Archives for August 2007

Angelina Jolie says people take her politics “less seriously” because of her acting career.“I don’t necessarily think that’s a natural role for an actor,” Jolie says. “Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I appear in movies.”Jolie is the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and recently went to Iraq to talk to Iraqi refugees.“I think we should be looking for great leaders in people who have dedicated their lives to those issues,” Jolie adds. “And the reality is that actors spend a great deal of their time making films.”Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt recently hosted a charity event to help raise funds to rebuild parts of New Orleans.

Actress Angelina Jolie arrived in war-torn Iraq on Tuesday in her capacity as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.On Monday, the mother-of-four flew from New York City to Damascus, Syria, where she spent hours chatting to Iraqi refugees and visited a United Nations Refugee Agency registration center.Jolie then traveled to a makeshift outpost on the Syrian/Iraqi border to meet 1,200 refugees camped there because they're unable to leave the country.She says, "I have come to Syria and Iraq to help draw attention to the humanitarian crisis and to urge governments to increase their support for UNHCR and its partners."My sole purpose in both countries is to highlight the plight of those uprooted by the war in Iraq."It is absolutely essential that the ongoing debate about Iraq's future includes plans for addressing the enormous humanitarian consequences these people face."Jolie has also made a morale-boosting trip to meet multi-national forces and U.S. troops in the region.

Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took a night off parenting their four children to host a fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the Hamptons, N.Y., on Saturday.The pair left Maddox, Pax Thien, Zahara and Shiloh Nouvel with nannies at their New York City hotel to fly upstate to the home of Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in Watermill.The fundraiser was promoting Pitt's Make It Right project, which aims to rebuild New Orleans, La.'s hurricane-ravaged Ninth Ward.During the evening, the couple socialized with Pitt's "Ocean's Thirteen" co-star Ellen Barkin, country singer Jimmy Buffet and supermodel Christie Brinkley, the New York Daily News reports.

Brad Pitt and Angeline Jolie spent part of their week in New York City where they treated their four kids to several family outings including a trip to Central Park complete with a carousel ride and a visit to a hot dog cart. Just last week the Jolie-Pitt family spent quality time together doing things like touring a museum and going on a boating trip.After their day with the kids Pitt and Jolie got down to business and took a helicopter to Westhampton where they hosted a charity gala that is helping victims of hurricane Katrina. Among the celebrity’s in attendance were Christie Brinkley, Ellen Barkin, and Jimmy Buffett.The event supported Pitt’s Make It Right project. The project is helping rebuild parts of New Orleans that was destroyed by Katrina.

For some time now, the world media has speculated that the actress is dangerously ill considering that her weight has fallen drastically.After the National Inquirer magazine announced in April that the actress is fighting a terminal disease, Stars is now confirming that.Jolie’s weight has fallen to only 40 kilograms, she is constantly dizzy, is very weak, and her husband Brad barely talked her into visiting a doctor.She has no appetite and eats very little.Testing has shown that Jolie has one form of hepatitis, but Brad does not want to talk about that. Along with all of that, her mood changes from minute to minute. A few days ago, she started screaming at him, saying that she is only with him because his is the father of their children. Brad has lots of understanding – revealed a friend close to the couple.

At the set of the film “Wanted” in Chicago, Angelina nearly collapsed on the floor, making the excuse that she is very exhausted because she spends all day running about with her children, reports 24 sata.

ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT are organising a top secret celebrity fundraiser in the Hamptons, New York to support the actor's efforts to rebuild areas of New Orleans, Louisiana.Babel star Pitt has already helped raise millions for the hurricane-ravaged city, and is currently promoting his efforts there.And now he wants New York's tycoons to help fund the next stage of his charity push.Producer Jane Rosenthal and her businessman husband Craig Hatkoff will host the upcoming gala, where the Hollywood couple will meet and greet prospective backers.

 Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie still maintain they were 'just good friends' and that romance only blossomed once Pitt and Aniston filed for divorce.Having met on the sets of the blockbuster Mr & Mrs Smith, Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie still maintain they were 'just good friends' and that romance only blossomed once Pitt and Aniston filed for divorce. All the sizzling on screen, however, and a series of paparazzi shots taken off-sets might imply otherwise. It was only really when Brad adopted her kids, Maddox and Zahara, and Angelina announced that she was pregnant in January that they could no longer deny their status as a couple.Close friends said that with children involved, the need for a pre-nuptial became obvious.While reports claim Brad continues to ask Ange to marry him, those close to the couple are predicting a winter wedding at George Clooney's villa on Lake Como. But with their baby Shiloh having so recently arrived, wedding bells might not be sounding anytime soon.Any plans to marry might be on hold, but Brangelina's pre-nup ' has already been drawn up. Financial details remain under wraps but, apparently, the deal, commissioned at Angelina's request, is aimed at protecting the kids should things go wrong.

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Common Visits Angelina Jolie And Morgan Freeman On Set....Common performed a personalised rap for Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman on the set of their upcoming movie Wanted.The rapper - real name Lonnie Lynn Jr. - recently spent time with the acting duo shooting the new movie in Prague, but decided to pay them a visit when filming returned to his hometown of Chicago, Illinois.Lynn performed a rap - inspired by his new album Finding Forever - as a tribute to Jolie and Freeman and also gave them handwritten copies of the lyrics to keep.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were touring a Chicago Museum recently when daddy Brad showed his appreciation to a security guard by leaving him with a $300 tip!Brangelina headed over to the Field Museum in Chicago on August 11 where the couple and their kids enjoyed a one-hour VIP tour after hours - and Angie's Brad left a security guard $300 bucks for treating them well!The guard said of Brangelina: "They were a nice couple."US Weekly scoops: While at the museum, Angelina Jolie and Pitt made wax dinosaur toys out of a molding machine with the kids and checked out the extensive collection of dinosaur remains and fossils.

A Former love of Brad Pitt, actress Robin Givens, has given her opinion on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s “doomed” relationship.“Whenever I see him in the magazines with Angelina Jolie I just crack up. I think it’s hysterical!” she says. She also said that Pitt was “hot” but he wasn’t so “fascinating” to her.Angelina Jolie’s former lesbian lover has also spoken out about Pitt and dooms their relationship too. Jenny Shimizu had a 10 year on-off relationship with Jolie and says that Angelina will soon tire of Brad and revert back to getting her pleasures from women.Pitt and Jolie’s relationship has been criticized ever since they became public so soon after Pitt’s divorce from Jennifer Aniston. Some believe that they where having an affair at the time Pitt was still married to Aniston. Soon after they went public with their relationship, Jolie announced she was pregnant. From there they started a family. Pitt became a father to Jolie’s adopted son Maddox, and the couple adopted two more children.Recent reports say suggest that Brangelina are preparing to adopt another child from Africa very soon.