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| | Angelina Jolie won't marry Brad: 'Once you have six children, you?re committed' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yes, another Angelina Jolie story – I covered her Newsweek cover story here. There are new photos too, but we don?t have them. You can see La Jolie in white here. She?s going to be on Nightline tonight, and ABC News has released a short clip of her interview with Christiane Amanpour, which I?ve included below. I actually laughed a little bit at the quotes that got released. Christiane asks Angelina if she and Brad will ever get married, and as Angelina is describing how the kids ask that too, Angelina says: ?I asked them if it was just because they wanted to have a big cake.? That really speaks to her as a mom, right? She knows her kids, and it?s not like the kids even really understand ?marriage? – but she knows they understand CAKE. I imagine Empress Zahara would be all, ?Yes, we want cake. And gelato. And PONIES.?
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She says: ?I asked them if it was just because they wanted to have a big cake. They have asked, yeah, because … people get married in the movies. Shrek and Fiona are married, you know? We’ve explained to them that our commitment, when we decided to start a family, was the greatest commitment you could possibly have. Once you have six children, you’re committed.”
I?ve said this before, and I?ll say it again – I don?t think Angelina would mind marrying Brad. I think she kind of wants to have a real ceremony and everything, and she might even be encouraging the kids? questions about it, and Brad is the one who doesn?t want to go down the aisle.
Screencaps from Nightline, additional pics by Pacific Coast News.
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| | Angelina Jolie on Newsweek, approached filmmaking like a UNHCR mission | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As I updated yesterday on that Angelina Jolie post, Jolie covers this week?s Newsweek. I kind of love the photos, even though I?m not quite convinced that a weekly news magazine should be doing glamour shots of a actress for the cover. That?s not a cut on Jolie – that?s a cut on Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of Newsweek (and the Daily Beast). Anyway, The Daily Beast has released the full Newsweek article, which you can read here. Here are some highlights from the piece (which is very complimentary to Jolie and the film):
Jolie?s approach to her humanitarian work: ?When I go somewhere, I am always willing to learn about it. I get briefings, I read books, I talk to people,? she said. ?But mainly I try to go somewhere to bring awareness, to come home and pick up the phone and call someone and try to get something done.?
She brings the same approach to filmmaking: She told me that when it came to the technicalities of making a film, ?I wasn?t afraid to ask the DP [director of photography]. And I listened to my cast, most of whom lived through the war. I listened to their stories and tried to incorporate it into the work.?
Lack of real-time awareness of the Bosnian War: How could a woman who was only 17 when the conflict in Bosnia erupted in April 1992 have so perfectly captured the horror of a war that focused largely on indiscriminate and brutal attacks on civilians? She is honest when she says, ?At the time, I had no idea of the extent of the agony.? But her work as an ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees exposed her to the plight of the Bosnian civilians and how the aftermath lingers on. The women who were raped in the infamous eastern Bosnian ?rape camps? are still suffering from the emotional and traumatic fallout; it was an especially sensitive point for her.
No offense: ?The people felt as though the world had forgotten them,? Jolie said. ?It was a time of great pain, and I wanted to depict how courageous people were?without offending anyone.? The Bosnians desperately wanted help, from anywhere, anyone?but no one came. Even now, too few people know what happened there. Perhaps it takes the star power of someone like Jolie to remind them of this incredibly complex, bloody conflict. ?It was made to remind everybody of the war?but only a small group of people will really understand,? she admitted.
The film is partially improvised: ?It was half script, half improvisation,? Jolie said of some of the scenes, and she relied heavily on local staff. ?The white shirt that the leading character wears throughout,? she mused at one point. ?It stayed white through the rape-camp scenes?and it bothered me. We kept talking about that white shirt.? She also shows characters longing for food, for contact with the outside world, for books, cinema, poetry?all the things that existed before the war.
Writing the script: These journeys gave Jolie the experience to write the script for In the Land of Blood and Honey, which took ?about a month, then it went through a lot of revisions, Brad read it, people read it,? but the actual technicalities of directing must have been daunting.
Approaching filmmaking like a UNHCR mission: There is no red carpet in Libya or Sudan. She still packs her own flashlights, notebooks, and waterproof gear. She made Blood and Honey with $13 million and a lot of humility. She approached it the way she does her job for UNHCR, like a student. ?When I go on a field mission, I get multiple briefings, including from the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations],? she said. ?And I took a course on international law. So I did the same thing I did with missions. I studied.? For the film, she ?read a lot of books about the war. I talked to a lot of people, I watched, I listened. I just wanted to tell the real story.? She repeated what she has said several times: ?I wanted to be respectful of people.? If she did not know something, ?I asked.?
