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20 opinions for Brad Pitt in October 2006 Esquire

• JPF
  Sep 7, 2006 at 10:35 am

  Thanks Christine. The man looks so good! I don’t know how he does it. He can look 50 one minute, and 28 the next, and all delibrately it seems. Cannot wait for this interview!

• JPF
  Sep 7, 2006 at 1:02 pm

  I’ve just finished reading the excerpts of the interview (LOVE IT!!!). Anyway, Brad says something that I’ve had in the back of my head every since I saw the MTV show “Run’s House.” Brad says “that’s a patriarch I can get behind.” When I first saw Run’s House, no lie, I thought to myself, “that’s probably how life is lived for Angelina & Brad and the kids .”

  Rev Run & his wife (name escapes me) are like this serious partnership. They are such a team. They’re like best friends lovers and great parents. I’m patting myself on the back because I rarely call anything right lol, but Brad came through and I’m not nuts!

• BAMZS 4-EVER
  Sep 7, 2006 at 1:05 pm

  Christina, here is parts of the article at Just Jared: Here’s an excerpt from the article “Mr. Pitt & His Magical Mattress”:

  On a hot summer afternoon, the most glamorous birth father in America sits in a diner booth and tries to make sense of the world.

  A thunderous revving noise ruptures the quiet of the Spitfire Grill on a lazy afternoon in Santa Monica, California, accompanied by a series of subsonic reverberations that tinkle the ice cubes of my overfull water glass, breaking the surface tension, sending droplets down the side.

  Abruptly, all is still. The birds in the tree out front renew their chirping and tittering; the waitress resumes filling the saltshakers. Steely Dan harmonizes on the sound system overhead.

  The door opens, and he walks in–his helmet beneath his arm–like Achilles entering his tent. He pauses a moment, looks around. The joint is empty. He seems relieved. He is wearing a nondescript nylon jacket and jeans; a BMW messenger bag is slung across his chest. Reaching the booth, he pulls off his gloves, one finger at a time, and stuffs them into the open cavity of his full-face motorcycle helmet. He offers a hand, an easy smile. He shoves everything into a corner of the booth and slides in.

  He comes here a lot, he says, to this unintentionally chic little dive decorated with airplane posters and schematics and other flying mementos just across the street from the runway at the municipal airport, which borders on South Bundy Drive, that Brentwood landmark made famous by another man who was desperately seeking solitude–though that one preferred an SUV. Since hooking up with Angie–whose eyes, by the way, are also blue, though perhaps a deeper and more mysterious shade, his being more earnest, a lazulite or sky blue–he has taken up flying. He has recently completed his first series of solos. He says he loves the aloneness of flight. And also the sense that your life is completely in your own hands. “Everything can go wrong very fast, so it’s humbling.” Unlike his partner, who earned both her British and American certifications simultaneously–the British is said to be more rigorous–he has earned only his American license. “She gives me total shit for that,” he says, shaking his head. Clearly, he is a man who would follow a woman to the ends of the earth and back.

  He orders a Coke and a basket of fries. He is friendly, normal seeming for someone who lives such a rarefied life. He talks about Maddox Jolie-Pitt’s recent T-ball game, about maybe moving to Washington, D. C., because the atmosphere around Hollywood is no place to raise kids. He makes a joke about being sleep deprived and another about how his vocabulary has been reduced lately to fawning monosyllables. William Bradley Pitt from Shawnee, Oklahoma. Suddenly he is a father to three.

  Sitting there in the booth, he has the sun behind his head. It kind of hurts my eyes to look at him. So many movie stars are really quite odd in appearance. Something about their oddness translates well to the screen. Like Adrien Brody’s honker or Reese Witherspoon’s doorknob of a jaw. In person, Rob Lowe has this skinny little shrunken head. The fifteen pounds the camera adds? That’s his career. But Brad Pitt is as beautiful in person as he is onscreen, perhaps even more so. The lines of his face are angular but not severe; he has a two-day-old scrub of beard. His dirty-blond hair is short. I think I detect a few grays. His olive-green T-shirts–two of them, thin and expensive, worn in layers–are wrinkled and slightly askew, the neck holes off-center to expose one heroic clavicle.

