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| | Brad Pitt talks about Angelina's mastectomy: 'It was a beautiful thing to watch' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brad Pitt appeared on Good Morning America yesterday to promote World War Z, which comes out two Fridays from now. Brad has been hustling WWZ hard for a while ? this film really needs to make major money so it can at least break even with the crazy production costs. I?m considering seeing it to support Brad?s project, although I think the buzz/excitement level for the film has dimmed considerably now that critics have actually watched the film. Which means that Brad has to shill a little harder, and that he was open to taking questions about Angelina?s double mastectomy. Video and transcript below:
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Just over one month since Angelina Jolie announced to the world she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy, the actress and mother of six is back to “business as usual,” according to her fiance, Brad Pitt.
“She’s doing great,” Pitt, 49, said today on ” Good Morning America.” “When she wrote her piece we had already come out the other end and we’re feeling very good about it.”
Jolie’s essay in the New York Times explaining how she had both breasts removed after being diagnosed with a rare mutation of the BRCA gene that put her risk of developing breast cancer at nearly 90 percent sparked a global conversation on genetic screening and preemptive medical procedures.
Pitt called the reaction to Jolie’s decision to go public with her very private decision a “beautiful thing to watch.”
“We were really surprised and moved [at] how many other people were dealing with the same issue,” Pitt said. “Her idea was that someone could learn from her story and she would love to share that. I’ve been moved by it from every stage of this thing, especially now, and it seems to be a galvanizing moment for people dealing with this. She’s certainly shown that if you do your research that you can make a decision that’s the best for you. It doesn’t have to be a scary thing. It can be an empowering thing.”
Pitt says the movie, in which he plays a United Nations troubleshooter trying to defend the world against a global zombie invasion, struck a chord for him as a dad in real-life.
“That’s the only thing that keeps me up at night [as a dad],” he said. “Is everyone safe? We tried to make this thing as real as possible when we put in those fears, certainly.”
While Pitt thinks about keeping his kids safe, they, specifically his sons, Knox, 4, Maddox, 11, and Pax, 8, inspired him to create the much-anticipated thriller, in theaters June 21.
“My boys love these things so they were the first impetus to start exploring,” he said of the film, a project Pitt has pursued for several years. “If we were going to do it we want it to be authentic,” he said. “We want to originate it in some way. We worked really hard at it and that’s why it’s taken so many years to get it to the screen.”
[From GMA/Yahoo]
Brad also says that the next stop for the film is Moscow! Hopefully that will be this week, and hopefully Angelina will come to Moscow with him. I love Angelina in Russia. She always brings it, and I do think her look is very ?Russian? or Russian-friendly. If anyone has the dates for the rest of the premieres, please post them! I also want to know when the NYC and LA premieres will be ? I?m assuming next week, closer to the opening. Ah, the NYC premiere was last night and the movie opens this weekend. Thanks.
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Kicking off the week with some father-son bonding, Brad Pitt took his son Paxfor a ride on a police boat in Sydney, Australia today (June 10).
The ?Fight Club? hunk looked handsome in a beige linen suit with a grey v-neck and designer sunglasses as he strolled off the watercraft, thoroughly enjoying his time in the Land Down Under.
Pitt spent the past week doing some serious promotion for his forthcoming movie ?World War Z,? including a surprise appearance at a screening in Los Angeles on Friday night (June 7).
He told the crowd, "I've been on the road?it's been amazing, but damn it's good to be home. Thanks for coming out. [World War Z] is big, it's bold, it's badass. You've never seen anything like it. It's the most intense thing you'll see all summer. If not, we'll give you your money back."
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| | Brad Pitt partied solo until 2:30 am in Berlin on Angelina Jolie's birthday | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yesterday, we talked about what happened on Angelina Jolie?s 38th birthday, which she celebrated in Berlin with her family. First, the whole family traveled to Berlin. Then Angelina and Brad went to the World War Z premiere and Angelina wore a fussy, button-y white dress. Then Angelina changed into a black frock and she and the whole family went out to eat at a sushi place. It turns out there was more to the birthday celebrations: Brad kept on celebrating until 2:30 am while Angelina got some birthday-girl sleep. Damn! Did Angelina not get any birthday booty?
