Brangelina

[Sophia]

Just for the record, I HATE Angelina (always have) & ADORE Jennifer Aniston. Brad Pitt is a dumbass.

This story makes me want to gag.

Pitt Acquires New Non-Commitment Ring

BRAD PITT has acquired a new piece of jewellery since the meltdown of his marriage to JENNIFER ANISTON - a sterling silver non-commitment ring.

Pitt and Aniston went their separate ways earlier this year (05), and months later the actor sparked speculation when he was seen sporting a ring with a missing stone.

Some publications even suggested that Pitt was given the item by reported girlfriend ANGELINA JOLIE.

The non-commitment ring by HAN CHOLO gets its name from the fact that it's missing a stone - meaning nothing is set in stone.

Source: contactmusic.com

[lawyerlee]

Angelina's boy... out with his mum and Brad (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=353534&in_page_id=1773&in_a_source=)
By JAMES TAPPER, Mail on Sunday

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2005/06/bradangelinaREX260605_186x146.jpg

It Could be any married couple playing happily with their son.

Star Brad Pitt gives actress Angelina Jolie's four-year-old son Maddox a lesson in dirt-track biking.

Angelina looks on as they romp around the paddock in the sun, surrounded by wild flowers.

This intimate portrait of family life is certain to fuel suggestions that, despite their protestations, Brad and Angelina are romantically involved. Both have furiously denied they have ever been anything other than close colleagues

Brad, 41, spent some time with the son of his Mr And Mrs Smith co-star not far from Angelina's home in Buckinghamshire.

Wearing only shorts, socks and trainers, bleach-blond Brad looked tanned and relaxed - as did Angelina in black trousers, top and flip-flops.

Close bond A close friend of the couple, who was there at the time, said: "The bond that is developing between Brad and Maddox is delightful to see. They spend a lot of time playing together and I'm not sure who enjoys their games more.

"Maddox is so so precious to Angelina. She is a committed mother and it says much about her feelings for Brad that she trusts him so deeply with her son.

"As protective as she is, she's thrilled to see the little boy having such an exciting time. All three are taking time, building a wonderful, loving relationship. Angelina and Brad are generous people, who give so much to others, and their friends wish them all the happiness in the world."

Brad is not the first father figure for Maddox. Angelina, 29, who is twice-divorced, was also linked to actor Colin Farrell when she appeared with him in Alexander.

Rumours that she had moved on began after Brad announced in January that his marriage to Jennifer Aniston was over after nearly five years. Brad was said to be desperate to have children, while his 36-year-old wife was thought to be keen not to interrupt her career soon after the end of Friends. But almost before divorce papers were served, pictures surfaced of them sharing intimate moments while filming Mr And Mrs Smith.

Just two weeks ago Brad snapped angrily when asked if Angelina had broken up his marriage.

[lawyerlee]

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b395/lawyerlee2/BradMaddoxAngelinaBike.jpg

[Camdynlyn]

I, personally, have a HUGE girl crush on Angelina. She is the most beautiful thing, in my eyes. Her lips, body, hair and all... perfect. I know some don't like her but I love her.

I like Jennifer because she is so wholesome but she isn't my favorite.

[lawyerlee]

I, personally, have a HUGE girl crush on Angelina. She is the most beautiful thing, in my eyes. Her lips, body, hair and all... perfect. I know some don't like her but I love her.

I like Jennifer because she is so wholesome but she isn't my favorite.
Yeah, I'm with you, Summer. I have the hots for Angelina. Big time. :o

I love all three of them. I want to be mad at Brad and Angie for hurting Jen, but I just cant. :p

[Freckles]

I adore Angelina, and I think her and Brad make a fabulous couple.

[Heidi9771]

I am just curious when they will spill the beans about their romance.

I know part of BP and JA divorce agreement stated that for PR reasons, neither could be "publicly" dating for 6months from the divorce date.

I think it is so smart of them, but come on...like we don't all know.

I think it is funny when Angelina (despite how much I love her, and her activism) gets mad and storms off in an interview...uhm, come on girl, you came between a marriage...now pay the price with public speculation. And putting comments like...I would never sleep with a married man just makes it worse. Just keep your pretty lips zipped!

I also think it is creepy that BP is all of a sudden becoming deeply involved in taking up these humanitarian causes...it really does appear he is doing it just to try to get AJ.

[TX Sweetheart]

I'm in the girl-crush-on-Angelina camp... I've seen Mr. & Mrs. Smith 3 times already... Brad isn't half-bad to look at either LOL

I love Jen, but I think Brad & Angelina make such a great couple, whether they're actually together or not...

[oceaneast]

I like all three : Angelina, Jen, and Brad. I hate the Brad and Anglina relationship though.

[Camdynlyn]

I think Brad and Angelina had so much on screen chemistry it made me jealous! :eek: I really like them together!

[oceaneast]

I think Brad and Angelina had so much on screen chemistry it made me jealous! :eek: I really like them together!

I would probably like them together if I could get the words Adultery out of my mind.

[Sophia]

Y'all really think Angelina is hot? :confused: I've always thought she looked like a deranged skank with trout lips. I think we can put most of the blame for collagen lips on her. (yes, I know they're her real lips.) She just grosses me out to no end. I think I've never been able to purge her smooch fest with her brother out of my mind. Gross, gross, gross.

[lawyerlee]

Y'all really think Angelina is hot? :confused: I've always thought she looked like a deranged skank with trout lips. I think we can put most of the blame for collagen lips on her. (yes, I know they're her real lips.) She just grosses me out to no end. I think I've never been able to purge her smooch fest with her brother out of my mind. Gross, gross, gross.
Well, that was pretty freaky. But, hell, yeah, I think she's hot. :D

[keska]

Personally, I've only recently started to like Angeline Jolie. I used to think she was a terrible actress and just plain weird and immature in the personality department. She seems to have leveled out a lot lately, though, and I'm starting to like her. I do think she's beautiful, whereas Jen is more of the girl next door pretty.

As for the relationship....well, I don't care for adultery, but that hasn't really been proven. I don't think you can really blame Brad for leaving Jen if he's always wanted a family and she's decided she doesn't.

[Sophia]

I would probably like them together if I could get the words Adultery out of my mind.

ITA--if they had gotten together AFTER Brad & Jen broke up, I wouldn't have a problem with them being together. I also hate how they're such liars. It's so obvious they're screwing. Just own up to it already. Brad's a cheater. Angelina's a homewrecker.

I'd still think she's a skank, though.

And I don't think I'll ever watch that movie. It looks like a POS.

[Camdynlyn]

Y'all really think Angelina is hot? :confused: I've always thought she looked like a deranged skank with trout lips.

Haha! ROTFLMAO! This is a really funny statement! Thanks for making me laugh, although I still like her.

[Sophia]

eeew, I just can't stand her, and it freaks me out that women think she's hot. I know a lot of men do, but they're men.:rolleyes:

Can we please get back to gossiping & keep our girl crushes to ourselves? :p

[Heidi9771]

Y'all really think Angelina is hot? :confused: I've always thought she looked like a deranged skank with trout lips. I think we can put most of the blame for collagen lips on her. (yes, I know they're her real lips.) She just grosses me out to no end. I think I've never been able to purge her smooch fest with her brother out of my mind. Gross, gross, gross.

There is this...dirty aspect of her...the tatoos, brother incident, BILLY BOB :confused: ....I think Howard Stern put it so interestingly..."...she looks like the type of girl who doesn't wipe all that well..."

OK, totally gross...sorry if that invoked any unpleasant visuals!

I think she is stunning, personaly, but she is starting to look a little...worn lately compared to her younger years. It has been reported that she is only 28, but I think she looks much older...like mid thirties.

[Sophia]

I think she's an atrocious actress. I know she won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupteed, but come on, psycho plays psycho...not a big stretch.

(DH doesn't think Angelina's hot--called her scary & psycho! Yay!)

[lawyerlee]

eeew, I just can't stand her, and it freaks me out that women think she's hot. I know a lot of men do, but they're men.:rolleyes:

Can we please get back to gossiping & keep our girl crushes to ourselves? :p
Aw, Sophia, come on! You know you still love me. ;) :D

[Sophia]

Aw, Sophia, come on! You know you still love me. ;) :D

Oh, Diana, and to think I thought I knew you... :(

:p ;)

[Sophia]

Brad & Jen Split Again

Friday Jun 24, 2005 3:00pm EST
By Stephen M. Silverman

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/news/050704/bpitt1.jpgJennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt
CREDIT: LIONEL HAHN/ABACA; PICTURES EUROIMAGEN/LFI

PLAN C: With the marriage of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston broken up, so now is their Warner Bros.-based production company, Plan B, said the Hollywood Reporter. At least four Plan B projects currently in development – including The Assassination of Jesse James, starring Pitt, and the soon-to-be-released Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, starring Johnny Depp – will remain at Warners and continue to involve Aniston, her spokesman said. Pitt will begin to develop projects at Paramount. It remains to be seen if Aniston will form her own production company.


Dammit, Jen, work with me here! I'm defending you against Ms. I Have a Million Women With Girl-Crushes For Me, and you pose with your head at the least flattering angle. :rolleyes:

[TX Sweetheart]

I will say this though... even though I think Brad Pitt is pretty hot, the icky blonde hair does nothing for him... especially with the darker stubble on his face... eep!

[houseblend]

As for the relationship....well, I don't care for adultery, but that hasn't really been proven. I don't think you can really blame Brad for leaving Jen if he's always wanted a family and she's decided she doesn't.

Latest I've heard is that she did indeed want a family with him and that she kicked him out because he was cheating. Of course, none of us can know for sure.

I'm so surprised at how many Angelina girl-crushes there are. I really never cared for her at all. This thing with Brad just sealed it for me. Of course, I used to be a big fan of his, but this has lost him a lot of points in my book (but then, he has a lot more of a chance of winning them back! ;) ).

[Rose]

I've never thought Angelina was a great actress. I agree, it's not hard to play crazy when you are.

I think she seems like a great mom to Angelina, but now that I think it's pretty clear there was something going between AJ & BP during his marriage I can't stand either one.

[Sophia]

That icky blond hair on the Pittster is supposed to be for a role.

[MurphysLaw]

That icky blond hair on the Pittster is supposed to be for a role.
Icky blonde hair or NO icky blonde hair...I wouldn't necessarily kick him outta bed...well of course if I was single, that's what I meant....ahem.

Now Angelina & Jennifer...I can't really compare between the two, they are just SO different. Freaky bad girl vs. wholesome girl-next-door, kwim? I do think they are both *gorgeous* in their own rite, but for totally different reasons. AJ screams exotic, while JA oozes natural beauty...they both make me sick actually, I've just decided that.:p

[Sophia]

I agree--that particular shade of blonde looks awful on him. Maybe if it were more natural looking? I don't know. Soemhow, I doubt it. Maybe a nice medium to light brown.

The movie it's for is Babel.

[Rose]

I think that shade makes him look very old. It picks up all the lines on his face. Or maybe those are worry lines.

[Sposa06]

Personally, I've only recently started to like Angeline Jolie. I used to think she was a terrible actress and just plain weird and immature in the personality department. She seems to have leveled out a lot lately, though, and I'm starting to like her. I do think she's beautiful, whereas Jen is more of the girl next door pretty.

ITA! I think Maddox has made her more level-headed and demanded more of her time - leaving her less time and energy to look for zany things to do. I love that, when there are so many Parises (both of them) and Hohans in the world, there are also people like Angelina Jolie, people who are truly dedicated to making the world a better place for others.

I've never really thought too much of Jennifer Aniston - she is too "angly" for my taste, and I've never seen her play anything but Rachel Green (albeit with many different names).

[kemaji]

Personally, I've only recently started to like Angeline Jolie. I used to think she was a terrible actress and just plain weird and immature in the personality department. She seems to have leveled out a lot lately, though, and I'm starting to like her. I do think she's beautiful, whereas Jen is more of the girl next door pretty.

I would have to agree with this as well. I think she is absolutely stunning and her being a mother has definitely allowed her to grow up a bit from the girl who would do just about anything to get a rise out of people, to a more levelheaded person who has very strong beliefs. I definitely admire her philanthropic work and how committed she is to that.

I like Jennifer Aniston, but I personally think she isn't as multi-dimensional as Angelina is.

[Freckles]

I think she is absolutely stunning and her being a mother has definitely allowed her to grow up a bit from the girl who would do just about anything to get a rise out of people, to a more levelheaded person who has very strong beliefs. I definitely admire her philanthropic work and how committed she is to that.

I like Jennifer Aniston, but I personally think she isn't as multi-dimensional as Angelina is.

ITA! Angelina has such depth in her acting, and I believe she is a kind spirit, and motherhood has brought out the absolute best in her. And yes, she is beautiful and sensual, but she is also more than that.

I like Jen as well. She's cute and has had moments where she has shined onscreen. I wish her every happiness. Maybe with Vince Vaughn? ;) They look pretty hot together in Chicago from the shots in the papers.

For the record, I don't believe Angelina & Brad had an affair. I think his feelings grew very strong for her during their time together---mostly because his interests in life are moving AWAY from the film industry and towards global humanitarian and political issues, much like Ms. Jolie, whereas Jen is still very much in love with starting a film career, so they are in different places now, KWIM? Call me naive but I don't think they acted on their feelings until AFTER his separation.

[gayle]

"For the record, I don't believe Angelina & Brad had an affair. I think his feelings grew very strong for her during their time together---mostly because his interests in life are moving AWAY from the film industry and towards global humanitarian and political issues, much like Ms. Jolie, whereas Jen is still very much in love with starting a film career, so they are in different places now, KWIM? Call me naive but I don't think they acted on their feelings until AFTER his separation."


ITA Heather.

I like Jen, she seems like a sweetie, and I loved the romance of Brad and Jen together. But, given Brads global and political awareness, I can definately see the attraction to Jolie.

