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You know what? I understand that the paparazzi are just doing their job. They’re trying to make their living just as much as any of the rest of us are. And on top of that, their jobs exist to feed the fans like us who want to see photos of celebrities.
And I ‘ll never stop wanting to see the photos. I definitely prefer when Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Maddox, Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh are photographed with longer lenses so that the cameras aren’t right up in everyone’s face. I also prefer candid shots where photographers aren’t doing things like screaming “Hey Shiloh! Look over here!” at the top of their lungs.
But my goodness, some of them are just really invasive. As always, you can count on TMZ to be on the scene for anything and everything, and they managed to catch this video footage of Angelina Jolie trying to leave Marino restaurant the other day (in her beautifully bright yellow dress), and the security team has to ask the swarm of photographers to move back over and over. Even then, after Angelina gets in the car, the driver then has to lay on the horn so that everyone will move. The photo above appears to have been taken by an intelligent photographer who got the shot from the side, but alas, the others just kept crowding to the front.
I wonder if it’s worth it for the risk of getting (accidentally) run over. I hope they’re at least paid well.
Also, I really don’t know how Brad and Angelina and other celebrities handle the constant chaos. I’m a very friendly person overall but sometimes I’m just not feeling social, especially with a bunch of people I don’t know and I think I’d burst an artery if I was in a crabby mood and had to face a throng of people flashing cameras at me and screaming my name. I’m honestly not all that surprised when celebrities freak out and break cameras or shove photographers sometimes, and I offer up huge kudos to the celebrities who don’t.
Image: Used with permission from www.splashnewsonline.com
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855 days ago
Great discussion ladies. That’s a sad letter Ligaya.
I think that the issue will ultimately be how their friends outside treat them. Like the little girl in Dear Abby, am sure things will be great until they start mixing at school.
Kids are not born mean spirited or racist, they learn from their parents and peers. I remember as an adult riding in a bus with a young mother and her toddler. The child was looking at me, smiling and giggling, so I made faces at her. She started to laugh.
Her mother smiled at her then after turning round to look at me, she adjusted her baby’s position so she couldn’t see me.
It’s sad that the tabloids either don’t care or are pushing an agenda.
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854 days ago
That was a sad letter, and the stories you shared Mary Ann are also sad. It’s really so awful prejudice and discrimination (not just on race) continue to happen, and not just in the US either. I gotta say every now and then I’m guilty of some sort of that as well. However, when it gets to be really hurtful and then it gets rubbed in even further, it’s really maddening. I agree with BlessBrangelina, kids aren’t innately mean or prejudiced, it’s really more the effect of what they pick up from parents and peers. I just hope I’ll be able to raise my son a better person who looks at all people the same way, without prejudice.
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854 days ago
BlessBrangelina & Isacutie – 100% right. Babies are born innocent – not racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-disabled, etc. It IS what they learn from their parents & family, peers, teachers, religious leaders, political leaders & popular culture (tv, movies, music, books, magazines, newspapers, internet, etc.
My husband’s favorite musical is South Pacific (now on Broadway). His favorite song “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught,” about this very topic. An excellent new documentary “Hollywood Chinese” takes us from the 1920s to Harold & Kumar – with a look at yellow-face aka white actors like Katherine Hepburn & Peter Sellars in Asian roles.
The movie “21″ is based on a true story of Asian American math whizzes at MIT but the lead & most of the cast are white, just a couple of Asian Americans in the background. “Dangerous Minds” was a true story of this black female Marine, but she was played by Michelle Pfeiffer (love her). Pop culture has an effect.
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851 days ago
Everyone’s right about Angelina & Brad’s love giving the kids a strong foundation & instilling core values, including a sense of self-worth, which will last for the rest of their lives. All the stories I’ve read of successful people overcoming adversity had someone who did that for them – parents, grandparents, aunties, teachers, coaches etc. MY THOUGHTS: Does this mean the kids are immune to their environment? Are they sheltered from seeing the tabs in every newsstand they pass by, supermarkets, drugstores & bookstores they visit? Will they be able to avoid the tab tv shows? How long will this last? What if one of their classmates innocently or intentionally repeats something derogatory they overheard from an adult? Maddox already has a computer – does he have access to the internet? Kids are curious, I wouldn’t be surprised if he googled his parents, siblings & himself.
Children are both sensitive & resilient. They know when their parents are in the process of divorcing, even when the parents try to keep it from them. If the JP kids have seen the tab covers, even the ones who don’t read yet can pick up the vibes of the parents frowning at each other, or the triangle, or Angie vs. X, especially when it’s cover after cover after cover. I would guess the kids would be puzzled, they won’t believe the foul lies about their family , and it might still sting or hurt , and they’d wonder why people are doing this. Maybe Angelina should do a Norma Rae/Sally Field move at the age-appropriate time. Norma Rae was a union organizer with kids who had different fathers; by talking with her kids about all the dirt the company was going to throw at her, they were prepared.
(The young, pre-Maddox, pre-UNHCR Angelina would fit right in the bohemian, open-minded San Francisco Bay Area. Like some posters, I frankly embrace the “wild,” unconventional, free spirit Angelina – she’s done nothing she needs to apologize to anyone for. I, along with the long line of young women waiting to speak to Angelina during the 2001 Comic-Con, related to being outcasts in school, going the goth route, cutting, eating disorders – the whole gamut of young women in pain trying to deal with it. ).
The biological vs. adopted issue will come up, not only because of the tabs, but because this matters to some people in our society – as well as why Africa/international and not U.S. adoptions? I’m always amazed at how cruel kids can be – K-12. Doesn’t it seem that teens can be especially cruel? What if some of the JP kids are chosen first for teams, and the other kids are chosen last or not al all? What if some of the JP kids are asked to dance or for dates all the time, and other JP kids are not? The JP kids are probably resilient enough to meet the challenge of dealing with society’s racial bias, bias favoring biological children, and against international adoptions.
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851 days ago
Mary Ann, BlessBrangelina & Isacutie, I posted about whether Angelina & Brad’s love would protect the kids from people’s biases. it’s under moderation. :-)
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851 days ago
Ligaya I look forward to your comments.
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