Archives for May 2008

Hollywood's enigmatic power couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, are in the throes of domesticity and relocating to a chateau in France's famed Provence region, a local official told AFP.

The couple are moving their furniture into the Miraval area property, in the heart of the southeastern Var region, in time for Jolie, 32, to give birth to twins.

"They are settling in and bringing their furniture," while American owner Tom Bove moves out of Chateau Miraval, said local mayor Michael Latz.

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Brad Pitt's manager has denied a television report that Angelina Jolie has given birth to the Hollywood couple's twins in France.

"It's not true. It's a rumour," Cynthia Pett-Dante, told reporters in a statement.

But the US showbiz news programme Entertainment Tonight said it stood by its earlier report that Jolie had given birth to twin daughters.

The show attributed the story to an unidentified person close to the actress.

"The source says she was inside the delivery room, tells 'ET' yes, the babies were born, and yes, mother and daughters are fine," the programme said.

The story was disputed almost from the start by various other celebrity news outlets.

People magazine quoting an unnamed representative for Jolie on its website as saying: "Angelina has not given birth. She is fine, enjoying her home and her family in France."

Meanwhile, another celebrity publication, Britain's NOW magazine, reported the latest additions to the Jolie-Pitt clan had already been named Isla Marcheline and Amelie Jane.

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If you are looking for a little light summer reading that involves all of your favorite Hollywood people, Jules Asner may have a little offering for you that even includes the inevitable Jennifer Aniston versus Angelina Jolie battle.  For good measure the new mystery titled "Whacked" gets in more Hollywood celebs as well along with what siunds like some interesting twists and turns.
The book will be released in the first week in June and Amazon notes that Asner, an ex-model and wife of director Steven Soderbergh and E! Entertainment Television personality debuts with "a dishy mix of Tinseltown hackdom, chick lit and, surprisingly, a chilling plot. Dani Hale is an L.A. TV writer for crime show Flesh and Bone who has an inordinate interest in all things forensic one shared by technical adviser Rich Pisani, a retired LAPD cop."

"Dani hacks into e-mails and cellphones to alleviate hers. After discovering Dave has been cheating on her, Dani plots revenge on him, freckled harlot-starlet Chloe and office boor Evil Janet, but things quickly spiral out of control. Asner juggles horror and giggles and wraps it up with a subtle kicker, and though Rich's role is underwritten, the novel is still tons of fun."

It sounds like fun.  The New York Daily News notes that Drew Barrymore pops into the novel as well along with comments about Jolie's breasts.  In the battle of Jennifer vs. Angelina Jules appears to have sided with Jen.  After the shot at Jolie in the book, Jules adds, "Jen is the sweetest, nicest person in the world. I'd only mention her in a great capacity."

A solid gold pendant nestles in the plunging neckline of Angelina Jolie's black dress. Forgive me if this is the first thing I notice when she rises to greet me. But it leaps out because it’s no ordinary bauble; it has the unmistakable shape of a machine gun.

Apparently it was made by a jeweller based on a drawing by her son, Maddox, and given to her as a Mother's Day present by her partner, Brad Pitt.

I suppose I'm mostly taken aback because of our situation; Jolie is very pregnant, with twins expected any day now, and we are in the rarefied surroundings of a suite in the Carlton hotel in Cannes.

It's old-school luxury: yellow Provençal wallpaper, a salmon-pink sofa upon which Jolie perches and a matching chair for me.

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Millionaire rapper P. Diddy is writing a romantic comedy in an attempt to woo actress Sienna Miller.

The hip-hop star hopes his 'saucy' film will also star Angelina Jolie.

The Daily Star quote Diddy as saying: "I'm writing a film, a comedy. For actresses I want Angelina Jolie and Sienna Miller. For actors, Eddie Murphy."

A certain "Crazy Dogg" also gives his verdict on the script: "This is going to be one hot movie. We're all like, you writing so you can just hang with Sienna?"

Diddy has reportedly been pursuing Miller, who has just split from boyfriend Rhys Ifans, for some time.

