Shiloh wears soldier costume as Angelina takes Shiloh, Zahara and Maddox for Christmas shopping in NYC (photos)

The four-year-old couldn't wipe the smile off her face as she happily ran ahead of her mother on a shopping trip in New York yesterday showing off her big gap-toothed grin.


Angelina Jolie had treated Shiloh, sister Zahara and brothers Pax and Maddox to a spot of shopping ahead of the Christmas rush.


Shiloh showed off her seasonal style in a bright red military style coat with gold applets making her look just like a toy soldier as she visited Lee's Art Store.


Her smiling sister Zahara, five, was dressed in an almost identical outfit to her stylish mother in a black wool coat and tall black boots.


The three ladies were accompanied by Pax, seven, who was wrapped up for the cold weather in a furry jacket and matching fur hat with ear flaps and his brother Maddox, eight, who looked cool in a camouflage puffer vest.


Angelina Jolie takes her children Pax, Shiloh, and Sahara shopping to Lee's art store in New York city, USA.




Just last night Angelina celebrated the release of her new film The Tourist at its World premier held at the Ziegfield Theater.


At the event Angelina, 35, discussed spending the holidays in the city she grew up in.


'I love New York at Christmastime,' she told Entertainment Tonight.


'I used to come here all the time when I was a little girl, with my mum, so I have happy memories of Rockefeller Centre and the park,' said the mother of six.


She admitted she is excited 'to be able to take the babies on a carriage ride'.


Angelina added: 'I think just kind of walking around really was my favourite thing to do. Now it's a little harder.'

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Angelina Jolie: Date Night with Brad Pitt Is Good for the Kids, Too ‘Staying strong as a couple keeps the children in a better place’

For Angelina Jolie, date night with companion Brad Pitt isn't so much an escape from the kids as another way to nurture them.

"You have to make time when you are not Mom and Dad once in a while," the actress, 35, tells Britain's Daily Mail's You magazine.

"The most important thing is that you love your children, but you also have to stay focused on each other so that you stay strong. And you staying strong as a couple keeps the kids in an even better place."

The Oscar winner says she's trying to instill the same confidence in her six kids – Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne – as her own mother, the late French actress Marcheline Bertrand, gave her.

"My mother made me feel very loved and sent me out into my life to be whatever I needed to be and to express whatever I needed to be," Jolie says.

"Hopefully I'm giving my children the sense that they are deeply loved and deeply safe. At the same time we are hopefully encouraging their individuality as they get to know who they are, and not getting in the way of that. That's why they are six very strong individuals."

Asked about Shiloh's well-known tomboy ways, Jolie shrugs. "I don't think it's for the world to interpret anything," she says. "She likes to dress like a boy and wants her hair cut like a boy and she wanted to be called 'John' for a while. Some kids wear capes and want to be Superman, and she wants to be like her brothers. It's who she is."

Jolie also talks about whether she'd ever get plastic surgery – "I don't think I will. But if it makes somebody happy, then that's up to them," she says – as well as her connection to Johnny Depp, whom she got to know while filming The Tourist.

"Neither of us attends many parties or goes out very much. Neither of us seems to take ourselves too seriously," Jolie says. "Your life is full off-set, and you have this nice balance. Johnny is like that, and I'm like that, too."


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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took twins Vivienne and Knox to Lee's Art Shop in New York (photos)

Onlookers couldn't help but do a double take as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt stepped out in New York today.

The power couple were treating their twins Knox and Vivienne to an outing at Lee's Art Shop in Manhattan and emerged from the store with the adorable pair in tow.

The two-year-olds were dressed in matching grey coats, with Vivenne wearing a white knit bonnet to shield her from the cold.

Knox looked just like his famous in a black flat cap and chunky boots.