About her kids: During dinner, she talked with love and passion of her family, how she is educating them in their own languages and cultures, how she loves to fly around the world but how hard it is to be separated from them when she is away. She talked of how someone ?who never was a babysitter? knew how to take care of Maddox as a 27-year-old single mother. ?I didn?t know whether to give one bottle or 30 bottles,? she says, laughing, of her son?s infant days. ?I called my mother.?
Angelina on her mom: ?Her goodness had a huge impact on me,? she said. ?Sometimes I go into hotels now and bellboys ask me about her. My mother used to write them notes when their children were born or christened. She was just that sort of person?everyone loved her.?
[From Newsweek/The Daily Beast]
The entire article is very good, and I recommend reading it when you have a chance. It was written by Janine di Giovanni, a reporter who covered the Bosnian War, and has been a war correspondent in several conflicts. She did a lot of research
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| | Angelina Jolie is being sued, and she took the kids to see 'The Muppets' in NYC | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some new photos of Angelina Jolie taking three of her kids to see The Muppets in New York City. I guess only Shiloh, Zahara and Pax wanted to see The Muppets? Maddox was all, ?I?d rather see Arthur Christmas, y?all. I?ll sit this one out.? And Vivienne and Knox are too little for Muppet movies, I suppose. I don?t really have much to say about these photos – Angelina looks pretty, and it?s totally unnecessary for her to be wearing shades, considering it?s dark out. I love the body language of Zahara and Pax, though – Pax is wearing a shark mask, and he must not be able to see, so Zahara is all, ?I?ll show you the way, my brother.?
Meanwhile, Angelina Jolie is getting sued in federal court. Croatian journalist James J. Braddock claims that Jolie ?stole? the story for her film In the Land of Blood and Honey from an article (and book) he wrote about a woman who was subjected to rape in a POW camp.
Angelina Jolie is being sued for allegedly stealing the story behind her new movie, In the Land of Blood and Honey, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
In legal documents filed in federal court obtained by Radar, Croatian journalist and author James J. Braddock (aka Josip J. Knezevic) says an article he wrote and published in 2007 is the basis for the film, which was written and directed by Jolie.
The film is a fictionalized account of an unlikely love story between a Serbian soldier and a Muslim woman during the Bosnian War. Brad Pitt was often on location when Angie was working, taking photographs of her at work.
As an example of the similarities between the story he published and the storyline of the film, the lawsuit states:
“The Subject Work?s main female character is subject to continuous abuse and rape by soldiers and officers in the camp. In addition to being raped continuously by soldiers and officers, she is forced to become a servant at the camp headquarters, a duty assumed by very few of the captives. The Motion Picture?s main female character is also subject to continuous rape by soldiers and officers in the camp and subsequently becomes a servant at camp headquarters.”
Braddock has also named GK Films, the L.A.-based production company which financed and is releasing the film, and several other entities.
He’s demanding a jury trial asking the court to award him damages.
In the Land of Blood and Honey opens December 23.
[From Radar]
This guy has a website too, and a really long essay about Angelina Jolie and how she just stole everything from him – go here to read his rather insane rant. God knows, I?m accused of playing favorites when it comes to Angelina (it?s true – she?s one of my favorites), but this guy doesn?t seem to have much of a case, by his own admission. He claims that Angelina took his articles and books and CHANGED them into a ?banal love story? that would be impossible during the war?? Which means that she didn?t copy his story, she created her own story which is set partially in a POW camp. This guy doesn?t OWN the concept of POW camps. He also doesn?t help his case by claiming that Angelina is just like a Serbian aggressor in 1992. It seems like this guy is just pissed off at the world and hoping that Angelina will just shell out some hush money.
Angelina is in New York ahead of the premiere of In the Land of Blood and Honey, which will be happening this week. Will Brad be there? What will she wear? Will she field questions about this lawsuit?
UPDATE: Angelina covers the new issue of Newsweek too, via ET:
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
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| | Angelina Jolie Takes the Kids to "The Muppets" in NYC | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Venturing out for a cinematic weekend with half of her brood, Angelina Jolie took three of her little ones to the movies in New York City on Saturday evening (December 3).
The "Wanted" actress held onto Shiloh and Zahara's hands while Pax followed along as the foursome shuffled into the theater to catch a showing of "The Muppets".
The trip to NYC comes as Miss Jolie readies for the Big Apple premiere of her directorial project "In the Land of Blood and Honey".
Set for a December 23rd theatrical release, the picture takes place "during the Bosnian War while following Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, who re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed."