I find Angelina weird , dark, somewhat cynical however, and that makes her not as appealing to me as Jen. I think that she is a remarkably gifted actress with tremendous depth and range. And has alot of qualities that would be a huge draw for a man like Brad.
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[Freckles]

gayleGlad you don't think I'm crazy. :) How do you find Jolie cynical? Just curious....I think she used to be with her failed marriages, dark childhood, and poor relationship with her father, but since becoming invlolved in global humanitarian issues, and adopting Maddox she seems much more in love with life, and almost *light*. For her. :D

[gayle]

Actually Heather, I think my "sense" of her being dark and cynical comes from those very things that you just mentioned. Not that she is STILL like that mind you, but I haven't quite lost that sense of her yet, if that makes sense.

[Freckles]

Gayle Yes, it makes total sense. :cool:

[kemaji]

For the record, I don't believe Angelina & Brad had an affair. I think his feelings grew very strong for her during their time together---mostly because his interests in life are moving AWAY from the film industry and towards global humanitarian and political issues, much like Ms. Jolie, whereas Jen is still very much in love with starting a film career, so they are in different places now, KWIM? Call me naive but I don't think they acted on their feelings until AFTER his separation.

I would have to agree with this as well, mainly because she has made it very clear in interviews that she would never be a party to cheating because that is what her father did.

[paiger]

For the record, I don't believe Angelina & Brad had an affair. I think his feelings grew very strong for her during their time together---mostly because his interests in life are moving AWAY from the film industry and towards global humanitarian and political issues, much like Ms. Jolie, whereas Jen is still very much in love with starting a film career, so they are in different places now, KWIM? Call me naive but I don't think they acted on their feelings until AFTER his separation.
ITA! it might be the romance novel lover in me, but i feel the same way.

i know we aren't talking girl crushes anymore, but... angelina is so mine!

[Katyanne]

ITA! Angelina has such depth in her acting, and I believe she is a kind spirit, and motherhood has brought out the absolute best in her. And yes, she is beautiful and sensual, but she is also more than that.

For the record, I don't believe Angelina & Brad had an affair. I think his feelings grew very strong for her during their time together---mostly because his interests in life are moving AWAY from the film industry and towards global humanitarian and political issues, much like Ms. Jolie, whereas Jen is still very much in love with starting a film career, so they are in different places now, KWIM? Call me naive but I don't think they acted on their feelings until AFTER his separation.

ITA! In Angelina's defense I think that when a marriage breaks up in Hollywood the paparazzi always has to find someone to blame, for example Charlie and Denise immediately it was Charlie and his hookers even if that wasn't the reason. I think because Angelina is such a beautiful woman who is very sexual in nature (has talked in the past about her lovers and her love of sex) that the paperazzi just jumped on this.
Angelina has been very vocal about never being involved in a sexual relationship with Brad Pitt, because of her her past and growing up with John Voight as her father and seeing what affairs can do to a marriage she said she'd made it a point never to get involved with married men. And I may be in the minority but I believe her. If you've noticed the men that she's been involved with in the past have always been single.

I think that Brad and Angelina have become close because they have the same love of humaniarian causes and Brad has never made it a secret that he's wanted children. Spending time with Maddox is obviously something that Brad has been enjoying. There is some talk that one of the reasons why Brad and Jenn split was because of the children issue.

Ok, that's my .02 cents ;)

Katie

[dionysia]

I'm with keska as well.

The Vanity Fair interview with Angelina is quite good. It really does seem like she has grown up a lot since Maddox came into her life.

I also agree with Freckles that I bet Brad & Angelina became close because they have a lot in common and are in similar places in their lives.

Di

[Sophia]

Hasn't she still been making statements about her promiscuity since she adopted Maddox?

I don't see her as more mature at all. Maybe better at hiding how screwed up she is, but mature, no.

[lawyerlee]

Hasn't she still been making statements about her promiscuity since she adopted Maddox?

I don't see her as more mature at all. Maybe better at hiding how screwed up she is, but mature, no.
She has openly said that she meets a friend at hotels for sex, but I personally don't see what is wrong with that.

[Sophia]

And speaking of immature... (I really hope this isn't true)Aniston's revenge advice


(BANG) - Gwen Stefani has advised Jennifer Aniston to take revenge on her ex husband, Brad Pitt.

The singer is reportedly urging the former 'Friends' star to get even with Pitt after his alleged affair with 'Mr & Mrs Smith' co-star Angelina Jolie.

A source said: "Jen's been leaning on Gwen's shoulder.

"Gwen told her not to allow herself to be portrayed as a doormat. She is encouraging her to get mad. She says the painful truth is, nobody respects a loser and she must not come off looking like one."

Insiders say Aniston will begin her retaliation with an explosive interview with America's Vanity Fair magazine, in which she reveals the truth about Brad's relationship with Angelina.

An insider is quoted by Britain's Grazia magazine as saying: "The fact that Brad has been making her look so pathetic as he runs around town with Angelina is incredibly painful for her.

"At first Jennifer was completely uncomprehending and seemed unable to respond. Now she is angry.

"Jennifer has said she did want babies and that starting a family wasn't the issue. The issue was that Brad cheated."

source (http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/celebs/articles/1216873.armx)

Revenge solves nothing.

[Sophia]

She has openly said that she meets a friend at hotels for sex, but I personally don't see what is wrong with that.

I thought it was more than one friend. I thought I've heard her say she doesn't stay with anyone for very long. I just imagine all sorts of STDs from being with so many people.


(Not trying to say she has orgies or anything...)

[lawyerlee]

I thought it was more than one friend. I thought I've heard her say she doesn't stay with anyone for very long. I just imagine all sorts of STDs from being with so many people.
What I read was that she said she had a **** buddy who was separate from the people she dates.

[Sophia]

Ah...I wonder if he (or she) is out of the loop now?

[Sophia]

Not at all surprised. Just because she hugged him doesn't mean they're having an affair. The way they look in the pix just don't seem like they're having an affair. Unlike the ones from the Mr & Mrs set of A & B holding hands & stuff.

ANISTON SLAMS VAUGHN RUMORS

Actress Jennifer Aniston has slammed reports she is romancing her new
co-star Vince Vaughn.

The former Friends star, 36, is currently filming The Break Up with Vaughn,
35, in Chicago, Illinois and has been photographed cuddling the actor on set.

However, her representative Stephen Huvane, tells Web site PageSix.com, "There
is no romantic interest. Vince is a good friend of Jennifer's. I think the
tabloids are so eager to see her with someone romantically that they just make
these false assumptions.

"I don't know if there are pictures that show them hugging but... she hugs
everybody all the time."

Aniston split from husband Brad Pitt in January, who has since been
linked to his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie. The pair have repeatedly
denied they are a couple, despite photographs published on June 26 in
British newspaper News of the World, showing Jolie watching Pitt and her son
Maddox playing on a motorbike

source (http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/2442151)

[camberne]

Personally, I've only recently started to like Angeline Jolie. I used to think she was a terrible actress and just plain weird and immature in the personality department. She seems to have leveled out a lot lately, though, and I'm starting to like her. I have to agree with this as well... I don't, however, find her beautiful. I think it's the "sexpot" look that I just can't get over. On the flip side, I like how she's a "take me as I am" kind of gal. I don't believe that she had an affair, because she would have been honest about it - I think she's an honest woman. You can't listen to the things she has said and then accuse her of lying - I just don't see it.

I like Jennifer Aniston. I knew exactly who she was when Friends began, because I've loved/hated her dad for years on DOOL. However, who is to say that she and Brad were perfect together without the complication of Angelina? We weren't in their home or in their bed. Some people are better of as friends in lieu of lovers.

[Rose]

But it's so fun to hate Angelina! :)

[jbenny75]

I think Brad and Angelina are hotter than a pistol together. I believe her when she said she wouldn't mess around with a married man. Like someone else said, she's not the type to lie. I agree Brad and Jen just were in different places.

[daener]

Just had to share....I saw them filming "The Break-Up" here in Chicago recently and Jennifer Aniston is gorgeous. She is a wee little thing, too. Very cordial to the hordes of people watching. And not a Vince in sight (darnit!).

So, I'll keep checking out the set and be a first hand reporter on the Jen and Vince rumor ;) .

[Sophia]

I don't believe that she had an affair, because she would have been honest about it - I think she's an honest woman. You can't listen to the things she has said and then accuse her of lying - I just don't see it.

Unless Brad has asked her to be discreet because of the divorce. I've read that under California law, if it can be shown that he cheated, Jen could get a much larger settlement.

[SilverDecember]

Sex doesn't have to be with a model to be good. Sometimes with the model, the actress, the 'sexiest person in the world,' it may be literally like f--king the couch.

--Billy Bob Thornton in Star, comparing intimacy with the sexiest ex in the world, Angelina Jolie, to mere furniture fornication. Sofa so good, if you ask Tab Fab. Us Weekly, meanwhile, has the same quote but amps it up by pairing it with some vintage I'm-such-a-bad-girl babble from Angelina about how sex with Billy Bob was so good "I think I'm going to die every few minutes." Now, that's what we call a couch ouch!

[Sophia]

Ha ha!


http://andymatic.com/images/nelson_ha_ha.jpg

[jbenny75]

I also don't believe Brad and Angelina had anything going until after the Brad/Jen breakup because Brad and Jen are still friendly and talk all the time about how they kept the love, etc. They were on vacation together right before they announced the split, he went to her birthday party, and they've been seen out together after the split. Would Jen do that if he was cheating on her?

[oceaneast]

Would Jen do that if he was cheating on her?

I think perhaps. Just because of the media frenzie; in addition if Jen wanted to get back at Angelina she'd have him around her.

And maybe its wrong of me to think this way but emotional affairs are as damaging as a physical affair. I like all three of them, I'm sure their reality of the situation is much different than mine.

[houseblend]

I think perhaps. Just because of the media frenzie; in addition if Jen wanted to get back at Angelina she'd have him around her.

And maybe its wrong of me to think this way but emotional affairs are as damaging as a physical affair. I like all three of them, I'm sure their reality of the situation is much different than mine.

I completely agree. Also, if she still loved him, she may have been trying to win him back. Not all women get angry right away nor do they all leave right away after an affair.

I also consider the emotional affair between Brad and Angelina as crossing the line.

[Rose]

Would Jen do that if he was cheating on her?

I don't think they are very friendly anymore. I've read they don't talk anymore. Who knows if that is true or not.

If I was Jen, and I had heard all these rumors during my marriage I might have believed my husband since being famous I know about rumors. They may have fallen out of love, or who knows what. But when my husband runs straight to the woman in the rumors, it wouldn't take me long to put 2 & 2 together.

Didn't Jen file for divorce as soon as Brad & Angelina started showing up places together?

[BTB]

I think Howard Stern put it so interestingly..."...she looks like the type of girl who doesn't wipe all that well..."

Ouch! That is not how I'd want to be characterized, by Howard Stern of all people, who may not wipe at all!

[greenbunny]

I have to agree with pretty much everything Sophie said about Angelina. I think she's freaky looking, and that Stern quote sums up how I feel, though I'm loathe to agree with him about anything.

I do have a lot of respect for her humanitarian work, though.

My DH thinks Jenn is a goddess. That may not seem like anything to you, but this is a guy who could trip over Tom Cruise and not know who he is. DH is totally clueless about celebrities/movies/Hollywood, and so for him to crush on a famous person is a big deal.

I never knew what people see in Brad Pitt. I think he's freaky looking. You could cut wood with his jaw. He's too severe for my taste.

[Rose]

I've always thought Brad Pitt was good looking but he has been looking very old lately. His skin is looking very weathered and wrinkled.

[dionysia]

Gwen should STFU.

After all, she was the one who threatened to leave her husband after Gavin found out his goddaughter was actually his biological child. (He had no idea.) Really healthy behavior, Gwen. :rolleyes:

Di

[Rose]

What does STFU mean?

[maplekitty]

What does STFU mean?


shut the f*ck up

[Rose]

Thanks.

[Sophia]

Sarah OPtsed this in the Gossip thread, but I don't think it's been posted here yt.

June 28, 2005 -- COULD there be a little bundle of Jolie on the way? Hollywood insiders are buzzing over whether blockbuster Tinseltown couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are expecting a baby from their high-profile fling. "She's just in her first trimester," one well- placed industry source told The Post's Braden Keil in the Hamp tons over the weekend. "Obviously, they're keeping everything very quiet." Jolie's spokesman, Geyer Kosinski, did not return numerous calls and e-mail inquir ies yesterday. Meanwhile, Star magazine speculates the next step in the couple's blissful relation ship "might not be so easy to hide." Jolie said in 2002 that she preferred adoption when she and then-hubby Billy Bob Thornton adopted Cambo dian infant Maddox, now 3. "Angelina is very giving," a source told Star. "If she thinks it will make Brad happy, she probably won't hesi tate." In the latest W magazine, Pitt is photographed with Jolie in a 60-page lay out of cozy 1960s-style family shots.

Source: page six

Wow. I'm actually shocked. Assuming it's true, of course.

[jules1025]

If that's true, that seriously makes me want to vomit. He's not even divorced yet. Slut. :mad:

[Sophia]

If that's true, that seriously makes me want to vomit. He's not even divorced yet. Slut. :mad:

Thank you!

I'm still in shock. I mean, I "know" they've been screwing, but sheesh!

[Katyanne]

"IF" she is pregnant its obviously something that Brad and Angelina will be ecstatic about. He obviously has been wanting children for along time and she loves them as well.
My husband and I actually talked about the whole Brad/Jen/Angelina thing last night and he pointed out that the marriage couldve been over long before papers were ever filed. Just because two people make public appearances smiling and acting in love doesn't mean a thing. After all they're actors.
And even though Angelina has been very firm that she doesn't sleep with married men if Brad had convinced her or shared his feelings that there was no hope in a reconsiliation then she might have given in.

And if she isn't, its obviously another ploy by the paparazzi to paint Angelina and Brad as the wrong doers and Jennifer as the jilted wife.

just my .02 :)

[lawyerlee]

I highly, highly doubt it's true. And I agree with others who have said they believe Angie when she says she wouldn't sleep with a married man. She doesn't at all strike me as the type to lie or pull punches. She'd say nothing before she'd lie, IHMO.

[Sposa06]

I, too, think that Angelina is not the type to lie. She was vehement that she wouldn't sleep with a married man, and even gave the reason why: she'd seen her father do that to her mother. So she knows what a despicable act it is.

I also think that Brad and Jen were probably at different places in their lives for a long time. I think the divorce may have come long after the marriage was truly over.