Fresh from her breast cancer victory, Angelina Jolie was ready to celebrate her 38th birthday in a big way with Brad Pitt Tuesday night in Berlin ? and RadarOnline.com has all the details.
Angie started off the night on Brad?s arm at the premiere of World War Z. But the celebrations had already begun.
?We started off at 30,000 feet on the way over here,? Brad revealed to a reporter on the carpet. And in fact, the couple may have had a jet to themselves ? the family flew on two jets to the German capital.
After the red carpet, at 9 pm it was on to family time at the trendy Next to Kuchi ramen restaurant, where Brad had reserved an entire floor, an insider tells RadarOnline.com.
?Their security guards had told him about the restaurant,? the source explains.
Maddox, 11, Pax, 9, Zahara, 8, Shiloh, 7, and Vivienne and Knox, 4, all sampled healthy options like Koh-Samui Salad with papaya, peanuts and Thai herbs, Tofu Stirfry, sushi and chicken fried rice.
The family left around 10:30 pm ? leaving behind one of the twin?s blankies, which security picked up later, says the source. After dropping the kids off at the Hotel Adlon, Angie and Brad continued the party at the premiere?s after-party at the Soho House.
Angelina stayed just an hour, however, while Brad was seen rolling out solo at 2:30 am, according to the local BZ newspaper.
Perhaps sleeping off the night before, Brad was nowhere to be seen on Wednesday, when Angelina, Shiloh, Vivienne and Pax visited the Bauhaus Archive in the Tiergarten Park. The group spent more than two hours viewing the design collection, according to press secretary Ulrich Weigand, before heading out for lunch at the nearby Einstein Cafe.
Brad was spotted later in the afternoon on a helicopter tour of the city with Pro7 TV channel, while Angelina was on her way to the Schnefeld Airport with all of the kids.
[From Radar]
So Angelina decided to leave the Soho House at 11:30 and Brad was all, ?Bye?? He didn?t even take her back to the hotel to give her a ?special birthday present? (hint: it?s his d–k in a box)? I mean, this isn?t some huge scandal. Brad had to schmooze and sell his movie and shake hands and have some drinks with business people, I suppose. ?Networking? I guess they call it. While Angelina is probably still kind of tired from all of her medical stuff. But I was hoping for something more romantic. Like an emerald necklace and THIS:
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie Spends her 38th Birthday at the "World War Z" Berlin Premiere | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Continuing the promotional tour for his upcoming film, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie attended the "World War Z" premiere at Cinestar movie theater at Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday (June 4).
The "Inglourious Basterds" star sported an all-black ensemble with a leather jacket while his partner looked gorgeous in a strapless white knee-length dress and matching heels.
Though the red carpet might not be her first choice for a birthday celebration, last night, Brad arranged an intimate dinner in Paris.
Reportedly dining alone in the back of the small restaurant, afterwards the two headed to the nearby nightclub Silencio.
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| | Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie got boozy in Paris for Jolie's 38th birthday | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Today is Angelina Jolie?s 38th birthday. And she and Brad celebrated early last night with a boozy dinner in Paris, and I guess they?re traveling to Berlin today. Brad?s World War Z premiere schedule is going at a steady clip, isn?t it? I wasn?t expecting the Paris premiere to be one day after the London premiere, and if we?re lucky I guess we?ll get a Berlin premiere tonight? Sure. As for the boozy birthday dinner, Angelina and Brad were wearing the same clothes as the premiere. People Mag has details:
As they would say in France, “Joyeux anniversaire, Angelina!”
Angelina Jolie turns 38 on Tuesday, and she celebrated Monday night with an intimate dinner for two in Paris with fianc Brad Pitt, following the premiere of his film World War Z at the Normandie Theatre.