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| | Angelina Jolie Surviving on 600 Calories a Day | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Photos of Angelina Jolie boarding her private plane looking like a damn corpse have sparked new concerns that the actress is suffering from an eating disorder. She’s not a hundred pounds soaking wet and she’s five fucking eight. Of course the bitch has an eating disorder. Jesus. Am I taking crazy pills? The Daily Mail says:
According to Grazia magazine, Angelina survives on as little as 600 calories a day.
“Angelina has been known to start her day with little more than a spoonful of coconut oil and a handful of cereal,” a source told Grazia last week.
“Sometimes she’ll skip lunch altogether or will just grab a few almonds and some gummy bears while she’s on the go, or will have a protein-based shake.
A lot of people are worried that she is taking things too far… everyone has been begging her to eat more, but unfortunately she just doesn’t seem to be putting on any more weight.”
Angelina Jolie was so stunningly beautiful back in her Lara Croft heyday, and now she looks like something that should be haunting a lake. She’s all sinew and bone. Shaking hands with her would be like shaking hands with a damn eagle.
And now for someone who clearly ISN’T anorexic, the lovely Salma Hayek at the “Puss ‘n Boots” photocall in Rome:
PHOTO SOURCE: Fame Pictures
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| | Angelina Jolie 'just can't hide the crazy' says In Touch Weekly | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This week?s In Touch Weekly is a doozy. Of course, it?s all about how Angelina Jolie is a horrible person and a bad mother because a decade ago she was doing drugs and OMGOMG OMGOMG SHE KISSED HER BROTHER. Something like that. Actually, In Touch editors tried to ground the story in something real – currently, Angelina and Brad are being sued by one of their former assistants, a woman named Ana Charlotiaux. This woman claims she was ?wrongfully terminated? simply because she asked for too much time off, and she?s brought a lawsuit against Brangelina. In Touch uses the idea that this lawsuit COULD ?reveal? horrible information about Angelina (never Brad). But! In Touch didn?t speak to Ana Charlotiaux, they only spoke to ?another assistant and staffers? who of course remain nameless (and likely fictitious). Here are some highlights from the story:
*An old friend says: ?Angelina tries to hide it, but she has a crazy side to her that?s beyond quirky. In the end, she just can?t hide the crazy.?
*Angelina is still fascinated by blood. ?When Angelina?s kids get cuts and scrapes, she saves their discarded bandages in a large jar. She thinks she?s being edgy and artistic, but to others, she just seems weird.?
*Angelina?s behavior is often compulsive. She?s replaced her former drug addictions with shopping online for hours, buying thousands of dollars worth of clothes and jewelry.
*Another compulsion: working out. An employee shares, ?She locks herself in the basement every day and exercises for hours. No one is to bother her during that time.? Apparently, she uses the workouts ?as a way to escape her family.?
*Angelina and Brad love to go out and get bombed. A staffer reveals that while in London, ?Angelina and Brad more than once left kids locked up with supervision in their hotel bedrooms and left them behind to go out drinking – a pastime they both seem to enjoy.? While in Budapest, Angelina and Brad rented a hotel suit where they enjoyed a nice meal and lots of wine while their kids stayed on an entirely different floor. A staffer says, ?They do this quite frequently. They had a bottle of red wine with their meal that night, and then they went down to the bar and drank even more.? Then Brad and Angelina slept in the next morning and weren?t there for their kids? breakfasts! SCANDAL.
*Angelina has weird eating habits, ?sometimes eating only one type for days at a time.? An employee says, ?She became obsessed with soup. Light soups that didn?t have a cream base – that became the constant request.? A family insider says, ?Her daily diet varies – sometimes it will be just green tea and nuts. Other days, it will be red meat and red wine, and then back to tea and some tiny portion of protein.
*Although she claims to not care about what?s written about her, a source says, ?Angelina browses blogs looking for stories about her family.?
*Angelina throws out leftover food. OMG.
*Angelina is ?very strict and very hard? with their staff. ?One time, a young assistant was pleading and crying to keep her job, but Angelina coldly turned her away.? Brad, however, plays the good guy. ?He is very easygoing and never fires anyone. It?s clear that he?s not the boss – she is!?
*Angelina isn?t a laid-back mom – ?She has the kids do their homework over and over until its perfect.?
*Angelina sometimes skips meals and opts for juice fasts, and sometimes she?ll only eat ?one bite? of what the chefs prepare.
