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August 29, 2010

Angelina Jolie Says Being Vegan 'Nearly Killed' Her

Angelina Jolie says that her extreme vegan diet nearly killed her. She gave eating red meat in an effort to be healthier, but said that it actually resulted in malnourishment.

“I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret. But seriously,I love red meat. I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition."

Her partner Brad Pitt is rumored to be a strict vegetarian and the meat debate has been a big one in her house.

"Brad hates seeing the children eating meat and he’s annoyed with how much red meat Angelina has," a source told the Daily Mail last year.

Jolie doesn't specify the time frame she was vegan, but anyone who has followed her on the red carpet will recall her skeleton thin period.

The 35-year-old brunette beauty also admits she enjoys seeing her hands “grow older” as it is a sign of how much she has grown up and  matured as a

mother to six children - Maddox, nine, Pax, six, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four, and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne - whom she raises with Pitt.

“Happiness is when I look down at my hands and they are washing a baby. I can sort of see my hands grow older and I love it.”

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Brad Pitt Returns to New Orleans for the Fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

To mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt has returned to New Orleans.

Pitt, 46, was spotted touring homes Friday in the Lower 9th Ward (Angelina Jolie was spotted there as well).


In an interview that aired Friday on NBC Nightly News, Pitt recalled what he saw when he visited New Orleans after the hurricane.

"It was unfathomable," he said. "I mean, just-- you had no idea that there were families and here. It was just wiped clean. Except for the occasional pile up of homes and-- on top of homes."

Pitt said he felt compelled to help. In 2007, he helped found Make It Right, a project that has built 34 eco-friendly homes (he wants 150 up).

"I mean, people's-- people build their lives here," he said. "And-- and-- I mean, New Orleans is a unique place to begin with. And I say-- a cultural treasure trove for-- for America to begin with. But the thing that struck me was that these people were trying to-- you know, these people were trying to get home. And-- and were having a very difficult time doing so. And as I got into and started studying it."

He isn't the only celeb lending a helping hand.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie exhaled breath auctioned

A jar of air exhaled by Hollywood's 'It' couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has been auctioned for $523 on eBay. The jar of 'celebrity air' was put up on auction in June by enterprising celebrity spotter Joe Wilson and has been bought by an anonymous buyer, reported Daily Mail.

 "Be the first to own this jar of Celebrity air, which may contain air molecules that came in direct contact with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt," read the seller's announcement on online auctioneer eBay.

'Celebrity Air' is the latest fad in the memorabilia industry, which is full of weird auction items.

A jar of hair from Elvis's trademark black quiff was sold by his barber for $115,000 in 2002.

Three X-rays of Marilyn Monroe's famous chest, taken during a 1954 visit to a Florida hospital, sold for $45,000 in Las Vegas this June.

Even a cough drop spat by Arnold Schwarzenegger was posted on eBay six years ago, but it was later removed.

And when Bryan Adams left his dirty Armani socks in a Welsh cab in 2004 the car firm auctioned them for $950.

Fans have also snapped up Justin Timberlake's leftover breakfast for $1050.

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Brad Pitt touts New Orleans as 'sexy and sultry'

Actor Brad Pitt poses for a photograph in the Lower 9th Ward as he visits the area where homes are being built for the Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans on Dec. 1, 2008.

Actor Brad Pitt says he and partner Angelina Jolie like to bike around New Orleans, and he enjoys seeing the energy-efficient homes his Make It Right Foundation built for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

"In New Orleans, the people are great. They leave Angie and me alone," Pitt says in an interview on the New Orleans Times-Picayune's website. Despite the paparazzi that often trail them, he says: "Everybody treats us like neighbors."

   

Actress Angelina Jolie stands with her son Maddox on Dec. 3, 2007, as they watch from afar as Brad Pitt announces his latest project to build affordable, environmentally friendly homes in the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina in the Lower 9th Ward.

"The Lower 9th is now the greenest — I don't even like the word green — it's the most high-performing clean neighborhood in the world, according to the Green Building council," he says.

Pitt, who has a home in the French Quarter and is now there for Katrina's fifth anniversary events, says he was drawn to the city because he found it "sexy and sultry." He was interviewed by historian Douglas Brinkley, a longtime friend.

In 2006, Pitt's non-profit foundation commissioned 13 architecture firms to design affordable, eco-friendly houses and has since built 30 in the Lower Ninth Ward, according to Brinkley. Here are excerpts of his interview with Pitt, as provided to the Times-Picayune:


Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt pose for photographs with children affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Dec. 22, 2007.



    Tell me about your love affair with New Orleans.... How did that happen?

    I came to New Orleans back in 1994 doing the Interview with the Vampire movie, based on the Anne Rice novel, and fell in love with the city. It got under my skin. Everything was sexy and sultry. I'd ride my bike all over the place, amazed by the architecture. I'd return to New Orleans every chance I could. What can I say; it's got the best people, the best everything. It's the most interesting city in America.

    Where were you when Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005?

    In Calgary, up in Canada, making the movie The Assassination of Jesse James. I couldn't get my eyes off the TV. It was frustrating seeing all those people on rooftops screaming for help. It was abhorrent. I was gutted. I remember thinking we can do better in America. Everybody seemed to make mistakes at a federal, local and state level. I used to ride my bike around the Lower 9th — usually going to the Holy Cross area to look around. My instinct said that we have to find a way for those people to find a road home. New homes were clearly going to be needed.

    When did the idea of Make It Right houses come into focus?

    I got involved with Global Green and various Bill Clinton initiatives. I met a lot of smart people. But nobody was doing what I thought needed to be done. Look, I'm an architecture junkie. And the holy grail of architecture is finding ways to design sustainable urban communities. The Lower 9th had become a clean slate. Everything had been washed away. So quite naively — and I know I'm naive — I said let's start at ground zero, the very historic neighborhood that got devastated by Katrina. We brought architect William McDonough into the picture and things took off. We started building prototypes. The Lower 9th is the iconic spot of Katrina. It's where the levees breached. It represents a marginalized people stuck in a man-made disaster. I met Katrina victims who had been given FEMA trailers and had nothing to hook them up to. Others had formaldehyde problems. What was the message? We were telling people to come home and yet when they got back to New Orleans they were treated in a substandard way. I just thought it was atrocious.