  Reaching into the rat’s nest of his possessions, Brad–who left the University of Missouri for Hollywood when he was only two credits shy of a degree in journalism–extricates from his messenger bag an oversize hardback sketchbook, the kind with a black matte cover favored by poets, college students, and world travelers, the last of which he plays in his new movie, Babel, a harrowing drama directed by Alejandro Gonzᬥz I񡲲itu. (He’s also produced a documentary, God Grew Tired of Us, about the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” that’ll be released in November.)

  He opens the book to reveal his not-inconsiderable effort: lines of neat printing in an architect’s block capitals, several pages of computer printouts, and a ten-by-three-inch piece of white cardboard stationery with the letters CAA embossed in red at the top, on which he has written the list we asked him to prepare for this issue. “I stayed up late last night doing this,” he says, “which turned out to be good, since we had this little diarrhea bout that we had to deal with today.”

  I thank him for undertaking Esquire’s little assignment.

  He waves me off with a french fry, pops it into his mouth. “Are you kidding?” he asks, taking a pull of Coke from the straw. “It’s like, enough about me already, you know? Let’s talk about something important.”
  (My List) Fifteen Things I Think Everyone Should Know By Brad PittOctober 2006, Volume 146, Issue 4
  The Drug WarI’ll agree that drugs are harmful, but we spend $40 billion a year on the drug war and $8 billion a year incarcerating people, 25 percent of whom are in there for drugs. If someone wants to do drugs, as long as it doesn’t affect anyone else in a violent manner, as long as he or she isn’t corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn’t a person have that right? I know the drug war is a can’t-miss political issue that no one wants to touch. It’s the big pink elephant no one wants to talk about. Think of all the other things we could do with the money. For an interesting perspective on the whole issue, I recommend the book Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do, by Peter McWilliams. AdoptionThere are ten million children who have lost their parents to AIDS. That number’s going to double by 2010. Now that I have two adopted kids, I cannot imagine life without them. They’re as much of my blood as any natural born, and I’m theirs. That’s all I can say about it. I can’t live without them. So: Anyone considering, that’s my vote. Carol’s Daughter Hair ProductsFor white people who might be having a little trouble with black- person hair, Carol’s Daughter is a fantastic hair product. We got it for Z. Now her hair has this beautiful luster. And it smells nice, too. A New ParadigmNature consumes and then reuses; there is a cycle to things. But humans just consume. It’s obviously time for a new paradigm. And the question is, Do we adopt it now, or do we wait until we’re really in trouble? We’re going to have to make the tough choices. Some people are going to have to lose money, but new people will begin making money. Industry and environment don’t have to be at odds with each other; they can work harmoniously. I recommend Addicted to Oil, Thomas Friedman’s Discovery Channel program; Cradle to Cradle, a book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart; and Design Like You Give a Damn, a book by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr. The Perfect MattressDon’t spend a lot of money on a big, giant mattress with double padding on both sides and all that. Just go out and buy a normal firm mattress. Then go buy the three-inch Tempur-Pedic pad, the memory foam, and put it on top. I’m telling you, take my tip. It’s the perfect pressure. I take full credit for the discovery. You will sleep in bliss forever more . . . unless you’ve got a six-week-old. MarriageAngie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able. Three Things I’ve Learned About ParentingI try not to stifle them in any way. If it’s not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore. Sometimes that means they’re quite rambunctious. At night, before they go to bed, I feel it’s really important to have that time to sit and talk to them. I really like that last minute before they fade off. And always give them a heads-up before you jerk them out of something. You need to tell them, like, “You have three more minutes.” Someone told me that one. It’s essential. Building GreenAmerica uses 25 percent of the world’s oil; we produce 3 percent. Everybody knows that. What people don’t know about is how inefficient our buildings are. Our buildings—our homes, offices, stores, businesses—use up 40 percent of all our energy. And they are responsible for 45 percent of the pollution in the air—meaning how we make the materials for buildings, how we produce our buildings, and then how our buildings operate. In a year, the average home is responsible for as much pollution as any car. The Ultimate Diaper-Rash CreamShiloh is six weeks old now. She’s got horrible diaper rash, poor thing. Same with Zahara when we picked her up in Ethiopia. She had such a bad rash, it looked almost disfiguring. We’ve tried everything—every cream, every salve, every natural product. We haven’t found the magic ointment. Yet. Burping Your BabyGetting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I’ve come across at this point in my life. It is truly one of life’s most satisfying moments. Valentino Rossi, European Moto Gp ChampionHe’s the fastest man on a thousand cc’s. This guy is a magician. He’s mesmerizing. He probably weighs a buck fifty, and he’s the fastest man on two wheels. It’s speed, but it’s also balance: These are the guys who are laying the bikes on their sides and not going over. These are the guys who are riding on their knees and elbows. It’s pure ballet, on the most powerful motorcycles in the world. Rossi has won the title for the last four years. He doesn’t get rattled. He has a sort of innate sense of balance that’s beyond mortal man. He’s like Lance Armstrong on a motorcycle. Just poetry to watch. MotorcyclesYes, I have choppers. One is really low. There’s a big tire in front of you, and you just feel like you’re Slim Pickens on the rocket in Dr. Strangelove or something. And I have sport bikes. And I have dirt bikes. I’ve got a few builders who are artists in their own right. Their machines are art, like sculpture. I don’t want to talk about it; I’ll just say that I have a problem. Jack White And The Raconteurs Jack White is something special. The Jewish Museum in Berlin, By Daniel LibeskindThis is one of the greatest buildings of all time, the best example I know of the way surroundings can have such a profound effect on the individual. I hardly have adequate words to describe it. There are just so many feelings that you succumb to when you’re walking through this building. First, everything’s on a slant, so you’re slightly off-kilter. There’s this one room, forty feet tall, shaped like a trapezoid. It’s an all-concrete room, and it’s totally dark except for this one sliver of light that comes in. You suddenly get this oppressive feeling, this haunting—I’m lacking words. And then there’s this beautiful garden that throws off your perspective and makes you feel like you’re tipping over. I’ve been there three or four times now, and I’m just humbled every time. It rocks you in just that way that art can. ….And a Fourth ThingRun’s House on MTV. He is a patriarch I can get behind.

