Catherine and her eagle eye has noticed that Billy Bob is out and a new prayer (?) is in for Angelina’s upper arm:

I noticed something funny about that arm when I was watching Dateline, but it didn’t strike me until Catherine pointed it out. Good eyes Cath!

While other sites might be bringing you shots of Brad and Angelina (I will get those up ASAP…LOL), we are providing you with some great exclusive shots from our friend Mike of beautiful Namibia in southern Africa where Brad and Angelina are vacationing and waiting out the birth of their child.

The more pictures I see, the more I am just in awe of this gorgeous country. It doesn’t even look real. Here is the front of the Burning Shore resort (you do know to click on the images for the full size, right?):

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Thanks Portishead for the heads up! Angelina Jolie has made the Time list of 100 most influential people in our world. Here are the others in the group she is in, Heroes & Icons, and here is the full list.

* Bono
* Michelle Wie
* Wynton Marsalis
* Angelina Jolie
* Bill Clinton & George H.W. Bush
* Steve Nash
* Orhan Pamuk
* Elie Wiesel
* Jan Egeland

* Joey Cheek
* Chen Guangcheng
* Ian Fishback
* Wafa Sultan
* Pernessa Seele
* Ralph Lauren
* Mukhtaran Bibi
* Paul Simon
* Al Gore
* Katie Couric

This is the page about Angelina, which gives you a place to go (and skew) vote on how influential you think she is in our world. Way to go, Angelina – you are definitely making a difference!

It sounds like a good percentage of the populus in Namibia are more than happy for Brad and Angelina to be there, and that they totally agree with the way that they are being protected from the paparazzi. From Yahoo! News:

A Namibian rights organisation and journalists have accused VIP guards and police of heavy-handed tactics, including a door-to-door search for suspected paparazzi and assaults on photographers with pepper spray.

But ordinary Namibians who live along Langstrand (Afrikaans for “Long Beach”) told AFP this week they believed the star couple should be left alone.

“Namibians are not celebrity mad like in Europe or the United States,” said Almuth Styles, who runs a tourist information shop in the scenic nearby colonial German holiday town of Swakopmund.

Styles told AFP when Jolie visited Namibia in 2002 for the filming of the movie “Beyond Borders”, none of the locals were bothered too much about it.

“Jolie even came into the office asking for directions. I didn’t recognise her and only afterwards a young trainee told me that it was her,” she laughed.

Another resident, Roger du Toit, who every day takes his dog for a walk past the Burning Shore Lodge, where the couple is staying said “they are just ordinary people to me, enjoying the beautiful, unspoilt stretch of the beach and the view of the Atlantic Ocean.”

“Let them enjoy this place like everybody else. It doesn’t matter whether they are famous or not,” Du Toit said with a typical shrug of Namibian shoulders.

The owner of a cluster of holiday flats next to the Burning Shore Lodge added she discovered a group of foreign paparazzi perched on the balcony of one of her apartments.

“They brought a ladder with them and climbed to the balcony of a chalet that I had rented out,” Merylin Leippert told AFP.

“When I arrived the people who rented the chalet informed me of their unwelcome ‘guests’,” she said.

“They (the paparazzi) told me they had permission from the owner and I told them: ‘I am the owner and that they certainly did not have my consent,’ so I made them leave promptly.”

Again, this is an article I could have easily reprinted the entire content of – check it out and come back and tell me what you think:
From allAfrica.com: Namibia: Jolly Pit Sets a Two-Way Trap

Thanks to the several of you who sent me this article over the last couple of days! From Mail & Guardian Online

Namibia has suddenly gained immense popularity in the United States thanks to the visit by Hollywood golden couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, the country’s ambassador to the US said on Thursday.

“Since the arrival of Angelina Jolie, her two adopted children and Brad Pitt in Namibia, the Namibian embassy in Washington DC has been inundated with calls from the US media and individuals,” Hopelong Ipinge said.

How about lets collect up some links here to Namibia information – leave them in the comments, and we will soon build up a great resource all about Namibia!

According to Entertainmentwise, Angelina Jolie has ended her relationship with her and Brad’s agent. She has been with them since Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and I don’t have the info rounded up just yet as to why she terminated the relationship. She is reportedly going to stay a free agent, unaffiliated with an agency.

According to Variety, Brad and Angelina are possibly going to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s classic, Atlas Shrugged. I have never read this book, but the background on it can be found in the Variety article, and it has had quite an interesting history.

Lionsgate has picked up worldwide distribution rights to “Atlas Shrugged” from Howard and Karen Baldwin (“Ray”), who will produce with John Aglialoro.

As for stars, book provides an ideal role for an actress in lead character Dagny Taggart, so it’s not a stretch to assume Rand enthusiast Angelina Jolie’s name has been brought up. Brad Pitt, also a fan, is rumored to be among the names suggested for lead male character John Galt.

Have any of you all read this (or all of you and I am the only dip who hasn’t)??

And the Jesse James fun begins! The trailer is available on Yahoo!, and the movie site is up at JesseJamesMovie.com. Not much to see yet, but hopefully it will be coming soon!

Most of us have already seen this now (I know, I am a tad bit slow this week still ) but it just wouldn’t be right to not post the film clip of Angelina shown on the Today show.

As someone here said earlier, Angelina is an effortless beauty – looking at her individual parts, she is not perfect, but brought together as a whole, there is no doubt why she is the most beautiful woman in the world. And I thought that long before she ever hooked up with the Sexiest Man Alive. If you haven’t seen the clip, enjoy. If you have, then enjoy it again, I know you will.