    How do you feel seeing those Lower 9th families living today, on the fifth anniversary of the storm, in beautiful Make It Right houses?

    Great! I was in the Lower 9th for Memorial Day. Families were barbecuing and swimming in the little, you know, pop-up swimming pools. And families were coming together and saying hi. You know, the simple acts of kindness. A lot of residents no longer have only a cynical view of Katrina, they have a brighter perspective about life. And when I say kindness I mean Make It Right was built on the donations of people. Americans donated. That has a deep effect on the people living in these homes. We have solar panels providing the energy, and it works and fellow Americans paid for it. Not the government....


    Are you hoping this can be a pilot project or prototype community to develop elsewhere? Do you have a global vision?

    That was the plan. That was the plan all along. This thing could become a template for other communities to follow. And we've trained New Orleans contractors on how to build these homes.

    Can you still get around New Orleans on your bike? Do you put a sweatshirt hood over your head? Or does your facial hair serve as a disguise?

    In New Orleans, the people are great. They leave Angie and me alone. Unfortunately, we drag paparazzi with us from other places in the world. They become a bit of a hindrance. We try to go out and all the locals are so great, and then these paparazzi ruin it. But otherwise, man, we can just live and breathe and ride bikes. We can take our kids on bike rides, and local people just give us a shout out—and let us move on. It's very free for us in New Orleans, very nice for us. It's like Venice or Rome; an essential world city. So we feel honored to be involved with the community. Everybody treats us like neighbors.


    How do you feel about the grass-roots movement of Brad Pitt for U.S. senator or mayor of New Orleans?

    Yeah, with my past? (Laughs). It isn't going to happen. Oh, my, the skeletons that would come out of my closet. That's a losing venture.

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Brad Pitt: I'd Reconsider My Views on Death Penalty Due to BP Oil Spill

Brad Pitt has said that he would consider executing those responsible for the BP oil spill if he was in power.

The "Fight Club" and "Ocean's Eleven" actor, said he usually opposed capital punishment but would make an exception if he could.

He was speaking during a documentary on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which was to be aired on Tuesday night.

"I was never for the death penalty before -- I am willing to look at it again," the 46-year-old said when asked about the situation.

The actor was talking during the screening of "If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise," a fim by director Spike Lee to mark the fifth anniversary of the hurricane which devastated much of the southern states.
Pitt has been involved in rebuilding part of New Orleans, with the Make It Right project to build 150 affordable and sustaineable homes there.

Lee originally intended to end the documentary on a "high" but said he felt he had to include the oil spill when it happened.

Nearly five million barrels of oil leaked into the ocean during the 87-day leak.

The leak was finally halted on July 15 although BP is still working on a way of ensuring the hole is permanently blocked, with officials saying that will not happen until September because key equipment needs to be replaced.

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Angelina Jolie to Help Education in Bosnia & Film a “Love Story”

While Brad Pitt is concentrating his efforts on helping New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill, his partner Angelina Jolie is focusing her efforts on helping Bosnians after the war.

Angelina is hoping to get involved helping young Bosnians and those returning to they’re homes since they left during the Bosnian War, the Associated Press reports.

After Haris Silajdzic, chairman of Bosnia’s three-member Presidency, met with Angelina he said Saturday they both concluded that “the absolute priority is education.”

Haris explained they’re hoping to turn Sarajevo into a regional center of education.

While Angie visited Bosnia in April as UNHCR ambassador, she was also scouting out filming locations.

“The film is a love story,” Angie said in statement through UNHCR, about a couple that meets on the eve of the war.

The actress plans to start filming in Bosnia in autumn.

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August 27, 2010

Angelina Jolie Takes The Twins On a Location Scout in Budapest for her Directional Debut



Angelina Jolie took her darling two-year-old twins, Knox and Vivienne, with her on a location scout today in Budapest for her upcoming directorial debut on a film about about a Serbian soldier who rapes a Bosnian woman during the war in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Angelina will also take the female lead in the film as well.

Jolie's been in Europe promoting her starring turn in Salt with the twins while Brad stays home with the rest of their brood.

But soon the entire family will move to the Hungarian city dubbed the "Paris of the East" when shooting starts on the film in November (some will also be shot in Belgrade, Serbia.)

Angelina was apparently inspired to shoot this story after visiting refugee camps in Bosnia with Brad this spring.

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Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie 'The Tourist' to release on Dec. 10

Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp will be back in theaters in December.

Sony has given their next film, "The Tourist," a Dec. 10 release date, prime territory for a commercial run extending through the holidays and a possible awards-season bid.

Jolie's "Salt," Sony's actioner that has grossed $103.4 million domestically, remains in play in theaters. Depp's most recent film was Disney's global blockbuster "Alice in Wonderland," which grossing more than $1 billion worldwide this year.

From Graham King's GK Films and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, "Tourist," an international thriller filmed in Venice and Paris, centers on an American tourist (Depp) abroad who becomes involved with an Interpol agent (Jolie).

On Dec. 10, "Tourist" will face off against bows of Fox's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and Paramount's boxing drama "The Fighter," starring Mark Wahlberg and directed by David O. Russell.

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Angelina Jolie Makes Lunch for the Kids

Getting meals ready for one's kids is never an easy job. For Angelina Jolie, charged with feeding six hungry mouths, it can get particularly hectic.

The actress and mom says she loves preparing food for her brood but knows all about the pitfalls of trying to please all of them, all of the time.

"The problem with my packed lunches is everybody is very, very outspoken about what they want, so it becomes – I often say, 'I'm not a waitress!' " Jolie, 35, told the British morning show GMTV this week.


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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s Kids Learning French

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s children are learning French.

The Hollywood couple – who raise children Maddox, nine, Pax, six, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four, and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, together – are keen for their offspring to embrace the European language to help them understand why the country is important to their family.

Angelina – whose late mother Marcheline Bertrand was of French Canadian descent – explained to BANG Showbiz, Right now they’re in the French programme and they’re doing very well. We want them to learn French and speak French because of our heritage.”

As well as Angelina’s beloved mother, France is special to the couple for other reasons, and was chosen to be the birthplace of their twin babies Knox and Vivienne.

The 35-year-old beauty gave birth to the tots at the Lenval hospital in nice, France in 2008.

Angelina was speaking at the gala premiere of ‘Salt’ at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square last night, August 16, where she looked stunning as she greeted hundreds of screaming fans.