Pitt, 49, arranged the dinner personally on Monday afternoon, sources tells PEOPLE, choosing the high-end wine restaurant Il Vino, run by Enrico Bernardo, the youngest-ever winner of the World’s Best Sommelier award.
The couple, both in black jackets, dined alone in a back of the intimate neighborhood restaurant, enjoying a degustation ? the restaurant’s tasting menu ? around a medley of French wines, staff members say.
“Their main plate was langoustines with a French wine,” said one. “And there was a dessert ? a cake, because it was her birthday.”
“It was very subtle, real cool,” said one surprised diner, Yen Goel, who was dining with her husband Rajat when the couple arrived.
“They came in very unobtrusively. It was real fast. They walked by, and I said to my husband, ‘I think I just saw Brad and Angelina walk by us.’ And he said, ‘I think you may have had one glass of wine too many already.’ ”
Following the dinner, Pitt and Jolie joined others from their World War Z travel party at Silencio, a nightclub near Montmartre designed by film director David Lynch.
Asked by reporters earlier in the evening, on the red carpet, if this birthday is special ? given his fiance’s double mastectomy earlier this year ? Pitt demurred.
“Every year is special,” he said. “This year isn’t any more special than other years. We’re going to celebrate in the air with the kids because we’re going on to the next city.”
The family heads to Berlin next.
[From People]
There is one way in which I always hoped Brad and Angelina would be like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton: I always wanted Brad to shower Angelina with jewelry. I don?t think Angelina likes to wear a lot of jewelry, though, so maybe Brad has learned that over time. Still, I would love it if Brad had dropped some serious cash on a diamond-encrusted something for Angelina?s birthday. I guess a boozy dinner is good too! But seriously, get some jewelry!
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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| | Angelina Jolie wears a custom Saint Laurent suit in Paris: lovely or too sedate? | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are new photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Paris for the World War Z premiere last night. Angelina wore Yves Saint Laurent (I guess we?re supposed to call it ?Saint Laurent? now) again! She?s been wearing a lot of Saint Laurent this year. Apparently, this was a custom-made suit just for her. Which means it probably fits her like a glove. I don?t mind Angelina in menswear-type clothes ? I will always prefer her in a well-cut suit as opposed to a sack dress. But I do find this whole ?look? rather boring. It needs a pop of color somewhere, or better jewelry or a different hairstyle. Everything is too sedate and somber.
I have some assorted quotes from Brad and Angelina too, most of which are from the UK premiere on Sunday. Brad told Extra, “We have a policy in our family, no secrets. I mean there’s an age of understanding, so you’ve got to present it in a way that is age appropriate, but we know our children very well. We want everything to be on the table and any questions they have for them to ask. We unleash certain things on them when it’s out of the scary zone. And we know where we’re heading. It’s been a lovely thing.” No secrets? except for those gossip-y gerbils. Brad also talked to the NYDN about his fianc/lover and how much he adores her. Brad said:
?I think the world of her. She is an amazing woman. She wasn?t really nervous about coming to support me tonight; she was so moved ? we were all so moved ? by how much it meant to others. We didn?t realize, or certainly I didn?t realize, how many people were in limbo over this, deliberating, and unsure of what their options were. They didn?t know the testing even existed, then you find out it is not available to everyone. It certainly should be, there is no reason for anyone to have to die. It?s become a tipping point. I?m very touched by the reaction; it makes me very emotional.?
[Via the NYDN]
Brad Pitt also said ?That’s who I fell in love with from the very beginning? The person that you see now is the person that I’ve always known and she’s heroic and incredibly strong and will attack any problem head-on and make it work.” Such a Jolie-Pitt lovefest. Sigh? these are good days to be a Brangeloonie.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie's First Public Appearance Since the Mastectomy | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Here’s Angelina Jolie in her first appearance post-mastectomy. She was with Brad Pitt celebrating the premiere ofWorld War Z. In other words, here are her new boobs. They, uh, look like boobs. They got the same shape and everything. I don’t know. Were you expecting something different like a lumpy bag of coal?