• vicki
  Sep 7, 2006 at 2:17 pm

  damn he is so fine. i hope he and his beautiful family are very happy.

• Pearl
  Sep 7, 2006 at 4:02 pm

  The man is looking good. If this is a whipped look then whip it baby, whip it.(Yeah)

• JPF
  Sep 7, 2006 at 4:27 pm

  Lol pearl! I’ve been reading some of the responses on other sites, and it’s like the last faint cries of the defeated. A few have called him whipped, a few say he looks old tired weary and worn, but it’s all about them having not much eles TO say. No, it’s not an interview spilling his guts about his past or present, and many thought it would be a retaliation piece but I love that it says nothing about the past thus far, and IMO, it solidly spells out that the man is happy, content and not looking back.

• gossippup
  Sep 7, 2006 at 6:53 pm

  he is such a class act…

• lac
  Sep 7, 2006 at 7:23 pm

  JPF what can those people say. What we see in this interview is a great looking opinionated man who knows who and what is important in his life.
  This is a interesting interview not just the same old stuff.

• JPF
  Sep 7, 2006 at 7:47 pm

  Lac, yep. It’s shorter than some he’s given, but it’s the best one he’s given IMO. It’s so funny that some of the same people (haters) who dared him to mention the past are now pi$$ed that he DIDN’T lol.

  Btw, it’s funny that I never recall him talking much about anything outside of movies, his relationships and architecture and I think I’ve kept up with him pretty good throught the years, but reading the interview I find he’s pretty eclectic in his interests, and sounds like a big reader. love it.