[Freckles]

"IF" she is pregnant its obviously something that Brad and Angelina will be ecstatic about. He obviously has been wanting children for along time and she loves them as well.
My husband and I actually talked about the whole Brad/Jen/Angelina thing last night and he pointed out that the marriage couldve been over long before papers were ever filed. Just because two people make public appearances smiling and acting in love doesn't mean a thing. After all they're actors.
And even though Angelina has been very firm that she doesn't sleep with married men if Brad had convinced her or shared his feelings that there was no hope in a reconsiliation then she might have given in.

And if she isn't, its obviously another ploy by the paparazzi to paint Angelina and Brad as the wrong doers and Jennifer as the jilted wife.

ITA! I mean Jen & Brad were rarely in the same country during the last year of their marriage, that has to have an effect. And I don't think Brad or Angelina are cruel enough to start a family BEFORE the divorce is even final. I jusr think it's Jen's brilliant PR machine starting more trouble for Brad & Angelina. I mean Jen is coming out of this smelling like a rose, but I really believe the end of their marriage was a mutual decision. Not the fact that Angelina stole Brad away....

[Heidi9771]

I, too, think that Angelina is not the type to lie. She was vehement that she wouldn't sleep with a married man, and even gave the reason why: she'd seen her father do that to her mother. So she knows what a despicable act it is.

I think AJ appears strong, but there may be some screws missing behind the scenes...her infamous eccentric behavior. I could totally imagine AJ saying that to the outside world (and at the heavy hand of her and BP publicist and divorce lawyer) and AJ believing it based on some loose interpretation of sex and marriage she is applying to their relationship.

[MsRo]

Yeah, I'm with you, Summer. I have the hots for Angelina. Big time. :o

I love all three of them. I want to be mad at Brad and Angie for hurting Jen, but I just cant. :p

Ditto. I think Angelina is the cat's meow. ;)

[Sophia]

A's reason for not sleeping with a married man--that her father did that and she & her mother were hurt--seems disingenuous in this situation, since Brad & Jennifer didn't have any children.

I guess I'm just cynical. I totally think they're screwing and have been since they were filming Mr. & Mrs. S.

[AusMarchBride]

I guess I'm just cynical. I totally think they're screwing and have been since they were filming Mr. & Mrs. S.

Me too Sophia. And I think that Brad/Angelina photo spread in the magazine where they were acting as a married couple in the 1950s was in severely bad taste. Once he is divorced, he can do whatever he wants, but until then, I thought that was inappropriate and he and Angelina must have known it would be upsetting to Jennifer Aniston given the rumours that the marriage broke up due to her supposedly not wanting kids.

[princess1224]

For the record, I don't believe Angelina & Brad had an affair. I think his feelings grew very strong for her during their time together---mostly because his interests in life are moving AWAY from the film industry and towards global humanitarian and political issues, much like Ms. Jolie, whereas Jen is still very much in love with starting a film career, so they are in different places now, KWIM? Call me naive but I don't think they acted on their feelings until AFTER his separation.
My husband and I actually talked about the whole Brad/Jen/Angelina thing last night and he pointed out that the marriage couldve been over long before papers were ever filed. Just because two people make public appearances smiling and acting in love doesn't mean a thing. After all they're actors.

I barely even need to state my own opinion because others have covered just about everything I had to say. People grow apart and sometimes you meet the right person at the wrong time. JA does seem pretty shallow, not in the typical sense but she just doesn't seem to have much depth to her, whereas AJ seems very deep.

I'm in the same camp that finds AJ stunning. JA is pretty, but in an every person sort of way (which is why I always liked her).

[MsPeachy]

I know there are alot here who are sticking up for Angelina - saying she wouldn't lie about sleeping with a married man, blah blah blah. But I can't help but feel that she's a hypocrite. This is not the first relationship she's been in where the guy was with someone else who got kicked to the curb when she came around. IIRC, Billy Bob Thornton was definitely in a serious, committed relationship with another actress (who's name escapes me right now). If he wasn't married, then he was pretty darn close to it - but it didn't matter to her. Whether she pursued him or the other way around, she still encouraged and got involved with a man who was in a committed relationship while knowing he was in said relationship. Same thing with Brad. She's a homewrecker and I'll always see her that way. I think the only time I ever liked her was in Hackers.

[Freckles]

Peachy Sometimes I wonder how we can be such pals when we see so many things so differently. :p The actress that was in a long term dating relationship with Billy Bob was Laura Dern . They weren't married, and Dern has gone on record stating that Jolie did NOT break-up their relationship, so then who am I to judge?

[MsPeachy]

Peachy Sometimes I wonder how we can be such pals when we see so many things so differently. :p The actress that was in a long term dating relationship with Billy Bob was Laura Dern . They weren't married, and Dern has gone on record stating that Jolie did NOT break-up their relationship, so then who am I to judge? But there are also lots of things we have in common so I can't not be pals with you because we have a difference of opinion. ;)

PS - Isn't Jen also saying that AJ was NOT the cause of their split? A little too coincidental for me to not be fishy. Going "on the record" doesn't make me take a celebrity any more seriously.

[sarahh]

More Brad and Angelina pics. I posted these on the celebrity photos thread, and thought I would add them here!"After spending some time apart (she was in Manhattan on United Nations business; he was in L.A.), Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reunited June 23 for a laid-back afternoon with her son Maddox, 4, near her house in the bucolic village of Fulmer in Buckinghamshire, England.

Maddox, says an observer, "was very excited watching Brad ride around. He kept looking at his mother, asking when he was going to have a ride." When Jolie gave her consent, Pitt took over. "Brad put a safety helmet on him, then talked quietly to him, showing where to hold the handlebars," the source says. "Brad kept riding back close to Angelina so she could share in the fun."http://img82.exs.cx/img82/7578/6ixo5s2wu.jpg

http://img82.exs.cx/img82/1711/6ixobr6eu.jpg

[Freckles]

Peachy, you know I luv ya!

PS - Isn't Jen also saying that AJ was NOT the cause of their split? A little too coincidental for me to not be fishy. Going "on the record" doesn't make me take a celebrity any more seriously.

However, I really believe that Jolie gets a bad rap just because a long time ago she was cast as the sexy heartbreaker in Hollywood by the press at large. I guess it comes down to whether you believe Jolie is a decent caring human being or a manipulative slutty spouse stealer? I believe the former. :) I truly believe that Jen & Brad just fell out of love over the course of a year or two, because they were spending more time apart than together, and their lives were moving in different directions. I don't think anyone has to be the bad guy...I just think that from the beginning Brad & Jen always gave interviews that hinted at that they were not sure that their love {or any love} was meant to last forever. I actually feel bad for Pitt & Jplie because I feel like some people will always believe that she broke up his marriage and therefore won't give their love a chance....not that they probably care, but still...

[Kristen78]

I like Angelina & Brad. I hope they come out of the closet and have babies together! :)

I liked Jen too, but her & Brad didnt seem quite right together. Hope she finds someone else soon too.

Also, I think Brad is hot. I found him more attractive when he was younger though. Like in Thelma & Louise. Yummy!! I am not digging his new blonde hair. Overall I like him better with short hair though. My friends all drool over him in Legends of the Fall, but that look just isn't for me. I wasn't diggin him in Troy either. I prefer him when he's less beefed up I guess. Hee hee...

[Rose]

and Dern has gone on record stating that Jolie did NOT break-up their relationship, so then who am I to judge?

I've also heard her say she went away to do something(make a movie) and she came back and her boyfriend got married. I've never seen her say AJ wasn't the cause but if she has they are conflicting statements.

[Delta]

I don't think Jolie was the cause, per se, but it probably made it easier for Brad to leave (since he knew he could go right to her arms.)

Angelina is ****ing hot.

ETA: no cussing allowed? :o

[Delta]

At the Live 8 concert

http://tinypic.com/6omr7a.jpg

[jbenny75]

Was she at the Live 8 in London? God, I hope so, cause it was waaayyy to hot in Philly for a peacoat. Maddox is too cute. Looks like he's learning early to stick his tongue out at the paparazzi.

[jbenny75]

Holy crap- there's an article over in the celebrity gossip thread that says B.P.'s brother, Doug confirms that Angelina is pregnant!

[sarahh]

Here you go! ;)

SHE IS PREGNANT!!!!

We all know how the game is played: deny, deny, deny.

It would make sense that Angelina Jolie would not want to reveal that she is pregnant now. However, all signs are pointing towards "Baby on Board!"

After an initial report in the Post's Page Six that Jolie was knocked up and a subsequent denial by Ange at Live 8 on Saturday, Australia's NW is now reporting that Brad's future babymamma is definitely preggers, PerezHilton.com has learned exclusively.

According to the pub, Brad's brother, Doug, confirms: 'Angelina's pregnant!'

"He called to give the family the news. And after everything that's gone on the last few months, we're so happy," confesses Doug Pitt to the mag. "Brad and Angelina have come through a rough ride but one thing is indisputable they are made for each other."

And, it gets better!

Pitt has reportedly introduced Jolie to his family and has told his dad Bill that "he will propose once things calm down a bit."

Naturally, sources close to Ange say that she wants to "keep the pregnancy under wraps for as long as they possibly can."

She must be chatting with Demi Moore!Source: www.perezhilton.com

[mimieliza]

Okay, Angelina is gorgeous, but I love Jennifer! So I'm pissed at Brad. What the hell?

(I'm a Friends addict, so my loyalties always lie with JA). :)

[AusMarchBride]

If this story is true, and I was Jennifer, I'd be pretty pissed off. Especially if Brad and Angelina are trying to hide the pregnancy if it affects the divorce settlement.

[Katyanne]

I honestly won't believe it til she starts showing. Even though the magazine states its from Brads brother you never really can tell with these stories.

I love that picture of Angelina and Maddox, she looks so elegant and he's just adorable.

[sarahh]

.....Angelina Jolie Adopts a Daughter

Angelina Jolie is adopting her second child, a newborn Ethiopian baby orphaned by AIDS. “Her name is Zahara,” Jolie tells PEOPLE exclusively. Arrangements for the adoption are expected to be completed Wednesday.


The 30-year-old actress and U. N. activist says the girl's full name is Zahara Marley Jolie. Jolie won't divulge the child's age, weight or height, but she tells PEOPLE that she and Maddox, the 3-year-old son she adopted from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002, are "very happy to have a new addition to our family."

Jolie has often talked of adopting a second child. After a trip to Ethiopia earlier this year, Jolie said of Maddox: "My son is in love with Africa, so he has been asking for an African brother or sister."

"Angie's over the moon," a source close to the actress tells PEOPLE. "It's a dream come true. She's always wanted to extend her family."

As for rumors that Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning a family together, the source denies them. "This has nothing to do with her relationship with Brad Pitt. People are going to try to say it's about their relationship. But it's not. Angelina's adopting as a single mother, and she wants that emphasized."

Source: http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1079776,00.html

[MsPeachy]

"This has nothing to do with her relationship with Brad Pitt. Mmmmhmmmmm..... Guess this "source" isn't into denying she is actually, in fact, having a relationship with BP. :rolleyes:

[keska]

Maybe there was some mix up in passing along the news. I can just hear Brad calling his brother and saying, "No! I said she was getting a baby, not having a baby."

I think it's great if she's adopting another baby, though it is sad that there are lots of kids here in the U.S. to adopt and she keeps going overseas (not that those children don't deserve families too).

[meganth]

Wasn't she in the process of adopting another child a couple years ago? What ever happened to that?

[katmg]

My radio station called Doug Pitt this morning (apparently he works for a computer store in Missouri and they had the number). They didn't *really* ask him about the tabloids, but he denied them anyway saying they are a "bunch of junk."

(FYI - They asked him whether or not he would accept money from Brad instead of working - he said no.)

[sarahh]

More info on Angelina and new baby...The baby girl's name is Zahara Marley Jolie, Ange tells People magazine.

She tells PEOPLE that she and Maddox, the 3-year-old son she adopted from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002, are "very happy to have a new addition to our family."

[lawyerlee]

That's so great! I'm really happy for them. :)

[oceaneast]

She's always seemed to take very good care of her son.

[jimmysgirl424]

Also, I think Brad is hot. I found him more attractive when he was younger though. Like in Thelma & Louise. Yummy!! ..


ITA!! Thelma and Louise was the first movie I ever saw Brad in and lordy, was he a sexy cowboy!! Something about him in that cowboy hat just made me shiver! :D

I am in the girl-crush group for Angelina...I just think she is smokin' hot and an extremely sensual woman.

For the record, I don't think Brad cheated on Jen with Angelina. And I think Jen and Brad's marriage was over waaaay before the divorce was filed.

[Rosebud]

Read the thing about Angelina Jolie adopting at CNN.com, so I guess it's true! Good for her. I think it's awesome that she adopts.

Zahara is a pretty name! I just looked it up and it's an Arabic name that means "shining, luminous."

[Rosebud]

From IMDB.com today:

Vaughn Slams Reports He's Romancing Aniston

Movie hunk Vince Vaughn has hit out at reports he's romancing his new co-star Jennifer Aniston. Vaughn is currently filming The Break Up with the former Friends beauty in Chicago, Illinois and has been photographed cuddling Aniston on set. But the actor is furious about claims he would take advantage of the 36-year-old so soon after her January split from husband Brad Pitt. Aniston has also denied the rumors, insisting they are just good friends. Vaughn says, "We're making a film together, man. Jennifer's a sweet girl, but she's very vulnerable right now and has been through a really hard time. I know people would love it if we were dating, but we're not. She doesn't need to cry on my shoulder." Vaughn is also friends with Pitt, and made a cameo appearance alongside Pitt and Angelina Jolie - who are rumored to be enjoying a romance - in Doug Liman's box office smash Mr. And Mrs. Smith.

[Rosebud]

Also from IMDB.com:

Pitt To Make UK Documentary

Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt is taking a year out from his Hollywood career to make a documentary about celebrated architect Frank Gehry. The Ocean's Twelve star is to become a permanent fixture in the UK while he records the progress of Gehry's $450 million project on the historic King Alfred site in Hove, south east England. Gehry is best known as the architect behind the famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Pitt is reportedly dating his Mr. And Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie, who has chosen Britain as her base after buying a lavish country house in Buckinghamshire. Project developers Karis expect filming to commence in the autumn. A Karis spokesman says, "Brad's been involved in the project for nearly two years. We're in discussions with the BBC and with Brad's production company Plan B about a documentary."