She said, “I always enjoy London and this is amazing. It means so much when everybody comes out.”

The screen beauty also revealed she had brought her two youngest children with her while Brad looked after the eldest four at home.

She added, “I brought the babies. I’m having some special baby time.”

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Angelina Jolie Urges Aid For Pakistan's Flood Victims

Angelina Jolie says it's vital that people help Pakistan's flood victims and not surrender to compassion fatigue.


The floods have displaced 20 million people, but donations are below those for catastrophes like the Haitian earthquake or the Asian tsunami.

Jolie said she understood that "it is getting hard for people – they see Haiti, they see these other events ... and they get exhausted by the time another big one rolls around."

But she said Pakistanis face "mass death, mass displacement, and this situation is going to get worse."
Jolie has visited Haiti, Iraq and other countries as a U.N. goodwill ambassador.

The star says she might visit Pakistan once "the cameras go away."

Jolie spoke Monday at the London premiere of her spy thriller "Salt."

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to design a children's clothing line?

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are rumoured to be designing a children's clothing line.

Angelina Jolie is surely one of the busiest actresses around. Aside from starring in a series of hit movies she devotes a lot of time to helping charities, not to mention looking after her six children. And now it seems that she, along with partner Brad Pitt, has another project up her sleeve.

Rumours are circulating that the pair are designing a line of children's clothes, the profits of which will be donated to their charity, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. No details have emerged as yet, but its not the first time that the couple have got creative - they designed some luxe pieces of jewellery for Asprey last year.

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Angelina Jolie Not Playing Marilyn Monroe with George Clooney a in New Movie

Angelina Jolie and George Clooney have denied reports they're teaming up on the big screen to play Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. The pair was rumored to be starring in a movie adaption of Andrew O'Hagan's novel "The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe".

Clooney was linked to the role of Sinatra, with Jolie said to have signed on to play the blonde bombshell in the tale of their friendship, as seen through the eyes of her dog, Maf. But Jolie is adamant she's not a part of the project - and hadn't even heard the rumors before she arrived in the U.K. for the premiere of her latest movie, "Salt", on Monday, August 16.

She says, "I've just heard that for the first time. No (it's not true)... if I only just heard it!" And Clooney is not involved with the picture either - his representative tells GossipCop the reports are "totally fabricated".

In another news, Angelina Jolie has urged members of the public to donate to the flood relief effort in Pakistan as the death toll reaches more than 2,000. Officials at the World Bank announced plans to loan $900 millon to the country earlier this week after the nation was struck by its worst floods in 80 years.

Aid has been slow to reach Pakistan and fears are growing that the spread of water-borne diseases will claim yet more lives. Jolie, who is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations (U.N.), and her partner Brad Pitt are preparing to hand over a chunk of their fortune to help those affected by the floods - and she's hoping fans will follow her lead.

She says, "I think as people completely understand the scale of it they will do more. I know that we've been talking to different people about where to put our money - who to give it to and when. I think maybe people are ready to give money... hopefully they're just waiting to understand what's the best thing to do."

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The real ANGELINA JOLIE by Angelina: An Unauthorised Biography author Andrew Morton

Angelina Jolie's transformation from druggie goth to earth mother makes her a compelling subject, says author Andrew Morton.

UK AUTHOR Andrew Morton is toey about criticisms of his biography of Angelina Jolie.

He spent 18 months working on Angelina: An Unauthorised Biography and critics in the US and UK say it lacks originality and credibility.

"I've got solid, substantial sources," he says, sounding exasperated on the phone from New York.

"I have people like her babysitter who was a good friend of her mother, like the man who lived with her mother for 11 years (Bill Day) and helped bring her up -- who she called Daddy-O -- her drug dealer, a fellow drug taker, actors and directors.

"All these people have helped to compile a vivid and different portrait of Angelina to the one that she's articulated herself."

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Morton has written biographies on Tom Cruise, Madonna and Monica Lewinsky, but it was Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words that made him a household name in 1998.

Morton has found Jolie equally intriguing.

"I'm proud of this book, obviously the Diana book stands proud as a unique book because it was an authorised biography that changed the way people see the monarchy," Morton says.

"This book will change the way people see Angelina and the way she views herself."

He was shocked to discover that her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, banished Jolie as a nine-month-old to a separate apartment in their Los Angeles home and left her in the care of staff for a year because she reminded her of estranged husband Jon Voight.

Morton spoke to psychiatrists about the impact of this kind of experience.

"That imprinting experience shaped and formed her reactions to the world," he says.

"She couldn't connect with anybody else. She felt revolted by herself and that manifested in eating disorders, cutting, drug taking and in the morbid sense, her trying to commit suicide."

Again, Morton rebukes journalists who have criticised him for including opinions of psychologists who have never met or treated Jolie.

"I think that's utter bonkers," he says.

"You are not going to get a psychologist who has treated Angelina because if you treat somebody you don't talk about it.

"It's about explaining, generally, what these kinds of symptoms tell you about your life."

Morton traces Jolie's battle with heroin, cocaine and anorexia during her teens and early 20s. He believes she hasn't overcome those demons, so much as learnt to live with them.

"Let me give you a tip. If she is wearing black she feels OK about her body shape, if she's not, she's not," he says.

Morton believes Jolie has made men compromise themselves and cites Billy Bob Thornton leaving Laura Dern and Mike Jagger pursuing her while Jerry Hall was pregnant as examples. "She has seen instinctively that her father let her down by abandoning the family, and psychologically the men in her life have done the same thing."

He thinks her union with Brad Pitt has survived because he is subtly controlling as well.

"You never know who is going to be wearing the pants in that relationship."

He says Jolie has replicated her childhood for her six children, with her acting commitments forcing her to leave them in the care of nannies for extensive periods.

Though Morton is happy to dig into other people's lives, he is guarded about his own.

He lived in the US after a few highly publicised affairs and his divorce from his wife of 29 years. But now he is back living in London, near his two daughters and his beloved two-year-old grandson.

"I felt very sorry for Jon Voight that he has fallen out with Angelina for so long, that he has missed out on all those years of the joy of being a grandfather," Morton says.

Morton is working on a biography with former CBS broadcaster and Access Hollywood co-host Pat O'Brien. He is not sure who his next target will be.

"I'm trying to get away from the 24/7 tabloid world. I need a change from actors or I'll be typecast," he says.