Now, considering the In Touch Weekly article actually featured a photo of Angelina with Photoshopped devil horns (NO JOKE), how seriously should we take it? Isn?t this just straight-up anti-Angelina propaganda? The thing is that I could actually believe some of it if it wasn?t being twisted around to sound like ANGELINA IS THE DEVIL OMG. Like, I believe Angelina and Brad leave their kids ?locked up? in hotel suites (with nannies) while they go out and have a date night. I believe Angelina doesn?t eat enough. I believe she probably shops online and has other compulsive behaviors – she seems hyper-organized at times, and it wouldn?t surprise me at all if she was OCD. As for the ?keeping bloody bandaids in a jar? thing – gross. God knows.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie: 'I?m still a bad girl, it just' belongs to Brad and our adventures' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie?s promotion for her directorial debut (for full-length feature film), In the Land of Blood and Honey, is starting now. I guess it really started when she got the cover of Vanity Fair a few months ago, but now it?s super-serious. I wonder how much press Angelina is going to do as writer-director, and how much press the actual film actors will be doing? Yes, most of the actors are not well known to American audiences, so Angelina?s name is going to be the biggest selling point. But it will be interesting to see how much press she does in support of the film. For now, though, Angelina is going to be on 60 Minutes on Sunday! Huzzah! CBS has already released a short video clip and some interview excerpts:
She wasn’t always toy shopping with Shiloh and visiting with refugees in the Congo. Prior to her current, globe-trotting wife as an actress, humanitarian, mother of six and longtime partner to Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie first became a household name as a weird, risk-taking Hollywood hottie.
Now 36, the star (whose directorial and screenwriting debut In the Land of Blood and Honey is out in December) says that the much-parodied darkness of her earlier years was very real — and very scary.
“I went through heavier, darker times and I survived them. I didn’t die young,” Jolie tells 60 Minutes’ Bob Simon in a new interview airing Sunday.
“So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things,” adds the Oscar winner.
But, she teases to Simon: “People can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst. . . for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here?You just. . . too many times where you came close to too many dangerous things, too many chances taken too, too far.”
Not that she’s completely reformed, of course. “I’m still a bad girl,” Jolie insists. “I still have that side of me. . . it’s just in its place now. . . it belongs to Brad–or our adventures,” she gushes of Pitt, 47, her man since 2005.
[Via Us Weekly]
That was kind of hot – ?I’m still a bad girl? I still have that side of me. . . it’s just in its place now. . . it belongs to Brad–or our adventures.? Sexy adventures. With whips and lots of leather. No wonder Brad looks so tired.
But with the good comes the bad. A British tabloid – Grazia, excerpted in The Mail – claims that Angelina is subsisting on a mere 600 calories a day and that she?s just wasting away. Which is weird, because in photos recently, Jolie hasn?t been looking so super-skinny. She looks like she?s been eating solids, more so than the Duchess of Cambridge:
Angelina Jolie?s weight is said to hover around the 97lb mark – underweight for her 5ft 8in height. Regardless of her emaciated frame though, sources say Angelina rarely eats a full meal and frequently forgets to eat. According to Grazia magazine, Angelina survives on as little as 600 calories a day, which is the equivalent of two bowls of cereal with milk.
‘Angelina has been known to start her day with little more than a spoonful of coconut oil and a handful of cereal,’ a source told Grazia last week. ‘The worrying thing is that she is so busy, she often forgets to eat. Sometimes she’ll skip lunch altogether or will just grab a few almonds and some gummy bears while she’s on the go, or will have a protein-based shake rather than anything more substantial. Then dinner could be something like a lean steak and a glass of red wine.’
The Grazia source said: ?What with her career, Brad and their six kids, Angelina has a lot on. Yes, stress plays a part. She is the type of person who drops weight when she’s stressed out. She simply loses her appetite and can survive on almost nothing. But a lot of people are worried that she is taking things too far and that she won’t have the strength to do all the things she wants to do if she doesn’t gain some weight. Everyone has been begging her to eat more and she is trying not to get any skinnier, but unfortunately she just doesn’t seem to be putting on any more weight.’
[From The Mail]
Meh. I don?t even buy that Jolie only weighs 97 pounds. My guesstimate for her weight is around 110-120 – very slender, with some muscles and some hips and boobs. I mean, could Angelina stand to put on 10 pounds? Yep. 20 pounds? Sure. She would even look great with 30 more pounds. But no matter how much weight she gains, I think the weight usually only goes to certain areas – when she gains weight, it seems to go to her boobs and mid-section, never to her legs and arms. She just has the skinny arms & legs gene. Skinny bitch!
Photos courtesy of Reuters, screen caps from 60 Minutes.
