This is so awesome, I love the goofy friendship between Brad Pitt and George Clooney. On the Today Show this morning (April 3rd), Meredith Viera talks to George about his “bromance” with Brad. George then goes on to talk about how much he loves rumors like the false story that he is now godfather to Brad and Angelina’s children.
He also mentions a great story about the rumors from two years ago that said Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were supposed to marry at his house.
I still think it must be a riot to be in the same room as Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Matt Damon.
The Gossip Girls site has posted an entry with some aerial shots of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s temporary home in Texas. It appears to be a large property and the house is huge. It also has an in ground swimming pool, plenty of space for the kids to run around, and a little park-type structure as well. Allegedly, there are even horses and ride around trucks. Can you imagine Maddox, Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh with little trucks to ride on and horses? Cute! It looks like the perfect place for a large celebrity family to live while Brad is still filming his current movie, Tree of Life.
I think the house looks great, even if it’s bigger than anything I could ever imagine living in.
The post was brought to my attention by reader “Children First” who wondered if we could discuss the fact that people are photographing and identifying the new (temporary) Jolie-Pitt home. She wonders whether it’s irresponsible due to celebrity stalking and personal safety/privacy.
On the one hand, I get that. On the other, we have seen photos of all their homes. People know where they live, and if they don’t they’ll just follow them home anyway. However, they have security teams and personal bodyguards. They seem to have been relatively un-harassed in Texas, similar to when they’re in New Orleans - they do get photographed but not as heavily and not as crazily as, say, when they were in New York. Although it’s obvious from the photos that you can see into the yard from above, I don’t doubt that it would be difficult to get closer to the house on foot. I’m sure their security people are on top of it.
And as someone who routinely looks up house listings in my area, not because I’m looking to buy one but just because I like to see the photos, I admit that I love seeing where Brad, Angelina, and the Jolie-Pitt kids are living!
Brad Pitt is all set and ready to produce and likely star in a new film, Lost City of Z. Paramount just bought the rights to the film. It’s a true-life story about a British explorer, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett who sought to find a lost city somewhere in the Amazon. In 1925, Fawcett and his team were looking for the City of Z, but disappeared.
The book itself has not even been published yet - it will be available only in February of 2009! I’ve never heard of that before, of film rights being taken care of and film plans being made before the book is even out on the shelf.
It sounds like an exciting story and I look forward to seeing Brad play the role of Fawcett!
Since it turned out that the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie wedding rumors were not true, OK! magazine saved face by explaining how exactly it went from one lone piece of gossip to what they referred to as “a gossip bomb of atomic proportions” that “dropped on the Internet”.
It’s an interesting little read to see how exactly the rumor spiraled into something big enough that even Perez Hilton was reporting it. It reminds me of that children’s game, Broken Telephone where one kid whispers a phrase to the kid beside them and by the time it’s whispered and repeated down the line it’s almost always something completely different.
In the meantime, since we can’t have pictures of the Brangelina wedding that never existed, let’s watch a short video clip of the wedding scene between Brad and Angelina with lots of making out from Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Ah, that’s better. Even though I personally don’t care if they never get married, but it’s fun to imagine what Angelina would wear for her wedding and what they would do for the ceremony, and somehow I can picture them doing something as simple and low-key as in this clip.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are still in Texas (and not getting married in NOLA), and Monday afternoon they took all the kids for a little toy shopping outing. They hit up EB Games/Game Stop to pick out toys for everyone.
The parents were accompanied by Maddox, Pax, and Zahara. Naturally there will be some uproar somewhere because Shiloh wasn’t with them, so of course there will be someone yelling that she’s being neglected and left behind, but you know, the little kid’s not even two years old yet. I think she’s probably napping a lot of the time that we don’t see her out with the others. At that age they turn into bears by supper if they miss a nap.
I wonder what they bought. Board games for family time? Did the boys get some typically boy-ish toys like trucks or robots? Did the girls get girly toys like dolls or did they get something they can enjoy with their brothers? Did Brad and Angie buy a rattle for the baby on the way? It would be fun to know!
Meanwhile, Brad was back to wearing a hat, but not a pageboy this time, and Angelina was looking very sleek and sexy in a black maternity dress.
You can see photos of the Jolie-Pitt toy store shopping trip right over here.
There’s a lot of buzz going on right now about whether or not Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got married. The initial story comes from Star, which is so much of a tabloid that I’d pretty much only use it to line a bird cage, but according to OK magazine, Brad’s rep Cindy hasn’t formally denied the story:
When reached for comment on the rumors, Brad’s rep would only say to OK! that she had “no idea” if they were true or not.
The fact that it wasn’t flat out denied did make my curiosity perk up a bit so I’ll be keeping a close watch on more reputable sources like People magazine, but in the meantime, it sure would be interesting, wouldn’t it? The story claims that they got married in a ceremony in New Orleans.
I’m pretty well indifferent as to whether Brad and Angelina marry or not because they’re obviously tied to each other through their four (soon to be more) children, but I am a bit on the sentimental side so I would be feeling a little mushy if they did indeed marry!
What do you think? Any chances? If they did marry, how would you picture the ceremony? I see it being something informal, small, private, and definitely highly involving all the kids.