Angelina: An Unauthorised Biography by Andrew Morton, HarperCollins, rrp $35



MORTON DIGS UP THE DIRT ON ANGELINA

* Jolie's mother Marcheline "Marche" Bertrand (right) was an aspiring actor in love with two men: Jon Voight and his friend Al Pacino. Her mother encouraged her to marry Voight, a more successful actor at the time -- and Pacino remained the unrequited love of her life.

* Born on June 4, 1975, Angelina was named after Marche's Quebec-born grandmother, Marie-Louisa Angelina, and a friend Angelina Stogel. Marche gave her the middle name of Jolie so she could drop her surname when she went into show business.

* At kindergarten Jolie formed a group called the Kissy Girls, who went around kissing the boys and giving them love bites.

* Marche let 14-year-old Jolie and her boyfriend Anton live together at her home because it was better than them sneaking off to have sex.

* Jolie's first nude scene in a film was at the age of 17, with Elias Koteas in Cyborg 2.

* When Jolie's attempts to break into Hollywood were thwarted, her mother consulted a psychic, runes and astrology charts. In the end she told people Jolie was Jon Voight's daughter and doors began to open.

* A sex scene between David Duchovny and Jolie in Playing God (right) was axed because it was too erotic.

* Marche adored Mick Jagger and when he became obsessed with Jolie, she encouraged him to pursue her daughter in the hope they would marry one day.

* Angelina hired a hit man to kill her. The would-be killer gave her a month-long cooling-off period. She didn't pursue the plan after being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for George Wallace.

* At the start of their intense relationship, Billy Bob Thornton locked himself away in his Nashville recording studio, and Jolie checked herself into a psychiatric institute because she feared losing him. They married soon after.

* Friends believe Johnny Depp is the only person who could bust up her union with Brad Pitt, but the anticipated affair never eventuated on the set of The Tourist last year.

* Jolie defers to her adopted son Maddox. When he started calling Brad Pitt "Dad", she stated: "That was probably the most defining moment, when he decided that we would all be a family."

* Jolie and Pitt firmly control their publicity machine, with Jolie turning up in a developing country or talking about her UN Goodwill Ambassador role every time there's a whiff of bad publicity. Their first pictures of daughter Shiloh raised $11 million for the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

* Jolie likes to leave her children with Pitt and a platoon of nannies and stay in a hotel when she is working on a film.

* Jon Voight was not invited to the twins Knox and Vivienne's first birthday on July 12, 2009. But there were signs she might be willing to forgive her father for his perceived wrongs when she invited him to join her family in Venice in February.

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Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kids Roll Like 'Military Machine'

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and kids have apparently commandeered the Claremont Hotel in Berkley, Calif, and have the staff there jumping through hoops to maintain their privacy, including private trips to the hotel jacuzzi.

Brad is in the area filming his new movie “Moneyball” and one report says the staff have had to treat their stay at the hotel like a “military operation” to keep the couple happy.

“We approached the arrival of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — plus their kids and entourage — as if it was a military operation,” one hotel operator told the Chicago Sun-Times.


Apparently Brad and Angie like to spend a lot of quality time — away from the kids — in the hotel’s spa.

But that means the entire facility has to be closed to other guests.

To have “romantic date nights”, they pay to have the facility closed with “under repair” signs posted on the swimming pool their six children can swim.

In a bow to their egos, and to protect the children from seeing sensational tabloid headlines about them, the hotel routinely scours the lobby to remove magazines with any mention of them on the cover.


”That pretty much cleaned out our celebrity magazines since Brad and Angie are on the cover of those magazines almost every week,” the source said.

But their demands for privacy don’t stop there.

Brad, Angelina, their family and entourage have rented an entire floor of the building, and have had “anti-paparazzi” reflective material placed on all of the windows to prevent snooping photographers from photographing them.

While Brad has been working on the film, Angie hasn’t been lounging around the hotel all day.

The actress reportedly sneaks away to the library at the University of California’s famed Berkeley campus to research a book about the international refugee crisis.

Angie is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador who has devoted a lot of time publicizing the plight of refugees in war-torn Third World countries.

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Angelina Jolie joins Twitter Wagon: How and Why

Brad Pitt’s Salty partner and the mother of his child Angelina Jolie has now come aboard the popular social networking site Twitter which has already enveloped into its snares celebs from all walks of life; be it Britney Spears or Justin Bieber or Shahrukh Khan.

Now, Jolie is contemplating using the tag @AngelinaJolie that’s being misused by an impostor pretending to be the real Jolie. Jolie has already meted out a request to the authorities to terminate that fraudulent and pass over the reigns of the account into her hands.

UsMagazine reports, “Jolie had her people obtain the account for her so no one else could have that user name. There was actually someone else using @AngelinaJolie but Angelina requested the account suspended and took it over.”

However, Jolie has no intention of chatting with her tsunami of fans .Of course, her gruelling schedule doesn’t permit her so. Besides, she is not a teenager or a chatterbox as such. Her motherly duties eat up whatever spare time she gets after wrapping up her professional commitments.

Her Twitter page shall be used to create social awareness about charitable issues or other philanthropic matters.

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Angelina Jolie on why Brad Pitt is 'The One'

As Andrew Morton’s new Angelina Jolie exposé is poised to hit No. 3 on the New York Times Best-Seller list, the actress is also doing a bit of a tell-all herself.

In the latest issue of the U.K.’s Stylist magazine, the “Salt” star opens up about her romance with Brad Pitt and how she knew he was “The One.”

Despite ongoing reports that she and Pitt, 46, began their love affair during the making of 2005’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” – while Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston, 41 – Jolie once again insists that she’s no homewrecker. "We became friends on the film set,” she says, “but [the relationship] began after."

And following a string of flings and failed marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, it just felt natural to settle down with partner Pitt. "At a certain age, having gone through enough experiences, I think you know,” Jolie, 35, explains of realizing that her "Mr. Smith" was Mr. Right. “It wasn't courageous, it was more comforting to have found my family."

All seven members (and counting). The mother of Maddox, 9, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 4, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2, admits that having such a big brood leaves the couple with very little intimate time, but they get by with a little help from their friends.

Says Jolie, "Once every week or two weeks we'll ask somebody to spend the night, so we can go and be alone together. We just go to another part of the house and lock the door."