[swcolleen]

subbing

[Heidi9771]

Also from IMDB.com:

Pitt To Make UK Documentary

Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt is taking a year out from his Hollywood career to make a documentary about celebrated architect Frank Gehry. The Ocean's Twelve star is to become a permanent fixture in the UK while he records the progress of Gehry's $450 million project on the historic King Alfred site in Hove, south east England. Gehry is best known as the architect behind the famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Pitt is reportedly dating his Mr. And Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie, who has chosen Britain as her base after buying a lavish country house in Buckinghamshire. Project developers Karis expect filming to commence in the autumn. A Karis spokesman says, "Brad's been involved in the project for nearly two years. We're in discussions with the BBC and with Brad's production company Plan B about a documentary."

More like the PERFECT excuse to have to be in London (where AJ spends much of her time) :) ....Counting the days till legally they won't get in trouble for disclosing their relationship...Does anyone remember when JA and BP got divorced? I speculate 6 months from that date, they'll start dishing more.

[lawyerlee]

More like the PERFECT excuse to have to be in London (where AJ spends much of her time) :) ....Counting the days till legally they won't get in trouble for disclosing their relationship...Does anyone remember when JA and BP got divorced? I speculate 6 months from that date, they'll start dishing more.
I don't think it is even final yet.

[Rose]

I think there divorce will be final in September. I believe JA filed in March.

[heather]

yep. she filed march 25...

[Heidi9771]

I think there divorce will be final in September. I believe JA filed in March.

Interesting...no wonder BP and AJ have been denying any romantic association like crazy.

[SoCoWife]

Jolie, Pitt Taking Home Ethiopian Orphan
Jul 7, 11:01 AM EST


Photo gallery: Angelina Jolie

The Associated Press

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Angelina Jolie and her "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" co-star Brad Pitt are in Ethiopia to pick up the orphaned baby girl she is adopting, an official said Thursday.

Pitt, Jolie and Jolie's 3-year-old son Maddox arrived Wednesday. The couple have refused to speak to The Associated Press about the adoption.

Tesfeye Berhu, manager of the Wide Horizons agency, which arranged the adoption, said the exact cause of death of the baby's parents isn't clear, but he suspects they died of AIDS, which has killed more than 900,000 people in Ethiopia.

Jolie has named her 5-month-old daughter Zahara Marley Jolie, according to People magazine's Web site.

The twice-divorced Jolie has often talked of adopting a second child. The 30-year-old actress has told People that she and Maddox, whom she adopted in Cambodia, are "very happy to have a new addition to our family."

For months, rumors of Pitt and Jolie's off-screen relationship have been circulating. The couple have been photographed together near her Buckinghamshire, England, estate, while he rides a dirt bike with Maddox. They have also been photographed with Maddox on a beach in Africa.

Pitt, 41, and his wife, Jennifer Aniston, announced their separation in January. Aniston filed for divorce in March, citing irreconcilable differences. Pitt has denied Jolie is the reason for the split and Jolie has said she's never had sex with Pitt.

Ethiopia, a country of 70 million, has more than 5 million orphans, their parents lost to famine, disease, war and AIDS.

In 2003, a record 1,400 children were adopted from abroad, more than double the number in the previous year. The number of private adoption agencies in Addis Ababa, the capital, has doubled in the past year to 30.

Ethiopia has strict laws to thwart dubious adoption agents and fraudulent paperwork. Agencies charge adoption fees of about $20,000 per child.

Related story: People magazine scores Pitt, Jolie photos

[Heidi9771]

Pitt, Jolie and Jolie's 3-year-old son Maddox arrived Wednesday. The couple have refused to speak to The Associated Press about the adoption...

OKAY now more than ever we know they do have a relationship if Brad went with her to pick up their, I mean her new daughter. Give me a break, it is so obvious they have a romance going and have had one for awhile.

[MsRo]

Give me a break, it is so obvious they have a romance going and have had one for awhile.

I agree that it's obvious...but I also can't imagine what it must be like to be in their shoes. Photographers all over you, "friends" and "family" coughing anything up to make a dollar. That would suck. :(

[sarahh]

.....Aniston Collapses on 'Break Up' Set

Actress Jennifer Aniston has collapsed on the set of her new movie The Break Up after complaining of nausea and severe headaches. The former Friends star was officially diagnosed with heatstroke, after she fainted during filming in Chicago, Illinois. But sources on set insist the star passed out because she was overcome with emotion, after it was revealed her former husband Brad Pitt had fuelled rumors he's dating Angelina Jolie, by accompanying her to Ethiopia, where she adopted an orphaned baby girl. Jolie and Pitt have repeatedly denied reports they are a couple since Pitt and Aniston ended their marriage in January, despite numerous photographs of the Mr. And Mrs. Smith co-stars holidaying with Jolie's son Maddox. An insider tells British newspaper the Daily Mail, "She's been walking around with a sad look on her face and has not been her usual self. While her collapse was blamed on heatstroke, everyone thinks it's more down to stress than anything else. She can't have escaped all the stories about Brad and Angelina and it looks like the situation has taken its toll on her."

[taraw]

Wow, that is so sad. I really feel badly for Jennifer. All of this is being thrown in her face in all of the tabliods and magazines. How can Brad deny having a relationship with Angelina after going with her to Etheopia where she is picking up her adopted child?

[Katyanne]

I haven't been able to post for the last couple days and hopefully this post will go through. Wednesday night I saw a special on Brad and Jen that mentioned that they'd been having trouble the last 18 months of their marriage and they were really looking for the best time career wise to officially separate. Also a week before they announced the split they'd went on vacation together with a group of their friends and I guess that's when they broke the news to them of the split. And apparently it hadn't come as a big suprise to any of them. In fact Brad ended up spending his most recent birthday by himself riding his motorcycle around the neighborhood because it was during a trial separation where Jen was making a string of movies back to back so she would have some alone time.

This show also mentioned several interviews that Jen and Brad did seperately. Jen mentioned that something about believing you can be happy with more than just one person and about them having to understand the need for a career. And Brad's made it very clear in several interviews prior to the split about the importance of family and his need to have children.

Katie

[paiger]

OKAY now more than ever we know they do have a relationship if Brad went with her to pick up their, I mean her new daughter. Give me a break, it is so obvious they have a romance going and have had one for awhile.
i do think it looks like they have a relationship, HOWEVER both of them have been stated as saying that if the media would look at their humanitarian efforts as much as their supposed relationship then it would really help get the word out. In that case, I wouldn't put it past them to have gone together just so it would bring more media attention to the matter. I don't think that it would have been as huge of a deal if Angelina had just adopted another child, but for them to have gone together, EVERYONE is watching. This makes more people read about the fact that there are so many children orphaned in Africa right in time for the G8 meeting.

i'm not saying they aren't a couple, but i do think this is why they went to Africa together instead of just her and Maddox.

[Freckles]

I do feel bad for Jen. It must be tough to not be able to escape what is going on with your EX. :(

I do completely agree with Katyanne's assessment of the situation though. Jolie is not the cause, but it still must hurt.

Anyway, I think it's fabulous that Jolie adopted another child in need of a wonderful home. And it does look like Pitt relishes the role of 'father'.

[nylons73]

Brad's PR people make me think of another famously bad decision maker these days (Tom-Kat anyone?) Just like Tom's PR 'sister' rep should NOT allow him to 'attack' Matt Lauer, etc, Brad's people in no way should have allowed him to accompany Angelina to pick up her daughter.

What a mistake! I mean, maybe both just decided that they want people to know they are together, but it can't be good for his image right now. He's a newly not-even-divorced man, and she's reportedly the cause of his failed marriage and he's going with her to pick up an infant! This is not the best move he could have made.

Don't get me wrong. If I loved someone I would want to be with them when they adopted a daughter as well. However, who in his PR cabal sat around and thought, "Yes! Let's advise Brad it's fine to go to Ethiopia with Angelina. No problem there!" :confused:

[southerner]

Katyanne, your description of the show almost makes me think of a theory that Brad and Jen were a publicity stunt. I mean maybe not their whole relationship?? But that they have been having problems for such a long time. They were married how many years? Four? and they've been having problems, trial separations, waiting for a good time to split up for their careers, hinting at things in inteviews, etc. all in a matter of four years???

Holy over analytical super paranoid twist to this story, Batman.

I don't know where that just came from!!

[Katyanne]

Holy over analytical super paranoid twist to this story, Batman.

I don't know where that just came from!!

LOL!!!! That's hillarious!! I totally agree, I mean I'm sure it wasn't a publicity stunt at first. but I think we've all beein in a relationship of convienance of sorts, where we've just been together for so long even though there's nothing really there why change it kinda things.
I mean Jen is obviously still intent on building her career while in his early 40's Brad has been an established movie-star for at least 10 years and he's getting older and his thoughts are turning towards family.
Who knows, maybe he and Angelina are more than just friends at this point. Maybe he saw someone who shared his current interests and believes in family as strongly as he does and just jumped at the chance.

I still believe that Angelina wasn't the total cause of the break up. She might've helped put some things into perspective seeing that life is short and all. But I honestly think that any beautiful actress who had starred with Brad in his last movie prior to announcing a divorce would've been under intense scrutiny by the press. Everyone always looks for someone to blame.

[Katyanne]

Ok, tell me if I'm really getting off base..
Jude law divorces his wife Sadie Frost who's been in a couple different movies and almost immediately hooks up with Sienna Miller.. No rash outcry nothing like this feeding frenzy.. I wonder if its because Jen is more in the public eye and possibly considered more beautiful or because they made such a striking couple. I wonder why that is? Just an errant thought.. I think I've completely lost it now. ;)

Katie

[Rose]

I think it was probably a bigger deal in England. I don't think Sadie Frost is a household name in the US. I also don't remember there being rumors that he cheated on SF with Sienna. Were there?

[sarahh]

I was just going to say that I think the reason why it didn't get much press here is because they are from the UK. Just like David Beckham and Posh Spice. They are like royalty over there...people obesess over them. Here in the US they are not nearly as popular.

[Katyanne]

Very true, I agree I'm sure it was a bigger deal over there.

[meatpie]

Sadie and Jude - was a HUGE deal in England. Much on the same level as Brad and Jen here, I think. I love www.hellomagazine.com and remember reading a ton about their divorce and how Sadie was suffering from depression before they split from what I remember.

[princess1224]

I haven't been able to post for the last couple days and hopefully this post will go through. Wednesday night I saw a special on Brad and Jen that mentioned that they'd been having trouble the last 18 months of their marriage and they were really looking for the best time career wise to officially separate. Also a week before they announced the split they'd went on vacation together with a group of their friends and I guess that's when they broke the news to them of the split. And apparently it hadn't come as a big suprise to any of them. In fact Brad ended up spending his most recent birthday by himself riding his motorcycle around the neighborhood because it was during a trial separation where Jen was making a string of movies back to back so she would have some alone time.

This show also mentioned several interviews that Jen and Brad did seperately. Jen mentioned that something about believing you can be happy with more than just one person and about them having to understand the need for a career. And Brad's made it very clear in several interviews prior to the split about the importance of family and his need to have children.

Katie

I remember reading about their last ditch effort trip when they were first breaking up. It does seem like it was a long time coming.
I think we've all beein in a relationship of convienance of sorts, where we've just been together for so long even though there's nothing really there why change it kinda things I've been there. The other relationship is over, even though the two of you haven't made it "official" but you meet someone else who seems like exactly what you wanted all along...mostly because of how different he or she is from the person you've fallen out of love with.

ETAWhen I was with my sons dad and wanted to leave, it was so hard. We fought all the time and were both miserable but he wouldn't admit that it was over. I found myself crushin' on guys just to help give me the extra boot in the arse to really leave. Once it was over and he had time to compose himself he admitted that he wasn't in love with me anymore either.

I do feel very sad for JA. Even if their marriage was long over, it still has to hurt to read everywhere that her not-even-ex-husband is so over her.

[ktdelsur]

Backing up a bit:
My husband and I actually talked about the whole Brad/Jen/Angelina thing last night and he pointed out that the marriage couldve been over long before papers were ever filed. Just because two people make public appearances smiling and acting in love doesn't mean a thing. After all they're actors.

I agree...

Add me to the list of girls crushing on Angelina. I recently saw her on Inside the Actors Studio and she was just gorgeous.

As for Jude Law and Sadie Frost - I used to live in Charleston, SC and was there around the time they filmed part of Cold Mountain there. My co-worker's roommate met/ran into Jude Law at a hole-in-the-wall bar, (I was jealous beyond belief...God knows what would come out of my mouth if confronted with that beautiful man in person...LOL)...and he left to go back to London shortly thereafter because Sadie was giving birth to their latest child...seems like things must not have been doing well even at that time if he ups and runs off with Sienna. I liked Jude and Sadie... :mad:

[Heidi9771]

i do think it looks like they have a relationship, HOWEVER both of them have been stated as saying that if the media would look at their humanitarian efforts as much as their supposed relationship then it would really help get the word out. In that case, I wouldn't put it past them to have gone together just so it would bring more media attention to the matter. I don't think that it would have been as huge of a deal if Angelina had just adopted another child, but for them to have gone together, EVERYONE is watching. This makes more people read about the fact that there are so many children orphaned in Africa right in time for the G8 meeting.

i'm not saying they aren't a couple, but i do think this is why they went to Africa together instead of just her and Maddox.

That could be true...but I guarantee that her and his respective publicists came up with that spin for her to keep repeating in interviews...it is the perfect way to deter the attention away from the actual scandel...and I wouldn't be surprised it BP went to Africa against the publicists pleas...they are no dummies...they know the real power is in the paycheck...and if BP gets caught with his pants down outside of the divorce proceedings he is screwed..financialy and reputation wise in hollywood. Those publicists know AJ and BP aren't predictable people. I bet they are peeing their pants right now.

