Angelina Jolie

[greeneyebeauty]

^ They do look happy, good for them.

 

[Little Tiny]

I do like Angie for her lending her name and giving funds to help people in need,but to tell you the truth-I watched her show on MTV about her helping refugees and she wasn't very informed,not anymore than any of us who know the basics of what people need to help them live in these places...Angie,just gets peoples attention really because everyone is so in love and fascinated with her beauty.But,if you can use that to help,why not!Angie does seem really honest though about her love of refugees and the want to help them.

 

[RobertaCastello]

How do you find a good nanny when you're a world famous celebrity couple? I'd been too paranoid they were just a spy or trying to f**k me over. They're better off just taking care of the kids on their own.

Well, Jude Law is a living proof of that theory!

 

[karishma21]

lol..hey i luv jude!!! if i was the nanny for brad or jude i think i would be tempted ...

brad and jen didnt work out.And i thought that couple was picture perfect... so u can never be 100 % sure about angie and brad.. its hollywood...

 

[sanura]

Thanks for the Us article...

Not a fan of the couple, but do enjoy reading about their lifestyle though, private jet with jacuzzi, flying lessons, private plane, traveling all over the world, billion dollars home, envy....

Ya, she doesn't sound very bright in the interview...

 

[Captain_Lydia]

Nannygate Brangelina style

Lord, like they aren't hounded enough, eh?

 

[thehepburn]

For the person who asked just what does AJ do, here is next month's Forbes article on her:

Bad girl interrupted
Angelina Jolie: Saving the world — and her image
By Matthew Swibel
FORBES

Angelina Jolie, the Oscar-winning actress and media obsession, has focused international attention on her heartfelt cause, the plight of the poorest children in the developing world. She visits refugee camps in war-torn regions of Southeast Asia to comfort hundreds of kids who have lost limbs to land mines. She lobbies Congress on behalf of orphans with AIDS. She personally has donated $4 million since 2001 to Pakistani earthquake victims and other causes, most recently to maternity wards of state hospitals in Namibia, the impoverished African nation where she gave birth to her daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, on May 27.

The first photos of her new baby, which Jolie released to Getty Images, brought a reported $4.1 million payment from People magazine — the glossy disputes the amount — and she is giving all of the proceeds to charity. But Jolie, in her first one-on-one interview since giving birth, candidly acknowledges her crusade has an extra upside: It diverts movie fans, supermarket tabloids and the media from focusing on more controversial and less attractive elements of her life.


"That is a fair assessment," she tells FORBES in an exclusive interview. Her work "is twofold: I have all that gossip in my life that has gotten so out of control. And my work in Washington and with the UN gets people to focus on other things." Jolie, 31, who won an Academy Award in 2000 for her supporting role as a mental patient in the film "Girl, Interrupted," has thus been able to endure hits to her image that might otherwise have badly hurt her career.

The public-relations value of a good deed has quelled carpers who could have painted an uglier picture, say, of a home-wrecker and sex symbol who's had an out-of-wedlock baby with a heartthrob actor she stole from America's sweetheart. (Last year Jolie had a rumored affair with Brad Pitt, her costar in the film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," purportedly prompting him to leave his actress wife, the perky sitcom darling Jennifer Aniston. "Brangelina," as the couple has been christened in the press, have denied that marriage will follow.)

'It's all about self-interest'
But some of the best charitable works are motivated by a personal stake. Michael Milken, the former Wall Street banker and philanthropist who survived prostate cancer, has pledged $50 million or more for research on his disease, yielding breakthrough therapies. Virgin Group Chief Richard Branson devotes money and staff for work on AIDS in South Africa, in part because he employs 4,500 there.

"It's all about self-interest. Your experience is the epicenter of your efforts," says actor Michael J. Fox, whose Parkinson's disease was diagnosed in 1991. He has mounted a nationwide effort to increase Parkinson's funding and persuade Congress to override the Bush Administration's ban on using federal dollars for research on new stem-cell lines, which might be useful in treating his debilitating disease. Had it not been diagnosed, "Would I have picked this disease out of a hat and run with it?" Fox asks. "No. Besides, it would be less authentic if I had."


So it is that Angelina Jolie, who earns $15 million per film, has benefited visibly from her good works. Her Q score, a much-watched quotient in Hollywood that gauges a star's likability among hoi polloi, has gone up with her aid efforts. In 2000 only 31 percent of respondents said she was "familiar" to them, and only 14 percent of those viewed her positively. By 2006 she was familiar to 81 percent of Americans, and her positive rating had almost doubled to 25 percent, says Marketing Evaluations Inc. (Her negative rating rose, too, but it is lower than that of the average performer.)Waking up to the world

Her awakening began in early 2001, when the self-styled "sheltered Los Angeles kid," the daughter of actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand, began reading United Nations reports on global poverty and refugees. She approached UN officials, hoping to help but wary her offbeat image might get in the way. They sent her to paparazzi-free zones: hot spots Sierra Leone and Tanzania. In 2001 the UN High Commissioner for Refugees wanted to make her a goodwill ambassador, but she told UN officials in Geneva: "I don't think you want me. There's a lot of bad things written about me and my behavior. I could have a negative effect on your operations." They gave her the title anyway.

Five years later rock stars and actors dish with world leaders about global debt relief and stem-cell law. U2's Bono held forth in January at the power-packed World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. But he was upstaged by one Angelina Jolie, who took the dais to say she was "ashamed" that the Bush Administration had refused to sign a UN bill of rights for children. The world's most luminous tabloid target had remade herself into an efficient advocate for the Third World.