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August 14, 2010

Angelina Jolie: Shiloh's Tomboy Style "It's not my choice."


In a new interview with British mag Stylist, Angelina Jolie once again defends her daughter's buzzed-about tomboy style.

"It's not my choice," Jolie, 35, claims of her and Brad Pitt's eldest biological child, who favors polos and pants over frilly dresses.


"I have a very strong willed four-year-old girl who tells me what she wants to wear and I let her be who she is," the Salt actress says.

She adds: "I think children should wear what they want and express themselves, so we give them different options of things."

As an example, Jolie mentions Zahara, her adopted 5-year-old daughter: "Zahara dresses very much like a girl, very pink and flowery, very feminine."

The mother of six also gives new details on the origins of Shiloh's iconic pixie haircut. "Shiloh cried and said, 'Please cut my hair off, I don't want to have long hair.'" Jolie recounts.

"I'm not going to leave it long because somebody thinks I should," she says "I want to do what's in her head and what's in her heart is to dress like that. I think it's beautiful."

Another controversial topic? The beginning of her romance with Pitt -- which most date to the set of their 2005 flick, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, when Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston.

"It didn't begin on the film set," she insists of the romance. "We became friends on the film set, but [the relationship] began after."

How did she know Pitt, now 46, was the one? "At a certain age, having gone through enough experiences, I think you know. It wasn't courageous, it was more comforting to have found my family."

And now that they have such a large brood of kids -- which also includes sons Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, and 2-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox -- they have to be strategic about their alone time.

"[We] have to schedule it," she confides. "We don't normally have anyone spend the night with our family, so once every week or two weeks we'll ask somebody to spend the night, so we can go and be alone together. We just go to another part of the house and lock the door."

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt throw go-kart Birthday party for Maddox

The Jolie-Pitt clan knows how to party.  Brad and Angie hosted a belated birthday bash for Maddox Saturday morning at Go Kart World, and only RadarOnline.com has all the details.

Maddox, who turned nine on Thursday, was the star of the day.  We're told his brother Pax and sisters Zahara and Shiloh were there for the party along with about two dozen other kids.

"They stayed for about two hours," an eyewitness tells RadarOnline.com.

"Brad and Angie were very nice people and only asked other people there not take pictures," the source says

Brad "The Dad" and Maddox, have a history of enjoying fast cars, trucks and three-wheelers together, and today was no exception.

Go Kart World, just south of L.A. in Carson, CA, is a favorite of celeb kart fans including Kanye West.

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Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Makes A Splash In boy's swimming trunks.


Shiloh Jolie-Pitt takes the plunge with her latest fashion statement - a pair of boy's swimming trunks.

The head strong four-year-old made a big splash by ditching a feminine swimsuit for baggy swim shorts, while playing by the pool during a family weekend in Berkeley, California.

But the exclusive shots of the tomboy on UsMagazine.com aren't phasing her super-sexy mom.

"It's not my choice. I have a very strong-willed four-year-old girl, who tells me what she wants to wear and I let her be who she is," said Angelina Jolie.

"I think people think kids should be a certain way, but I feel they should wear what they feel like wearing and they should express themselves.


"Shiloh cried one night and said, 'Please cut my hair off. I don't want to have long hair.' I'm not going to leave it long because somebody thinks I should."

Jolie has addressed her daughter's sense of style before, branding it 'fascinating'.

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Unauthorized Biography Book: Angelina Jolie grew up 'exiled' by parents

She once wore a vial of blood as a necklace and kissed her brother on the lips at the Oscars.

While she's toned down her wild ways in recent years -- she's now a UN Goodwill Ambassador -- Angelina Jolie remains one of the most talked-about celebrities in the world.

Despite the constant media attention, she's kept tight-lipped lately about her private life, including her famous husband Brad Pitt and their six adopted and biological children.

A new unauthorized biography sheds some light on the mysterious star, her childhood and what some call her compulsion to adopt more children.

Andrew Morton, author of Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography says Jolie grew up alone, raised by babysitters after her parents split. Her father, Jon Voight, left the family after an affair.

"Her mother couldn't bear to look at Angelina because she reminded her of Jon Voight, so she was kind of exiled to what they called the ‘ivory tower,'" an apartment on the fifth floor of the family home, Morton told CTV's CanadaAM on Monday.

"She was just cared for by this ragtag assortment of babysitters," said Morton, who has written biographies of Tom Cruise, Monica Lewinski and Princess Diana.

Jolie's mother "didn't visit," he said.

That may explain the star's later struggles with drugs, cutting and anorexia, he said.

"It also helps to explain and understand why she reaches out to these orphans, these kids that are motherless and homeless themselves," Morton added, a reference to the Jolie's growing family.

Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, and three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.

The actress was estranged from her father for many years and even legally changed her last name to avoid the connection. They reconciled earlier this year. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died in 2007.

The book was released Aug. 3.

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Angelina Jolie Unauthorized Biography by Adrew Morton

The Angelina Jolie Unauthorized Biography entitled Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography has hit shelves. From writer Adrew Morton, the book is “the true story behind both the wild excesses of Angelina’s youth and her remarkable work with children and victims of poverty and disaster today.”

Morton also delves into Jolie’s past marriages to Billy Bob Thorton and Jonny Lee Miller, as well as her current relationship with Hollywood actor Brad Pitt. So what does the mega-super star whose life has been put under a microscope think about the Angelina Jolie Unauthorized Biography penned by Morton:

    Per an unnamed source via E Online, Jolie and Pitt “They never read about themselves, ever”.

Pinning Jolie as “a person with abandonment issues, extreme impulsivity and a knack for leveraging the media,” the writer also discusses the actress’ supposed past issues with her sexuality, anorexia, drug use and stealing other people’s boyfriends and husbands.

It looks like a source who stated that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt “have people who show them things when necessary” will be turning a few pages in the Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography! Here’s an excerpt from the book’s prologue that was released on August 3rd:

    “The room was stark and bare: white carpet, white curtains, white walls, and no furniture except for a white crib. For more than a year, a baby girl lived there, cared for by a ragtag assortment of babysitters. The child rarely knew if the person putting her to bed was the one who would dress and feed her in the morning. There were days when her mother, who lived in an apartment three stories below, would not visit.

    That baby girl was Angelina Jolie. She was sent to live in the white room after her father, Jon Voight, left her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, for another woman. Marcheline said, “Angie reminds me so much of Jon right now that I cannot be around her. It’s just too painful.”