[princess1224]

and I wouldn't be surprised it BP went to Africa against the publicists pleas...they are no dummies...they know the real power is in the paycheck...and if BP gets caught with his pants down outside of the divorce proceedings he is screwed..financialy and reputation wise in hollywood. Those publicists know AJ and BP aren't predictable people. I bet they are peeing their pants right now ITA, I was thinking that when I read it earlier and forgot to comment. He's probably feeling all euphoric and in love and not thinking of the consequences that the publicists try to warn him of. Ditto for Ang.

[silentbunny]

Jude and Sadie Just wanted to jump in -- I may be wrong here, but I know that she did have some major Postpartum depression after their youngest (where's Tom Cruise and his ****ing vitamins, eh?) and I think it was actually HER who decided she wanted to split, and was pretty adamant about it. I don't thin it was his choice at all.

[sarahh]

.....Brad Pitt hospitalized in Los Angeles with flu-like symptoms

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES, July 12 — Actor Brad Pitt has been hospitalized with a flu-like illness.

Pitt, 41, checked himself into an undisclosed Los Angeles area hospital Monday night complaining of flu-like symptoms, his publicist Cindy Guagenti said Tuesday. There were no other details and the name of the hospital wasn't disclosed for security reasons.

Pitt was in Ethiopia last week with his ''Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' co-star Angelina Jolie to pick up the actress's newly adopted baby girl, the second child she has adopted. Guagenti said it wasn't known if the actor contracted the illness while in Africa.

''I think he has the flu,'' the spokeswoman said.

The ''Troy'' and ''Fight Club'' star separated from ''Friends'' actress Jennifer Aniston in January after 4½ years of marriage and she filed for divorce in March citing irreconcilable differences.

© 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[LittleFredPunkinHead]

I just saw that article on CNN, sarahh.

What kind of a comment is "I think he has the flu?" As soon as I read that, I thought, uh-oh. That doesn't sound good for Mr. Pitt.

[nylons73]

LittleFred - Aren't you right! It's never really 'the flu' is it? :rolleyes:

[jimmysgirl424]

From msn.com-gossip section:


Is Brad Trying on Dad Role?

Pitt playing family guy? Plus, the latest on Kirsten and Jake, Ashley and Jared, Tom and Katie (eek!), Christina's injured arm, Jen's supposed collapse and much more …



July 11, 2005

Celebrities aren't exactly known for exercising restraint when it comes to romance, but has Brad Pitt gone from suddenly single to insta-dad in a mere six months? That's the claim being made by an Ethiopian official who helped arrange Angelina Jolie's adoption last week of an orphaned baby girl.

"They were like any couple looking at their child for the first time," adoption agency head Dr. Tsegaye Berhe is quoted as telling London's tabloid-tastic News of the World. "You could tell they were in love and when they saw the girl they held their breath before letting out a gasp of excitement. Angelina wiped a tear from her eye."

If that doesn't paint a vivid enough picture of domestic bliss for you, the verbose doc adds to the tab, "Then she looked over to Brad and told him she was the most beautiful baby girl. That's when Brad put his arm around Angelina and whispered, 'How do you like your new mummy and daddy?' They were so happy. Then they turned to me and said, 'This makes us a whole family.'"

Uh-huh.

Anyhoo, Berhe also recounts how Pitt, whose name is not on the adoption papers, allegedly held the baby "in his arms and played with her like any father would."

Of course, this suspiciously detailed description contradicts what a source close to Angelina told People last week about the infant she has named Zahara Marley Jolie, who joins big brother Maddox in the paparazzi-targeted family unit.

"This has nothing to do with her relationship with Brad Pitt," the insider insisted to the magazine. "People are going to try to say it's about their relationship. It's not. Angelina's adopting as a single mother, and she wants that emphasized."

For those keeping score at home, neither Pitt, 41, nor Jolie, 30, has commented on the nature of their current relationship.

Still, Brad, who has denied reports that his desire to be a daddy ended his marriage to Jennifer Aniston (she filed for divorce in March; the paperwork is still being finalized), has made no secret of how his humanitarian work in Africa has opened his eyes to the many children in need of homes.

"I'm telling you, you just wanna take 'em up in your arms and take as many with you as you can," he said in the June issue of GQ. "I don't know how I can't [adopt] now, seeing what I've seen. Yeah -- it makes all the sense in the world to me."

Meanwhile, in other Pitt news, word is he's looking to make his mark on Sin City. The New York Post reports the A-lister, who was back in California this weekend to take in the two-wheeling fun of the Grand Prix, plans to partner with his "Ocean's Eleven/Twelve" pal George Clooney and nightclub titan Rande "Mr. Cindy Crawford" Gerber to build a hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

According to the paper, the former Sexiest Men Alive won't have to pony up any moolah, but they will pocket part of the profits. "Brad will design the hotel and be the face of it with George," a mole explains.

Gerber confirms to "Extra" that a hotel project is in the works, adding that Pitt, a well-known architecture buff, may one day be known as much for his design skills as his big-screen talents.

"He's definitely up there," Gerber gushes. "One day he's going to be huge."

[jimmysgirl424]

Also from msn.com gossip section:


Did Aniston Suffer a Collapse?




How is Jennifer Aniston dealing with not-quite-ex-husband Brad Pitt seemingly moving on with Angelina Jolie? According to In Touch, not so well. The mag claims the actress recently suffered a "scary collapse" following a long day of filming "The Break Up" in Chicago's oppressive summer heat.

A doctor reportedly diagnosed Aniston's alleged blackout as heatstroke, although the magazine has its own theory, namely, tabloid-stroke brought on after seeing the latest reports of Brangelina, including those headline-making pics of Pitt enjoying a motorcycle ride with Angie's 3-year-old son, Maddox.

"The difference in her attitude was night and day," blabs an on-set source, with another mole adding, "She's been walking around with a sad look on her face and has not been her usual friendly self. It looks like the Brad and Angelina situation has taken a toll on her."

Or has it?

Aniston's rep, Stephen Huvane, is quick to dismiss the fainting report, insisting to MSN Entertainment, "This incident did not happen." A publicist for the film also pooh-poohs the swooning story, telling the Chicago Sun-Times, "This is completely false."

And besides, if snaps from the "Break Up" set are any indication, Jen, 36, seems to be doing just ducky. Not only does she look glam and fabulous, but she's been happily meeting and greeting fans, even apparently stopping to autograph a "Team Aniston" shirt for one lucky young woman.

As for those rumors of a burgeoning romance with lanky leading man Vince Vaughn, the actor tells The Record newspaper in New Jersey that it's all a bunch of hooey.

"[B]ut I think Jennifer's awesome," he's quick to add. "She's a great actress and she's funny, which is a rare combination."

By the by, the never-wed "Wedding Crashers" star, 35, says he's still open to the idea of marriage and kids, although he admits he's probably "missed the boat on some relationships."

But, Vaughn concludes, "the good news is that I look out at the harbor and there are more boats coming in every day. And some of the new boats are beautiful."

[BTB]

Cnn.com's reporting that Brad Pitt was released from the hospital after treatment for viral meningitis - not nearly as life-threatening as the bacterial kind, but still nothing to mess with - and easy to mistake for flu, in the early stages.

Jude Law and Sadie Frost: I heard they were involved in some bed-swapping with another couple, and never quite recovered when it didn't end up the way they thought. But I think that was in the Enquirer or something, so who knows. ;)

[Heidi9771]

Cnn.com's reporting that Brad Pitt was released from the hospital after treatment for viral meningitis - not nearly as life-threatening as the bacterial kind, but still nothing to mess with - and easy to mistake for flu, in the early stages.

I was so relieved when I heard this...all I could think of before was the movie "outbreak" :eek:

[Katyanne]

By the by, the never-wed "Wedding Crashers" star, 35, says he's still open to the idea of marriage and kids, although he admits he's probably "missed the boat on some relationships."

But, Vaughn concludes, "the good news is that I look out at the harbor and there are more boats coming in every day. And some of the new boats are beautiful."

I think that if I'd dated Vince Vaughn in the past I'd be pretty offended by being referred to as a boat.. Plus, he also seems to be implying that the other "boats" weren't beautiful.. Oh well, Maybe I should finish my cup of coffee so I'm not so cranky ;)

Katie

[Walton]

But I've ALWAYS been a fan of Jennifer Aniston. Remember when she was pregnant on Friends? Wasn't she pregnant in real life then as well? I always thought she was. :confused: :confused:

No, she definitely wasn't pregnant in real life. That was only for the show.

[silentbunny]

Do any of you know much about viral meningitis? (I don't.) I was just wondering if the baby is in any danger, as Brad must have been with her, if not holding her, along about the time he was contracting this. Or does viral meningitis not work that way?

Just something potentially scary I was thinking about, but maybe it's fine.

[Rico'sAlice]

I had viral meningitis when I was 12. It was like really bad flue, plus I couldn't move my neck or head around. Really stick muscles. I took some drugs and got better. Was sick less than 1 week. Don't remember too much else. Did not pass it on to my parents or brother or friends. Not sure where I picked it up. It was during summer vacation.

Bacterial meningitis is much more dangerous. I think that as long as you don't have major immune system issues and seek prompt treatment that viral meningitis is generally not life threatening. Not sure how it may affect infants. They, like the elderly, always seem to be in greater danger from everything.

[lawyerlee]

ANGELINA'S BABY ZAHARA: HER TOUCHING FAMILY STORY (http://www.starmagazine.com/news/61722)
Featuring exclusive online-only details!

On June 28, Angelina Jolie, along with Brad Pitt and her adopted son Maddox, flew for about eight hours on a private jet from London to Ethiopia, the third poorest country on earth. Hours after landing, the trio arrived in the sprawling capital city of Addis Ababa, population 2 million, at a Wide Horizons For Children orphanage. The private orphanage holds approximately 20-25 children, most of them under 8 years of age. It's a shabby place: Its outside walls are topped with broken glass in order to keep out thieves. A swing and slides are among the only toys. Here, Angelina was introduced to the orphaned, 5-month-old infant who would soon become her adopted child, Zahara Marley Jolie.

"This was the first time Angelina had met Zahara, but she looked happy and at ease with her," says Dr. Tsegaye Berhe, who runs the clinic with his wife and arranged for Angelina to take the child. Berhe reports that Jolie fed Zahara and even changed her diapers. "She was very gentle," he says. "You could see she loved the baby very much."

Angelina, 30, and Brad, 41, took turns holding the baby, but it was her adopted Cambodian son, Maddox, 3, who sealed the deal, according to Sister Lete Brham (who'd helped care for Zahara during the two weeks since she'd been brought to the orphanage). "When Maddox looked at the baby, he blew a kiss as if he was saying that was the girl who he wanted for his sister," says Sister Lete.

ZAHARA'S ROOTS
Zahara's birth name is actually Tena Adam, based on the local Amharic language's name for Ruta (a green spice used in Ethiopia to flavor coffee). Her mother, Mentewabe Dawet Zowda, 22, died just three days after giving birth to her, from heavy bleeding, according to Zahara's grandmother, Almaz Blfnhe. (People magazine reports that Mentewabe died from AIDS; however, Almaz is quick to dispute this.)

Almaz lived with her three grown daughters, including Mentewabe, in the sun-baked town of Awassa, 138 miles south of Addis Ababa, surviving on earnings of $9 a month. Their house is a ramshackle one-room shack with a leaky tin roof and crumbling, cracked walls, without a phone or electricity, and just a kerosene stove on the front lawn for cooking.

Almaz helped deliver the baby. "I was there helping when Mentewabe was giving birth. Tena Adam was born screaming with her eyes already open. She was a beautiful girl with a small patch of dark hair," she added.

When Mentewabe started bleeding afterwards, the family had to borrow 30 cents to hire a horse and cart to take her to the hospital; she died along the way. "I was so happy to have her back but now I have lost both of them," Almaz said as tears trickled down her wrinkled face.

Almaz slept in a grubby bed with her infant granddaughter for four months, before finally deciding she was too poor to raise the child. The baby's father is unknown. The baby was 4 months old, and weighed a meager 11 pounds, when she was put up for adoption.

Giving her away "broke my heart," says Almaz, a softly spoken and frail woman, whose gnarled hands and bent back make her appear far older than her 45 years. "No woman wants to give away her own flesh and blood. Each day I would be in tears as I took her to the adoption office. They would send me away. But they eventually realized I did not have the money, and they took her from me and said they could give her a better life." Almaz, who is unable to read or write, says she has never heard of the Mr. & Mrs. Smith star — but adds that her greatest hope is that one day Jolie will send her a photograph of her thriving granddaughter, who she says closely resembles her deceased mother. "All I ask is that one day Ms. Angelina could send me a picture of my granddaughter so I can remember her and those beautiful big brown eyes, they are just like my daughter's eyes."

Jolie officially adopted Zahara on Wednesday, July 6, with officials rubberstamping the adoption at a 20-minute hearing at Ethiopia's federal high court. "Normally we like prospective parents to stay in the country for a couple of weeks so they can understand the culture but Zahara is very young so it doesn't matter that she left only a few days after meeting Ms. Angelina," said adoption head Hadish Holefom, from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

The adoption, and the subsequent renaming of the child, ended a month-long process during which Angelina reportedly paid out a standard adoption fee of about $10,000 and quietly maneuvered through red tape. Over the last two weeks, Jolie, Pitt and Maddox — whom Jolie adopted in 2002 — secretly flew into the impoverished African nation twice, staying in a $3,814-a-night four-bedroom suite at the five-star Sheraton hotel, just outside Addis Ababa. Brad accompanied her on the second trip, where they picked up the baby, according to eyewitnesses.

In truth, Angelina was lucky to get the child. The day before Zahara — then Tena Adam — was taken to Addis Ababa, an adoption official in her hometown was going to take her. Says Sosina Yeman, 33, who works at the social affairs office in Awassa: "She was such a beautiful thing. As soon as I saw her I thought about adopting her. When I came back to the office the next day, she had already been taken. I have been thinking about her ever since, but I suppose I could have never offered her the life she will have now."

A BRIGHT FUTURE
By all accounts, Zahara is healthy, and on her way to a life of opportunity and privilege. Dr. Yasmin Hassan, a pediatrician who has treated Ethiopian babies, says that 11 pounds is normal for an Ethiopian baby of that age. "Ethiopian people are thin in general," says Hassan.