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| | Angelina Jolie signs with Ryan Gosling's agent, seeks more diverse work | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For me, Angelina Jolie has always gotten extra points for being a rare Hollywood star who doesn?t have a ?team? of sycophants and handlers ?managing? her every whim. She?s always had a manager - Geyer Kosinski - who she?s been with for probably 15 or 16 years. She has a lawyer or two, and that?s it. When she started up with Brad in 2005, she took meetings around Hollywood to see if she could/should sign with an agency, and she ended up hiring CAA. It was not a good fit, and Jolie ended up firing CAA in early 2006 - some say she quit the agency in a fit of pregnancy hormones and because she?s never liked to be micromanaged, which CAA is famous for. Since that 2006 fit, Jolie has just stuck with Kosinski as her sole representation in Hollywood - no agent, no publicist, no ?team?.
That?s just changed, though. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jolie just signed on with Ilene Feldman at IFA Talent because she wants to get more diverse work. Interesting.
Angelina Jolie has added a talent agent to her team of representatives. The actress-filmmaker has signed with Ilene Feldman at IFA Talent, who also represents Ryan Gosling, among others.
The last time Jolie had acting representation by a talent agency was in 2006, when she was with CAA (a stint that lasted 13 months). In March, she signed with UTA to rep her as a writer and director but not as an actor. She continues to be with her longtime manager Geyer Kosinski at Media Talent Group and attorney Robert Offer of Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
Sources say IFA will help Jolie, arguably the biggest female star in the world, find roles in smaller, independently financed films, not studio tentpoles or franchises.
The move comes just over month before the release of Jolie?s directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, which she also wrote. Jolie has spent the past several years acting in big studio movies such as The Tourist, Salt and Wanted, and has lent her voice to the mega-grossing Kung Fu Panda movies.
Her last dramas were 2008?s The Changeling and 2007?s A Mighty Heart, the former earning her an Oscar nomination. She won the best supporting actress statuette for 1999’s Girl, Interrupted.
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
Part of me is disappointed. Part of Jolie?s appeal (to me) is that she proves that someone with intelligence and talent can excel in Hollywood without having some epic ?industry? of people working on her behalf. I mean, what?s next? Will Jolie hire a publicist? Nooo!
But what this is probably really about is Angelina aging in the industry. She knows that she?s not always going to be getting the biggest and best scripts in Hollywood, and although she?s one of the few female stars who can single-handedly get a film financed and made, Jolie is smart enough to know that this too shall pass. She?s looking into the future and she sees fewer roles where she?s jumping off of overpasses onto moving vehicles and more work where she?s the supporting player in a medium-sized ensemble, or the lead in a small film. It?s smart, sure. But I wonder if she would have been able to make that transition without an agent?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie: So Long, Tokyo | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Bringing an end to their time in Japan, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were spotted at the Haneda International Airport in Tokyo today (November 10).
Joined by their six kids, the ?Mr. and Mrs. Smith? costars smiled for fans and press as they boarded an outbound flight following their brief 48-hour stay in the city where Brad was promoting his new movie ?Moneyball.?
During a press conference in Tokyo, Pitt shared his feelings on the amazing recovery efforts in Japan after the massive earthquake/tsunami disaster earlier this year.
?You are bringing everything forward to rebuilding and reclaiming the lives for yourselves and for others. It?s valued and inspiring to us. Your tenacity and perseverance and survival has a great effect on us, to the world community, and I applaud you all for that.?
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| | Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie do 'Moneyball' premiere in Tokyo: hot or meh' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina in COLOR. Dear God, is the end nigh? These are photos from the Tokyo, Japan premiere of Moneyball. I saw Moneyball and really, really liked it, and I?m not even a baseball person. The Japanese like baseball, though. Right? I mean, I?m not trying to generalize about an entire nation, but baseball is a popular sport over there, correct? I believe it is, so I imagine they?ll like the film.
Anyway, Angelina is wearing this RED(!!!!!!!) dress. I can?t find the designer ID, but I suspect it?s L?Wren Scott, just because of the way the bust is cut - that?s the way L?Wren does it, and Angelina has worn similar L?Wren dresses and gowns before. She does well in L?Wren (and Versace). I wish she would wear sexy, well-cut dresses like this more often. I wish she would wear color more often too. She also looks like she?s put on a little bit of much-needed weight. Her boobs look great, and her midsection looks a bit fuller. Her arms are still pretty bony though. Also: RED LIPS. Goodness.
As for Brad? Jeez, look how long his hair is. Is this his new thing? Growing out body, facial or head hair randomly? His hair was longish a few months ago when he was filming World War Z in Scotland and England, and I believe he?s still filming that interminable sci-fi film still, now in Budapest. I think the difference in hair length will probably be justified because the film moves back and forth in time. Maybe long-haired Brad is the super-future Brad. I don?t know. I kind of like him with longer hair.
Photos courtesy of Reuters.
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