Angelina Jolie, an actress, a mother of four (soon to be six), and involved in many humanitarian efforts all over the world, feels this hectic lifestyle is easier than having a regular career.

The pregnant actress, who is expecting twins, is currently in France with her partner Brad Pitt.

Thesun.co.uk reports Jolie saying: "I'm very, very lucky. A lot of mothers don't have a job where they can just work a few months in a year and then come out for two days for a press conference. My schedule is very small in comparison when it comes to hours so I can afford to spend as much time as possible with my children."

The couple just bought a 35 million-pound chateau on the French Riviera which comes with a forest, and they make sure one of them is always at home.

She added: "When I'm working, Brad's home with the children and vice versa. We do have nannies who help us, but nobody spends the night. We also spend a lot of time completely alone with our children. We've found a balance. And this year I'm taking off completely for the family."

Chubby cheeks are the secret to a youthful appearance and attracting the opposite sex, according to new research.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons claims that fatty deposits underneath the face help to keep people looking young and beautiful.

Scientists hope that the findings, which explain why sudden weight loss can make people look older, will help them develop techniques to halt the signs of aging.

One suggestion is that fatty deposits are injected beneath the skin to plump up cheeks.
"From the irresistible urge to pinch the cheeks of infants to our admiration of Hollywood stars like Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie, we've known for a long time that cheeks are vital to what we consider beautiful," said Joel Pessa, a surgeon and co-author of the study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the society.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will marry later this month. The Hollywood couple are reportedly planning to tie the knot in a "simple outdoor ceremony" with their friends and family present.

A friend of the pair said: "Angelina and Brad aren't going to do a lot of planning. It will just be a simple outdoor ceremony at Villa Maryland, the home of Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, in France, where they have been staying while they are house-hunting in the region. "Angelina wants all the children - Maddox, six, four-year-old Pax, three-year-old Zahara and two-year-old Shiloh - to participate in a celebration of their family. The kids will be central to the blessing.

Maddox and Pax have contributed to the vows as well." Brad's parents - who flew to France earlier this week, again suggesting the couple are planning to marry soon - are said to be "thrilled" Angelina has finally agreed to marry their son.

A source told Britain's Grazia magazine: "Brad's parents are thrilled that she has come round to the idea of a wedding. It took a long time for them to accept Angelina, and she hated that people saw her as the one who stole him from Jennifer Aniston, but all that is ancient history now she's prepared to take the next step." Angelina is said to be planning to give birth in France, as a tribute to her late French-Canadian mother Marcheline Bertrand.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie step out for a dinner party

The expectant parents, who are in Cannes for the city's film festival , left their kids at home for dinner with Angelina's The Changeling director Clint Eastwood, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and nearly 10 other guests, STAR reports.

Angelina dressed in a long, black patterned dress and Brad arrived at Restaurant Tetou in Golfe-Juan just outside Cannes at around 8:30 p.m. and the party broke up at around midnight. 

After rising through the Hollywood ranks as a quirky, offbeat, and sometimes wild young actress, Angelina Jolie has blossomed and matured into a beautiful, elegant, and socially aware woman with a huge heart. Not only is Jolie now an A-List actress and one of the most written about celebrities on the planet, she's also the most visible and recognized Goodwill Ambassador from the United States. Although it might seem like Angelina Jolie has been away from the acting world more often than not in recent years given her highly publicized humanitarian efforts, Jolie has been in at least one film a year since her career really took off with Girl Interrupted in 1999 and Tomb Raider in 2001.

While overseas attending the Cannes Film Festival over the past couple of weeks, a pregnant and barely cosmetic Jolie took some time to talk to the press about her upcoming voice role as a fighting tigress in DreamWorks' animated film Kung Fu Panda, why she wanted to sign on to the upcoming comic adaptation Wanted, whether she'll be attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in China, how her image has changed over the years, and whether she knows the sex of her unborn babies now that Jack Black revealed to the world that she's pregnant.

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