"She is a very beautiful baby but she is very weak," said Sister Lete, who has looked after the tot since she was brought in after being put up for adoption. "Ms. Angelina needs to make sure she gets lots to eat so she puts on weight," added the sister.

"Both Angelina and Brad held her and looked lovely with her," Sister Lete added. "They looked like a happy family, like any other couple that comes and visits. Brad looked very comfortable holing the baby, like a proud father."

Sister Lete also said how she has missed Zahara since she left. "I had been looking after Tena Adam since the day she arrived two weeks ago. We have become good friends. We are acting like mothers here and help them through their problems and feed them and care for them. So we feel sorry when they leave.

"We are always sad when the children leave because they are our children and we love them but I know she will be going to a very good place."

Susan Freivalds, the founder and editorial advisor of Adoptive Families magazine, adds that as soon as the adoption is finalized and the baby enters the United States, she is eligible to get a passport and can travel with her mother.

One thing is certain: Little Zahara is going to be well-loved by Angelina. "It's a dream come true," says a source close to the star. "Angelina's always wanted to extend her family." Her constant companion, Brad Pitt, probably feels the same way!

— JOHN BELL, ANTHONY MITCHELL, CORNALL DEVILLIERS, MAGGIE HARBOUR, ILYSSA PANITZ & SHAHRIAR RAHMANZADEH

[lawyerlee]

Eeeeee!!! :D I'm so excited! Really good pictures of Angie and Zahara out today!

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[MurphysLaw]

OOooooh!! She is SOOO cute!!!:D

[sheartm7]

She is absolutely precious!

[TX Sweetheart]

But I've ALWAYS been a fan of Jennifer Aniston. Remember when she was pregnant on Friends? Wasn't she pregnant in real life then as well? I always thought she was. :confused: :confused:

No Jennifer Aniston wasn't pregnant in real life when Rachel was pregnant on the show... Lisa Kudrow was pregnant at the time Phoebe was pregnant with the triplets though (actually that was the whole reason for that storyline)...

[bethnjim]

I would FREAK out if people were taking pictures of my baby like that. I have to say that I LOVE the pictures, but I think these photographers go to far sometimes.

[msnicolea]

OMG--she is PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Raven_Girl]

Zahara is BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[swcolleen]

she is beautifl.....

[Camdynlyn]

Beautiful!

[hockeybrat]

She is a pretty baby!

[julietchicago]

The baby is beautiful, look at those big brown eyes!

OK, so dumb quetion, does the baby have AIDS? I keep hearing different things...?! Not that it matters if she does or not, just curious.

I have so much respect for Angelina for how she has adopted both of her children. I wish more celebrities would be like her, she is such a good hearted person.

[miaclear]

I caught the end of a little debate on my morning talk show I thought I'd bring up here.

Zahara was an orphan, but she was only one because her grandmother couldn't afford to keep her after her mother died. From the interview posted earlier in here it seems that her grandmother really loved that child and had a hard time giving her up. Would it have been better for Jolie to sponser Zahara so that she could grow up with her blood family (who by all appearances would have loved to have kept her)? And to adopt a child who truley was an orphan without anyone?

[lawyerlee]

I caught the end of a little debate on my morning talk show I thought I'd bring up here.

Zahara was an orphan, but she was only one because her grandmother couldn't afford to keep her after her mother died. From the interview posted earlier in here it seems that her grandmother really loved that child and had a hard time giving her up. Would it have been better for Jolie to sponser Zahara so that she could grow up with her blood family (who by all appearances would have loved to have kept her)? And to adopt a child who truley was an orphan without anyone?
I think you could apply that argument to almost any infant adoption. They're really expensive, and in a poor country, the cost of the adoption process would probably be enough to keep the child with his or her family until he or she left home. I'm sure her grandmother's choice was very hard, but I think Zahara is a very lucky little girl to have the opportunity to have a loving mother and older brother. :)

[Heidi9771]

I caught the end of a little debate on my morning talk show I thought I'd bring up here.

Zahara was an orphan, but she was only one because her grandmother couldn't afford to keep her after her mother died. From the interview posted earlier in here it seems that her grandmother really loved that child and had a hard time giving her up. Would it have been better for Jolie to sponser Zahara so that she could grow up with her blood family (who by all appearances would have loved to have kept her)? And to adopt a child who truley was an orphan without anyone?

FYI, food for thought...AJ rep issued a statement recently that the story about her grandmother was not true, and that her grandmother was deceased, and was not the woman in the photos. Apparently the baby has no living relatives, according to the release.

[lawyerlee]

That's interesting, Heidi. :)

Angie and Zahara shopping at Barnes & Noble

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[lawyerlee]

Brad Pitt riding his motorcycle on Thursday, July 21st.

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[sheartm7]

Nice finger, Brad. :rolleyes:

I am in love with Zahara - she is too adorable!

[miaclear]

Now that you have a family Brad maybe you should be more careful and drive with both hands on the bike :rolleyes:

[Hangin'in]

She is a lovely child. If I were Brad Pitt, I'd probably flip off all of the camera carrying monkeys following me around too.

[lawyerlee]

Angelina and Maddox shopping for toys on Sunday, July 31

He looks thrilled to have time alone with Mom! :)
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He has the coolest wardrobe of just about any kid.
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The loot! ;)
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[lawyerlee]

Ya gotta love Pink is the New Blog. :D

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[sarahh]

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Jen 'doing really well'

By Karen Thomas, USA TODAY

In her first interview since splitting with Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston sets straight those reports that she didn't want children and fesses up about the pain caused by Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie.

Aniston tells September's Vanity Fair, on stands Friday: "Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well."

Except when the topic of Jolie and Pitt possibly starting their own family comes up, and tears flow down her cheeks.

But the idea that Aniston, 36, was stalling on starting a family with Pitt, 41, gets the actress fuming. "I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did, and I do, and I will!"

She's forgiving of Pitt, even though they no longer talk, and she says she believes him when he says he did not sleep with Jolie before the marriage broke up in January.

Best friend Courteney Cox chimes in to reveal that while there was no affair, "there was a connection" between Jolie and Pitt, "and he was honest about that with Jen."

Aniston says she expects their divorce to be final this fall, and she's not dismissing the idea of another marriage — with kids — in five years. "I love Brad. ... I will love him for the rest of my life," she says. And she has no regrets. "I really do hope that someday we can be friends again."

Source: USA Today

[jbenny75]

This is hard for me to say, I have loved B.P. for soooo long, but I'm beginning to come over to J.A.'s side. I can't imagine the pain she's in. He's really looking like a huge cad.

[jasonsgal]

Did you notice Angelina's license plate??? DIVA090

[bethnjim]

Brad Pitt is such a jerk...I feel horrible for Jennifer Aniston...what a huge blow this all must have been to her!!

[Freckles]

I can't imagine how much that must have hurt having your husband come admit that he felt more of a connection with essentially his new co-worker. I think that would hurt MORE than an affair. I feel so terribly for Jen, but I still want Pitt & Jolie to make it. It sounds as if he was at least honest, and went about it the best way he could. Breaking up before pursuing Jolie in a real manner. Still, so sad. :(

[BooeyJ2]

Maddox is so stinkin' cute :)

[Kristen78]

I think I am coming around to Jen's side now as well. I never wasn't on her side, but I figured the breakup was mutual. Now it seems Brad took her completely by surprise.

[Kimberland30]

This was taken from the article I just read...it was funny.

And like any good friend, Jennifer isn't afraid to speak the truth, taking a light-hearted dig at Pitt's lightened locks: "Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back."

Here's the article in full (some was posted before).

August 1, 2005 (MSN.com)
Aniston on Brangelina: 'I Was Shocked'

Jennifer Aniston could have been forgiven if she'd taken the bitter ex route in her first post-breakup interview by laying the blame for her split with Brad Pitt on the Angelina Jolie factor. Instead, she takes the high road and says, despite everything, her soon-to-be ex-hubby is "a fantastic man."

"I don't regret any of it, and I'm not going to beat myself up about it," Jen, 36, diplomatically tells Vanity Fair in the in-depth sit-down. "We spent seven very intense years together...a beautiful, complicated relationship."

The actress says she believes Pitt's assertion that he did not pursue a relationship with Jolie before their separation in January, but admits the aftermath hasn't always been easy.

"Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well," she says.

Still, when the interviewer mentions a rumor about Pitt and Jolie possibly starting a family, Aniston reportedly looks stricken and breaks into tears that last for several minutes.

Jennifer adamantly denies the oft-repeated claim that their marriage unraveled because Pitt, 41, who is now reportedly shacking up with Jolie, 30, her son Maddox, 3, and her newly adopted daughter Zahara at his Malibu mansion, wanted a family and she didn't.

"A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children," rants the star, who reveals that she had planned to spend the last year pregnant. "That really p***ed me off. I've never in my life said I don't want children. I did and I do and I will! The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all."

Jen 'fesses up to being hurt by paparazzi pics that captured Brad spending quality time with Angelina and Maddox on a beach in Kenya.

"The world was shocked and I was shocked," she says. "I'd be a robot if I said I didn't feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment."

Aniston continues, "I can't say it was one of the highlights of my year. Who would deal with that and say, 'Isn't that sweet! That looks like fun!'? But [bleep] happens. You joke and say, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.'"

She also wasn't a fan of the 60-page W spread in which Brangelina posed as bored suburban parents.

"There's a sensitivity chip that's missing [in him]," Aniston explains. "I can ... imagine Brad having absolutely no clue why people would be appalled by it."

The actress says she's still single and is fine with it, explaining, "I like a lot of people, but I am sooo not 'in like' with anybody."

But she believes another relationship will come in time: "I am really enjoying being by myself. I'm excited that I know there's somebody out there for me, but I am absolutely in no rush. This is all very fresh, very new. This was a 7-year relationship that was very dear, very complicated, very special. I need to honor it."

While the ex-squeezes are no longer speaking (the divorce will likely be finalized in the fall), Jen does seem to have achieved a bit of closure.

"I love Brad. I will love him for the rest of my life," she admits. "I really do hope that someday we can be friends again."

And like any good friend, Jennifer isn't afraid to speak the truth, taking a light-hearted dig at Pitt's lightened locks: "Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back."

The issue hits stands Aug. 9.

[kemaji]

He has the coolest wardrobe of just about any kid.
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ITA!

[Lizard]

But she believes another relationship will come in time: "I am really enjoying being by myself. I'm excited that I know there's somebody out there for me, but I am absolutely in no rush. This is all very fresh, very new. This was a 7-year relationship that was very dear, very complicated, very special. I need to honor it."

Such a subtle dig at Brad... very nice. :)

I bet Brad and Angelina go public with their relationship in the fall, after the divorce is final... assuming their relationship lasts that long of course.

[Islandbride1025]

I can't imagine how much that must have hurt having your husband come admit that he felt more of a connection with essentially his new co-worker. I think that would hurt MORE than an affair. I feel so terribly for Jen, but I still want Pitt & Jolie to make it. It sounds as if he was at least honest, and went about it the best way he could. Breaking up before pursuing Jolie in a real manner. Still, so sad

ITA, but at least he was honest and let her know how he felt. It would have been 100X worse if he just carried on an affair.

I heart Brad and Angelina, they are such a hot couple. Jen seems too uptight, but that's just my opinion.

[Rose]

ITA, but at least he was honest and let her know how he felt.

I don't know, there is always a line emotionally & physically you don't cross. It's a choice to allow yourself to go farther. I don't have any respect for Brad or Angelina.

[TrulyBlessed]

Origianlly posted by Rose
I don't know, there is always a line emotionally & physically you don't cross. It's a choice to allow yourself to go farther. I don't have any respect for Brad or Angelina.

I have to TOTALLY agree with Rose on this matter. When you are still legally married, you don't put yourself in this situation physically or emotionally. I have always loved JA so I feel horrible for her. I can't even imagine how painful this must be knowing that your HUSBAND has feelings for someone else & to see all the recent pics of BP & AJ together. I used to heart BP but I lost respect for him. He should have respected JA & stayed away from AJ until they're officially divorced.

[lawyerlee]

Celebrity vérité (http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-photog2webonlyaug02,0,1569858.story?coll=cl-home-top-blurb-right)
Still photographer Steven Klein tells stories with image-building mini dramas.
LA Times

By Chris Lee
Special to The Times

August 2, 2005

In April, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and photographer Steven Klein drove from Los Angeles to Palm Springs to snap a few pictures for W magazine.

Leading up to the shoot, Pitt had approached Klein, a top fashion photographer, with the idea of an artistic collaboration. "Brad wanted to explore the notion of the perfect couple at home," Klein said. "It was all about examining this façade — and looking at the cracks."

The resulting 58-page fashion spread of Jolie and Pitt dancing and drinking, fighting and fumbling between the sheets — in short, behaving like a married couple in punch-drunk love — landed in the magazine's July issue. Photos of the actors looking like an idealized version of a 1960s nuclear family — complete with five little boys who look like miniature versions of Pitt — were reprinted in the tabloid press, aired on morning talk shows and downloaded endlessly from the Internet. Intentionally or not, they became the branded images of Pitt and Jolie's often-rumored but never quite confirmed off-camera romance.

An edited selection of the photos, titled "Domestic Bliss," is being shown at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills through Aug. 27. Depending on the beholder, the images exist either as art or as testament to the refined celebrity image-crafting that helped propel Jolie and Pitt's action-comedy, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," to a $50-million opening weekend in June (just days after W, the women's fashion magazine, hit the newsstands).

The photos are also emblematic of the latest trend in celebrity portraiture.

No longer content to appear in photos wearing fancy clothes in glamorous locations, and increasingly leery of overexposure in the 24-hour celebrity news cycle, famous people want to act out scripted dramas in promotional stills — just as they would before movie cameras.

"It wasn't a photography shoot. It wasn't a celebrity shoot," Klein said. "We looked at it like a small, independent film, an investigation into the breakdown of a family."

Vince Aletti, a photography critic for the New Yorker who also curated a mini-retrospective of Klein's photos at the Musée De L'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2002, said that he wasn't sure if the photos' narrative arc was make-believe when he first saw "Domestic Bliss."

"It was a set-up thing, but when I saw the magazine, I had to stop and think, 'Is this real?' " he said. "There was something very convincing about the fiction."

