live my life, other than I carefully plan my holidays or where we go or where we stay or things like that to try to ensure some kind of quality of life that is private and nice for the kids. But we simply don't let it affect us."
She does admit, though, that there are challenges: "I think that the only time that it is hard is when the kids want to go somewhere and want to see something. I've had so many people offer to take my children to Disneyland or places that I can't take them. And they don't understand how upsetting that is.
"People offered to take my kids trick or treating or take my kids to whatever – things that they assume my kids can't do. So we plan to find ways to do all of those things. There are worse problems and so we're okay."
This Halloween, she said, "We were in India and so we had this really odd celebration at the hotel. We just had candy and costumes sent from the states and so we all dressed up. Z had a really big afro and Maddox had dreadlocks. We had some fun with dress-up."
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Angelina’s Birthday Gift To Brad
Actually, Angelina Jolie is a superior human in every possible way. It turns out, she gives really great gifts, too.
In honor of Brad Pitt’s upcoming birthday (the actor turns 43 on December 18), Jolie treated her man to a two-hour private tour of Fallingwater, the architectural wonder built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936. The residence, constructed over a waterfall in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, is considered one of Wright’s masterpieces.
"Brad said he had wanted to experience Fallingwater ever since he took an architectural history course in college," Cara Armstrong, Fallingwater's Curator of Education, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after the couple stopped by Thursday. "He and I talked quite a bit about design and art. He was incredibly well informed about architecture."
The couple was "very gracious and very engaged in the house,” according to Armstrong. “As we say in the Midwest, you could tell their mothers raised them right.”
She continued: "Brad said he had a visual sense of Fallingwater but experiencing it in person, hearing the sound of the waterfall cascading under the house and smelling the wood from the fireplace, was better than anything he could have imagined."
After the tour, Jolie, 31, arranged for the couple to share champagne and caviar in Fallingwater's living room. Afterward, they graciously invited the staff to join them.
"He's so hard to buy for," Jolie told the Fallingwater staff members.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Angelina’s Bodyguards Arrested
Three bodyguards of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie were arrested in the western Indian city Mumbai Friday for allegedly manhandling parents and making racial remarks against them, news reports said Friday.
A judge later granted them bail for about 550 dollars each and asked them to report every day for the next seven days at a local police station, reported Indian news agencies.
The bodyguards - Thomas Matadam, 47, Robert Patrick Dunn, 35 and Michael John Brert, 50 - all British nationals, appeared before the Metropolitan Magistrate's court in southern Mumbai.
The three were taken into custody from the Taj Mahal Hotel in southern Mumbai early Friday.
Legal action was initiated after a film shoot session on Thursday when Jolie reached the Anjuman-E-Islam school in southern Mumbai as students were preparing to leave for home. A portion of the school had been converted to resemble a Pakistani police station for the shooting of the film A Mighty Heart.
As the students were rushing out, some of Jolie's bodyguards tried to prevent them from leaving, according to parents waiting outside the school. The parents alleged that the bodyguards humiliated, abused children and women, and some even passed comments like, "You bloody Indian."
Parents had demanded an apology from Jolie and lodged a complaint late Thursday against the guards for alleged manhandling and abuse.
In a statement, the film's producers Thursday evening blamed the incident on paparazzi waiting at the gates of the school.
Jolie has been in Mumbai for the past week, shooting at various locations in the city, including a crowded suburban train, a busy market and some popular eateries, pubs and clubs in Mumbai, which the film's protagonist, slain journalist Daniel Pearl, used to frequent during his stay in India.
Jolie plays Pearl's wife Mariane in the film.
Pearl, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002 while investigating Islamic militants in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the US.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Are Brad And Angelina Adopting Again
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stirred up more rumors that they are planning to adopt a child in India when they visited an orphanage in Pune on Friday. The couple spent over an hour playing with children at the Bharatiya Samaj Seva Kendra family adoption centre and gave loads of toys to the excited kids.
The duo has been in the city since October, while Angelina shoots A Mighty Heart, a film about slain American journalist Daniel Pearl.
Roxana Kalyanvala, the orphanage’s executive director, tells In Touch: “Brad and Angelina were lovely and genuinely adore kids. Every move and every look of the couple was filled with love for our children and we were floored with their genuine affection.”
While Angelina kissed and hugged the children, Brad got down on the floor with them, rolling on the ground and entertaining them. “He was like a kid himself,” says Aruna Thake, a child development worker at the center.
The couple gave the children toys that included dolls, stuffed animals and games. “It was great excitement not only for our kids but for our staff as well,” Kalyanvala says.