Angelina Jolie Watch

Yeah so I’m sure what her deal is but Roseanne suddenly has it in for Angelina and her entire family. Here’s a snippet of some things she wrote about Angelina, Brad and Jon Voight on her blog/website:

jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (just sayin’).
Also miss jolie says she likes mccain too and hasn’t decided who to endorse….huh? Aren’t you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the african daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party’s worldwide economic assault on africa over the last few decades since reagan? whaaaa…??????!!!! (for that matter, the thai and cambodian sons you are photo’d with weekly too who’s pictures you sell to raise money to help the poor? Their families are victims of America’s right right wing military incursions too.
There’s so much wrong and sad about this post I can’t even name it all.

First of all, can I get you to just consider some punctuation and paragraphs? If you are going to be irritating at least be readible.

Second, Angelina gives away nearly a third of her income to support charity not $3 out of $40 million. How much do you give Roseanne?

Third, Angelina has ever right to consider very carefully who she wants to vote for. It is also her fundamental right to keep that vote private. She’s not required to tell us who she intends to vote for. She has lent her voice to the causes she feels needs them. She isn’t required to publicly support any candidate.

Finally, Angie and Brad do everything they can to shield there children from the press. They aren’t flaunting them or putting them on display.

Roseanne get a life.  Soon.

Nooo Angelina hasn’t replaced Tom as the top celeb Scientologist. She’s taking over a movie role that was originally meant for Tom. The spy thriller Edwin A. Salt is being rewritten to reflect the likely gender switch. The film is about a “a CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy and must elude capture long enough to establish her innocence.”

Cruise was attached to the project for some time but recently decided to let it go for good. Perhaps the project is too Mision Impossible for him?

It makes sense for the studio to change he script just for Angie. She practically guarantees a movie’s success.

After Universal beefed up Jolie’s role in “Wanted” and then marketed the action film squarely on Jolie’s shoulders and watched it gross $132 million domestically, Jolie reestablished, in the wake of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” that she is the rare female who is viable in the action genre, which has been almost the exclusive domain of men.

If all goes plan the action thriller could serve as Angelina’s return film after her maternity leave. There are also noises that Atlas Shrugged could be in the works sooner rather. Rumors have long suggested that Angelina and Brad are both being courted to star in the film. I doubt very seriously that they both sign on for the production. They’ve got six kids now. They didn’t work at the same time before. They certainly won’t do it now.

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People has responded to rumors that they photo-shoped the smile on baby Vivienne Marcheline’s 3-week- old face for the twins recent cover. New York Magazine suggested(playfully it seems) that Vivienne was too young to respond to outside stimuli with a smile.

These babies are purported to be a mere 3 weeks old! Parenting magazine says that babies don’t smile from exterior stimulation until two to four months — even if said exterior stimulation is the most beautiful pair of humans in the entire world. Conspiracy! Photoshop! Something!

People’s director of public relations Sandi Shurgin Werfel told Fox News that the photos are legit. “Contrary to blog speculation, People did not photo-shop Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt’s smile. One can only guess that she is smiling because her parents are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.”

There’s a reason I’d smile.
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Designer Eileen West was surprised and delighted to see Angelina wearing one of her nightgowns in the family’s recent People shoot.

“I was absolutely thrilled to see Angelina Jolie wearing our La Stella gown for her photo debut with the twins. In many ways, Angelina embodies the spirit and style of Eileen West sleepwear; she’s a natural beauty, a mother, a woman on the go who maintains a sense of grace. Truly, we feel quite honored by her choice to wear the La Stella gown. Best wishes to the Jolie-Pitt family!” said Eileen West.

The company describes white gown as “a breezy, lightweight cotton rich fabric, its delicate heirloom lace originally inspired by a Victorian bodice from Eileen’s personal collection of antique finds.”

In the meantime, the gown itself will be available on the designer’s website in October on a first come first serve basis.

Celebrity Babies was able to dig up the current retailers where the gown is sold.

We found plus-size ($82) and short ($60) versions at Dillard’s, and a version under a different name at the Vermont Country Store, plus a matching robe, in white and lilac.

If you’d like buy one of the gowns you can email the company at askus@eileenwest.com.

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According to the Rocky Mountain News, Angelina and Brad may host a charity event during the Democratic National Convention which will be held in Denver August 25-28. The couple is supposedly in talks with “a local promoter” about the event. No word on what charity it will benefit or if the event is part of the official festivities. If Brad and Angie are taking advantage of all the big wigs in town. My guess is the latter. If this is things comes off, they’ll have the full attention of lots of deep pocket big wigs. They could collect a tidy sum for charity. If I had to take a guess, and this is only a guess, I’d guess the event will benefit rebuilding New Orleans.