It’s funny how the tabloids just run at the mouth, so to speak, when they don’t have any real news. It must be frustrating to them that it’s been over a week since they caught some pictures of Angelina Jolie with the four kids, and that they haven’t been able to get a single on-set shot of Brad Pitt while he films.
So, of course, we’re flooded with rumors. First there’s the money that people are discussing - money for the first photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s new baby. The numbers are insane and also total speculation. There are claims that Jennifer Lopez got $6 million for the first photos of her twins, but there’s no proof to substantiate that at all - no one has confirmed it. But because of those claims, people are trying to guess how much People will give Brad and Angelina after their new baby’s birth. In the past 24-48 hours, I have had my inbox flooded with alerts claiming as fact that they will get $7 million, $8 million, and even $10 million dollars.
I find that highly unlikely. For one thing, I don’t think they could even make enough through sales to cover a $10 million price tag. They would lose money by obtaining the must-see photos and that’s just bad business. Also, I can’t imagine Brad or Angie demanding that much money. Like many celebrities, they offer the first photos to a reputable magazine in order to avoid being chased (even more than usual) by paparazzi who are all hell-bent on getting that first shot. I remember reading about that when I read Brooke Shields‘ fabulous book about her post-partum depression, Down Came the Rain, where she and her husband set up a photoshoot so that the challenge of being the first photographer to get a picture would be gone. It’s really a brilliant idea. And we all know that Brad and Angelina immediately turn over all the money to a charity, so I think it works out.
But that much money? I really think people are highly exaggerating the numbers for all the celebrities.
The other current rumor I keep seeing today is that Angelina Jolie is allegedly suffering from gestational diabetes. I find that laughable. Yes, it’s certainly possible, a lot of women do indeed get it, but to announce it as fact? Despite the fact that she’s very obviously pregnant, neither Angelina nor Brad (or even Cindy, Brad’s rep) have formally announced or confirmed the pregnancy. Of course they don’t need to, we all have eyes, but my point is, if they’re not even confirming the pregnancy itself, why would they be confirming that she has diabetes?
It also makes me roll my eyes a bit that so many of the sites tooting that horn are making it sound like it’s a total horror that she has GD. If she does indeed have it, it’s a pain. I never got it, but my friend did, and it’s a nuisance, but it’s not the worst thing in the world. All these sites are so alarmist, acting as though Angelina is under constant medical watch and is in grave danger. It’s very manageable and almost always goes away after the birth. Nothing drives me as crazy as people who turn every single mention of pregnancy into a medical nightmare.
So those are the biggest two rumors out there right now. The big wedding that some tabloids were talking about seem to be dwindling once again, and these two are on the rise (though the supposed wedding, quoted from a “source” at least sounded really nice, including a barefoot Angie carrying wild flowers picked by her children, how cute would that be?!).
On the Friday episode of The View, co-host Joy Beharasked a presidential candidate the question bloggers have been asking all over the internet all this week: she asked Barack Obama if he is indeed related to Brad Pitt. Obama’s answer?
“I guess we’re ninth cousins, something, removed – or something,” said Obama, 46, adding modestly, “I think he got the better-looking side of the gene pool.”
The comment prompted the show’s matriarch, Barbara Walters, to tell the senator: “We were saying just before you came out – maybe we shouldn’t say this. But we thought you were very sexy looking.”
It sounds like it was news to him as well, but it is an actual genealogical research group that discovered the link, so it seems that it’s not just goofy talk but actually true.
I’m sure neither of the two presidential connections will make any difference in how the Jolie-Pitt family decides to vote, but it’s just interesting. I love knowing how people are connected (I’m still annoyed that Six Degrees was taken off the air), so I just find it a neat bit of trivia.
The Bay City Tribune, the local newspaper for Matagorda County, Texas, has an article up about the excitement in the area over having Brad Pitt and Sean Penn in town to film Tree of Life.
It seems that the security is pretty tight around the filming location though, to keep things under wraps and under control.
Some of the brightest stars of modern-day Hollywood are shining in Matagorda County, and have been since filming of the major motion picture, “Tree of Life,” began on Monday, March 24.
Those looking for a star-sighting, however, are not welcome and will be blocked from gaining access to the film set.
That might explain why we haven’t had any on set photos like we usually do. We got to see photos of Angelina Jolie and the kids visiting Brad Pitt on the set when he was filming Burn After Reading and we saw some candid shots of Angie on the set when she was doing Wanted, but if they’ve closed off access to the set this time, it will be pretty difficult unless someone manages to be in the right place at the right time when the Jolie-Pitt family is out and about again.
The article also states that no one has officially stated that Brad Pitt and Sean Penn are two of the stars filming, they didn’t disguise the name of the movie (sometimes film crews will use fake titles on the signs to avoid pandemonium; I know they had to do that for the Harry Potter movies), so it was easy for locals to find out who was in town.
However, although fans can’t rush the set, those who were chosen to be extras got to film scenes with the two actors:
“There was certainly some chit chat going on between our guys and the actors.”
Matagorda County Judge Nate McDonald discussed a personal encounter with one of the actors, though he didn’t name names, so there’s no way to know if it was Brad or Sean.
McDonald said that he was able to visit with one of the actors over dinner at an area restaurant and was even glad to offer a little Texas hospitality by providing directions and leading one of them to their temporary residence.
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