Now she also lobbies in Washington, D.C. "Hollywood types have figured out the only difference in Washington is that you're selling bills instead of scripts," says Erik Huey, a D.C. lobbyist. Jolie, who has dropped in on scores of congressmen and senators at least 20 times in the past three years, says she hopes to return to the nation's capital on June 20 to attend World Refugee Day. "As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball," she says. And since giving birth to Shiloh, her third child — she adopted son Maddox, 4, in Cambodia and Zahara, 1, in Ethiopia — she promises more cameos on the Hill. "The more children I have, the more I feel it's my duty," she says.

She has pushed three bills to protect children. One would have the U.S. spend $500 million next year and $15 billion over ten years, to educate kids in the poorest regions. She plans to work with Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, who has proposed it. In April, to pique interest in the press, Jolie joined in a media conference call about education when she was eight months pregnant; it generated 243 stories.


A second bill would provide legal help to alien minors (she despises the term "alien") who are alone and pass through U.S. borders. The Senate passed it in December 2005, but it has languished in the House for six months. "It's caught up in the overall immigration debate," Jolie says, "but I just think it's un-American to refuse refugee children access to a lawyer." But in a private meeting, Representative F. John Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin scoffed at the cost of implementing such an idea, she says. "He didn't treat me gently — I left shaking in my heels."

Her third bill, to aid 70 million "vulnerable" kids in the Third World, was signed by President Bush last November — but so far no funding has been okayed. "We worked so hard to pass a bill, and then you realize you have to figure out a way to pay for it," she gripes.


Still, Jolie got the issue to center stage. "She fills a room," says Chris Ann Keehner, a Senate staffer who helped draft the bill. "It gives a member of Congress a photo op, and it's a way to get the message out — even if she did break up a marriage."

On chances she'd ever run for office:
"It's difficult, as much as I'd love to get more involved in different ways, I am able to work with everyone [as an actress], I'm able to do a lot from the position I stand on. Otherwise, I would have to take a side, and I don't know I'd be very good. I don't have the confidence ... if that day comes, it would surprise me more than anyone."

On the Washington-Hollywood connection:
"I don't know what is a harder [place to work]. In both cities, it's strange bedfellows. I've never done the cocktail party in Hollywood, but I have in Washington. Maybe I care more about policy issues than a movie role."

On working with Republicans:
"Fortunately, my issues are not partisan issues. Certainly, you learn to work with anybody--I've worked with the most hard-core Republicans. Why? I can't wait until there's maybe a more flexible group in office."

On Shiloh's birth:
"It's different to say that you choose to bring a child into existence. I didn't choose to bring my two adopted children to life. Strangely enough, I was concerned about [this difference], and I have been making a point recently to give my adopted children more attention. But I feel now I love them equally ... and I am very lucky that I am not a single parent. I can't imagine how difficult it is for mothers who have to go back to work so soon. "


On her standing in Washington:
"I am very aware in [Washington] I don't have the education or background that is typical. I feel like a little punk kid dressed up in a suit. But I have traveled for about six years to several places around the world and have seen very shocking and disturbing things. Look, I'm just an actress in a silly profession."


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13345611/

 

[Captain_Lydia]

Hey cool, that's very specific. I don't see why having a baby "out of wedlock" should be a negative mark against her. This isn't the 50's for f*ck's sake. Next they'll be whining she got divorced, oh heaven's no!

 

[LeonieAlexandria]

well in cases like that, i wish it WAS the 50's.

 

[Captain_Lydia]

Eww, not me. I wouldn't go back to that period for all the booze in Ireland and I'm Irish!

 

[LeonieAlexandria]

But think of all the pretty dresses!

 

[Captain_Lydia]

You can just wear retro clothes now. Start your own trend!

 

[thehepburn]

Eww, not me. I wouldn't go back to that period for all the booze in Ireland and I'm Irish!

I will join you! The 50s sucked.

 

[christina126]

These were originally posted by amelierose in the candids thread.

Angelina going somewhere with Shiloh


perezhilton

Doesnt it seem like she's going to extreme lengths to shield her baby from the photographers?

 

[ShuggaStiletto]

can't wait for the Anderson Cooper interview! She looks so great for just having a baby...

 

[eternitygoddess]

^I'd be too busy staring at Anderson instead.

 

[LeonieAlexandria]

can't wait for the Anderson Cooper interview! She looks so great for just having a baby...

*cough* see - we dont ALWAYS agree on celebs *Cough*

 

[xtine888]

source: ONTD and et.yahoo.com

June 19, 2006
In her first U.S. interview since giving birth to her daughter in Africa, new mom ANGELINA JOLIE is opening up to CNN's ANDERSON COOPER, and ET has a first look!
In the nearly one-hour conversation, airing Tuesday, June 20 at 10 p.m. on "Anderson Cooper 360°," Angelina talks about BRAD PITT, her delivery, being a mom to SHILOH NOUVEL JOLIE-PITT, and perhaps most importantly, World Refugee Day.
Angelina confirms that Brad was in the delivery room for the experience and says her whole focus was just to hear baby Shiloh take her first breath and cry.
Angelina also confirms the news that she gives much of her income to refugees and their cause, saying, "Yes -- well, I have a stupid income for what I do for a living."
World Refugee Day is June 20, and Angelina talks at length about the work she does with refugees in Africa and around the world.

 

[Marie_Carmelle]

Can you guys give me the full detail on that Anderson Cooper interview on the tread, I'm gonna be working on that day so I won't be there!! thanks

 

[lady B]

Well I never thought that Angelina was that gorgeous,of course she's pretty but not that stunning.
Then I saw this pic that xtine888 posted(post#2255 )about the interview and she looks absolutely fantastic,she's fab on that pic,she natural and very very very pretty.I love this pic