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Angelina Jolie tones down some of her sexuality to play the action hero role, did all her own stunts while filming Salt and nearly ended up in hospital.


ANGELINA JOLIE got a kick out of doing the stunts for new film Salt – even though she nearly ended up in hospital.

The adrenaline junkie star performed tricks including jumping from a motorway bridge on to a speeding truck and diving from a helicopter as agent Evelyn Salt.

But she was left scarred and needing medical treatment when she was told to burst through a door, roll over the ground and fire a gun.

Angelina, 35, says: “It was first thing in the morning and I thought ‘This is a piece of cake.’ So I jumped inside, rolled over and smashed into a ledge.

“I got this gash between my eyebrows, just under an inch long.

“The nurse put gauze on but I was pretty dizzy and everyone was getting paranoid about it. I was feeling nauseous too and I had trouble walking for a few seconds.

“I had all these weird signs of a concussion so they sent me for an MRI scan. That was all clear so they put some of those tiny stitches over it and bandaged me up. I went back to work later that same day.

“Towards the end of the film my character has so much blood and cuts, it blended in – just one more thing on my face. And it’s left a tiny scar.

“You pick up scars on your body over the years and I don’t mind them. It’s character and it’s part of life.” Angelina’s CIA character goes on the run after being accused of being a spy. The action thriller was originally for a male star but Angelina turned it on its head as a female super-spy.

“In so many spy films, women are femmes fatales,” she says. “We wanted to avoid that. My character doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything. It’s the roughest I’ve looked. When we fight it gets ugly. Somebody breaks my nose. She kicks, she uses her elbows, she fights to survive.”

But Angelina reckons she can get carried away, putting herself at risk.

She says: “Doing a few stunts is a great part of the job – it’s wonderful therapy. I wasn’t scared.

“But I am fearless to the point of stupidity sometimes. Maybe I should have a bit more fear.”

The beauty is one half of Hollywood’s premier power couple with partner Brad Pitt, 46. But she admits she has to work at keeping the relationship fresh.

After winning a case against a newspaper which said their relationship was on the rocks, Angelina stresses how happy they are.

“We schedule date nights,” she laughs. “You have to with children.

“We’ll ask a babysitter to spend the night so we can go out but sometimes we just go to another part of the house. I feel fortunate to have a relationship where I feel safe enough to imagine growing old together.”

The couple’s six kids – adopted Maddox, nine, Pax, six, and Zahara, five, and their biological children, two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne and daughter Shiloh, four – have also been in the headlines, thanks to Shiloh’s fondness for dressing like a boy.

But Angelina insists she is just letting her girl be herself.

“It’s not my choice,” she says. “I have a very strong-willed four-year-old who tells me what she wants to be and I let her. I think kids should express themselves.”

And it’s clear that the couple are devoted to their kids.

Brad was supposed to have a small role in Salt but it never happened.

“He was watching the kids that day and that’s always more important,” says Angelina. “They take priority.”

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Brad Pitt Has a Colorful Dating History

Brad Pitt began his career in show business when he was 23 and since then, the now 46 year-old star has a collection of ex-girlfriends that would make George Clooney blush.

He began his foray into the Hollywood dating scene much like a long-jumper approaches the sand pit. Except where a long-jumper lands in a pile of sand. Brad landed Angelina Jolie.

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Angelina Jolie: Blackballed By Her Own Family.

On her promotional tour for Salt, Angelina Jolie has not been shy regarding her happy family life and how she makes a point of spending time with the kids.

She even says she makes them bacon and eggs "every morning." But is this just a front for a conniving woman who's been ostracized by her own brood?

We doubt it, but why let truth stand in the way, right In Touch?

First it was the drug photos. Then Jennifer Aniston stealing Brad Pitt back. Now, the gossip magazine alleges, it's "secret flings" driving Brangelina apart.

Apparently, Leonardo DiCaprio was involved in one with her. Amazing how often she supposedly gets around for a woman whose every move is chronicled.

Shut Out of the Family!

Angelina's children, this rag claims, like the nanny more than her!

Recently, at the Claremont Hotel in Oakland - where their dad is currently filming Moneyball - the kids seemed more interested in the nanny's company.

“At one point, Maddox and Pax got into a brotherly spat over the ketchup,” a witness says. “The nanny firmly said, ‘Mad, let Paxie have some ketchup.’"

"Maddox said, ‘Mom, do I have to?’ and Pax was whining, ‘Mom, make him give me some.’” That's right, the boys repeatedly called their nanny “mom.”

Shocking, scandalous stuff ... and proof that Angelina is being blackballed by her own family due to her conduct and status as an awful human being.

“Angelina is gone so much working or in meetings that the kids do spend most of their time during the day with the nannies,” a so-called friend claims.

“Publicly, [Jolie] would not like the help to be seen, but kids are so attached to them, they are like family - whether Angelina wants to believe it or not.”


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PHOTO: Tongues Are Wagging As Angelina Jolie Brings Kids To Visit 'Dad Brad' On Set

It was take your kids to work day.

Angelina Jolie brought four of her adorable kids to visit dad Brad Pitt on the set of his new film, Moneyball, currently being shot in Oakland, California, and RadarOnline.com has the adorable shot of the gorgeous family, which includes the ever mischievous Pax, caught playfully sticking his tongue out.

As you can see, Jolie held onto Zahara and Maddox, while a dapper Pitt was flanked by daughter Shiloh and son Pax. Conspicuous by their absence were the twins, Knox & Vivienne, who turned two on July 12.

In the film, Pitt plays cagey Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, whose innovations have kept his team an annual contender despite a shoestring budget. The film also stars Jonah Hill as Beane’s right-hand man, Paul DePodesta.Jolie Brings Kids To Visit 'Dad Brad' On Set.

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Angelina Jolie's Dad: "I'm Trying to Skype" With My Grandkids

It's a challenge for grandparents to keep tabs on their grandchildren -- especially for Jon Voight, whose six grandkids hop-scotch across the world with their mom Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Voight is headed to Texas to shoot a new fox series, Lone Star.

"I'm gonna miss my connection to my grandkids," Voight, 71, said at a Television Critics Association event for the show in Los Angeles on Monday. "But I'm trying to Skype and use everything I can do to say in touch."