Klein, who previously photographed Pitt looking alternately bloodied and disheveled for a 30-page W spread tethered to the release of "Fight Club" in 1999, insisted "Domestic Bliss" was not deliberately orchestrated to confirm the public's perceptions of the stars.

He said Pitt and Jolie remained "in character" through most of the two-day shoot, while the photographer orchestrated their performance in the manner of John Cassavetes, a pioneer of cinéma vérité.

"Placing the characters and placing the action was enough," Klein said. "It's a Cassavetes thing: The action unfolds in itself."

W's creative director, Dennis Freedman, allowed Pitt an unusual quality-control measure: He let the actor co-edit "Domestic Bliss" with Klein.

"It's ironic how the photographs became a representation about [Pitt and Jolie's] personal lives," Freedman said. "It was never intended to be that."

Aletti credits the photographer with being highly attuned to the pop culture zeitgeist and being able to capture a certain look or attitude just as it gains traction: "Klein is really good at picking up on some hunger for whatever crazy imagining that we have about celebrity."

Toward that end, Klein helped rehabilitate Justin Timberlake's image with a 2002 Arena Homme magazine cover. Looking distinctly unlike the boy-band front man he had been up until that time, the singer appears beaten up, dirty and bleeding at the gums. In 2003, Klein collaborated with Madonna on "X-STaTIC PRO=Cess" — a 44-page W spread that turned into a multimedia video and sculpture installation at New York's Deitch Projects gallery: Madonna appeared in sexually suggestive yoga poses against a variety of gritty backgrounds, augmented by computer-generated imagery.

"Steven has a very particular thread that runs through his work," Freedman said. "He tends to find the underbelly in everyday life — the strange, dark side to people's behavior, personalities, everyday actions."

Now based in New York, Klein had trained as a painter at the Rhode Island School of Design before getting his big break shooting Dior cosmetics campaigns while living in Paris in the mid-1980s.

With his unassuming air and ability to go for more than a minute without blinking his Windex blue eyes, the photographer is quietly intense. Yet it's easy to see how his confident manner allows some of the most telegenic stars in the world to feel at ease in front of his shutter.

Klein is careful to lavish praise on his collaborators on "Domestic Bliss."

"When I work with Brad, he is strictly about the work and the image-making and he becomes the subject — not the Iconic Brad Pitt," Klein said. "And Angelina really got the idea of what we were doing and stayed in character. She took it very seriously."

Klein declines to offer any insight on whether Brad and Angelina are — or aren't — a couple.

Perhaps equally telling, however, is the way he chooses to characterize his goals in photography.

"My intention isn't to seek the abnormal, weird or brutal," he said. "Picture taking to me is grabbing moments — like stealing candy from the candy store. You want to get away with it."

[meganth]

I'm mixed on it.

After reading JA's interview, my heart breaks for her. I think an affair of the mind would be harder to take than an affair of the body.

But i think AJ & BP have something. They seem like they belong together.

[sarahh]

Angelina Jolie hits skies

HEAVENLY Angelina Jolie puts lover Brad Pitt on Cloud Nine — by taking him for a spin in a private plane.

Brad, 41, and Angelina, 30, were in high spirits near Los Angeles. (It is believed that these photos were taken Monday, August 1, 2005)

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Source: The Sun Online

[Rose]

But i think AJ & BP have something. They seem like they belong together.

Really? To me, it looks like she wanted to see if she could get him. Now that she has him, I think she will get bored with him.

[catch]

Really? To me, it looks like she wanted to see if she could get him. Now that she has him, I think she will get bored with him.

ITA!

I don't see them being together long term. Just for fun, I hope she dumps him :D

[Rose]

Just for fun, I hope she dumps him

Lol! Me too. Karma is a bitch!

[Zelda Von Yitz]

I've heard she is into BDSM.

If he is indeed romantically involved with her, he's going to have to more or less accept the lifestyle she's embraced.

[Rose]

BDSM

What does that stand for?

[hockeybrat]

isn't that bondage, (something) and S & M?

[sdianems]

I think of AJ is being more into "bad boys"; after all she did wear a vial of BBT's blood and was quite open about their sex life....

I would think that BP was too much of a "pretty boy, all-American" type for her.
But then again, if he was totally into her, that would be a head-rush, after her divorce and all.

Overall, I think it is a shame though.

[meganth]

I don't know, i think AJ has changed a whole lot since the Billy Bob days. It would seem to me (and of course, we don't really know her!) that motherhood has changed her completely.

[Rosebud]

From the Lake Havasu News-Herald:

Jolie, Pitt visit talk of town

Tuesday, August 2, 2005 10:46 PM MDT

Lake Havasu City was electrified Tuesday after movie stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were spotted at several locales in the area.

Cell phones were ringing all over town as word of the super celebrity couple filtered in.

The first sighting came Monday night when the couple appeared at Javelina Cantina for a late dinner just as the monsoon kicked into full throttle outside.

A bartender for the restaurant said they dropped in just after 9 p.m. and requested a private booth.

There were unconfirmed reports that the pair also showed up in a few other area nightclubs before retiring for the evening.

The couple next was spotted checking out of the Agave Inn Tuesday morning and stopped in at the local IHOP for some breakfast.

A News-Herald reporter spotted Jolie outside the popular eatery as the couple was leaving. The 30-year-old movie star was seen taking photos with two teenage girls on their cell/camera phone.

Jolie then hurried into a silver Ford minivan that was driven by the couple's male escort.

Pitt - who was lingering nearby as he waited for Jolie - opened a door for her and said, "OK, that's enough guys." The 41-year-old star then put his hand up in an attempt to thwart having his picture taken.

Vicki Holt, general manager of D2 aero, said the couple arrived shortly before 5 p.m. Monday without Jolie's two adopted children and were given a lift to the car rental area.

Dean Lowery, a line service professional, said he walked up to service the single-engine aircraft and recognized Pitt and Jolie.

"Angelina was piloting the plane," he said. "I just said, 'I know who you are.'"

Holt said Jolie's student pilot's license was on file.

Despite their recognition, it wasn't until their IHOP appearance that cell phones began ringing and fans began showing up.

After breakfast, the high-profile couple sped off in the rented minivan and departed from the municipal airport a short time later.

Holt speculated that Lake Havasu City's small-town feel and tendency to let tourists go about their business is what brought them here.

"I think that's why they came here," said Holt. "So they could just be normal, everyday people."

Among the films Jolie appeared in were Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Gia, The Bone Collector, Mojave Moon and Girl, Interrupted, while Pitt - a Shawnee, Okla. native - was in Fight Club, Legends of the Fall, A River Runs Through It, Oceans Eleven, and The Devil's Own, among others.

[ssstephanie]

What does that stand for?

Bondage Domination Sado-Masochism.

It sounds psycho, I know, but it's really not that creepy, just out there.

[Islandbride1025]

In those plane photos it does look like Brad and Angelina, but I don't think those are recent photos, doesn't he have that spikey bleached blond hair?

[sarahh]

...August 4, 2005 -- TO add fuel to Jennifer Aniston's sad fire, there are now reports that Angelina Jolie's adopted son, Maddox (above), calls Brad Pitt "daddy." According to Us Weekly, while filming an Edwin Jeans commercial for the Japanese market in Lancaster, Calif., Maddox started crying for Pitt, yelling, "Where's my daddy?" In addition, Pitt and Jolie are serious about building a family, a source told the mag. Pitt's name was left off adoption papers for little Zahara Jolie, whom the actress recently took in from Africa, only because his divorce is not yet final, Us Weekly says.

Source: Page Six

[sarahh]

In those plane photos it does look like Brad and Angelina, but I don't think those are recent photos, doesn't he have that spikey bleached blond hair?Just read this...Brad Pitt Dyes Hair; Did He Hear Aniston's Joke?

BURBANK, Calif. -- Brad Pitt may have heard Jennifer Aniston's joke about his white-blond hair because "Access Hollywood" said he's dyed it black.

Aniston has told Vanity Fair "Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back."
On Brad Pitt's bleached blond hair, Jennifer Aniston said, "Billy Idol called -- he wants his look back."

"Access Hollywood" said Brad Pitt was at an IHOP in Lake Havasu, Ariz., with Angelina Jolie on Tuesday -- same day as Aniston's Billy Idol joke. Their waitress said "they were very polite. We tried to keep customers away from them, because they started going up and asking them to sign autographs."

All they were trying to do was eat their French toast, pancakes and bacon.

The western Arizona city was electrified earlier this week when Pitt and Jolie were spotted at several spots around the town.

The Lake Havasu City News Herald reported that the couple were first seen Monday night at Javalina Cantina for a late dinner just as the monsoon hit. A bartender said they came in around 9 p.m. and asked for a private booth.

Pitt and Jolie were also spotted Wednesday morning checking out of the Agave Inn and later had a bite at the IHOP . A reporter said he spotted Jolie outside the restaurant as the couple was leaving. The 30-year-old actress was seen taking photos with two teenage girls.

Source: ClickonDetroit

[Kimberland30]

I don't know, i think AJ has changed a whole lot since the Billy Bob days. It would seem to me (and of course, we don't really know her!) that motherhood has changed her completely.

I was going to say the same thing. Yeah, in the BB days she was a bit wild, and into some pretty kinky stuff. But since they split up and she became a mom, she has changed so much. You never hear of her sleeping around or partying or any of that. She has her son (and now daughter) with her everywhere, and she really seems like a devoted mom, and person. She is a lot more calm than I was at 30. ;)

[carrie9142]

*lurker*

I think it is totally weird for Maddox to call BP "Daddy". Brad hasn't been around that long!

More and more I am feeling so sorry for Jennifer Aniston. At first it seemed mutual, but now it just seems like Brad is flaunting his new relationship. I can't imagine how much that would hurt. I think she will come off of this like Nicole Kidman a few years ago-better person and better roles. And BP will end up crazy like Tom Cruise ;)

[Katyanne]

Could he be saying Braddy??
You know kids and their nick-names.. Angelina strikes me as the type of woman who raising kids on her own wouldn't subject her kids to calling men Daddy unless she married the man. Make sense?

I also think that she's grown out of her wild ways, motherhood has grounded her.

[sarahh]

Here are the photos from Jen's interview in Vanity Fair...

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[sarahh]

Two more...

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[jbenny75]

Go Jen!! She looks awesome. I think doing this interview was the best thing she could have done. I know that I, for one, have come over to her side. She is definitely going to come out on top.

[Hangin'in]

I don't understand people picking sides on this... They were having trouble for a while, and it's been in the media for a while. And JA was very vocal about not wanting children at this point in her life, and BP was very vocal about wanting a family. They weren't at the same place in their lives... they hadn't been on the same continant for about a year. I agree that it is probably painful for JA to realize that her relationship is over now, and it probably is very painful for her to see pictures of BP and AJ together, but I don't think it came as a suprise, and I don't think that BP is doing anything malicious or evil. Maybe his connection with AJ was the kick in the pants he needed to move on, and not stay in a stagnant relationship. I think JA looks really great in those photo's, and I hope she finds love again soon... but I also think that AJ and BP look really great together, and I hope he finds what he needs too, whether it's with AJ or someone else.

[princess1224]

I read in my local newspaper yesterday (the Vancouver Province) that Jen blienves that Brad never slept with Ang before they seperated and that he was open with her from the beginning that he had feelings for Ang.

As for my 2cents, I think AJ has changed alot too. Nobody's perfect and makes all the right choices all the time, she seems like a totally different person now that she has Maddox and is no longer with BB. I don't hate any of them and I haven't chosen sides, and I do think that Brad and Ang make one freakin' hot couple.

I also agree that doing VF was a good move for Jen, emotionally and career-wise.

[Sophia]

Jen looks adorable in those photos!

I don't know about AJ changing since she's become a mom. She still seems like a total psycho bitch to me. But then, I've never liked her.

[lawyerlee]

I don't understand people picking sides on this
I agree completely with this. No one knows what it is like to be in someone else's relationship or whether things went down the way they are purported to have. I like them all in different ways, and I hope they can all find happiness for themselves on their own terms. :)

[Sophia]

The only reason I have a "side" is because I've always liked JA, only liked BP because he was with JA, and never liked AJ--so by default I end up on JA's side. ;) :D

But I agree--so many celebrity couples break up, and many of those involve 3rd parties. Eddie Fisher left Debbie Reynolds for Liz Taylor, and Carrie Fisher went to Liz's birthday party years later (I remember seeing pix & being slightly surprised). If they don't hold grudges, why should we?

I still don't like AJ, though. :p

[lawyerlee]

Big Papa Pitt on his motorbike on Tuesday

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[Freckles]

I don't know about AJ changing since she's become a mom. She still seems like a total psycho bitch to me. But then, I've never liked her.

Ouch. :D

I truly feel for Jen, and think she has come off as a class act in this situation. I think it shows such depth of character to admit that you're hurt, but that you still don't regret the time spent together. I especially admire that she stated that her marriage was a beautiful complicated relationship, which to me shows that she doesn't blame Pitt entirely for the end of their marriage. I really hope that she finds true lasting happiness with someone else, since she seems so kind-hearted. And she looks hot in the Vanity Fair pics, so good for her.

I'm still rooting for Angelina & Brad to make it as a blended family.

[jbenny75]

I don't understand people picking sides on this...


I think that's reading a bit too much into what I said. I know I said I came over to JA's "side," but really this isn't important enough to "pick sides." For pete's sake, I don't even know the people. I just find celebrity gossip to be interesting. I'm just liking JA more at this point, and I feel bad for her. She actually did think she'd be having his baby at this point, according to the writer that did the VF interview, when she was interviewed on the Today Show. I'm TTC myself, and I tried to imagine thinking I'd be having DH's baby and he had left me for someone else, and I can imagine how devastating that would be. So, I really feel for her right now and I'm not caring for BP so much.

[Hangin'in]

Originally posted by jbenny75
I think that's reading a bit too much into what I said

I wasn't referring solely to what you said... If I was I would have *quoted* you. :D I am referring to the general overtones in this thread.... all 200+ posts together. The general overtone is that people are picking sides... and the *sway* is now headed to JA's *side*, because of a magazine interview in which she admits that she cries over him sometimes, forgetting how vocal she has been in the last few years about not wanting to put her career on hold to start a family.... I'm really not referring to any one post in particular.