The family are back in the U.S. after a visit to Paris where Angelina, 35, was promoting her new film, The Tourist, and Brad, 46, was hard at work drumming up interest in the animated film, Megamind.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Share a Memorable Meal in Paris

Amid a week of tandem promotional tours through Paris for her The Tourist and his Megamind, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie turned up for dinner Thursday evening at one of the world's best eateries – Restaurant Guy Savoy, on the Rue Troyon – and stayed till nearly midnight to close the place.

The restaurant came highly praised, by none other than Jolie's Changeling director. "They came, they said, because Clint Eastwood recommended the restaurant to her. He told her they'd enjoy themselves," the legendary three-Michelin star chef, Guy Savoy, tells PEOPLE.

"Brad was very interested in the style of cuisine and very knowledgeable," says Savoy, 53. "And I have to say that I took one look at her and I complimented him on his good taste. She is most beautiful in person."

After a champagne toast, the couple's meal began with soft-boiled eggs infused with truffles, followed by an artichoke soup with a glass of white wine.

For main dishes, "she took a lobster dish, and he ordered a cote de veau, with mashed potatoes seasoned with truffles." Their wine accompaniment was a Bordeaux: a Paulliac from Chateau Lynch Bages.

"During a break, Brad visited in the kitchen," says Savoy. There, the actor and the chef, in Savoy's words, "hammered together" a conversation in English and French. Savoy says Pitt's French is "surprisingly good."

For dessert, the chef says, both chose a selection of cheeses. "Typically French," Savoy says with a laugh.

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Bosnia Rape Victims to Complain to UN About Angelina Jolie

Wartime rape victims in Bosnia say they will complain to the U.N. refugee agency about its goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie who has not yet clarified rumors surrounding her movie that have infuriated the women.

Wartime rape victims were outraged when they heard rumors that Jolie's directorial debut was about a victim in a rape camp falling in love with her rapist. Jolie's producer denied the rumors.

Bakira Hasecic, the head of the association Women Victims of War, says she will send a letter to the UNHCR, according to an interview published in daily newspaper Dnevni Avaz on Monday.

Jolie had promised a meeting with the women in November and invited them to shooting in Budapest but Hasecic said Jolie should come to Bosnia and meet the women there.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitts Celebrate Pax's 7th Birthday with a cruise and hot-air balloon ride in Paris

Pax Jolie-Pitt got to see plenty of Paris on Sunday, from the air and the water, while celebrating his 7th birthday a day early with his family.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made a full day of it with their kids – minus the 2-year-old twins – starting with a hot-air balloon ride and finishing with a party cruise on a riverboat.

They turned up unannounced in the morning at the riverside Parc André Citroen in the Left Bank for a ride in a tethered hot-air balloon. "They were like any other family," the balloon's operator tells PEOPLE. "There was nothing out of the ordinary to tell you about them which made them any different from any other family."

He adds that they were "charming" and the kids were "excited but well-behaved. What I think they wanted was a little moment of peace."

Thanks to the hour, the time of year and the cold weather, they found just that – enjoying the 20-minute ride by themselves.

As if that weren't enough, the group took the festivities to the water in the early evening, renting the luxurious Josephine riverboat out of Port Debilly, alongside the Eiffel Tower, for a birthday cruise on the Seine.

"We made a short cruise upriver. They stayed on board for about 90 minutes," a crewmember tells PEOPLE.

"Angelina is a very beautiful woman in person. She was friendly and spoke to me. Brad," the female crew member said with a sigh, "is very, very nice and very outgoing. He played a lot with the kids."

There was an assortment of cakes and sweets, and the boat was decorated with blue and yellow balloons.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Donate $150,000 to SOS Children's Villages

The Jolie-Pitt Foundation today announced a donation of $150,000 to SOS Children's Villages – USA. The donation is given in recognition of National Adoption Day, which celebrates adoptive families and highlights the needs of the over 100,000 children still waiting for adoptive families in the United States. SOS Children's Villages play a vital role in the healing and stabilization of foster care children, and constitute a critical step along the way to family reunification or adoption for many children.