Jolie, 34, and Pitt, 46, typically take their brood -- Maddox, 8, Pax, 7, Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 4, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 2 -- to film sets worldwide.

Voight would love for Shiloh and the gang to visit him in Texas. "I hope, but it's gonna be tough.....It's very difficult for them to go anywhere easily. It's kind of easier for me to jump."


Along with his son James Haven, the Oscar-winning actor recently joined Jolie and Pitt on the red carpet for the Hollywood premiere of Salt. "It was wonderful for me," Voight said. "I'm always happy when I'm around my children."

Voight also had high praise for his daughter in the hit action flick. "I thought Angelina was great...I mean, really unusual. And there's nobody else who could have done what she did. I thought she was quite extraordinary in it."

He continued: "It was almost like Bruce Willis's movie, Die Hard, with a kind of intelligent, front-page, up-to-date international concern at the root of it, and very, very cleverly written. And then having this extraordinary performance of a girl in that part... I thought it was quite well done."

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Angelina Jolie: `Brad is a real

Angelina Jolie has revealed she fell in love with Brad Pitt because he's a 'real man'.

The actress - who met Pitt while filming Mr and Mrs Smith in 2005 – said he has the best personality traits a father, partner and movie star could offer.

She told Live magazine: 'He's strong, intelligent, he's sensitive - and he's a real man, in all the best ways that can mean.'

The 35-year-old added that despite speculation, her marriage to Brad is a happy one and they still manage to find time for each other in between filming and raising adopted children Maddox, Pax and Zahara and biological offspring Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.

The pair even schedule date nights to give them a break from parenting.

Jolie said: 'We actually schedule them. We just had one the other night and we went next door so we didn't have to worry about the paparazzi and the kids didn't know where we were. We have a house that has two sections so we go to the part that's normally the studio and the office and just have dinner as a couple.

She added: “If you can hold it together - which is hard these days and a lot of people separate - then you have to work at it, and you have to make that time when you are not Mum and Dad once in a while.'

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Brad Pitt beats David Beckham to position as the man most British blokes admire

Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt is the man that most British blokes admire.

The 46-year-old husband of Angelina Jolie came first in a Men Who Men Love poll.

Footballing hero David Beckham, 35, was second, with tough guy Die Hard star Bruce Willis, 55, third.

Market research firm www. OnePoll.com, who quizzed 4,000 men, said: "Brad's loved by men and women alike. But Peter Kay and James Cordon made the top 20, so you don't have to be ultra sexy for other men to love you." TOP 10: 1 Brad Pitt 2 David Beckham, 3 Bruce Willis 4 Johnny Depp 5 Will Smith 6 George Clooney 7 Daniel Craig 8 Clint Eastwood 9 Jeremy Clarkson 10 President Barack Obama.

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Matt Damon and Julia Roberts Joining Brad Pitt in Mr. Clooney's Neighborhood?


Property consultant Alessandro Proto, who just coordinated Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's recent multimillion-dollar villa purchase in Valpolicella, tells E! News exclusively that he is now helping Matt Damon and Julia Roberts find their dream homes in Italy as well.

"Matt Damon is interested in buying a villa near Villa Oleandra, George Clooney's villa in Lake Como," says Proto. "We are finding one for him."

Proto says Damon approached him about a month ago, followed two weeks later by Roberts, who will be viewing some villa options in September.

However, the actress revealed to E! News that while she is in love with Italy, she doesn't have any plans to move there. Not yet, at least.

"I do know someone who has a nice home there, though," Roberts added with a smile.

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A pinch of ‘Salt’ and a generous dash of Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie first read the script for Salt just after she had given birth to her much-adored twins, Vivienne and Knox. As she points out, it was rather difficult to imagine making an action-thriller which would involve high-octane stunts—most performed by Jolie herself—including gritty fight sequences, edging along a tiny ledge 12 stories high, and leaping on to moving cars, when your focus is on caring for your newborn babies.

But then, the Oscar-winning actress clearly loves a challenge. “I do like making movies like this, and I loved making this one,” she smiles. “When they first called me about Salt, I had just had the twins and I was at home in my nightgown feeling very soft and maternal.

“I remember I was with them in my bedroom, you know as you do in the early weeks when you’ve just had a baby, and I flipped through the script and it was all about getting out there and attacking and being very physical and I did feel really funny, in my nightgown in my bedroom, thinking, ‘If I can do this, it would be a nice balance.’ You know, from being soft and Mommy and then going back to work and doing this hard, physical role. It seemed like a real challenge. And I like that.”

The origins of the project date back even further. Jolie recalls a meeting with Amy Pascal, cochairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a few years back when among other projects they discussed the new James Bond movie Casino Royale.

“We had this lovely, playful talk about the fact that I would have preferred to have played Bond,” she laughs. “I think they were thinking that maybe I could play the girl in the movie but actually, I was pregnant at the time and I couldn’t have done it. And it wasn’t right for me—the people they cast in Casino Royale were perfect for it.

“But, I guess, the idea stuck with Amy because years later she called me and said, ‘I think I’ve found it....’” The “it” in question was Salt, a contemporary spy thriller originally written for a male actor. (That would be Tom Cruise.) Pascal reasoned—and Jolie agreed—that the script could skilfully be adapted to make the protagonist, a CIA agent accused of being a sleeper spy for the Russians, into a female lead.

Indeed, for Jolie the film was exactly what she was looking for and ticked all the boxes—strong characters played by an expert band of actors (including Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor) with dynamic action sequences that are very much a part of a compelling story directed by a filmmaker, Phillip Noyce, that she admires and had worked with successfully before on The Bone Collector.

“With Salt, the writers didn’t necessarily sit down and think, ‘What would a woman do in this situation?’ They just thought, ‘What would a CIA agent do?’ And I think that immediately made it one of the better roles I’ve read and something that was much more challenging to do.”

Often, women in spy films have been little more than beautiful adornments to the story. Not so with Salt. “Females in those films rely on being female but we wanted to ignore that. She’s just Salt. It’s not about being a female and she certainly doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything in the film,” says Jolie.

“In fact, in many ways it’s the roughest I’ve looked at a certain stage because when you fight it gets ugly, and if somebody breaks your nose it’s not pretty.”