Anyway, Angelina probably made the right decision as her aunt, Debbie Martin, also died from breast cancer last week. ThoughI’d like to think the decision was made easier when the doctor assured her, “We can rebuild it. We have the technology.”
The post Angelina Jolie’s First Public Appearance Since the Mastectomy appeared first on The Blemish.
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| | Esquire: Brad Pitt & Angelina make out all the time, he calls her 'the best person' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brad Pitt covers the June/July issue of Esquire to promote World War Z. The interview was released last night and I’ll be covering it later today. The interview was done by Tom Junod around the beginning of April, when Angelina was in the midst of her multiple mastectomy and reconstruction surgeries. Brad didn?t give Junod any clue into what was going on. And so after Angelina?s announcement (one week ago today), Junod published an addendum (consider it a ?reimagining?) to his yet-to-released Esquire cover story. It?s just his basic thoughts on Brad and Angelina?s relationship and Brad talking about how much he loves his girl. It?s really nice:
Tom Junod’s profile of Brad Pitt will appear in the June/July issue, which is on newsstands at the end of the month.
When I met Brad Pitt the day after Easter, he was so tired that he was perhaps more reflective than usual. He had just finished a week of spring break with his family. He had camped out with them the night before on his property north of Santa Barbara, and he had woken up, he said, too early, as well as too wet. They had slept in tents, four of his six children, along with two of their friends, and then he had gotten all of them in a van and driven them down to LA.
?Angie too?? I asked.
?Yeah,? he said. ?Angie too.?
I told him that I?d met her a few years before, when I profiled her for Esquire. She was making a movie about the wife of the murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, and the thesis of my story was that while 9/11 was supposed to make us all better — a better country and a better people — it only worked for Angelina Jolie. The story has won a kind of immortality as ?The Worst Celebrity Profile Ever Written,? and when I told that to Angelina Jolie?s partner, he at first laughed and said that he hoped Esquire would use that as the title of the profile I was writing about him. Then he got serious. ?But you were right,? he said. ?You were right, you were right. Angie is….the best person…..?
I remembered meeting Angelina Jolie — how thin she was, how much steak she ate and wine she drank, and above all her utter self-possession. She answered every question I asked, but she was the kind of person who responded without ever simply reacting. Brad Pitt was different. He was, like a lot of men, stuck between family and work, and the day he came back to LA from spring break was the day he began the push to finish his summer zombie movie, World War Z. And so, although he was Brad Pitt, he was also a big guy, dressed in black, stained around the eyes by stress and exhaustion, who spoke leaning forward, bent at the waist, with his hands folded between his legs, and was in the habit of repeating himself between long pauses. ?I?m a crap interview,? he?d warned me, but when he began talking about his family, he said twice, ?I haven?t known life to be any happier,? and he said it in such a way that I never once thought to doubt him.
This was April 1. I didn?t know then what I know now — that a month earlier, his partner, Angelina Jolie, commenced the series of surgeries that would end, a month later, with her pre-emptive double mastectomy. Over the next few weeks, I talked to several of Pitt?s close friends. They must have known what the couple was enduring, but of course they never told me. One of them, however, called me back after our first interview. His name was Frank Pollaro, and he?d spoken about the furniture business he?d started with Brad Pitt, and about Pitt?s excellent eye. But he wanted to say something else, so he called Brad, and asked if he was at liberty to speak about Brad?s relationship with Angelina. He was, and so when he called back, he told me what he?d seen at Brad?s house — ?once I walked in and Angie was standing there and Zahara walked up and said, ?Daddy, you?re not going to start making out with Mommy again, are you?? And it?s like that. This is a guy who has tried not to do any sexy scenes with other women since he?s met Angelinia. He?s crazy about her, and she?s the same way about him. No matter how hard he?s working, if one of those kids runs by the window he?ll get out of his chair and give them a kiss. And I don?t think I?ve ever seen Angie without one of those children in her arms.?