SOS Children's Villages provides loving, stable homes to children around the world whose biological families cannot properly care for them. Founded over 60 years ago, SOS operates over 500 Villages in 130 countries including Illinois and Florida in the US. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation donation will provide the supplemental long-term financial support needed for a family of four foster children in an SOS Village in the US.

Dr. Heather Paul, CEO of SOS Children's Villages – USA expressed her gratitude for the on-going support from Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt: "I am truly thankful that Angelina and Brad understand the power of family – the kind of stable family that SOS holds as an essential part of healthy child development. Together, Angelina and Brad have been eye-witnesses to the great work of SOS in Ethiopia, Jordan, a Darfur refugee camp in Chad, and Haiti. Angelina and Brad know that children's need for a family is universal."

In the US, SOS Children's Villages is a haven for a foster child, a haven from the storm of multiple placements, abuse or neglect. SOS puts foster children back together again with their brothers and sisters, and strengthens them for a bright future – a future that can include reunification with a biological parent, adoption, or success as an independent adult.

Through this donation, The Jolie-Pitt Foundation will provide support to an SOS foster care family for a number of years. This long-term approach is crucial to transforming a child who has suffered years of abuse - healing cannot happen overnight.

SOS Children's Villages in the US have achieved impressive results. Less than 50% of foster care children in the US complete high school, while SOS youth have a completion rate of almost 100%. Over 300 foster children now call SOS home in Illinois and Florida, including many groups of biological brothers and sisters.

SOS Children's Villages operates under these core principles:

1. Siblings should grow up together in a family-based environment.
2. Children should be re-unified with their biological family whenever possible.
3. Foster care children should never "age-out" of the system. Post-high school support is critical to a young adult's long-term success.


SOS Children's Villages in the US receive public support for the basic needs of their foster children. The additional services needed to transform a child's life are provided by private donors. The $150,000 donation from The Jolie-Pitt Foundation will fund numerous services such as full-time, professionally trained caregivers, counseling, intensive support toward family reunification, vocational training or college preparation.

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Brad Pitt 'Incredibly Moved' by Story of Chilean Miners

The 33 Chilean miners who were trapped below ground for two and a half months until their dramatic rescue last month may get their story told on the big screen – with the help of Brad Pitt.

The actor's production company, Plan B, "has expressed potential interest in the story," says company representative, Jon Liebman, CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

"Like so many people worldwide, Plan B has been incredibly moved by the story of the Chilean miners and their families," says Liebman.

A lawyer for the miners, Edgardo Reinos Lundstedt, tells the Santiago, Chile, daily El Mercurio that Plan B made an offer in the millions.

But Liebman tells PEOPLE, "There have not yet been serious discussions."

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Angelina Jolie already looks like a veteran director as she shoots first film Bosnian lovestory (photos)

The actress was on set again yesterday in Estergom, Hungary, shooting her Bosnian war epic.

And from the confident way she was guiding and instructing her team, the 35-year-old looked more like a veteran director than an inexperienced first-timer.

Do it like this: Angelina Jolie shows her team how it's done as she directs her first film in Estergom, Hungary

Dressed in a black coat and trousers and with a huge pair of sunglasses on, Jolie seemed to be everywhere at once as she mimicked firing a gun and made expansive arm gestures.

Her first feature film is a love story set against the backdrop of the Bosnian war, and tells the story of a romance between a Bosnian woman and Serbian man.

Jolie wrote the original screenplay, and she is also producing the film with the help of Graham King and Tim Headington, who she worked with on The Tourist.

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Angelina Jolie Covers Vogue mag and Talks Brad Pitt Sexy and Shiloh's Pet Dead Bird

The December cover of Vogue catches the 35-year-old back in bewitching form, wearing a black bustier and white satin shawl, with the tattoo on her upper back exposed. In the accompanying interview, conducted before she jetted off to shoot the untitled Bosnian love story, Jolie opens up about her attraction to husband Brad Pitt, how her children have inspired her philanthropic efforts, and the odd time when daughter Shiloh asked if she could have a dead pet.