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In other news, Maddox celebrated his 7th birthday on Tuesday. To celebrate he spent the entire day with dad racing go-karts. “It was just Maddox and Brad,” says a source. “Just father-son time.” Even though dad has more real life experience it was Maddox who crossed the finish line first. Mom stayed home to watch the rest of the brood. Luckily she has help because I can’t imagine taking care of three-week-old twins and 3 kids under five. Kudos to any of you out there who has.

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In still other news Brad’s been cast in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II action-drama Inglorious Bastards,. Brad is set to play “play a Southern rebel who assembles a team of eight prisoners-turned-soldiers to battle the Nazis.” Filming starts on October 13th in Germany. I guess that means the family are hunkered down in Europe for a bit longer.

Heard any good Angie and Brad news lately?

The Spanish version of Hello! has hit the internet. It seems that we’ve got the complete spread of the Jolie-Pitt pics from Hello! and People.

Maddox is sporting a blue streak in his hair while Pax opted for blonde. Diva Shiloh has her her nails polished. The entire family is dressed in white, looking very natural and completely happy.

Brad and Angie are laughing off reports that they conceived via in vitro. “If they had been conceived by IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it,” Angie told People. “But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems.”

In fact, the couple was completely shocked when they found out they were having twins.

“We were in shock and could not stop laughing,” Angelina said.

Brad added, “We bust into hysterics. My sister had made a joke about twins literally the night before, because my grandparents and sis both had twins. Angie was on the table during the sonogram, and we were in hysterics. We didn’t see this one coming.”

Despite the large brood the family continues have already planned their next charity trip.

Angie: “The next trip for our Foundation will most likely be Asia to follow up on the situation in Burma and our work in Cambodia. The boys have been asking to go so we will take them when Knox and Viv are a little older.”

There next projects include “building TB/AIDS clinic in Ethiopia.”   They plan on taking Zahara there when she gets older.

People and Hello have has released the first photos of Knox and Vivianne. People snagged the North American rights while Hello! had Europe covered.

Here’s what Angie and Brad have to say about their growing brood.

“It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time,” Angelina told People about the family’s daily life. The old kids enjoy playing outdoors. Hide and Seek is the favorite.

Adds Pitt: “[It's] still a cuckoo’s nest.”

Brad thinks he sees the family resemblance already.

“Viv is proving to resemble Ange in spirit, attitude and physicality… And Knox, he’s a bit of me.”

The’ve even got some little helpers.

“[Shiloh] and Z pick out [the twins'] clothes and help change and hold them,” says Angelina “It’s sweet – they are little mommies.” There’s even a cute little picture of the Shiloh holding Vivienne.

The entire 19-page spread will hit newsstands this week.

Word on the street( Okay it’s not the street. It’s Just Jared. He’s like the street. Right?) is that People has snagged the the rights to Vivianne and Knox’s first photos. TMZ insists that the pics went for at least 16 million, while JJ says the photos went for between $10 million and $15 million. Of course the funds are set for charity. Speculation is that People paid between $3 million and $4 million for Shi’s photos though People has confirmed the price.

Other high priced celebrity baby pics include:

Max & Emme Anthony
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s fraternal twins graced a March 2008 People cover for a cool $6 million.

and

Dannielynn Smith
Daughter of Anna Nicole Smith. OK! paid a reported $2 million for their April 2007 cover.

Pop Sugar has announced the 2nd Annual PopSugar 100. Besides 20 million votes, the folks at the uber popular website looked at “likeability, talent, style, class, and looks” and the PopFactor. Angelina and Brad landed the number one and number two spots respectively. Angelina was lauded for her humanitarian work and devotion to family. Brad got props for his critically acclaimed movies, devotion to family and work to rebuild New Orleans. Others in the top ten included Johnny Depp, Reese Witherspoon, David Beckham, George Clooney and Heidi Klum.

I doubt that Angie and Brad care about this kind of stuff but it’s fun for us fans. Now when are we going to see those babies? Just kidding. It’ll probably be a few weeks before we see the twins. Who knows if the family is still in France or have fled to Greece like it’s been rumored.

Even a massive French estate with round the clock security isn’t giving Angelina and Brad breathing room. Yesterday, the family’s security found camouflaged paparazzi trespassing on the chateau’s grounds. Of course both sides give widely different stories.

Freelance photographer Luc Goursolas said he broke a guard’s finger and bit another until he bled, and that they hit him with a walkie-talkie, punched and kicked him, leaving a head wound that required three stitches.

“I was pouring blood. I threw myself at them, put blood all over them, and told them that I had HIV so they would stop hitting me,” Goursolas told The Associated Press on Friday.

Tony Webb, head of security at the Miraval estate, said Goursolas went “berserk” without provocation and denied that his guards punched the photographer.

Webb says the family may have to move because for the media frenzy. “If they get invasion of their privacy like this then they would have no option, and they would have to go somewhere where the laws are upheld a bit better,” Webb said.

Complaints were filed all around though it appears that local police aren’t taking the situation seriously.
Police spokesperson Capt. Olivia Poupot said, “This kind of thing is really not the type of problem that interests us,” she said. “There are, in my opinion, far more important things than paparazzi taking photos of a glamour couple.”