When Evelyn Salt, a veteran CIA operative, is accused of being a sleeper spy for a foreign power,  she has to fight to prove her innocence. And the first priority is to evade capture and go on the run. She’s a woman alone designated as an enemy of the state and the colleagues she has worked with for years are now out to catch her.

For Jolie, playing an ambiguous character who might not be who she claims to be was a whole lot of fun. She loved the fact that the audience will be on the edge of their seats wondering if Salt is a loyal CIA agent or, in fact, she could really be a mole, deep under cover for the enemy.

“I think you go through the film, if we have done our job right, not being sure of who she is and when you think you are sure of who she is, maybe even that is different than you thought it was.

“I like that where you don’t quite know what’s going on. And hopefully we made it smart enough and respected the audience’s intelligence and tried to make it complicated. I think they will like it.”

Jolie, along with stunt coordinator Simon Crane and her stunt double Eunice Huthart—who have both collaborated successfully with the actress on previous films including Tomb Raider and Mr. and Mrs. Smith—developed a distinctive style of fighting and developed the spectacular stunts seen in the film.

“We talked a lot about the way she fights,” she says. “And the thing that was maybe the least obvious for a woman became the thing that we relied on which is that she’s mean. Not flashy, not gymnastic, not inventive—she’s just mean when it comes down to it.”

She embraced the considerable physical challenges that presented themselves during filming and, wherever possible, did the action scenes herself—including a hair-raising sequence where she jumps from a bridge on to a moving car and climbs out on to the ledge of a building 12 stories up.

“I get a kick out of it. I love that kind of thing. And the thing is that Simon and Eunice both know me so well so when they set a stunt, they have me in mind and they know what I can do.

“There are a few things, when you look closely at the film, that involve heights or something moving fast and those are two things that I’m very comfortable with. “And the people that know you know the things that you love doing and they come up with things like climbing outside of a building on a ledge really high up, or jumping off a bridge. They know that’s where I’m comfortable and they will adjust stunts to the things that I love instead of just randomly throwing anything at me.”

Her willingness to tackle as much as possible did mean that she picked up one rather nasty injury. Filming a sequence for the end of the movie, she was required to burst into a room under fire, roll across the floor and fire her own weapon.

“It was first thing in the morning and I thought, ‘This is a piece of cake,’” she recalls. “I jumped inside shooting and somehow I went right into this ledge that was about a foot off the floor and it knocked me right between the eyes and cut me open.”

After some on-set treatment, Jolie was taken to hospital for a checkup. “It was fine. I had a cut on my head and they covered it up with a patch. And I was back shooting stunts that day. And it’s funny because in the later scenes my nose is broken and I’m pretty cut up, so we didn’t even have to cover it up—it blended right in.”

Jolie met several real women CIA operatives and it gave her invaluable insight into women who, essentially, have to live secret lives and dare not reveal the true nature of the highly dangerous work they do.

“The two women I met were sweet-looking, smallish-framed, blue-eyed, blonde-haired, and looked like they would be running the little store in the High Street or maybe teaching in Ohio,” she says.  “But once you started talking to them, you could see how these women navigated themselves through this incredibly demanding world and how dangerous it was. And they are tough, tough women.

“And one of the things they told me was that as women they had such difficulty dealing with relationships; they said the hardest thing is to be in a job where you can’t talk about anything that is happening with your husband.”

The film, she says, is grounded in that kind of detailed reality. And even the premise that a deeply buried sleeper could exist within the ranks of the CIA is not so far-fetched. Evelyn Salt is forced to go on the run to prove her innocence when a defector alleges that she’s a mole who will trigger “Day X”—the day when Russian sleeper spies are activated to begin a war against the United States.

Day X is still a controversial topic inside the CIA, says Jolie. Some firmly believe that the theory is real, while others dismiss it as a myth.

“But there are CIA agents that do believe that there are sleepers. And when you think about it, there have been in the past and it is a very strong tool to use if you want to infiltrate an organization. So you do wonder.” Jolie was delighted to be reunited with director Phillip Noyce, some 10 years after they made The Bone Collector together. They picked up right where they left off, she says.

“We had an immediate communication. Phillip is somebody who understands action but he is also somebody who understands drama and emotion and real people and subtleties and nuance and character. He is one of those rare directors who instinctively knows that balance very well. I was relieved when I knew Phillip was directing the film because I knew he could do it.”

Her costars, too, were a “joy” to work with, she says. “I think the world of both of them. You know, we could all have approached this as a summer movie and kind of relaxed but nobody did that. We took it as a serious endeavor and we really worked hard.”

There was, though, time for some fun. Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt are the extremely proud parents of six young children: Maddox, 8, Pax, 5, Zahara, 4, Shiloh, 3, and twins Vivienne and Knox, who turned two in July.

“Brad and I take turns to make films,” says Jolie. “So if I’m working, he’s not and vice versa. When I made Salt it was a very happy time for all of us. The older children would come on set and see some of the rigs and they just want to get on them—so they would get hooked up to things and fly across the stage.

“They did a lot of that when they came to visit. They would play with fake blood and get pretend cuts and bruises from the makeup department and they had a lot of fun. We all did.”

The daughter of French actress Marcheline Betrand and Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, throughout her career, Jolie, 34, has enjoyed switching genres from action—playing the popular computer-game heroine in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, an assassin in Mr. and Mrs. Smith—to more serious drama including Beyond Borders and, more recently, the highly acclaimed A Mighty Heart in which she played the widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl.

Her work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees started after first visiting Cambodia, where she partly filmed the first Tomb Raider. Since then, she has traveled to more than 30 countries, including many dangerous regions, highlighting the plight of refugees. She has also funded several humanitarian projects in Asia and Africa. She is also currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt buy $40-million Italian villa

Life is dolce for Angelina Jolie and Brad PItt, as the pair have purchased a roughly $40-million Italian villa, according to a new report.

The 15-bedroom estate -- in Valpolicella, in the province of Verona, where "Romeo and Juliet" was set -- counts among its features a screening room, two pools, several Jacuzzis and a home gym.

"Mr. Pitt and Ms. Jolie saw it for 10 minutes and they said yes," Alexander Proto, a consultant for the property, told E! News.

"They were very determined. We are very pleased [to] have worked with them … no problems, very nice, very competent, ideal customers."

Living in this kind of luxury is nothing new for the Jolie-Pitts -- remember, twins Knox and Vivienne were born while the family was camping out at Chateau Miraval in the south of France.




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