[Lisa&Jason]

Forgive me if this was posted already! I scrolled through the last pages really fast, but didn't see it..

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Jolie's Son "Calls Pitt Daddy"

Angelina Jolie's adopted son Maddox shocked crew members at a recent photo shoot in California - by calling Brad Pitt "Daddy". Jolie and Pitt have repeatedly denied reports they are a couple, since Pitt and Aniston ended their five-year marriage in January. But photographs of the couple traveling around Africa and Europe with Maddox have fueled rumors they are secretly dating. Pitt has always wanted to become a father, and has had such a powerful effect on Jolie's three-year-old, he now regards him as his dad, reports British newspaper The Sun. A shocked witness says, "Maddox shouted, 'Where's my daddy? I can't see my daddy?' Crew members were truly taken aback that he was referring to Brad as 'Daddy'."

Further speculation comes from the New York Post, claiming that the only reason Pitt's name was left off the adoption papers for Zahara Marley, the Ethopian baby that the couple traveled to Africa to pick up last month, was because his divorce from actress Jennifer Aniston is not yet final. Although he was not named on Ethiopian orphan Zahara's adoption papers, the handsome actor was overheard asking the baby girl: "How do you like your new mummy and daddy?" Dr Tsegaye Berhe, who handed over Zahara to her new parents at the Addis Ababa orphanage, revealed to Britain's News of the World newspaper: "They were like any couple looking at their child for the first time.

[lawyerlee]

The general overtone is that people are picking sides... and the *sway* is now headed to JA's *side*, because of a magazine interview in which she admits that she cries over him sometimes, forgetting how vocal she has been in the last few years about not wanting to put her career on hold to start a family....
I know this is going to sound *so* mean, but I find myself wondering if she didn't say some of that stuff just to get sympathy toward "her side" because Angelina and Brad have been getting so much attention. She's always been such a private person in the past that it really makes me wonder why she'd choose to be so open now. :confused: But I do like her, so it's not as though it makes me like her less. I just wonder.

[Carrie K]

I was wondering the same thing myself, lawyerlee, although I wouldn't fault her for it either. It must suck to have your relationship dissected by everyone, it's bad enough when it's friends and family.

I'm always surprised that so many people thought that Brad and Jen were all that anyway but then, I was bummed when he dumped Juliette Lewis. They were a really cute couple, as weird as it looks nowadays.

[lawyerlee]

I'm always surprised that so many people thought that Brad and Jen were all that anyway but then, I was bummed when he dumped Juliette Lewis. They were a really cute couple, as weird as it looks nowadays.
I know! Doesn't that feel like ages ago! And with his diverse dating history, I guess it shouldn't be any wonder that he might be more compatible with an adventuresome partner like Angelina.

I must say, I'm still sorta hung up on him and Gwyenth as a couple, like when they did that Vogue article together. *sigh* I *so* thought they were going to get married and live happily ever after. But what did I know about that those days, anyway! ;)

[lawyerlee]

Angelina on Thursday on the set of The Good Sheppard

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[jbenny75]

I know this is going to sound *so* mean, but I find myself wondering if she didn't say some of that stuff just to get sympathy toward "her side" because Angelina and Brad have been getting so much attention. She's always been such a private person in the past that it really makes me wonder why she'd choose to be so open now. :confused: But I do like her, so it's not as though it makes me like her less. I just wonder.

Could be, but in the face of such public humiliation and being blamed for the split (putting career first and not wanting kids-which made her very angry), I can totally understand her saying something publicly now. If my DH had done what Brad's done and he falsely had everyone's sympathy (everyone thinking that Poor Brad wanted to be a father and she denied him), I would want to set the record straight as well. If he really didn't act on his feelings for Angelina and was honest with Jen about them, I feel he probably handled that the best way. However, I think he was very wrong to do the magazine spread and should have tried to avoid being with Angelina and her children so publicly so soon out of respect for Jen. Very, very insensitive and selfish.

[Rose]

I really don't think Jen did this for sympathy, otherwise she would have done it a long time ago. I think I would be humilated if I had to go through what she did in the public eye. Hearing people say that she deserved it, and that Angelina is hotter so they make a better couple. It's a lot to take.

I think it's clear that Brad left his wife for another woman. I don't care when they consumated their relationship, that is still very painful for the wife and I think Brad & Angelina should be ashamed of theirselves and should have been a lot more respectful of the situation.

I fully admit that I am taking this situation to personally, but I am getting so sick of seeing Brad & Angelina everywhere, looking like a happy family when they broke up another family.

I need to calm down. :)

[sheartm7]

I love Angelina's lighter hair color.

[houseblend]

ITA Rose.

[Rosebud]

Did anyone read the full article in Vanity Fair?

For the record, I couldn't care less about Jen, Brad or Angelina..... but this article seriously made me want to cry. It was really, really sad. I just felt so bad for her--- and not because it's Jen, I would feel bad for any woman who was going through this. She just sounds like she's in so much pain and the whole interview was pretty raw.

[southerner]

That's the first time I've seen her childless in ages!

[maplekitty]

Yikes! her hands look like skeleton fingers!!! *creepy*

[Camdynlyn]

THose pictures of Jen are gorgeous. I have never really loved or hated her. Kinda neutral. I do think AJ is a babe!

[Rosebud]

from Zap2it.com:

Man Arrested for Poking Around Pitt's Property
Wed, Aug 10, 2005, 02:08 PM PT

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Where are Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn when you need them? A possible party crashing incident was averted on Saturday, Aug. 6 when a man working for People magazine was arrested on suspicion of trespassing on what is believed to be Brad Pitt's property. Reports say that a birthday party for Angelina Jolie's adopted son Maddox was taking place when Jeffrey Weiss was seen standing on a bluff overlooking the property.

Santa Barbara Sgt. Erik Raney tells the Los Angeles Times that security manager Richard Malchar detained Weiss, 23, on Saturday morning near El Capitan State Park by a "no trespassing" sign. He was given a misdemeanor citation and will appear in Santa Barbara Superior Court.

Emailed instructions to the property written by People's Los Angeles associate bureau chief Julie Jordan were found in Weiss' truck. Although Weiss isn't a photographer or staff writer for the magazine, he was directed to observe "lights, trucks, parties" in a scouting assignment.

Maddox was a Cambodian orphan adopted by Jolie and then husband Billy Bob Thornton in 2002. The boy turned the big four on Friday, Aug. 5 and is the new big brother of adopted Ethiopian girl Zahara Marley. In a recent "Access Hollywood" story, Maddox reportedly referred to Pitt as "daddy," supporting the theory that the "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" co-stars may just possibly be more than "friends."

[cocoa_femme]

Jolie Awarded Cambodian Citizenship (http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=198756)
Aug 12, 7:18 AM EST

The Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia's king has awarded Cambodian citizenship to actress Angelina Jolie for her conservation work in this poverty-stricken country, an official said Friday.

King Norodom Sihamoni signed a royal decree approving the citizenship on July 31, said Sok Sam Oeun, an official of the government Council of Ministers.

Jolie is giving the Cambodian Vision in Development, a community development group, $1.5 million for its environmental protection efforts in remote parts of the country's northwest.

Sok Sam Oeun said he was working through Jolie's contacts in Cambodia to notify the actress about her new citizenship.

During Jolie's most recent visit to Cambodia in July last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen had offered her citizenship in recognition of her generosity.

"I would be honored, I think. I would certainly be thrilled," she told reporters at the time.

Cambodian Vision in Development's director, Mounh Sarath, expressed delight over the news on Friday.

"I don't know what else to say. This is what we have dreamed for her for a long time. Now it's a dream come true," he said.

He said the Hollywood actress deserves such a reward "not because of the money she has given but her good heart and love" for the Cambodian people.

Parts of Jolie's adventure movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" were filmed at Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple.

The actress adopted her Cambodian son, Maddox, three years ago, and has recently adopted an orphaned baby girl from Ethiopia.

[lawyerlee]

Angelina and Zahara

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b395/lawyerlee2/Celebrities%202/AngelinaZahara82.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b395/lawyerlee2/Celebrities%202/AngelinaZahara81.jpg

[daydreamer]

Wow, Zahara is growing by leaps and bounds!

[sheartm7]

Adorable! :)

[kris97]

I thought for certain this would be posted here. I have no idea if it's true, of course, but it's fun to speculate. :)

From Perezhilton.com

Angelina Jolie Is Pregnant?


Filed Under: Conspiracy Corner
If someone is going to take the time to come up with the latest rumor du jour, wouldn't you hope it was something grand or outlandish?

Britney and Justin's romantic reunion: Why Cameron and Kevin are crying?!!!

Perhaps such a scenario would stretch the credulity of the alleged latest piece of hot gossip, but either way, it'd be more fun.

So, having said that, file this one under the latest email floating around - we received it twice in a span of hours - so you know it's true!

Perez
First don't quote me Perez -- i'd get in trouble for sending this to you
XX

My friend’s husband is working on The Good Shepherd with Angelina Jolie. They've just had to step up production -- because she's pregnant.

Note: The Good Shepard is the CIA drama directed by Robert DeNiro, who stars with Matt Damon (who apparently replaced Leo DiCaprio). According to Variety, production began this week.

[nic]

What's with all the band-aids on Angelina?

[sarahh]

What's with all the band-aids on Angelina?What band-aids?

[mgrace]

From Bigfib.com (a satire site) :p

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie To Adopt Jennifer Aniston

By Lee Camp
In a move which has the tabloids on a feeding frenzy, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have announced they plan to adopt Jennifer Aniston as their third child.
This move shocked even the closest friends of the three stars seeing as Pitt and Aniston were married for four years before Pitt ended it to be with actress Angelina Jolie.

Jolie, who recently adopted her second child, clearly has a passion for adopting desperate and abandoned children.
When asked about the situation, Jolie said, "Jenny is a beautiful human being, and she's been left behind by her loved ones. She really has nowhere to go, and Brad and I want a large, diverse family. Nothing would make our family more multicultural than the addition of a 36 year-old wealthy white divorcee.
I'm certain my Cambodian son and Ethiopian daughter will welcome her with open arms."
There are also reports that Pitt and Jolie will rename Aniston "Ayanna," which means "beautiful flower" in Swahili.

[mgrace]

Hmm...
Jennifer Aniston to Publish Her Intimate Diary
Jennifer Aniston reportedly plans to publish her intimate diary she kept during her agonizing split with husband Brad Pitt.

Jennifer Aniston wants to prove she is strong and truly "unsinkable" by describing her most private feelings on the collapse of her four-year marriage and Brad's romance with Angelina Jolie.

According to some reports, Jennifer Aniston is afraid people will think she is weak, as she appreared crying and confused in an interview to Vanity Fair magazine.

By publishing a diary Jennifer also hopes it will help women deal with infidelity and divorce.

A friend told Britain's Grazia magazine: "Jen's kept a diary throughout her ordeal. Putting her out-of-control thoughts down on paper was a way to keep things from going haywire.

"She's thinking about using her experiences to help other women with suddenly being dumped. Jen feels she's coming across as weak. It's not the image she wants."

Arjun Varma, source: Canadian Press BANG Media International

[Katyanne]

This is coming from a woman who until now has been a very private person.. I wonder what her motives are.. Actually I can probably guess at a few of her motives.

Katie

[Rose]

I would be very surprised if JA actually published her diary.

[nic]

I'm an idiot, I thought she got carried away with band-aids in the picture below but I guess I really do need glasses :rolleyes:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b395/lawyerlee2/Celebrities%202/AngelinaTGS842.jpg

[Rose]

Lol!

[ObscureDame]

*LOL*...that is too funny...

[IrishMeg]

lmao!!

[AusMarchBride]

Cracked me up :D Bandaids - love it :D

[southerner]

have y'all heard about these?

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/startracks/050829/tbraxton.jpg

It stated that the "Team Aniston" shirts are outselling the "Team Jolie" shirts 25-1. Can you believe some ass is making so much money off these shirts? Pretty harsh, IMO!

[nic]

In a move which has the tabloids on a feeding frenzy, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have announced they plan to adopt Jennifer Aniston as their third child.

I would be unbelievably pissed if I were Jennifer Aniston. That was so uncalled for.

[Tanya]

In a move which has the tabloids on a feeding frenzy, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have announced they plan to adopt Jennifer Aniston as their third child.

I would be unbelievably pissed if I were Jennifer Aniston. That was so uncalled for.
That was just a satire piece. Totally a joke.

[lawyergirl25]

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/startracks/050829/tbraxton.jpg
How bad is it that I really want one?

[Rose]

How bad is it that I really want one?

Me too. I think you can get them at Kitson online.

[southerner]

which one are y'all going to get?

[lawyergirl25]

I like the one Toni is wearing, but they only come in small/medium at Kitson online. Grr. I did find some at Cafe Press (http://www.cafepress.com/buzz_shirts/678892) that are a little plain, but they'll serve their purpose. I think I'm going to get this one:
http://prodtn.cafepress.com/8/24857618_F_tn.jpg

[bensgirl1222]

I'm an idiot, I thought she got carried away with band-aids in the picture below but I guess I really do need glasses :rolleyes:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b395/lawyerlee2/Celebrities%202/AngelinaTGS842.jpg

*LOL* This is hilarious! :D

[nic]

Tanya, if I were paying attention I would have read the first part of the post-
"From Bigfib.com (a satire site)" - I swear I need glasses. :)

Ok, I'm officially done posting in this thread....two posts, two idiotic things I've said. I swear, I'm usually not this much of a ding bat.

[sheartm7]

nic - don't even worry about it! We all make misinterpretations at some point. :p

[Tanya]

Nic, hey, I've been confused by those "news" articles before--I think we all have. Please don't swear off posting! It wasn't my intention to make you feel badly. :o

[Katyanne]

YAY! They have my size.. I'm thinking about getting this one :)
http://prodtn.cafepress.com/3/24857803_F_tn.jpg
Thanks for sharing the site!

Even though it would be funny if I got this one.. Considering my name is Katie :p
http://prodtn.cafepress.com/4/24597024_F_tn.jpg

Katie