"Shiloh found a dead bird, so she came in and said, 'Can I have a dead pet?' " Jolie said. "And I'm ... 'Uh-uh, I don't think it's healthy, honey. I think they have to put him in a box,' and I had to run out to find, like, a taxidermy bird. I just worked it out for her. ... I figured that I couldn't keep the actual dead bird from the yard, so I swayed her toward one that had been cleaned, at least."

The Vogue photo spread captures the actress-turned-director in a variety of color and black-and-white looks: a vaguely Victorian pose with Jolie in a white bustier, fixing her hair; a look that calls to mind a chess board, as she strides forward in a windblown magenta dress; a luminously lit picture of calm, Jolie glittering in gold and earth tones while relaxing on a lounge chair.

Now that's the Angelina we know. And she opened up about the Pitt we know too. "Well, he's a handsome man," she said. "No, I think he's an extremely sexy — extremely handsome and the most sexy [man] ... When I think about him, I just think of the man who's such a great friend and such an extraordinary father. And that's when I fall, you know, when I have my moments of getting — whoarr! — caught up in how much I love him ... it's usually when I see him with the children."

About their children, Jolie said that they have helped her establish a connection to children around the world and inspired her philanthropic endeavors, such as the one that had her traveling to Pakistan after a devastating flood.

"My children are from the countries that I work in," she explained. "I don't see my family as a global family. I don't see it separate. So when I look at my kids, and I wake up and hear something's happening in Pakistan, I think: It's Asians, and my children are from that part of the world. Those kids are very much like my kids. So I'm happy to be able to go."

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Kids have fun adventure of zip-lining in Budapest park (photos)

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are instilling their shared sense of adventure onto their kids. The globe-trotting couple took part of their brood to a park in Budapest where the youngsters got to try their hand at an outdoor adrenaline pumper: zip-lining!

As their proud parents looked on, Shiloh and Pax donned helmets and harnesses as they zip-lined through the leaves-filled grounds.

Shiloh gleefully smiled as she readied herself for the experience while Zahara (in a fashionable white puffy jacket) stayed close to mom Angelina as she watched her brother and sister.

Later on, Brad was spotted helping Shiloh onto one of the parks floating tunnel tubes which she wanted to climb through.

Two days before, Brad took sons Maddox and Pax to New York for the premiere of Megamind. He told reporters that he signed on for the animated movie largely for his kids.

The family is in Budapest while Jolie works on her directorial debut.

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Brad Pitt's six kids want him to play Spider-Man

Brad Pitt has revealed his children want him to play Spider-Man on the big screen.

The actor has revealed his six kids - who he raises with his partner Angelina Jolie - are all huge fans of the web-slinging superhero and would love it if he donned his famous red and blue suit.

Speaking at the New York premiere of his new animated movie 'Megamind' on Wednesday (04.11.10), Brad said: "Spider-Man is big in our family. The kids think he's the coolest. If there was one superhero they would want me to play, that would be the one. I'd score big with them."

Andrew Garfield was recently cast as the Marvel character in the new Spider-Man movie, taking over the role of Peter Parker and his super-powered alter-ego from Tobey Maguire.

The 47-year-old star - who voices the superhero character Metro Man in 'Megamind' - admits he always considers his children when accepting new roles.

He added: "Every role we (me and Angelina) choose now, we choose it for the kids. Will the kids like it? Will they like it when they are young adults? Or is this a good location for the family? That's it.

"With 'Megamind' hopefully they will think dad's really cool and better than Spider-Man."

Brad took sons Maddox, nine, and Pax, six, to the premiere.

His other children, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four, and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, are currently in Budapest, Hungary, with their mother Angelina who is shooting her directorial debut in the city.

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