I get Capt Olivia’s point of view. Angelina and Brad have resources and a healthy happy family. In her opinion, they chose this life and so thems the breaks. To a certain extent she’s right. Angelina and Brad have chosen a profession that brings attention to themselves and their family. I think they completely understand that. What they don’t understand is someone coming sitting for hours, in camouflage to get pictures of their premature children. These photogs aren’t murderers and they shouldn’t be treated as such but they should be held accountable.

Rumor alert! Us Weekly is reporting that Brad and Angelina used fertility treatments to conceive the twins. A “well placed” source insists that our favorite couple went this route so they “wouldn’t have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant”. If the rumor is true(I highly doubt that it is), it would explain the twins. The chance of having fraternal twins jumps from 1 to 25 percent when couples conceive via in vitro.

This really doesn’t ring true. Angie got pregnant with Shiloh very quickly. This article suggests that Angie and Brad didn’t really give natural methods try but just jumped right in with fertility treatments. Oh well, I’m sure US Weekly didn’t get the baby photos so they’ve got to have something to print.

Just Jared contends that family will soon vacate their French Chateau for he ancient isles sooner rather later though the most recent photos show the family still in France. Bauergriffinonline.com has photos of the family hanging out the Brad’s parents Bill and Jane Pitt a few days after Angie left the hospital this weekend. That brings us to our next topic.

How exactly did Angie get out of the hospital without being seen?

People magazine is reporting that Angelina, Brad and twins left the French hospital around 3:50 a.m. when a grey minibus arrived in a previously closed section of hospital grounds. According to a witness, “There was a sudden spray of light out of the hospital’s garage way and then four or five people came out of that through a rear doorway. They stood behind the hospital in a small courtyard in the dark.”

The witness also described a flurry of activity that ended with swift exit. “This group of people got into the van, very quickly. . . . It was all done in a hurry. And they were very quick organizing themselves inside. Very rapid. And then ‘Pouf!’ they were gone.”

“With all the press attention around them, a constant watch on the front of the hospital, they managed to leave so quickly, my hat’s off to them,” the witness said.

At around 9:50 a.m Dr. Sessum confirmed the departure by telling reporters, “You can go home. The story is over.”

I wonder if they’re already in Greece. Angie looks great!

Angelina has left the building er….the hospital.

“Mrs Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Foundation Lenval early in the morning, on July 19. The mother and her babies are doing very well,” the Lenval hospital said in a statement on it’s website. Angie, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline left the hospital around 4AM. According to the hospital, the twins are doing “perfectly well”.

It’s go to hear that the children were able to go home so soon even though they were a little early.

Mayor Christian Estrosi chatted with Nice-Matin newspaper after visiting Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in their hospital room. During the visit Brad repeated over and over again that he was “the happiest father ever.” According to the mayor, Brad was also extremely pleased with the care Angie had received. “[Brad] told me we chose one of the best hospitals in the world, one of the best doctors, one of the best medical teams. And also the most beautiful bay in the world.�?

Estorsi said that the babies spent Saturday night in Angie’s room and she(and probably Bad as well) took care of them herself.

The French newspaper has scooped the international press because that’s how Brad and Angie wanted it. “It was Brad Pitt who chose to give the scoop to Nice-Matin,” said assistant editor-in-chief Olivier Biscaye. “He said to the doctor that the local media should be the first informed about the birth.”

There was lots of bad information going on but the the local paper never fell for it. They were even given heads when 30 minutes before Angelina was wheeled into the delivery room.  Soon after the delivery Dr. Micheal Sussman gave them the names and sexes of the twins. They were even the first to report that the delivery date was moved up 10 days for Angelina’s comfort.

As far as exclusive photo rights goes, the paper is reporting that a US publication will get the exclusive rights for $11 million.  Of course all the proceeds are going to charity.  I wonder how long it will be before the babies are ready for the their photos.

Dr. Michael Sussman(on the left) shared a bit with fans outside of the hospital today. According Dr. Sussman, Brad cut the chord and was with Angie during the entire delivery. “He was my assistant!” Dr. Sussmann joked. Pictured above are Knox’s  and Vivienne’s birth certificate being held by Nice’s mayor Christian Estrosi.

Brad was a cool customer during the delivery.
“He was … perfectly calm, totally determined, very pleased to be at the birth of his children, very moved and very emotional,” said Sussmann.

He didn’t reveal when Angie would leave the hospital.
“When will Jolie and the babies leave the hospital? “I don’t know,” he said. “She will stay for a few days. You know, in Europe it isn’t like in the United States, where the patients go home after three days. They will stay a bit longer until everything is okay.”

Dr. Sussman added that all are well.
“The babies are fine. The babies are with the mother and father and they are fine.”

We’ve also got a closeup of Knox’s birth certificate. Looks like Brad’s signed the bottom.