It?s the nature of marriage — or, in the case Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, a committed relationship — to both invite and repel scrutiny. We have no idea how any two people make a life together, much less two people as professionally exhibitionistic and privately enigmatic as the two combined in the public mind as ?Brangelina.? But I will say this: a long time ago, Brad Pitt left college in Missouri to come to LA and act in movies. He insists that he wasn?t looking for stardom, only a sense of life and possibility larger than what he left behind. He insists that he was searching the chimera of Hollywood for something real. This morning, the mother of his children revealed in the New York Times that he was ?at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries.?
You do not have to be a celebrity, only a father and a man in love with a woman, to know that life doesn?t get any more real than that.
[From Esquire]
Does Junod sound like a fan-boy? Sure. But that doesn?t mean I didn?t enjoy this piece immensely. Junod infamously profiled Angelina several years ago ? he references that in this piece, and you can read the old story here. It?s not a particularly revealing interview for Angelina, but again, it sounds like it was written by a fan-boy. And why not? Why can?t a celebrity journalist admit that he or she believes that Brad and Angelina are in love and in it for the long haul? That despite all of the glitz and bulls?t that comes with their jobs, they actually managed to make something real and lasting together? *adjusts Brangeloonie tin foil hat*
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Brad Pitt covers Vanity Fair's June issue, VF says 'WWZ' could be a total disaster | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brad Pitt covers the June issue of Vanity Fair. The cover shot is freaking me out a little bit. It?s not that Brad looks bad or anything, it just feels like they Photoshopped his eyes or something. He looks sort of like a zombie ? which might be on purpose, considering the cover story doesn?t seem to be a straight-forward celebrity profile, but rather a profile of how much it cost to make World War Z and how difficult it was for everyone involved. Brad has put a lot of his Hollywood power on the line, and I?m sure he?s lost professional friendships because of World War Z. Will it be worth it in the end? Will WWZ end up making money? Also: there are some concerns that Brad didn?t even sit down for a photoshoot with VF, that this is an outtake from a photoshoot he did with the New York Times two years ago. Well? at least it?s not a dead celebrity. Here?s the VF cover story excerpt:
?He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it,? screenwriter Damon Lindelof tells Vanity Fair contributor Laura M. Holson in the June issue of Vanity Fair of meeting Brad Pitt to discuss the star?s troubled zombie project, World War Z.
Lindelof says Pitt explained, ??But when we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together. We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn?t turn out the way we wanted it to.?? The actor asked him to watch an edit, and told him, ?The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we?ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get.? Lindelof tells Holson the ending was abrupt and incoherent, but more importantly they were missing a large chunk of footage.
In her revealing report, Holson also speaks to director Marc Forster and Paramount executives Marc Evans and Adam Goodman about the many problems that plagued the set?which included re-writing and reshooting 40 minutes of the film to find a coherent ending?and, most astonishingly, how the budget ballooned to around $200 million.
While closing down the production in Malta, for instance, the wrap-up crew found a stack of purchase orders
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| | Brad Pitt in the second trailer for World War Z: is this going to be a blockbuster? | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few months ago, we saw the first full trailer for Brad Pitt?s neverending trainwreck-production World War Z, and I was surprised by how good it looked. Granted, I didn?t read the book that it?s loosely based on, and I would probably feel differently if I had read the book. I hear the book was slower and more meditative, and the film has completely rearranged the way the story (of the zombie apocalypse) has been told. But considering this film cost something like $200-300 million to make and considering it?s being released in June, the expectations for this to deliver on a popcorn-blockbuster level are pretty high. And now that I?ve seen the second trailer? I think the film might actually deliver??
Yeah. I would see this, and I?m not even into zombie stories. There?s an element (I think) of 28 Days Later to this, only instead of telling a smaller, personal story of the zombie apocalypse in England, WWZ is all about the global pandemic and how a super-power deals with the disaster. Call me crazy, but I think Brad?s crazy gamble might pay off and this movie is going to be HUGE. Men of all ages will want to see it because it?s about zombies and ladies will agree to see it because it stars Brad Pitt.
Here?s the new poster for the film too ? it?s striking but they could do better.
Poster courtesy of Collider, additional images courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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