• viva brangelina
  Sep 7, 2006 at 9:57 pm

  love it, love it, love it! the interview really slams all the gossips about brad keeps begging angie to tye the knot but ange never wants it. but actually, this relationship is their both’s decision!

  i also love how he said about angie’s flying skill. just adorable =p. kind of thing i want my man to see in me.

  and yeah, the haters and the aniston team must be really p*ssed of becuz he didnot mentioned anything about his past! it’s like: “jennifer who?” *lol*

  oh yeah, i also read in the chat board in brad news, that what brad did with NOLA for new orleans really means so much for the victims. since the US goverment seem don’t care ’bout them…
  it’s funny though… to see a super power country like US cannot handle it’s own problem very well.
  i mean, indonesia is far from super, but at least aceh region has lots of good progress since tsunami disaster…
  anyway, america is still so lucky to have a good man like brad who uses his fame for something good like global green program. gosh!! if only all people could think more like brad!

  and i also happy to know that he likes valentino rossi as well!! hmmm i bet he, i and my husband are going to watch the same thing this weekend: motoGP race!!!!!

• Lucy
  Sep 7, 2006 at 11:57 pm

  Wow! I have to get this magazine the minute it hits the stands. He is so knowledgeable, well-read, and talented. I think being good looking is just a bonus. Angie is one lucky person. This interview is not like any other interview promoting a film. I can’t believe he is the same person who used to walk the red carpet to talk about trivial things. Angie made a tremmendous influence on him and it sounds like they are devoted to each other for the long haul. I just hope that those flying lessons are not too dangerous. It sounds like these two blue-eyed pilots just love thrills of this kind. Sorry guys, I have fear of flying.

• Lucy
  Sep 8, 2006 at 12:03 am

  P.S.
  Sorry I misspelled tremendous. And I also have
  the type of mattress he described.

• lotte
  Sep 8, 2006 at 6:27 am

  THe ESQUIRE interview showed us the other
  Mr. Pitt.He seems to enjoy life’s nuances as a family man.The kids and Angie are lucky to have him as the head of their growing brood.
  The future look great for the JOLIE-PITTS.

• rowena
  Sep 8, 2006 at 7:15 am

  sigh….i just love it!too good to be true!

• Burnished_dragon
  Sep 8, 2006 at 8:29 am

  Lucy,
  I don’t think Angie made him change except he is more vocal, I remember him doing Oprah a few years back, he kept trying to take about different things and she kept on and on about his but and looks. I stopped watching Oprah after that. I think he used to think everyone just wanted to hear trival stuff, now he is older and wants to make a difference in his life and has a power to make a difference in others lives too. Thnigs change when you are a parent, you begin to think about others then yourself. So I think we are just seeing a more mature Brad JMHO

• Lucy
  Sep 8, 2006 at 11:06 am

  Thank you Burnished_d for clarifying my statement about Angie’s influence on Brad. The influence I was referring to was making Brad a responsible parent. I recall that Oprah interview when Oprah was asking him about his friendship with JA. However, I believe he wants to talk more about the promo for Meet Joe Black. Enough said, thanks. Now, what I what to ask everybody is the Marriage part of this interview. Can someone tell me what he meant with “Angie and I will consider tying the knot…..” in a simnple sentence. English is my second language.

• anamanzana
  Sep 8, 2006 at 12:00 pm

  Hi Lucy, I thought about that one as well, and near as I can tell, it’s a political stance for them not to marry because there are others such as homosexuals who are partners and WANT to marry, but are not being recognized (or allowed to legally marry) because they are not man and woman — WTF and why would anyone else care what sort of commitment they have???? Be it BP, AJ or any other couple who are happy together. Very smooth IMO for BP and AJ to see it this way, and to make it public - so discreetly! The other comment I wonder about is the possibility of DC - is AJ going to become more political?!?!?! as in working for laws to change, and provide a better base for U.N. work? This is the reason I follow this couple, because of their intellect and willingness to bring about change.

• gossippup
  Sep 9, 2006 at 8:47 am

  They did borrow the gay marriage stance from Charlize Theron I think. I was not really impressed with that statement. Not for political reasons I must stress, but because I really wanted to see wedding pictures soon. How cute would that be. Well I guess I have to settle for MR & MRS Smith outtakes. Oh well…

• BAMZS 4-EVER
  Sep 9, 2006 at 9:40 pm

  Christina,
  Brad walked the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival by himself. He was in a black suit. He looked sooooooooo good.

• Bethany
  Sep 9, 2006 at 11:18 pm

  brad looking oh so hot at TIFF

  http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====210030&nbc1=1

  http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p…t&c=news_photos

  http://www.570news.com/news/entertainment/…ontent=e090941A

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